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Mayhem rules – and it will all end in tears

DOES it feel as though we are approaching a tipping point? If you step back for a moment, cast your eye through the divisions, has there ever been a time of quite as much precarity and financial imprudence? The Football League has never been a haven of tranquillity but this season has been something else. Players on strike.
Unpaid wages. Historic football clubs clogging up the courts.
Owners with highly questionable or opaque business records embroiled in bitter disputes with protesting fans.
Everywhere you look, anxiety seeping from the stands.
Bolton, above all, are in dire straits. Th...

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