FIFA follows though on threat and suspends Nigeria

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By Andrew Warshaw
July 10 – FIFA has suspended Nigeria from all international football as the fallout from the country’s World Cup pay dispute intensifies. The Nigerians failed to meet a FIFA deadline to stop government interference in the affairs of country’s national federation (NFF) and now faces the prospect of being excluded from the under-20 women’s World Cup in Canada starting next month.

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Matt Scott: West Brom’s history of attritional shareholder war shows why one man is at peace

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“The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.” War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

Threaded within a fabulously entertaining Napoleonic soap opera, Leo Tolstoy’s masterwork properly explores the human condition. In short, the greatest of all the Russians tells us, if you think you have any free will of your own you are very much mistaken.

Tolstoy conveys that we mortals are swept along by predetermined currents towards outcomes preordained.

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