13 December 2007

Beijing Olympics under a cloud

China: On a recent trip to India, said to have cost around £750,000 of public money, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone offered the Bollywood film industry a cheap deal for the use of some of the Olympic buildings in East London a... By Clare Doyle

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4 October 2007

QPR buy-out - Reclaim the game!

AT LONG last Formula 1 moguls Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone have revealed what Queen's Park Rangers fans can expect from their takeover... By Jacqui Berry

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29 November 2006

Costs soar while communities ignored

Olympics 2012: IT WOULDN'T have taken a genius to predict that the cost of the London Olympics would rise from the original forecast of just under £2.5 billion...

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16 November 2006

Is capitalism killing football?

Peter Taaffe reviews My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach, published by ELO Jersey Press (£7.99)....

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22 June 2006

Football: A high price for the beautiful game

SOCIALIST PARTY member Kevin Miles is the International Co-ordinator for the Football Supporters Federation - the fans official spokesperson. He is in Germany at the moment, with the "Fan's Embassy."...

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15 June 2006

World Cup: Profits and prostitution

I CAN hardly call myself the greatest football fan alive. However, I used to be football crazy when I was little and I still remember the excitement of the 1982 World Cup in Madrid; my first "conscious" world football, writes Tanja Niemeier (recently returned from Germany).

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8 June 2006

Festival of football, carnival of cash

World Cup: OUR TV screens, newspapers and advertising hoardings are full of the World Cup. One of the world's biggest sporting occasions is only days away. I can't wait, writes Chris Newby.

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8 December 2005

George Best

GEORGE BEST's funeral took place on 3 December in Belfast. Tens of thousands lined the streets to show their appreciation of his talent,...

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26 May 2005

Kick the fat cats out of football

OVER 500 Manchester United fans crowded into a public meeting in Manchester on 19 May...

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19 May 2005

Football: Fans protest at billionaire’s takeover

ABOUT 2,000 men, women and young people came out on 12 May - some still in their work clothes or school uniforms...

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