November 13, 2012
Futility of friendly matches that used to matter very much
Roy Hodgson’s late choice of Crystal Palace’s greatly gifted attacker Wilfried Zaha seemed on the face of it a strange even a bizarre one.
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Opinions from some of football’s leading voices
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November 13, 2012
Power brokers of German football look to settle some old scores
Theo Zwanziger, freed from the diplomatic constraints of being German football federation president, has been settling scores in a book and interviews with old enemies such as Uli Hoeness.
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November 9, 2012
Switzerland belatedly joins the campaign clean up sport
Enough is enough. Even Swiss politicians conservatively protective of their nation’s neutrally protective shrouds are fed up with the antics of some of the sports cuckoos in their nest.
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November 7, 2012
Arsenal ride their luck while Man City’s runs out
Arsenal hang on for a point against Schalke while Manchester City, despite not really deserving it, can think themselves slightly unfortunate not to have picked up a win over Ajax.
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November 6, 2012
Arsenal continue to stumble and the dissenting voices grow louder
Things manifestly have been going wrong at Arsenal and arguably not only on the field. Apart from a number of deadly dull displays, the home defeats by Schalke and Chelsea, the slack surrender at Old…
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November 5, 2012
Platini gets backing for winter World Cup
Prince Ali of Jordan has lined himself with fellow FIFA vice-president Michel Platini in endorsing the idea of staging the Qatar’s 2022 World Cup finals in the northern hemisphere winter.
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October 31, 2012
Brian Glanville: Heaven help us if Clattenburg is English football’s best ref
Mark Clattenburg had a tainted record even before last Sunday's game at Stamford Bridge. So how did he become the English refereeing choice for the 2014 World Cup?
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October 25, 2012
English clubs brought back down to earth with a bang
So much for the supposed superiority of teams from what I still call The Greed Is Good League. This week however it might be better called the The Greed Isn’t Good Enough League...
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October 18, 2012
Bin Hammam case opens large can of worms for AFC and FIFA
Mohamed Bin Hammam, currently fighting his corner again before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, has left senior figures in Asian football in no doubt about his determination to prove his innocence over accusations of…
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October 18, 2012
Polish farce stands out on a night of shocks and surprises
After the farcical postponement of their World Cup qualifier in Warsaw, England reverted to type when the game was eventually played, producing an uninspired, unconvincing performance against an inventive Poland side.
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October 15, 2012
Democracy at work: Asia Champions League opens the doors to all-comers
Prince Ali of Jordan is planning to blow a wind of change through Asian club football and, more particularly, through its Champions League.
