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Is the Conservatives’ plan based on backing Fleetwood Town. It seems niche | Max Rushden

Andy Pilley’s Twitter exhortation to fans took sport out of its bubble and plonked it at the heart of the campaign battleThank God for the sports section. You’ve read the politics. You’ve found out again how depressing the world is and now you get the escapism. Unless of course you’ve come straight to the sport. Get the fun out of the way and hopefully you’ll have to get back to work before you’re forced to read the serious news.There is of course no link at all between sport and politics. Both exist in entirely separate vacuums. And that is how it should remain. As a sports broadcaster who has ventured a few – hopefully informed but probably biased – political...

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