The beautiful game

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I've got to be honest, I'm one of the those ‘fans' who only go to live football matches these days if I get invited to go in the corporate hospitality section.

I’m not embarrassed, in fact I really enjoy it – it doesn’t stopping me watching the game, I’ve only stayed in the bar once for the second half of the game and watched in on the TV. Despite what Roy Keane might say I’ve never had prawn sandwiches – maybe that’s what you got in the boxes at Old Trafford – you always get a better quality of grub at Stamford Bridge. Yes, Chelsea’s my team. The team with so much culinary class that in the days of Captain Birds Eye (aka chairman Ken Bates) we had our own Chelsea wine (very drinkable) and not a prawn sandwich or fish finger in sight. He had c...

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