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The game's obscene wealth at the top end here, and in most of the top leagues around the world, owes pretty much everything to TV but, when it comes to using the golden goose to improve the game rather than the balance sheets, up go the shutters with the self-important old duffers who tend to run the game manning the barricades.
While it is unlikely that we'll be manning the barricades in defence of our local pubs, it would be a shame if they were allowed to disappear in the numbers that they currently are.
Manning the barricades will be Strictly fan and Organ Grinder hostess Heidi Stephens, who will chronicle every twirl and lift as one of the eight male celebrities attempt to avoid the ignominy of being the first contestant voted off.
 
 
 
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