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- British writer Will Hutton has written a great piece about the dire state of English football and how foreign ownership is endangering the sport there. Here's an excerpt:

"(Gordon) Brown will give Platini short shrift. When a draft EU report on football (commissioned by Britain!) dared to float similar ideas, a Brown spokesman said he would not allow England's national game to be run by Brussels, a line deemed to play well in the Eurosceptic tabloids.