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Engaging in these arguments suggests we can come to a meaningful sense of legitimate success. Each of us has a set of criteria for footballing legitimacy that we have backwards rationalised from our own club's success.

Have a read about Brewer J.J. Davies and 'moneybags United'. A cosmic sense of justice is misguided in something so grand as the universe. To find it in football would be even stranger. Not to mention the absurdity of linking it to how good a football club's accountants are. We support...

Sylvain Distin read the game well and could play from the back. Enabled Richard Dunne to take the plaudits with the blood and thunder defending that English football admires. Distin could have started for Arsenal or Liverpool.

The normalisation of violence in English football is encapsulated in the legitimacy of 'letting him know you're there early on'.

Sadly it says more about the state of libel laws in this country. The media simply cannot report on rich individuals without facing costly legal battles. Cohen has written a lot about this in the past and knows the subject well.

Riffing on the phrase 'sunlight is the best disinfectant', we might suggest Western media outlets function as sunlight for unethical corporate (and political) practice. There are forces that work against the investigative press. As the artilcle identifies, journalists are dependent on football...