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My sympathy for Staines faithful

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 April 2022

FANS’ FORUM

DO please tell me that the story (NLP, April 3) that Joe Dixon, owner of Staines Town, has invoked the Modern Slavery Act in a dispute with the landlords, is an April Fool?
Sadly the postponement of the Swans’ game by a perhaps over-sympathetic league argues otherwise.
The inhuman treatment of other human beings is not a joke. Mr Dixon is quoted as saying he “may well have evidence”. He should produce it if he doesn’t want to risk a libel trial.
I last saw Swans losing to lower-league Fleet Town in a Cup –a far cry from Mr Dixon...

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