When the U.K. Foreign Office considered denying North Koreans visas to play at the 1966 World Cup, FIFA told the FA that they would immediately relocate the tournament.
That was when FIFA still had something remotely resembling a spine.
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This is why you don’t get rid of people like David Pleat.
He would have had the ear of everyone to say ‘Frank is out of his depth’ ‘Tudor is a mistake’ ‘Tudor is making poor decisions’
@ByDonkeys@realDonaldTrump You'll be laughing on the other side of your face when 'Melania' wins Best Picture, Best Director, Best Sound and Lifetime Achievement awards at the new FIFA Oscars.
All-time favorite type of videos: pre-fame bands playing their extremely famous songs to a tiny room of people, because they're not yet known.
A thread of some examples 🧵
1. MGMT playing 'Kids' to a crowd of maybe 25 people on a college quad
Replace Glastonbury with British society and you’re closer to the problem.
That’s far more sad to see.
Except now it’s the petrol in your political engines and you’ve all used it to divide us so stones and glass houses etc.
If you were at #SXSWLondon and caught the session about Como 1907 today this is interesting context to the dynamics between the guys on stage and their responses given this was going on around them today.
🚨⚫️🔵 After initial talks tonight, Cesc Fabregas and Inter will discuss again on Thursday in order to make final decision.
Como insist on their position, not giving green light to the move at current stage.
Up to the Spanish manager now.
V&A Museum to host exhibition on London’s lost music venues – and it needs your help
The museum is looking for "artefacts and music ephemera" relating to grassroots venues https://t.co/yNP3JsjAGs
Many thanks to Romano Sidoli for this beautiful recap of my receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from Americana Music Association UK a few weeks ago in England. I'm so grateful to David Macias, Thirty Tigers, Romano and all the good folks who made it all possible.