Is Egypt outside the football family?
If you were old enough to take things in and weren’t inside the ground, chances are you vividly remember where you first saw the grim footage of death spilling onto an FA Cup semi-final. Annoyance at the hold-up becoming concern, quickly reaching horror.
Will you recall Port Said as readily in 23 years’ time? Violence rather than calamity but a death toll threatening to match that awful afternoon in Sheffield.
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