Free school meals, immigration… net zero? How English football could score on climate

Cecilia Keating
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Free school meals, immigration… net zero? How English football could score on climate

When football stars take on the authorities, they tend to win - could the climate-threatened sector adopt sustainability as its next cause?

Anyone who tuned into the pundit-less broadcast of Match of the Day on 11 March will have had a first-hand experience of elite football world's growing embrace of political protest. The controversy that...

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