21 February 2012

Bristol Central Socialist Party: "Reclaim the Game", capitalism & football

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8 February 2012

Mubarak's state machine blamed for football massacre

Seventy-four football fans were killed and hundreds injured after the final whistle blew at the al-Masry versus al-Ahly match in Port Said on 1 February, writes David Johnson

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7 December 2011

Brazilian socialists remember Socrates

The last day of the PSoL left party's congress in São Paulo was dedicated to the memory of the great Brazilian footballer Socrates, who died from liver disease on the same day...

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30 November 2011

Showing racism the red card

Sepp Blatter, the reactionary, out of touch head of FIFA (world football's governing body), recently told a CNN interviewer that there is no racism in football, writes Chris Newby.

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19 October 2011

Reclaim the Game!

Book review: Coming out just days after the chief executive of Liverpool FC announced proposals to keep even more of the money from TV rights for the richest clubs in the Premier League, the timing of the latest edition of John Reid's book Reclaim the Game could not have been sharper, writes Chris Newby, London Socialist Party.

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1 June 2011

Fifa scandal

The ugly side of the 'beautiful game': FC Barcelona's revolutionary blend of artistic flair and collective organisation in the Champions League final showed why millions worldwide love the "beautiful game"...

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20 October 2010

Liverpool FC: "They don't care about fans!"

Readers' comment: "THEY ONLY care about money, they don't care about fans, Liverpool Football Club is in the wrong hands!" sang Liverpool FC fans gathered outside London's Royal Courts of Justice...

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9 June 2010

Soccer World Cup 2010: South Africa, the ugly backdrop to the beautiful game

NOTHING SYMBOLISES more graphically the ugliness that forms the backdrop to the beautiful game than all the scandals, corruption and greed surrounding the 2010 World Cup, writes Sheri and Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement, South Africa.

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3 March 2010

Supporters should own Pompey, not developers

THE COMPANY controlling Portsmouth Football Club (FC) has now gone into administration. This means that control over the club's finances has been taken out of the hands of the owner, writes David Maples.

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13 January 2010

Hard chimes for Pompey

LESS THAN two years after winning the FA Cup, Portsmouth Football Club is a club in crisis. In unprecedented events for a club in English football's top division, Pompey have, for the third time this...

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