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Football fans have been warned they could risk being removed from their stadium for wearing counterfeit club shirts. Ahead of Sheffield Wednesday’s opening Championship fixture, the club urged supporters to think twice about sporting knock-offs at Hillsborough – prompting outrage from fans. A club “brand protection” statement threatened that anyone found to be wearing a fake shirt inside the ground could be asked to leave, with “information passed on to the relevant parties”. As to why the ban has been put in place, the club claimed counterfeit shirts were “potentially unsafe due to materials …

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