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Thank God Tony Blair failed to meddle in football

29 December 2023

9:45 PM

29 December 2023

9:45 PM

It seems there is a side to the former prime minister, Sir Tony Blair, that few knew existed. Until now. Newly released government documents have bizarrely revealed Blair’s keen interest in football in Northern Ireland. So much so that during his time as prime minister, he was apparently prepared to go to quite extraordinary lengths to get an English Premier League football team to relocate there in the late 1990s.

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