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...current front-runner is the Archbishop of Wales, Rowan Williams, who also topped a newspaper poll of the General Synod, the Church of England's ruling body. A poet and respected theologian, he is too leftist for some and might be overtaken by James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, said to be Blair's favored candidate. Jones is praised for his communication skills, but critics whisper he might be "too ambitious...
...apprenticeship program was launched under the direction of Gérard Houllier - a former French national coach who currently manages a resuscitated and rejuvenated Liverpool club. The program is built on seven regional training centers, where young players scouted and recruited from small youth clubs and FFF-organized tournaments follow normal educational programs supplemented with daily training in football technique. The best players from regional centers are periodically called to the INF camp near Paris for higher-level instruction with national team coaches. On the weekends, the players return to their local clubs for their league games. "This system doesn...
...Eight to the Gunners in 1996, and promptly turned the London club into a veritable colony of expat French stars. Within two years, he had walked off with both the English Premiership title and the Football Association Cup. His bid to another F.A. cup was thwarted last year by Liverpool, under the coaching of another Frenchman, Gérard Houllier. An architect of the French national training system, Houllier revamped and restructured a rusty Liverpool organization to win a rash of national and international titles last year. This year, the English Premier League got its third French manager: Jean Tigana...
...hand. Many see a direct connection between their off-field antics and their ballooning salaries; even Terry and Morris each make a reported $22,000 a week. "As pay rates have reached rock-'n'-roll levels," says Rogan Taylor, head of the Football Research Unit at the University of Liverpool, "we should be surprised that there isn't more rock-'n'-roll- type behavior." It doesn't help that the game's authorities - the clubs and the Football Association - take contradictory stances when trouble arises. The clubs, perhaps because of the vast commercial considerations in modern football, tend...
...None of those threats were proved to have come from Michael Abram, but it was Abram, a 33-year-old Beatle obsessive from a Liverpool suburb, who, in the dead of night on Dec. 30, 1999, got past the alarms and razor wire at Friar Park and broke into the Harrisons' mansion. George suffered an inch-deep stab wound to his chest before Olivia knocked Abram down with a bedside lamp. Harrison recovered, and Abram was sent to a mental institution...