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TIL that Jean-Marc Bosman, whose football transfer led to a ruling that completely changed European football (allowing players to freely move after their contracts end, and making foreign player quotas illegal), ended up bankrupt, his marriage ruined, depressed, alcoholic, and now relies on handouts

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