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The Guardian
The latest survey by Professional Football Players Observatory is crammed with information about players' size, age, nationality, durability and foreign imports Barcelona's Xavi, left, and Andres Iniesta have confounded the notion that top players need to be increasingly physical. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images...
Premier League leads importers' chart
16 Aug 2010
The Independent
Six of European football's top 10 importers were teams playing in the Barclays Premier League last season. As the debate over the effects of overseas signings on home-grown talent rumbles on in the wake of England's intensely disappointing World Cup finals campaign, statistics released by the Professional Football Players Observatory reveal that English and German clubs relied...
A five-year cap will sour expat community
20 Dec 2008
Gulf Daily News
I can't speak for other Gulf countries, but Bahrain is blessed with an expatriate community, which has made its home here. There are some who would say that this is the problem; that expatriates stay too long, sometimes spending the bulk of their working lives in jobs that could go to Bahrainis. But because so many of Bahrain's skilled expatriates feel able to put down roots...
World Cup match taps Revolutionary rivalry
12 Jun 2010
The Boston Globe
Thirty years after moving to Boston from Britain, Paul Stanislas, still an Englishman with an American-born daughter, has had to mull where his loyalties lie. Like many other long-term British expatriates in the States, Stanislas remains a follower of England's Premier League, especially his team, Manchester United. But for years he has also rooted for American soccer, as it...
Placebo Cancel North American Tour
18 Aug 2009
Chart Magazine
Placebo have postponed their North American tour because frontman Brian Molko is ill with a virus he picked up in Asia. Molko collapsed on stage at the Summer Sonic Festival in Osaka, Japan last week, forcing Placebo to cancel their set. Exhaustion and illness were blamed. "This is pretty devastating for everyone — we've only ever cancelled three shows in Placebo's 14-year...
Gulf News
Dubai: They might not have Superman's abilities, or US president Barack Obama's bodyguards, but residents in the Mirdif neighbourhood watch committee are using their powers to make sure that their community is safe. In Central Perk, a coffee shop at the corner of Uptown Mirdif sit a group of 11 residents. Every month, the committee meets to discuss ways to make Mirdif a safer...
The Guardian
Arsène Wenger's idea of scrapping throw-ins will not improve football. Indeed it may make it worse The long throw-ins of Rory Delap have proved a potent weapon for Stoke City. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images To watch Sky Sports yesterday was to be constantly informed that is not about to buy Craig Bellamy from Manchester City. As non-stories go this might appear to be up...
Expat ID card application put on hold
25 Nov 2008
Gulf News
Abu Dhabi: Expatriate professionals who fail to register for ID cards before the December 31 deadline will not face the inconvenience of long queues of other categories in January 2009. Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA) will not open the registration for new categories of expatriates on January...
Modern Ghana
... for National Reconstruction and Development [To be successful in any human activity or endeavor, one has to have knowledge and/or skills, experience, resources and a little bit of luck. For national reconstruction and development, Ghana needs political leadership and ruling elites that possess several combinations of these qualities. Unfortunately, these qualities have been...
THREE AND EASY FOR DURHAM
02 Apr 2010
Sporting Life
By Dave Tickner BETTING BOX FIXED ODDS Back-to-back winners, best bowling attack by a distance, won by huge margin last year. Should be far shorter. Struggled last year, seam attack looks weak without Hoggard, Kruis and - presumably - Bresnan. Over 1200 runs last term, Kieswetter likely to be often away with England. As above. The youngest county in the English first-class game...
