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Rise of the ‘schooligans’: how a wave of antisocial behaviour threatens non-league football

Teenage ultras are increasingly causing disorder and communities fear it will not be long before it becomes something more dangerous It is five past three on Saturday afternoon and the teenage ultras of Hednesford Town are running late. They have arrived in Chester for their team’s National League North fixture and have hailed taxis, determined to make their presence felt at the ground. But word appears to have got out about their arrival. As one car turns away from the city’s charming half-timbered houses and into narrow residential streets, half a dozen local youths appear, haring round the

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‘It was all of us’: Khawaja says entire Australia team knew about sandpaper ball tampering plot

Former Test opener says object also used in Port Elizabeth Cricket Australia still ‘comfortable’ with bans only for trio Usman Khawaja has claimed “all” of the Australia touring party knew about the plot to tamper with the ball against South Africa in Cape Town in 2018 and the team also used sandpaper during the second Test at Port Elizabeth. The former Australia batter said the team used sandpaper to tamper with the ball before Cameron Bancroft was caught on camera while handling the object during the third Test, ahead of the release of Khawaja’s autobiography Sabr on Tuesday. Continue readin

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