Yilmaz Mamedy
Listed among: National Youth Committee
- Results of National Youth Committee elections (9 May 2011)Members aged under 31 have elected the following regional representatives to the National Youth Committee to join Ian Adderley, who has been elected as Youth NEC Member: Eastern: Victoria Caswell East Midlands: Alex Norris South West: Cllr Ben Cooper London: Dan Young North West: Cllr Ciaran Wells West Midlands: Zaeba Hanif Scotland: Yousuf Hamid North East: Joe Anderson Northern Ireland: Donal Lyons Yorkshire & [...]
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FIFA corruption and duplicity must not go unexposed (3 Dec 2010)
Today’s announcement that Russia will host the 2018 World Cup was nothing short of a shambles. David Beckham, one of England’s ambassadors for the bid, was more diplomatic and praised Russia and Qatar as ‘two great countries’. The romance of taking football to the east is completely lost on me I’m afraid. In awarding the [...]
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The Dire Derby (12 Nov 2010)
This week’s Manchester derby was the one of the most over-hyped football matches that I can remember. Manchester derbies are usually tense, passionate affairs; last season, Manchester United snatched victory in injury time on both occasions. But this time we had a Manchester United side which has started the season lethargically and has had a [...]
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Descent into Darkness (29 Oct 2010)
This weekend, the United Kingdom puts its clocks back to move from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time. Many people are looking forward to an extra hour in bed on Saturday night/Sunday morning. I must confess that I have never understood this view myself. Don’t get me wrong, I like nothing more than a [...]
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The Free-Market Gone Mad (24 Oct 2010)
The world of football has been very eventful indeed this week. A few days ago, Wayne Rooney looked set to walk out on Manchester United. Cue a emotional, but very skillful, piece of PR by Sir Alex Ferguson at his pre-Champions League game press conference on Tuesday. Sir Alex used the world’s media to great [...]
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The Spending Review- beware of TINA (24 Oct 2010)
After reading the details of George Osbourne’s Comprehensive Spending Review and watching highlights of his performance in the Commons, I started to feel the hand of TINA on my shoulder. We haven’t seen TINA around for a while. She was good friends with Mrs Thatcher in the 1980s and was referred to in many of [...]
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The Coalition (1 Aug 2010)
We are nearly three months into the unholy alliance of what is the Tory-Liberal coalition. Thursday evening’s BBC2 documentary, ‘Five Days That Changed Britain’, made highly interesting viewing. Perhaps I viewed the programme through red-tinted spectacles, or contact lenses to be more accurate, but I couldn’t help but feel that the coalition didn’t show the [...]
