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It’s long been a sly trick performed by governments who don’t want you to know what’s going on: slip out some bad news on a day when something big is occupying hearts and minds. It’s classic misdirection. So as football fans everywhere obsess about the transfer window, which slams shut on Thursday evening, and prepare to either belly-laugh at or suddenly get very worried about Spurs and/or Everton and/or Manchester United, the FA of Wales today confessed that they’ve needlessly wasted tons of cash on a pointless second brand revamp in less than a decade. O Cymdeithas Bêl-droed Cymru! Sut allech chi!

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