Five ways Euro 2016 is trying to be the greenest football tournament ever

Michael Holder
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UEFA is upping the green credentials of the beautiful game through carbon offsetting, food redistribution and clean energy

Wall-to-wall media coverage, people proudly displaying their team colours, brawls on the streets - Europe has become a battleground of late. And no, we're not talking about the EU referendum - there's...

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