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Lions do their utmost but it’s a bigger issue

DEEP-ROOTED SOCIAL PROBLEMS EXIST

Chris Dunlavy

A fresh take on football
DO YOU know what the score was? I’ll always remember the opening gambit of the halfcut teenager spoiling for a scrap at South Bermondsey station.
A wiser man would have feigned ignorance, shrugged, wandered off to a more populated slab of platform.
But I was 25, new to London and covering my first game in the Football League as a trainee reporter. So I told him. Millwall had beaten Bristol City 1-0.
“You Bristol, then?” he asked, wilfully ignorant of my obvious Newcastle accent. Stupidly,
I told hi...

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