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Sewn? (4,4)

(Or alternatively:)

Sewn up? (4,4)

Sunday Sport Exclusive - Hampden officials' chief demoted, knew about European corruption charge (4,4)

All-points bulletin? False alarm! (4,4)

Sorry SW; should have read through more carefully!

A tweak to reduce the length

Sunday Sport Exclusive - League Administrators knew about European corruption charge (4,4)

Leader, maybe, not to be trusted? (4,4)

Mimic sound of wildebeests with overlying jungle drums? (4,4)

A small change to mine @27 to improve the surface reading:

Fact: A keen editor needs every weird story to start a hoax (4,4)

(Paul @34. No problem. I'll put it down to the psychic connection! Since I'm in such a forgiving mood, I won't even take Ginge to task for using "knew about European". Hi, Ginge :-)

Hi skyewalker, as you'll see from the time of the first post it was insomnia and no previous knowledge of what went before but as gracious as your offer is it's too similar in terms of essential wordplay and still "clunky" even after a tweak so please ignore peterm.