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to imagine a worse period in the English game since the advent of professionalism in the mid-Nineties than the past few weeks. The very word governance tends to have a soporific effect on most people in general and sports fans in particular. Who wants to waste time discussing conflicts of interest when there is a game to chew over and debate? Yet recent events in our