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Marina Hyde: These days football is hardly a sport for the masses, it's just a way of keeping score in geopolitical powerplays [link]

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Loony Toons: Keegan issues a “Wise or me” ultimatum while Curbishley’s departure is dissected
Published 9/4/2008 by Arthur Antunes Coimbra at 101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more
... belief that it will take a season before Man City can mix it with the big boys, and Marina Hyde’s call for Manchester City to be turned into a TV Series. ...

Abu Dhabi Do : Man City’s New Owners Prepare To Purchase The Planet
Published 9/4/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... on Tuesday, to which the Guardian’s Martina Hyde responds, “With luck, there is something of the satirist to Dr Al Fahim, and he will go on to make ever more outlandish “statements of intent”, perhaps outlining plans to purchase Rupert Murdoch for use as the club mascot, or acquiring Warren Buffett to man one of the Eastlands pie vans.” ...

Louder Than You'll Ever Know News
Published 9/4/2008 by brucio (noreply@blogger.com) at du Nord
... Marina Hyde of the Guardian says the Manchester City purchase by sheik's from UAE is about geopolitics as much it is about football. ...

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