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Also from the FA this morning, in the early hours: a statement on discriminatory abuse aimed at some of the England players, imploring the government “to act quickly and bring in the appropriate legislation so this abuse has real life consequences”.
England have just tweeted this image this morning. “Football is about more than trophies, and we’ve seen that all summer,” the accompanying tweet says. “Coming home? Perhaps it was here all along.”
Nice words. The FA, and it’s been a while since I’ve been able to write this or anything like it, have got so much right recently.
