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Wishart calls for forgiveness

Following his calls for Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor's Scotland bans to be lifted, Fraser Wishart, head of the Scottish PFA, has again asked for forgiveness on behalf of someone else: this time, it's former German leader Adolf Hitler. Wishart has supposedly written to Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama, current heads of the 3 main "allies" from WW2 requesting a formal, posthumous pardon for the Fuhrer. In a recent interview, Wishart said "In the world today, we should be a bit bigger than to continue to beat this guy with a stick". Wishart went on to praise Hitler's "good management" of the German economic collapse of the 1930s, and believes that the hostile reaction shown to Germany since WW2 was "severe". Wishart was born in 1965, and therefore missed Hitler's demise by 20 years, but went on to say that had he been there, "I would have said to Adolf, "let's just wait and take stock to see how this matter unfolds and see what the sanction is", and from my point of view, it's time to draw a line under it".