For more than a year, footballers took the knee in solidarity with George Floyd, says Brendan O'Neill. "Yet after the racist slaughter of a thousand Israelis, the FA can’t even be bothered to light up the Wembley arch."
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A 27 year-old footballer, Maddy Cusack, has died, and suddenly a media that is awash with speculation on all kinds of tenuous subjects has no curiosity to find out why, says Dr David Seedhouse.
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Football Focus is in peril due to plunging viewing figures ahead of its 50th anniversary with the show struggling to recover since Dan Walker was replaced by Alex Scott. Go woke, go broke?
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Spanish football Chief Luis Rubiales has sent FIFA a copy of newly released footage showing the women's football team celebrating and joking about his infamous kiss with Jenni Hermoso.
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This week’s News on China. • Argentina will pay the IMF in yuans • Yuan overtakes the dollar in China’s bilateral trade • Floods in the north of the country • Cunchao, the rural soccer phenomenon
This week’s News on China. • Alibaba Cloud will broadcast 2024 Olympics • Taiwanese leader’s popularity slumps • World’s largest hydro-solar power plant • Village basketball and football championships
It just keeps getting darker and darker. For the professionally ignorant, things are only getting better. With one of history’s great events of sportswashing concluded – the 2022 Qatar World Cup – another state famed for its cosmetic distractions and moneyed seductions made a splash. Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal, his sun setting and his prospects […]
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It did not take much. The initial promises of protest from a number of footballers and their teams at the Qatar FIFA World Cup were always suspect and hollow. There was Denmark’s less than impressive form of camouflaged protest via merchandise, supposedly defiant with its logo free monochrome colours. There was the barely threatening promise […]
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Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, the most famous 52-year-old brat of the world football federation, has not been much in the news of late. Such creatures of authority do their best (and worst) work in the shadows. But given that the FIFA Men’s World Cup is upon us, he thought it wise to address a […]
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