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THATCHER WAS NO FRIEND OF FOOTBALL

GARETH ROBERTS RANTS

THE FA has demonstrated time and again that it is staggeringly out of touch with football fans but, following the death of Margaret Thatcher, for once, they got it right.
Sir Bobby Charlton, Dave Whelan and John Madejski all called for football to have a minute’s silence for the former Prime Minister – all simultaneously demonstrating how far removed they are from the people in the stands.
Yet the FA ruled that the only silence that could take place on the weekend before the 24th anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster was to pay respects to the ...

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