Football's leaders put squabbles to one side to strike rare refreshing tone


As the coronavirus crisis deepened this week, it was heartening to see Uefa, Fifa and others show some leadership

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In normal times, last experienced in Britain only a week ago, it might have been fanciful to imagine that in some unprecedented global crisis football’s squabbling and often self-seeking administrators would step up and behave like leaders.

Of course, faced with an unthinkable pandemic they have had little other choice than to put their sport immediately on hold but as they did so it was almost weird to see them striking the right tone.

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