On Friday, 31st August, in Avellaneda near central Buenos Aires, outside the stadium known as El Cilindro, the fans of one of Argentina’s ‘Big Five’ clubs will be protesting.
Wednesday marked forty years since Racing became champions of South America by winning the Copa Libertadores, but the anniversary went all but unnoticed in the shadow of [...]
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Another leading Premiership club moved closer to foreign ownership, with David Dein today announcing he’d sold his 14.5% share to “a firm co-owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov for 75 million pounds”. Dein himself will be chairman of the outfit, “Red and White Holdings”, with another investor, Farhad Moshiri, also involved. This is clearly a [...]
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When Middlesbrough’s Egyptian striker Mido gestured at the Newcastle fans after he scored on Saturday (putting his finger to his lips to quiet them) one instantly wondered what they’d been chanting to upset him so much. One wondered if it might have had to do with his penchant for a few too many pies, [...]
As this Carlisle United fan describes, the campaign to bring back standing to the top levels of football in Britain (which was banned following the Taylor Report into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster) has an emotional, atmospheric and economic purpose behind it.
For many football fans standing at a football game is a sentimental return to the [...]
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