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A historical question for football geniuses
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I’m reading The Game Of Our Lives by David Goldblatt, and I’ve just come across a passage that has astonished me. It says that in 1919 home clubs had to give 20% of the gate to the away team ‘an arrangement that lasted for over 70 years’. Eh?? Were clubs still giving 20% of the gate to the away team in 1990?? How have I been a keen footballist for nearly 50 years and never known this?!
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league or cup?
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I genuinely thought they still gave 20% away lol
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If that were the case there'd more of a point desperately paddling upstream to stay in L1 beyond stubborn pride.
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