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We now perhaps know why it was this week that Craig Murray’s website was finally forced off the internet. Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, had related Uzbeki/Russian oligarch’s Alisher Usmanov’s time in prison in the 1980s (he was eventually pardoned, but not by Gorbachev as his lawyer’s wistfully imply; rather, by Putin, a [...]

Continuing the week’s Polish theme, a fan on the fence at GKS Belchatow stadium during a Legia Warsaw game.

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To follow-up briefly once again on the ongoing Alisher Usmanov saga, the Uzbeki oligarch’s high-priced lawyers Schilling’s have finally gotten their way and former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray’s website has been taken down.
This follows the massive legal pressure put on by Schillings to websites such as this one that only seek to put [...]

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We don’t yet know the ins-and-outs of Jose Mourinho’s departure from Chelsea by “mutual consent”, and we probably won’t until his memoirs of the period hit the streets in a couple of years. But we do know the Chelsea brass have been increasingly bold in their demands for champagne football to match the money spent [...]

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Editor’s note: It’s not every day a Wisla Krakow supporter writes to Pitch Invasion reporting of a burgeoning fans’ protest in Poland that all started with a perceived injustice done to ultras of their bitter rivals, Lech Poznan. But a writer under the pseudonym of “South Pole” has contributed the below tale of growing demands [...]

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