Former Sunderland chairman Sir Bob Murray on Newcastle, sportswashing and football’s forgotten roots

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There were many moments that Sir Bob Murray could point to as illustrating how much football has changed, but one stands out for what he feels was a lack of basic decency.

“My wife used to go to the boardroom at Chelsea, and they would thoroughly search her handbag,” he says. “She’s the woman married to the chairman of Sunderland.”