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New Labour sports policy fails to mention football

  • 10-07-2006 8:24pm
    #1
    johnos
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    The Labour Party's new sports policy document is all about fun and recreation, and not the nasty competitive stuff. And certainly not soccer. Which is strange, given some of its reps' recent opinions on the subject.

    http://bohsnews.crispynews.com/article/show/10295


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    daveirl
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  • #3
    johnos
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    True. It has very little in terms of specifics. Nevertheless, the language and the accompanying images are telling.


  • #4
    Chakar
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    Thats just a policy document on grants.


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    daveirl
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  • #6
    bohsman
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    They will do anything in their power to screw the EL, they wont get elected in any sort of majority anyway so it doesnt matter what little essays they write


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    daveirl
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  • #8
    zAbbo
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    There's a lot more sports than soccer, I think its great to get young people trying as many different sports as possible, and to have the option to learn the sport.

    Want a better league, stop selling the talented kids to foreign clubs.


  • #9
    johnos
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    I should clarify. The point of my OP is not that Labour is out actively to screw soccer. I suppose it is that, while they are careful to include lots of nice words about participation, and pics of colleens in GAA jerseys, and lots of minority pursuits, they signally fail to address the critical condition of the top level of the biggest participation sport in the country. I don't think anyone could expect a survival plan for football, but the complete omission of any reference to it is significant.
    Labour representatives, not least the Deputy Lord Mayor, who helped launch the document, have been the most vocal in their opposition to the (forced) selling of Dalymount Park and BFC's move to the suburbs. Yet their policy document is mute when it comes to a strategic solution for the game. There is no conspiracy: just ignorance and inconsistency.


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    daveirl
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    bohsman
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    johnos wrote:
    Labour representatives, not least the Deputy Lord Mayor, who helped launch the document, have been the most vocal in their opposition to the (forced) selling of Dalymount Park and BFC's move to the suburbs. Yet their policy document is mute when it comes to a strategic solution for the game. There is no conspiracy: just ignorance and inconsistency.

    This is what I was talking about when I said they would do anything to screw the EL. Between poker and soccer there is practically no party for me to vote for in the next elections.


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