Britain’s shrine to football desecrated

Wembley, that shining city upon a hill, will soon be Taco Bell House. For shame!

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Don't flog a prized national asset to the first moustache-twirling billionaire who comes along
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As far as I am concerned, the Football Association has been getting things wrong since that day in 1863 when they, over the sensible objections of Blackheath, decided to ban "hacking", "tripping" and "running with the ball in the hands towards the opposite goal after a fair catch".

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