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I hope he spends a long time behind bars....
and gets punched in the face a lot...
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He claimed immunity for two other affairs that had nothing to do with the "Elf affair". These affairs were the "Affaire des emplois fictifs de la mairie de Paris" (Case of fictitious jobs of the Paris City Hall) and the "Financement illégal du RPR" (the illegal financing of his party). |
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Being bought up in an atmosphere of Athletics I am not really surprised that we sell out stadia even it comes to Olympics/Paralympics or World/para athletics but the biggest surprise to me is why we've never gone after other stuff like that, surely after 2012 the world could see we could easily organise big events AND fill the stadiums, arenas etc. The biggest day crowds in any Olympics/Paralympics and now the Worlds. Perhaps we can start to vie for other big tournaments like World Cups etc as it would be nice to see another Football oWorld Cup in my lifetime here.
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Like the Greenman I would like to see another World Cup held in England but the cost being so prohibitive it would have to be shared amongst all the home Nations, and getting a consensus on that in the current political climate would be a major acchievement in itself. Quantitative easing aside I can't see us being able to afford it in the foreseeable future, more's the pity.
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The upper-echelons of the professional game and the contolling associations are morally and financially corrupt. If the Football Association want to bid again for the World Cup then they, their "Official Partners" and the Premier League can pay for every last penny of it, including the all important "brown envelopes". Anyway, apart from the occasional classic game (Germay thrashing Brazil), I've found much of the last few world cups to be somewhat underwhelming i.e. Spain's Tiki-taka football (technically brilliant but mind-numbingly boring to watch) and too many team's now playing for the draw.
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IMO it needs a major shake-up in the format of the tournaments. Instead of 8 groups of four teams, where draws between the strongest teams in a group mean so much more, there should be 4 groups of 8 teams, randomly drawn, or at least only 4 teams seeded to a different group. With only 2 or 4 teams progressing from each group draws mean much less. Also, if the recently introduced system at the Rugby World Cup of bonus points for larger margins of victory were adopted (although it would need fine-tuning to something like 1 bonus point for a 3 goal victory) then more open, attacking football might be seen. What do you guys think?
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Have you noticed that when we get to a major sporting event it doesn't matter how good the individual has been throughout the year OR team has done in other minor events we always croak it be it football, athletics or tennis to give but three examples...are they that nervous that they cannot perform properly? Surely it can work to your favour being in front of a home crowd like the athletics, but for some it was too much like Holly Bradshaw in the Pole Vault or KJThompson in the Hepthatlon-virtually cast-iron medal chances thwarted due to nerves or sloppy performances. One day we might get it right...and one day we might take part in other field events like the javelin and triple jump where we were once very good both men & women.
I do think it is a bit odd that Justin Gatlin's agent Renaldo Nehamiah thinks it was disrespectful of Steve Cram to speak out against him and for the Britsh crowd to boo him in the 100m - there is a good reason for that two drug bans for starters and those of you who remember Nehamiah will recall that he was once caught doping too, so I would say we had every right to show our disgust at a two-time drug cheat. WADA the governing body have a lot to answer for. |
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Don't be harsh on yourself. You only have about 1% of the world's population but do well in world sport
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