... the Premier League dropouts, the tournament everyone wants to make it to – and, who knows, come the final on February 5, football may yet win out over politics. Taimour Lay @TaimourLay ...
... k to a 16-team tournament, but once again the problem is the internal politics of FIFA – Havelange needs to cement his support among the African and Asian countries who are numerically a powerful force i ...
... early 1990s in one of those reassuringly private fixtures not advertised in national press or recorded in your Rothmans.
Politics, bouncing stadiums and life-long memories bagged – the same hasn’t alway ...
... final.
During the Owls’ longest-ever period outside the top-flight they have been a model in how not to run a club – furious boardroom politics, protests, terrible transfer business and a huge turnover ...
... at Manchester United and Real Madrid show Balague at his best, uncovering the complexities of the business dealings and club politics and discussing how Ronaldo was received by and operated in both, very ...
... remind you that the re-purposing of the Olympic Stadium for West Ham’s use, kicking off next August, is a unique proposition, and not only because of the politics behind it. Other than at the old Wemb ...
... Council Leader Simon Blackburn took a clear hands-off approach.
Blackburn’s unhelpful and incendiary comments that “football and politics shouldn’t mix” and that Blackpool fans “weren’t complaining when ...
... his interest in politics, and his belief that both communism and capitalism are failed systems; his love and aptitude for dancing, which would probably see him progress a long way on a future series of ...
With declarations of superiority and personal messages from leaders, Jon Spurling looks at why the 1934 meeting of England and Italy was as much about politics as football
In November 1934, world champions ...
... far from any dry history of the economics and politics of the game. He conveys the enduring cultural appeal of football, the resonance of matchday in the face of the forces of “fragmentation and distraction” ...
... st? Vincent Kompany has been an impressive interviewee since he was a teenager at Anderlecht. He even got involved in politics after one Belgian victory, arguing – much to the displeasure of the Flemish separa ...
... cture of semiconductors and integrated circuits. Bilingual, with a Walloon father and Flemish mother, Duchâtelet has been involved in politics – he formed liberal party Vivant in 1997 – and entered fo ...
... both those works.
While there are sections dealing with Irish politics and the Dublin media that may baffle and/or bore British readers, they are dwarfed by the substance of the book which is actually a gri ...
... y and contemporary politics. A trip to Novi Pazar, where the population has a Bosniak (Slav Muslim) majority, is carefully framed with valuable non-footballing context and his detailed translations of c ...
... winter without consultation would be "morally reprehensible". He didn't mention his views on the exploitation of migrant workers, though – got to keep politics out of football.
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... iker, Gary Twigg, scored… does need commas. Places Use English spellings for foreign place names where they exist, eg Cologne, Ivory Coast.
Politics No caps on left-wing and right-wing or prime ministe ...
... but they help argue that Spanish politics and culture shaped the country's football team.
Whereas in Phil Ball's Morbo you hear from taxi-drivers and local barmen, Burns draws in Federico García Lor ...
WSC regular contributor Ian Plenderleith has written a novel. The Chairman's Daughter – Football, politics, money, sex and racism in the East Midlands tells the story of a former England prospect who i ...
... g a fixed number. "Doing the 53" seems to involve hitting a moving target, dictated just as much by politics as by action on the pitch.
UEFA was founded by 25 nations in 1954, and only 17 of those t ...