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What next for Aluko and Sanderson?
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WITH all the concern and questions about what next for the men in charge of the Football Association, Eni Aluko and Lianne Sanderson’s futures with the Lionnesses have gone uncovered to a certain degree.

The future of Greg Clarke and the rest of the dinosaurs at the FA are of little concern to me. Given how they treated the duo, they should have been relieved of their duties the moment they left the select committee a few weeks ago.

That they refused to apologise to Aluko, who was sitting behind them, speaks volumes about how they view the Chelsea striker and how, from the beginning, they never took her bullying and racism claims seriously.

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