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FA DIDN’T NEED TO WADE IN OVER OLI THE FAN

by
The LeaguePaper Team
19 January 2020

WARNING: Oli McBurnie

THE only appropriate response Oli Mc- Burnie could provide to the FA after being warned for making an “obscene gesture” whilst watching Swansea from the stands is to make a gif of said gesture and send it off to Wembley.
Honestly, it’s no more than they deserve. Football is beset by serious problems, from the ongoing battle against bigotry to widespread financial peril in the lower leagues.
Yet somehow the FA have found time to rebuke a paying customer - because that’s all the Sheffield United striker was - for the crime of giving the opposit...

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