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BOWLER BOWS OUT AT CREWE

Chairman exits after report...
By Tom Blackett

CREWE Alexandra chairman John Bowler has heeded growing calls for him to resign in the wake of the Sheldon report into historical sexual abuse in football.
Disgraced Barry Bennell is currently serving a 34-year sentence for abusing boys between 1979 and 1991 while at Crewe and Manchester City.
Bowler, 84, had been chairman since 1987, having first joined the board in 1980. He resigned on Thursday and said it was always his intention to quit in the aftermath of the Sheldon report, which was released ten days ago.
In a statement issued in t...

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