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Culture of greed has infected our football

Chris Dunlavy

a fresh take on football

FEELING GLUM: A lone Bury supporter takes in the news of their EFL expulsion
PICTURE: PA Images

ASKING why Bury FC collapsed is like asking why 96 people died at Hillsborough on that dreadful afternoon in 1989.
There are short answers. Inept policing. Stadium defects. Delays in emergency response. All contributed in turning a football match into a disaster zone.
But none would have mattered without the hooligan culture of the seventies, its exaggeration in the media, and the subsequent prejudice of the Thatcher government and its police force tow...

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