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Sports journalism in Britain is being attacked by an American predator

29 June 2019

9:00 AM

29 June 2019

9:00 AM

Forty years ago the football transfer market went crazy: the British record was broken four times in 1979, more than in any other year before or since. A lot of this was down to Malcolm Allison at Manchester City, who shelled out a record amount for a teenager (£250,000 for Steve MacKenzie, an apprentice at Palace) and £1.45

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