Monday, July 18, 2011

The Fiver | Celebration of a pyrrhic victory | Scott Murray

The official reason given by the BBC for hiding away England's match against France in the women's World Cup on the red button is that they do not screen sport on both terrestrial channels at the same time. So with BBC1 showing the Scottish Open golf tomorrow afternoon, the women have been shunted off to the service that takes on average 16 hours to load and isn't quite as good as Ceefax.

"Thanks to the news aggregation service my employer uses, a link appeared to be yesterday 's Fiver on our intranet site. Engineers are natural pedant. I hope you realize the implications. May I therefore suggest that you Michael Beaven false \ 's last name "- Hossein Motevalli.

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Little things

Manchester City 's stadium will be known as Etihad Stadium for the next 10 years, after the airline of the Government of Abu Dhabi owned ? 100 million handed to a club by a member of Abu Dhabi \ property' s ruling family. And just when everyone asked me, as I said Uefa club 'would satisfy s new financial rules of fair play ...

After citing a desire not to uproot his family when he returned to England from Perth Glory in June, Robbie Fowler, now Thailand 's United Muangthong came instead.

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