Michael Henderson

I hate football so much these days that I can hardly bear to report it

issue 14 September 2002

The message was brief and the writer got straight to the point. ‘I’d just like you to know that you are a fucken cocksucker,’ it read, ‘and that your article on Leeds supporters was a load of absolute fucken bullshit. You’re a stupid fucken predjudice [sic] half-wit.’ After more of the same (yawn) it was signed ‘Angry and dangerous’.

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