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Does anyone think Boris has handled this well?

20 June 2020

9:00 AM

20 June 2020

9:00 AM

I don’t know what’s happened to our football hooligans. The modern malaise, I suppose. A gradual descent into ineffectuality. Back in the day, Harry the Dog of Millwall would take an entire away stand by himself and do a few coppers on the way. He would surely turn in his grave looking at today’s lot.

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