Failing players for too long: Football’s head trauma shame

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When we look back at perhaps the most challenging season in English football history, we probably won't remember the goals or the games. This was the campaign of meaningful action, of meaningful change.On our final episode of the season, we take another look at some of the bigges ...  Show more

Football ownership in focus: the greed, the bad, the ugly

Football may have undergone its most seismic shift ever over the last few weeks. The threat of European Super League finally materialised and had evaporated just two days later, blown up in a blaze of fury from an unrivalled unity of football stakeholders.In its wake, the debate ...  Show more

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