Hoddle also revealed that Rivaldo wrote him a letter outlining why he chose not to join Tottenham.

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As it happens, the finance director of a huge British multinational, Vodafone, recently wrote a letter to journalists explaining why it paid no UK corporation tax in 2011-12.

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According to the bank's French lawyers, the chairman himself wrote a letter in July 1999 explaining to Mr Lion why he had been demoted from his job.

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So, and I take responsibility for that, and I wrote a letter to every member of the Parliamentary Labour Party, setting out why I, why I had, I had stayed, where my doubts were and why I'd stay.

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