Read it here
Tag: football
The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Network
Great story by Tariq Panja.
Read it here
Abou Trika overooked for Ballon d’Or?
The latest international conspiracy against Egypt:
Scandalously, the France Football editorial team who selected the 30 players for whom their worldwide panel of journalists are allowed to vote overlooked the Al Ahly and Egypt playmaker Mohamed Aboutrika.
Fifa won’t compensate for this offensive anomaly. Their shortlist doesn’t include Aboutrika either. Nor anyone else from Egypt’s recent vintage. Hardly surprising given that Fifa doesn’t even rank Egypt, winners of the last two African Cups of Nations, as the best team in Africa. Not enough Europe-based players, perhaps.
[From Football: Paul Doyle on the nonsense of the Ballon d’Or]
(Thanks, X.)
Links for January 13th
Automatically posted links for January 13th:
- Arab Stereotypes in American Film – Jack Shaheen short
- Barack Obama – I’m sure we’ve seen him somewhere before – Armando Iannucci on Obama: it’s dead on
- Comment is free: Laughing at dictatorship – Ibrahim Hudaibi on Mubarak jokes
- Arabs eye £500m Liverpool buy-out | Sport | The Observer – Dubai group to buy Liverpool FC
- Citi Looking Abroad For Major Investors – WSJ.com – Waleed Bin Talal to invest