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Taking back the game?

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Gareth Roberts

IT’S ironic that football as we know it was founded by public schoolboys.
What is widely regarded as a working class game – and later became just that – was actually championed by a load of posh boys who pioneered the dribbling game amidst a plethora of more roughhouse handling versions of the sport.
Association Football soon caught on, and became the sport for the masses.
Now though, more and more, it’s beginning to feel very much the elitist pastime once again.
Who can afford, in the modern age, to watch their team home and away?
Unless y...

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