Three-time grand slam tennis champion Andy Murray has spoken out against the government’s proposal of a one per cent pay rise for NHS staff, calling it ‘pathetic’. Murray is the latest high-profile…Read more…
FIFA’s choice is simple: human rights matter!
A STATEMENT FROM BWI – The Building and Wood Workers’ International Football is a game, but building stadiums is not child’s play. It is dangerous and tough labor. The workers who build the…Read more…
From Hajduk to Hammers
NK HAJDUK, 1944, with new red stars and friends on the island of Vis.
IT was back in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the years before the First World War. A group of…Read more…
Political Repression is All in the Game, When Big Money is in Play
BIG OIL lubricated way for Azerbaijan, but protesters steal the light.
THE European Games are due to open in Baku, the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan, on Friday, but the Azerbaijani…Read more…
FIFA’s Unfinished, and Proper, Business
WAITING for sporting chance. Palestinian team detained at border.
IT did not make the front-pages nor TV news here, unlike the arrests in FIFA, but there was a not unconnected incident on May…Read more…
Tower Hill to Mayfair, the Message is the Same
WORKERS from London’s Crossrail project where Rene Tkacik was killed last year were among those who gathered by the statue of the Unknown Building Worker on Tower Hill on Tuesday morning, April…Read more…
Sports panel at Exeter Street Hall
Friday 14 November from 7.30pm.
Meet and quiz the best sports writing talent around. Got a burning question? We’ve got the people in the know.
With a Q&A format, we predict an entertaining…Read more…