http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sun, 19 May 2013 20:00:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/13/lille-on-the-rise-in-ligue-1-despite-woeful-champions-league-form/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/13/lille-on-the-rise-in-ligue-1-despite-woeful-champions-league-form/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:28:50 +0000 Matthew Riding http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=29873 After being thumped 6-1 by Bayern Munich last week in the Champions League, it would be fair to say Lille’s aspirations of qualifying for the knockout stages of the competition are all but over.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/13/lille-on-the-rise-in-ligue-1-despite-woeful-champions-league-form/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/14/integrations-spieltag-tackling-homophobia-the-last-taboo-in-football/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/14/integrations-spieltag-tackling-homophobia-the-last-taboo-in-football/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:40:26 +0000 Kit Holden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28418 The shirts of Germany's top flight players will this weekend be adorned with a unanimous slogan: "Geh deinen Weg" ("Go your own way") as part of the weekly Integrations-Spieltag (Integration Matchday). The message of integration is primarily in support of young members of the immigrant community but following an interview with an anonymous gay footballer in the German magazine "Fluter", it is the homophobia debate which has begun to take centre stage.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/14/integrations-spieltag-tackling-homophobia-the-last-taboo-in-football/feed/ 71 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/16/matthias-sammer-making-waves-as-director-of-sport-at-fc-bayern/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/16/matthias-sammer-making-waves-as-director-of-sport-at-fc-bayern/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:08:58 +0000 Kit Holden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26406 One of the main orchestrators behind the recent resurrection and makeover of the German national team, Sammer has taken over from Christian Nerlinger.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/16/matthias-sammer-making-waves-as-director-of-sport-at-fc-bayern/feed/ 1