At Last, a Blow Is Landed for the Honest Fan

Daily Mail (September 20, 2006)

Author: Paul Hayward

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A CHAMPAGNE night for football. Thanks to Panorama, the armies of the cheated and ripped-off can finally round on the head-in-the- sand brigade who told us it was all 'rumour and innuendo'.

Told us we were muckrakers and guttersnipes.

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At Last, a Blow Is Landed for the Honest Fan

Told us to stop seeing phantoms giving and taking bungs. Those lies are finally smashed. Several careers have crashed and burned in front of the BBC's hidden cameras. We can stop pretending now, and that, at least, feels good.

Who's for the chop? Probably the Bolton manager once touted as the next England coach and the Pied Piper hired by Roman Abramovich to make Chelsea's youth policy the envy of the...

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