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Protect us from ‘safetyism’

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
9 March 2025

YOUR correspondent Russell David, of Bath, (Fans’ Forum, March 2) is an absolute legend. His was the best letter I’ve ever seen in any publication.
The Non-League football community – and society more generally – needs to aggressively push back on the current penchant for group think, quotas and excessive “safetyism”.
I fear that, as a whole, we are on a very slippery slope.
MARK LAWSON Baildon, Yorks

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