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Article: Football has become a foul game, feeding on anger and hatred.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2002
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Byline: MICHAEL HENDERSON
THE message was brief and the writer got straight to the point.
'I'd just like you to know that you are a ******* **********,' it read, 'and that your article on Leeds supporters was a load of absolute ******* ********. You're a stupid ******* predjudice (sic) halfwit'. After more of the same (yawn) it was signed: 'Angry and dangerous.' If you were looking for the authentic voice of the modern football supporter, Mr Angry would make a fair representative. No matter what the wellscrubbed 'experts' tell you on the telly, no matter how seductive the endless puffs on Radio 5 Live, the English game relies for much of its support on ...