No longer would fans go to a football match in fear of their lives.

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"It's a sad state of affairs when the desire only to go to a football match is sufficient to have you deported from a country, " he said from Istanbul.

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He said was about to go to a football match when he received a very emotional phone call from Pc Rathband's wife telling him his brother had been shot and he needed to come home.

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Every time we go to a British football match we learn another creative way to use the F-word in a sentence.

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"You can see a tremendous sense of togetherness and spirit and we have quality to go with it, and when you bring that to a football match you have a great chance, " Coyle added.

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