September 11, 2012
Hillsborough: justice still seems a distant hope for the victims’ families
Brian Glanville wonders whether families of the victims of the Hillsborough tragedy will ever get the justice they demand, and indeed deserve.
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Opinions from some of football’s leading voices
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September 6, 2012
Light at the end of the tunnel for Kosovo
The ground is shifting, ever so slightly, on Kosovo, the Balkan state stuck in international limbo – in sport as much as politics – ever since seceding from Serbia, rump state of collapsed former Yugoslavia,…
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September 4, 2012
Brian Glanville reflects on a weekend of Premier League action
Liverpool look set for a wretched season, while Arsenal have bounced back from a poor start. Elsewhere, Tottenham fans are already running out of patience, while Fulham struggle to cope with the loss of key…
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September 4, 2012
Sharing the burden: Platini’s European Championship plan is beginning to make sense
As the cost of staging the European Championships becomes prohibitive for all bar a handful of countries, support for Michel Platini's proposal to spread the finals across 13 cities is beginning to gather support
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August 30, 2012
Back to the future for FIFA World Cup probe
FIFA's new chief investigator would be advised to examine how Germany secured the 2006 World Cup, before he embarks upon analysing the process that saw Russia and Qatar awarded the 2018 and 2022 finals respectively.
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August 28, 2012
Democracy rules in the Premier League, for the time being
With the exception of big-spending Chelsea, the traditional heavyweights have made a stuttering start to the new Premier League season.
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August 28, 2012
FIFA’s new chief investigator promises to leave no stone unturned
Michael Garcia, FIFA’s new chief investigator, is turning his inquisitive eyes on awards of World Cup host rights not only to Russia and Qatar in 2018 and 2022 . . . but also to Germany…
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August 21, 2012
The Premier League is back
Michael Laudrup makes a stunning start to his career as manager of Swansea City, while their former boss Brendan Rodgers' new side Liverpool struggle at West Brom
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August 14, 2012
Manchester City v Chelsea: it’s a rich man’s world
After the excitement of the Olympic final between Mexico and Brazil, English football came back to earth with a bump when Chelsea and Manchester City travelled to Villa Park to contest the Community Shield.
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August 8, 2012
Team GB won the public’s backing, but fell short when it mattered
Despite concerns about widespread indifference to the British Olympic football team, the public voted with their feet and gave the concept a resounding thumbs up.
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August 7, 2012
Should players pay the price for their misbehaviour?
Whereas Italian players donated their Euro 2012 bonuses to hardship funds created to help victims of the Emilia Romagna earthquake, their French counterparts face calls to have bonus removed.
