Matt Scott: India’s passions – cricket, Bollywood and…football

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“The song of the future must transcend creed.”E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

In India, some call it Sachinism. The legacy of Sachin Tendulkar, cricket’s greatest batsman ever to emerge from the South Asian sub-continent, is so great that he has achieved the status of a demigod in what is already a pantheistic culture. The doleful impact on popular consciousness there of the day he was run out for 99,

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Next few months critical for FFP, says London lawyer

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By Andrew Warshaw
April 16- As the Uefa panel responsible for policing financial fair play entered the second of a key two-day meeting today to examine which clubs were still in breach, a London-based specialist has warned that unless Europe’s governing body shows sufficient teeth, its strict cost-control rules may still be flouted.

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