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Narrated by James Marriott
It’s excellent news that, three weeks since sexually assaulting Jenni Hermoso after the World Cup final, Luis Rubiales has, finally, departed. It is not excellent that, even in resignation, he’s still moaning and playing the victim. Some say if only he’d apologised straight off, he’d have been able to keep his job as president of the Spanish Football Federation. Yet the evidence is clear-cut that he didn’t apologise because he didn’t think he’d done anything wrong.
Just like his mum, who started a bizarre hunger strike in a church on her son’s behalf, Rubiales thinks he’s fallen foul of a feminist witch-hunt. He hasn’t. He’s just come up against a woman, with a whole load of other women standing with her, who wasn’t
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