“There's such a community feel about this level, the players are basically your mates. During a game the other week our centre-back came past and asked if I was coming to the pub afterwards.”
The gesture prompted predictable calls to "keep politics out of sport" from some corners.
"He is said to have refused to test how much alcohol he had drunk on Christmas Eve at the station's custody suite."
Recent days have seen a number of members of various franchises test positive for Covid-19.
Hundreds of fans invaded the stadium in protest of the Glazer family and the European Super League.
Owner Roman Abramovich is understood to have driven the decision having listened to fan protests.
And the walls come tumbling down.
The Manchester City manager said that “sport is not a sport when the relationship between effort and reward does not exist”.
In an interview, Sir Keir urged the government to block English clubs' involvement in the European Super League.
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