Major events
January 16th, 2012
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Matthew Barrett studied history at Oxford University, concentrating on the relationship between sport, politics and war in the twentieth century. He currently works in sports sponsorship and you can follow him on Twitter here. In his first piece for Sportingintelligence, he examines the impact of the Arab Spring on the performance of the Libyan national football team, considers how success can emerge from chaos, and how Libya now head into the African Cup of Nations 2012 with more optimism than ever.
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By Matthew Barrett
16 January 2012
The 2012 African Cup of Nations begins on Saturday with a number of notable regional heavyweights conspicuous by...
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December 5th, 2011
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
5 December 2011
Bill Nankeville is perched on the edge of his chair, explaining the 'austerity' tag routinely attached to the 1948 London Olympics, in which he ran for Britain in the 1,500 metres.
'We ate stodge, ran on grass that became mud, didn't do it for money - and went home on the bus when our races were done,' says the 86-year-old, once among the nation's best-known athletes and still contagiously enthusiastic.
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The lighting of the flame at the 1948 London Olympics
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Nankeville, who also ran in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, was national mile...
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December 4th, 2011
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
in Krakow
4 December 2011
The English FA’s decision to base themselves in Krakow during Euro 2012 may inadvertently lead to a local club, Hutnik Nowa Huta, going bust, according a senior local official, Sportingintelligence can reveal.
England’s training base will be the Stadion Suche Stawy (SSS), the council-owned home of a fourth division side, Hutnik.
The FA had to settle for this run-down facility, not endorsed by Uefa, because the Netherlands and Italy had already bagged the grounds of the two Polish top-flight clubs in Krakow - Wisla and Cracovia - as their 2012 bases.
The...
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