Chris Dunlavy

LATE? YES BUT TIGER CALL WAS CORRECT

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The LeaguePaper Team
11 January 2026

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

TRAGEDY: Billy Vigar

HULL should have called off last weekend’s game with Watford a lot earlier, but that does not mean the decision was wrong.
Though the surface was playable 20 minutes before kick-off, the perimeter was frozen solid. If a player’s head had hit the ice, the results could have been catastrophic.
It is less than three months since the former Arsenal player Billy Vigar died after colliding with a pitchside wall whilst playing for Isthmian League side Chichester.
Alex Fletcher, a former Bath City striker who was fo...

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