Mariam Soliman - Cairo, Egypt
Much is now surfacing about Wednesday’s riot at the Port Said football stadium in northern Egypt, including allegations that stadium security provoked fan violence, perhaps in response to last year’s Arab Spring and the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak. In the wake of the riot, the head of the Egyptian FA has been sacked, and [...]
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Presse Sports-US PRESSWIRE
In Matthew Stanger’s latest Football365 post, he argues that provincialism, hatred, and verbal abuse (booing, etc.) have infected this EPL season, poisoning it to a level at which it’s simply no longer fun to watch. He writes: “Football is breeding an atmosphere of hate. This season has been worse than ever with tribalism suffocating the [...]
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Tripoli Skyline - Patrick André Perron
Considering the state of their country’s affairs, it’s somewhat of a miracle that Libya even fielded a team for this year’s Africa Cup of Nations tournament, let alone played with such heart. Sadly, however, even though they fended off Senegal with a 2-1 win on Sunday, they have failed to advance to the knockout stages [...]
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Apparently some sources are now indicating that Jose Mourinho will not only be leaving Real Madrid at the end of the season regardless of the outcome, but that he’s already shopping around potential Premier League gigs. Spurs and Liverpool may top that list, amid speculation that Harry Redknapp is eyeing Capello’s job and that Kenny [...]
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It’s become somewhat trendy to put time of possession on a pedestal, as if this one statistic were the only way to analyze a team’s showing. I blame both Barcelona and the Spanish national team; people watching their rise to dominance have assumed it was their control of the ball that set them above other [...]
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“Whenever A and B are in opposition to each other, anyone who attacks or criticizes A is accused of aiding and abetting B,” George Orwell wrote in Through a Glass, Rosily. He continued, “It is a tempting manoeuvre, and I have used it myself more than once, but it is dishonest.” I wonder if this [...]
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“Nos damos cuenta de que es posible ganarles y estamos con muchas ganas del próximo enfrentamiento,” said Álvaro Arbeloa after tonight’s Clásico against Barça—a match that may prove to be a turning point for a Real Madrid team strangely looking for inspiration despite holding what most deem to be a commanding lead of La Liga. [...]
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No one in their right mind, I should think, would call James A. Michener stupid. By the time he died (here in Austin, in 1997), Michener had published more than four dozen books and had won the Pulitzer Prize. He graduated from Swarthmore with Honors, won the Medal of Freedom, and, from 1979 to 1983, [...]
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When a statue of Michael Jackson was ceremoniously unveiled, with as much confusion as fanfare, outside Fulham’s stadium in April of last year, many supporters at Craven Cottage were left with a litany of lingering questions, such as: Why Michael Jackson? Why at Fulham? Is this some sort of April Fool’s joke? No seriously, it’s [...]
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