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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Melissa Reddy

DARK SECRETS: Football still stuck with blurred lines on and off the pitch | Rare Historical Photos

AFP via Getty Images

“I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood-winked, lead astray.”

A football article should never start with a reference to Ja Rule, but the game is ripe with people exuding the rapper’s didn’t-know-any-better energy when the fraudulent Fyre Festival was smoked.

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