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Since the days of Thatcher, the Tories have sought to rid the country of football crowds. The ludicrous prosecutions of alleged hooligans using undercover officers which almost all resulted in the rejection of the convictions as unsound on appeal and the government's outrageous attitude to Hillsborough and its perpetuation of lies that followed it were but two indications of this. Thatcher was herself more vocal on the subject. And so the Tory cheer leader in chief, Rupert Murdoch sought to take over a sanitised game and Sky was born. At last the Tories are within a whisker of achieving their goal with crowd free, television only football. They are even talking about adding crowd noise.
I would prefer no football to this.