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Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

FOOTBALL is for the fans. Isn’t that the lesson we’re supposed to have learned from the collapse of the European Supe League?
That a working-class fanbase craves cold Tuesdays in Stoke. That fair competition and sporting merit are the bedrocks of our game. That giants can fall, minnows can rise, and hope springs eternal.
Here’s the Premier League, shouting from atop the moral high ground. “The Premier League condemns any propos- al that attacks the principles of open competition and sporting merit which are at the hea...

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