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Article: Brian Reade's Column: When football was a whole different type of brawl game.(Sport)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2000
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THERE was a time, not so long ago, when football writers took their job description literally.
They wrote about football.
To cover a game in Europe was to live the greatest dream any man-child could possess. You would fly out with the players, stay in their hotel and hit the town with the lads after, if not before, the game.
You shared their sessions, their secrets, their scraps and anything else they fancied, or sometimes had finished fancying.
But there was an unwritten gentleman's agreement. You were their mate and if you published you ...