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Georgia

Corruption, maimings, murder – football is a risky business in some countries. As Dan Brennan explains, success can come with an unbearably heavy price in Tbilisi

Football, for Georgians, is the source of ex­treme and conflicting emotions. On the one hand, this country of barely five million people, with an econ­omy still struggling to find its way out of the doldrums 12 years after independence, has a re­markable track record of pro­ducing wonderfully skil­ful footballers.

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The cup that jeered

Hankies out for the European Cup-Winners Cup, which ended its days at Villa Park on May 19, 1999. Cris Freddi looks back on a trophy largely unloved outside Magdeburg.

So farewell then ECWC. No more clogging up sentences with “European Cup-Winners Cup quarter-final second leg”. The last of the three Euro com­petitions to be founded is the first to disappear. Fair enough, perhaps, and I suspect it won’t be unduly mourned.

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