Football

BBC Radio 5Live – Tony Livesey Show

Breaking news that more than 70 people have died during riots at a football stadium in the Egyptian city of Port Said. We talk to people in Egypt. Tony gets reaction from one of the club’s spokespeople, as well as fans and journalists in Egypt and the UK.

The Government wants to attract “fewer but better” immigrants to the UK. Ahead of a speech, by the immigration minister Damian Green, we ask if the UK can attract the cream of the world’s professionals? Do they really want to come here and why?

Coppers is a fly on the wall documentary on Channel 4 with more than two million viewers. Some scenes are shocking, so we ask is policing the most difficult job in the country?

Tony talks to Ann Widdecombe. A survey and report says that older women are exploited on BBC Shows like Strictly Come Dancing. The report mentions Ann Widdecombe who was a hit on Strictly. She tells us that she doesn’t mind being a figure of fun.

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Mihir Bose talks about Super Sunday and the change in power in the Premier League as Man City vs Tottenham becomes a more important match than Manchester United vs Arsenal.

CNN International

Mihir discusses a call for Sepp Blatter to quit FIFA over his remarks on racism.

Insideworldfootball.biz

FIFA will come in for unprecedented criticism from a House of Commons Select Committee over its handling of the corruption allegations surrounding World Cup bids next week.

This is believed to be at the centre of a special report on the England 2018 World Cup bid which will be made public next Tuesday (July 5), after being finalised by MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport committee last Tuesday (June 21).

It is understood that what provoked the Parliamentary wrath is the way Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA, brushed aside the explosive evidence given to MPs by Lord Triesman, former chairman of the Football Association, about favours asked by FIFA executive members in return for supporting England’s bid.

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Insideworldfootball.biz

The last few weeks have hardly been an advertisement for world football with corruption scandals engulfing FIFA, but for Alexey Sorokin, chief executive of the Russian 2018 organising committee, none of this will dim the glory of the World Cup.

“No, no”, he tells me, “all the controversies in the world cannot take the glitter away from the World Cup.

“The event is of such magnitude that, no matter what happens around it, it’s still going to be a great event.

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