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No sacred cows

Football’s never coming home

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

I failed a moral test last weekend. A friend offered me a free ticket to the Euro 2020 final and I accepted, knowing my 13-year-old son Charlie would be bitterly disappointed. I had told him I’d try to get two tickets so I could take him, but all my efforts had come to nought and we were resigned to watching it at home.

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