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September 6, 2010
Football clubs tackle debts
Financial News - www.efinancialnews.com
From the football pitch to the race track, banks retain their love affair with big-audience sports, despite a punishing recession.
Just as UK football clubs' success on the pitch have waxed and waned since the first team turned professional in the late 19th century, so their relationship with their banks and the tax authorities have ebbed and flowed.
From the football pitch to the race track, banks retain their love affair with big-audience sports, despite a punishing recession.
Just as UK football clubs' success on the pitch have waxed and waned since the first team turned professional in the late 19th century, so their relationship with their banks and the tax authorities have ebbed and flowed.
Fabio Capello needs to put a smile back on England's faces if he is to survive Euro 2012
Insideworldfootball.biz
The start of the Euro 2012 campaign also means the re-igniting of the endless inquests on Fabio Capello, the England manager. Despite his start to the campaign suggesting a similarly easy passage for England to the finals in Poland and Ukraine as with the 2010 World Cup, the eventual disaster in South Africa makes such inquests inevitable.
However, are we missing the point in the way we discus Capello, concentrating on his choice of players and tactics? Can he play b...
The start of the Euro 2012 campaign also means the re-igniting of the endless inquests on Fabio Capello, the England manager. Despite his start to the campaign suggesting a similarly easy passage for England to the finals in Poland and Ukraine as with the 2010 World Cup, the eventual disaster in South Africa makes such inquests inevitable.
However, are we missing the point in the way we discus Capello, concentrating on his choice of players and tactics? Can he play b...
August 31, 2010
London is perfect for my family, says Neil Warnock
Evening Standard
There is one only weakness that Neil Warnock readily confesses to as he makes me a brew at his home in Richmond. "I only use one teabag, just dip it in mine, then my wife has it."
It is not the only thing that Warnock shares with his family, who remain the most important part of his hectic life.
There is one only weakness that Neil Warnock readily confesses to as he makes me a brew at his home in Richmond. "I only use one teabag, just dip it in mine, then my wife has it."
It is not the only thing that Warnock shares with his family, who remain the most important part of his hectic life.
August 30, 2010
England still searching for winning team to bring home 2018 World Cup
Insideworldfootball.biz
Just over ten years ago, after a visit to Downing Street of a FIFA delegation not very dissimilar to the one last Monday, Tony Banks, then the Prime Minister's special envoy to the 2006 World Cup bid, made one of his exuberant comments.
"You know," he said, "this visit proves that England is the only country that can defeat South Africa for the 2006 World Cup, Germany is out of it. I am now so close to these FIFA members I feel they are joined to the hip to me."
Just over ten years ago, after a visit to Downing Street of a FIFA delegation not very dissimilar to the one last Monday, Tony Banks, then the Prime Minister's special envoy to the 2006 World Cup bid, made one of his exuberant comments.
"You know," he said, "this visit proves that England is the only country that can defeat South Africa for the 2006 World Cup, Germany is out of it. I am now so close to these FIFA members I feel they are joined to the hip to me."
August 27, 2010
India's Lotus: The game that changed the sub-continent
Here is a trail for a planned new documentary on the new India.
In it I travel back to my homeland to reveal how India's number one passion is playing a role in shaping the country today.
In it I travel back to my homeland to reveal how India's number one passion is playing a role in shaping the country today.
August 24, 2010
Keith Harris: Selling a club for £500m is a tricky business
Evening Standard
Keith Harris is locked in negotiations that could bring the reign of Liverpool's unpopular American owners to an end but his experiences over the past year tell him not to get too excited.
The former Football League chairman has seen deals for Everton and Newcastle collapse in bizarre circumstances and was also a leading light in the failed bid to oust the Glazer family from Manchester United.
Keith Harris is locked in negotiations that could bring the reign of Liverpool's unpopular American owners to an end but his experiences over the past year tell him not to get too excited.
The former Football League chairman has seen deals for Everton and Newcastle collapse in bizarre circumstances and was also a leading light in the failed bid to oust the Glazer family from Manchester United.
August 20, 2010
Welcome to Premier League Two
Insideworldfootball.biz
This Premier League season may well prove to be a seminal one. Not on who wins it, or who qualifies for that modern Holy Grail the Champions League, but marking the moment when the Premier League, in effect, created Premier League Two.
Creating a second division in the Premier League has always been talked about, particularly by the smaller clubs fearful of relegation, but the idea has never found favour in the rest of the Premiership. Yet this will be the effect of ...
This Premier League season may well prove to be a seminal one. Not on who wins it, or who qualifies for that modern Holy Grail the Champions League, but marking the moment when the Premier League, in effect, created Premier League Two.
Creating a second division in the Premier League has always been talked about, particularly by the smaller clubs fearful of relegation, but the idea has never found favour in the rest of the Premiership. Yet this will be the effect of ...
August 17, 2010
Phillips Idowu: I'm glad I didn't win gold in Beijing
Evening Standard
There is one thing Phillips Idowu cannot explain: the s in his first name which makes it sound more like a surname than a Christian name. "Ask my father," he says. "I don't know."
That may remain a mystery but Idowu has become a major name in athletics thanks to his PE teachers at Raine's Foundation School in East London, who decided that his dream of wanting to follow in Michael Jordan's footsteps into the NBA was totally unrealistic.
There is one thing Phillips Idowu cannot explain: the s in his first name which makes it sound more like a surname than a Christian name. "Ask my father," he says. "I don't know."
That may remain a mystery but Idowu has become a major name in athletics thanks to his PE teachers at Raine's Foundation School in East London, who decided that his dream of wanting to follow in Michael Jordan's footsteps into the NBA was totally unrealistic.
August 13, 2010
Fans should treat new owners with extreme caution
Insideworldfootball.biz
It is part of the change that has come over football that, as the new season starts, the fans must not only look out for the new players who have walked into the clubs' changing rooms but the new owners who may now own their clubs' boardrooms.
In the last few weeks, the football news has been as dominated by the transfers of club ownership as much as player transfers. Or more accurately stories of possible sales of clubs with Liverpool, Blackburn and Leicester all ab...
It is part of the change that has come over football that, as the new season starts, the fans must not only look out for the new players who have walked into the clubs' changing rooms but the new owners who may now own their clubs' boardrooms.
In the last few weeks, the football news has been as dominated by the transfers of club ownership as much as player transfers. Or more accurately stories of possible sales of clubs with Liverpool, Blackburn and Leicester all ab...
August 10, 2010
Jeff Stelling: The ring master ensures fans get kick out of TV's blind spot
Evening Standard
This Friday evening, five men, four of them ex-footballers, will gather at the bar of the Kensington Marriott. One of the group, who has played for Scotland, will have flown in from Glasgow, another, who has lifted the European Cup and played for England, will have come down from Manchester.
But while their talk may echo that of many football fans up and down the land as they look forward to the start of the Premier League season, this conversation will carry greater weight...
This Friday evening, five men, four of them ex-footballers, will gather at the bar of the Kensington Marriott. One of the group, who has played for Scotland, will have flown in from Glasgow, another, who has lifted the European Cup and played for England, will have come down from Manchester.
But while their talk may echo that of many football fans up and down the land as they look forward to the start of the Premier League season, this conversation will carry greater weight...
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