Patrick Kluivert’s move to Newcastle has created a good deal of excited talk, and not just among those with shares in Tyneside nightclubs. Some critics have wondered if the Dutchman is an over-egged pudding. Many more doubting voices might be raised were the brains behind the move not those of Newcastle’s Freddy Shepherd.
The penalty shootout is a cruel way to settle a great championship. Several Euro 2004 matches were decided by penalties, so where did the spot-kick come from? The Observer‘s literary editor, Robert McCrum, has the answer.
After all, penalties were his great-grandfather’s idea …
The English Football Association unveiled a new disciplinary code this week designed to punish players quicker and allow faster appeals procedures to ensure greater transparency in the way footballers are punished. The idea was initiated by the FA’s chief executive, Mark Palios.
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An estimated half or more of the country’s kilometres of roads, and as much as two-thirds of roads in KwaZulu-Natal, have disappeared, largely due to ineffective administration, said a roads expert on Thursday. While the roads have not physically disappeared, they do not show up on official records.
After having spent 18 years in jail for a murder they never committed, two British men had their compensation payment for wrongful imprisonment cut by a quarter on Thursday on the grounds they did not have to pay for board and lodging during the time they were incarcerated.
The assets of Gauteng deputy director of public prosecutions Cornwell Tshavhungwa were attached by his own colleagues at the Assets Forfeiture Unit on Thursday. Tshavhungwa is currently in custody following his arrest on June 7 on fraud and corruption charges involving an amount of R1-million.
The Israeli Air Force struck at a Palestinian car driving through the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Thursday afternoon, killing two militants belonging to a militant offshoot of the mainstream Fatah faction. Earlier, Israeli soldiers had shot dead a local Islamic Jihad leader near Tulkarem in the West Bank.
Two of the men arrested for suspected terrorist activities in Pakistan at the weekend are in fact South African, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Thursday. There have been three days of speculation regarding the identity and nationality of the two men after Pakistani newspapers published their names on Monday.