Bradford City and Lincoln City are up in arms about a programme made in the USA regarding the Bradford fire. David Pendleton finds out why
Over the 14 years since the Bradford fire I can barely remember any adverse publicity. It became a private disaster, rarely talked about and only in the public domain on the anniversary when a sombre ceremony is held at the memorial in Bradford city centre.
Ron Noades continued influence over Crystal Palace and stadium trouble at Oldham Athletic and Swansea City
There are league rules that prevent one person owning two clubs (although as the Peter Johnson case shows, they do not mean much) but there is nothing to stop someone in control of one club from owning another club’s ground. This is the case at Crystal Palace, where the extraordinary terms of their lease with former owner Ron Noades have left him with a significant presence.
UEFA seem intent on changing the transfer system. Guy Osborn & Steve Greenfield explain how this could affect England and beyond
It seems barely a week goes past these days without a new proposal to regulate the international movement of players. The most recent have involved reintroducing restrictions on foreigners, standardising transfer windows across Europe and effectively abolishing the transfer system. Yet again, it appears that poor old Jean-Marc Bosman is the root cause of most of these ideas.
Shaul Adar covers the fallout over Eyal Berkovic's controversial autobiography
The furore over the excerpts from Eyal Berkovic’s book printed in the Mirror has not come as a surprise to anyone in Israel. Let’s be clear about one thing, however. Berkovic does not say in his autobiography,The Magician, that West Ham are racist. He does claims it is an unprofessional, unpleasant, ill-managed club in which nepotism plays an important role. One chapter is called “Frank Lampard Snr – West Ham’s biggest trouble”. He accuses the club of being xenophobic and says “they can’t stand foreigners” but he takes care not to call anybody a racist.
The Euro 2000 play-off draw has pitted the two oldest foes in Football against each other, but does anyone outside of Britain care?
“I would not be Kevin Keegan if I did not get excited about this,” said the England manager in a blinding flash of self-awareness on hearing the Euro 2000 play-off draw. Unfortunately, he is Kevin Keegan, and his face was splashed all over the papers after England and Scotland came out of the hat together (or what passes for a hat at UEFA headquarters these days).