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The Non-League Football Paper Team
21 October 2018

We don’t need to sell Wembley to grow the game

With Shahid Khan withdrawing his interest in purchasing Wembley Stadium this week, many felt it was another door being slammed shut in the face of grassroots football, with the lower levels of the game set to benefit financially had the national stadium been sold to the Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham owner.
I myself was always sceptical of the sale, mainly because I questioned whether the figures that were being bandied about would actually go back into grassroots football – there were far too many other people in the queue want...

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