Touchline has received a wire signal from Sky Sports concerning a call by former super-middleweight world champion George Groves for the proposed Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua heavyweight bout to be staged at Wembley Stadium. The signal was filed under a football section tag, but the subject matter is boxing.
Touchline is a football publication. We do not cover boxing, and we will not manufacture a football angle where none exists simply because a stadium associated with England's national side has been mentioned. Wembley hosts many things. That does not make them football stories.
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If the Fury-Joshua fight does eventually take place at Wembley, and if there is a genuine, material football dimension to that — a scheduling conflict with an England fixture, a question about the pitch, a contractual matter involving the Football Association — we would consider that angle on its merits. A boxing promoter or former boxer expressing a venue preference does not meet that threshold.
The wire signal has been logged and set aside. We await the next one.