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Steve Hill: Some things don’t change

WHEN you live 200 miles from the ground you watch your football, every game is an away day – but home is where the heart is.

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Steve Hill
21 November 2021

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WHEN you live 200 miles from the ground you watch your football, every game is an away day – but home is where the heart is.
Astonishingly, my visit to Chester’s Deva Stadium last Saturday was my first since The Before Times – a record-breaking absence stretching as far back as New Year’s Day 2020.
Courtesy of this column, I did briefly emerge from my cocoon in July for a play-off at Altrincham, my first experience of the weird world of temperature checks, soc...

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