The forensic analysis in this video shows how footage which showed Maccabi supporters attacking others was deliberately distorted to appear to be the opposite.
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Football
Thokozani FC – A week in Paris | by Sokari
Thokozani football club [TFC] is currently comprised of 21 black lesbian-women athletes ranging in ages from 18-41, a coach, and a team administrator. All live in the Umlazi Township, Kwa-Zulu Natal. The team was named after Thokozani Qwabe, a lesbian soccer player...
The BDS movement at 7: Stronger, more widespread and more effective than ever | by Palestinian BDS National Committee
Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and certainly more diverse than ever—a true cause for celebration...
Scoring a goal for the poor
Interview with Riedewaan Anthony, coach and founding member of Hanover Park Football Club (established in 1980). The Soccer World Cup has come and gone and its promise of a better life for all never materialized. Hanover Park Football Club is located in a township on...
Film reviews
The Noise of Cairo Director Heiko Lange (2012) This film looks at the explosion of creativity in the 18 days that shook the world in Egypt 2011 and led to the fall of the Mubarak regime. It gives us the perspective of dancers, street musicians, poets, graffiti artists...
Jamie Claassen was guided by love, humility and humanism | by Brian Ashley
This contribution is drafted with Hamied Mahate that together with Jamie and myself constituted an almost 30 year collaboration. The three of us were a tripod. Now one leg has gone and we are shaky and destabilised. Jamie had three passions his family – Bronwyn,...
“Drones, Missiles, and Gunships, Oh My!” Welcome to the 2012 London Olympics | by Dave Zirin
As many as 48,000 security forces. 13,500 troops. Surface to air missiles stationed on top of residential apartment buildings. A sonic weapon that disperses crowds by creating "head splitting pain." Unmanned drones peering down from the skies. A safe-zone, cordoned...
Romance, grace and football | by Mark Espin
When people write about football they often employ a series of overstated adjectives and nauseating hyperbole. The death of Sampaio de Sousa Vieira de Oliveira in December last year required that football writers be much more careful about their use of language when...
Sepp Blatter and racism: out of touch and out of time | by Peter Sagar
Peter Sagar argues that the fight against racism in football and in wider society has been undermined by Sepp Blatter's comments.So Sepp Blatter thinks that the best way to deal with racism during a game of football is for players to shake hands at the end, as if...