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Paying the price for tribalism

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
23 January 2013

GARETH ROBERTS RANTS
Supporters’ tunnel vision is just the ticket for greedy clubs

FOOTBALL, as Jimmy Greaves said on more than one occasion, is a funny old game. It still is. But now it’s not just the game that is ‘funny’ – it’s the ever increasing circus that continually performs around it, even when no actual football is being played.
Once upon a time, being a football supporter was easy. You paid at the turnstile, watched the match and then headed for the pub or returned home.
You’d talk through the game with friends and family, wat...

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