Why should Wagner facethe music, Tony?

BLAMING David Wagner for Blackburn’s potential relegation today is like saying Gavrilo Princip started a war. Simple, but wrong.
Princip, of course, was the man whose bullet killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo – an incident embedded in popular culture as the spark for World War One.
It’s an engaging handle for kids, but it glosses over myriad contributing factors: an escalating arms race, imperialism, militarism, a restrictive alliance that forced unwitting nations into battle. Conflict was coming whether Princip pulled the trigger or not.
Likewise, B...

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