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THAT’S it then. The end of the summer.

Seemed pretty textbook from where I was sitting – struggling in the cricket, rained a lot of the time, nothing on TV.

That’s a point actually. In a country where we spend most of the summer inside, how come they don’t put anything decent on during the day?

There are only so many Quincys you can watch. Series 7, episode 20 at the moment. A series of attacks at a dog kennels. I think they might have been struggling for ideas at that point.

And what happened to all the quizzes? The afternoon ones are too complicated. You have to wait for teatime for something decent.

When the final great history of this country is written, that is where the battle lines will be drawn. Never mind Leave or Remain: Are you a Chase or a Pointless house? Some people say both, I say that is impossible.

Brutal

Anyways, soon summer and all its daytime TV will be a distant memory.

People are drifting back into Westminster and the upcoming period of British politics is going to be brutal with things happening very quickly.

Politics will dominate the agenda again. Brexit. Probably a general election. It will leave no space for the other stuff. Like what’s going on in Bury.

I’m a Leeds fan and I know all about the terror of financial mismanagement, so I can sympathise. But even during the string of chancers that ran us into the ground we never came as close to going out of existence as Bury.

The club, a member of the Football THIS week the full impact of the housing crisis was revealed.

The focus this time round was its effect on children.

We learned that more than 130,000 families are living in onebedroom flats, with children sleeping three to a bed and parents spending the night in the League for 125 years, is on the brink. At the time of writing, a rescue package is being discussed by the English Football League. Bury are one of six clubs reported to be in financial distress. But what can be done?

The Football League have promised to tighten rules about ownership, to clamp down on people not running clubs properly. But it’s wider than that.

These clubs need looking after. Those at the top have to realise their responsibility to the smaller sides – and the game as a whole. Just ten miles to kitchen or hall. And on Wednesday Anne Longfield, pictured left, the children’s commissioner for England, said that thousands of homeless children were sleeping in shipping containers, office blocks and bed and breakfasts.

The National Housing Federation says it will take the south, Manchester United are locked in troubles of their own – trying to offload Alexis Sanchez, a player who earns £390,000 a week.

Burton manager Nigel Clough said: “I think there’s enough money in football at the moment to look after everybody. I would look up for it.”

Maybe he’s right and a bailout from the Premier League’s billions is in order. Sanchez could hand over a month’s wages to help save Bury.

Bolton and Bury should be a wake-up call for the game. But for now, the big £ 12.8billion a year for many, many, years to end the problem.

Also this week we learned there’s to be a review into HS2 – the line could cost £100billion.

Surely, that’s cash that would be better spent on solving the housing crisis instead of getting people to London faster. boys will shrug and tell us it’s a shame. Then they will disappear to count their cash and dream of breakaway leagues, billion dollar TV deals and all the rest.

Meantime, we wait for a final verdict on whether 134 years of football history is about to blink out of existence, taking with it the heart of a community and all that means to people.

Like Kenny Hindle, who has watched Bury for 70 years. Kenny said: “I think it is a money-making game now, you know, but I just enjoy the football.”

Then he said: “I just love football.”