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7 October 2016 ~
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Hopes that a post-Sepp Blatter FIFA would be a better-run organisation are now receding. The ...
... news this week Jamie Vardy used to dissolve Skittles in vodka FIFA abolish anti-racism task force Silky skills from the London giants Coventry City ban their local paper ...
... original. Even stricter, FIFA won’t let Germany keep the current World Cup trophy, despite them becoming in 2014 the first to win it three times. In the last decade UEFA have increased the size of the ...
... tween Manchester United and Liverpool fans – it's not likely that the two cities will go to war. And at least there's no FIFA-sourced pretence that sport serves as a healing, unifying force for good.
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... his Trump Tower base in November 2011. This was just under a year after FIFA’s decision to award the next two World Cups to Russia and Qatar, and while a generation of FIFA powerbrokers and crooks was ...
... that seem timeless. Rows over refereeing decisions, play-acting, criticism of ultra-defensive football and the lack of goals, accusations of corruption in FIFA and so on. The North Korean press officer ...
Gianni Infantino could alter things to iron out injustices on the pitch
4 April ~ Now that we have new man at the helm of FIFA, I have a few suggestions for him that might make the game fairer and ...
... a "stormy late-night meeting", the future head of FIFA had threatened to dissolve the whole committee, to which Saldanha replied: "What do you mean, dissolved? I'm not ice cream. Havelange then told me, ‘You ar ...
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