Monthly Archives: February 2010

Few events in 2010 have the potential to go down in history as one of the achievements of the year while as likely to end in tears, as the football World Cup in South Africa. Arguably the world’s so-called ‘beautiful’ game -founded by colonising Europeans and with a global activity today dominated by the influence of multi-national sponsors, media giants and the hold that richer nations have on the lucrative transfer market-has taken much too long to reach this degree of ownership by the developing world. This is the first …

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