Tag Archives: Olympics
MEDIA SHOULD TAKE A MORE POSITIVE APPROACH TO FOOTBALLERS
FWA chairman Andy Dunn on how the press can benefit from the Olympic Games...By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
THE GOODWILL factor from the London 2012 Olympic Games that keeps a smile on British faces will have an inevitable knock-on effect as the 2012/13 season gets under way. Comparisons between the manner in which our gold medallists conducted them and the stereotyped image of footballers will be made, with the anti-football brigade penning columns along the lines of “why can’t these overpaid Premier League stars behave like Olympians?”
Tags: Andy Dunn, barclays premier league, Olympics, Premier League
WORLD UNDER-21 CHAMPIONSHIP SHOULD BE THE PATH TO OLYMPIC GOLD
Henry Winter has enjoyed covering the “easy” Olympic Games but for the future participation of Team GB the format must be changedIN EVERY sense the cheery goodbye by a policeman was unexpected as Henry Winter left the City of Coventry stadium after Great Britain’s women had been knocked out of the London 2012 Olympic Games football tournament by Canada.
Tags: daily telegraph, Henry Winter, london 2012, london games, olympic games, Olympics
FWA Spotlight: Busby’s other ‘Babes’ did Britain proud
MATT BUSBY stroked his chin, took a puff of his trademark pipe and delivered his verdict. "Most of the players were strangers to each other," he said. "My first task was to shake hands all round and try to remember some of the names. I wondered what I’d taken on. I realised right from the start that many hectic weeks of hard graft lay ahead."Tags: Olympics, Sir Matt Busby, Team GB
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