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Everything that is wrong with football – in a magazine
As we are thrown deeper into a third decade of Sky TV dominance, the gulf between our senses of what football is now and what it once was is widening.
By Gerard Brand | Football, Sport | Saturday, 13 October 2012 at 1:01 am
“The Football Crash”: Are footballers the bankers of modern sport?
For some time now, the headlines about footballers’ wages have seemed oddly familiar; and, with the publication of a new report, the analogy has finally become clear.
By Musa Okwonga | Sport | Monday, 20 August 2012 at 10:51 am
The £39.6m in unpaid football taxes (and that’s only part of it)
When Darlington went into administration in 2009 – the second of three times the club has now done so – they owed HMRC tax arrears of more than four hundred thousand pounds.
As part of the deal that led to them coming out of administration, unsecured creditors, including the tax man, received 0.0009 [...]
By Alex Miller | Football, Sport | Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 4:00 am
Championship preview: Sheffield United’s Johnny Ertl: “We’re going to make it”
Show strength in the face of adversity. That was the message relayed by defender Johnny Ertl to his Sheffield United team-mates as they approach the final furlong in the race to avoid relegation. Micky Adams’ side travel to Portsmouth tomorrow knowing they’re six points adrift of 21st placed Crystal Palace. The threat of relegation is [...]
By Giles Lucas | Sport | Friday, 4 March 2011 at 1:49 pm
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