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Football bosses must carry the can for players’ bad behaviour

10 June 2023

9:00 AM

10 June 2023

9:00 AM

If you couldn’t watch the Europa League final between Sevilla and Roma, then you should count yourself fortunate. It was a nasty, bitter and forgettable excursion, blighted by fouls and time-wasting, that should make anyone connected with it ashamed, apart from the doughty English referee Anthony Taylor, who had a fairly good game.

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