December 2010
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AFR Podcast - Capturing the Game with Ryu Voelkel
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Growing up in Japan, Ryu usually only had the photos in the newspaper to assist his imagination in developing the scenery and atmosphere surrounding some of the biggest matches in football. And his imagination has yet to let him down…
Oliver Sparrow, Ulysse Pasquier, and Eric & Jordan Beard of the AFR Team were lucky...
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Hughton Relegated, Pardew Promoted?
[Alan Pardew is the next lucky man to be taken for a ride on the managerial merry-go-round by Mike Ashley…]
By Oliver Sparrow, writing from London
As discussed in our most recent AFR podcast, Newcastle United have this week parted company with their manager Chris Hughton after only sixteen games of the Premier League season after guiding them back to the top flight this year. News today has...
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The AFR Team has its say on the curious cases of...
The AFR team is sharing its diverse perspectives on the drama that unfolded yesterday in Switzerland in a series of posts throughout the next day or so. The series features perspectives from our writers who call places like Montreal, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, London, Manilla, Boston, and Lisbon home. We continue with the thoughts of Oliver Sparrow, a deflated England fan writing from...