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The former Everton and Wales goalkeeper’s online comments have showed that football can break away from a culture of toxic masculinity
The idea of football becoming more “authentic” the lower down the leagues you go simultaneously patronises those fans and hinders modernisation
Taylor Parkes despairs at how laddism became the major representation of football fans in the media
Through the wonders of modern technology, I’ve been watching 15-year-old episodes of David Baddiel and Frank Skinner’s Fantasy Football League (why I’ve been doing this, when hairshirts are so cheap, is a matter I’ve placed in the hands of my therapist). These days, as you might expect, this once-hip horror looks dreadfully dated and often painfully unfunny, a very obvious ancestor of Lovejoy and Corden’s boorish bollocks.