Word: premierships
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...Italian audience. It didn't hurt that he controlled three television stations, a daily newspaper and several weekly magazines that were covering the election. But media savvy didn't help him in office, and he was written off the following year when his first shot at the premiership ended after only seven months, when his coalition unraveled following a judicial probe into his business dealings. Then Berlusconi made his stunning comeback - and, in the process, gave a thorough makeover to an Italian political system once run by faceless leaders and cautious backroom pols...
...appoint his old flatmate to be Minister of Constitutional Affairs - he remains the most consistently popular Prime Minister since the 1960s. But at the risk of offering one of those gloomy prognoses he is so good at confounding, I would argue that Blair has reached the apogee of his premiership. He isn't out of fuel, but he is beginning his descent, heading toward a legacy substantially less than might be expected from an energetic, skilled leader with a huge parliamentary majority. The big forces constraining Blair's future are evident in the minicrises that have recently dogged him. After...
...look for cost-effective ways to keep their pitches playable through the European winter. In the '80s, some clubs tried plastic pitches, but abandoned the idea because of the rock-hard surface and the sky-high bounce of the ball. However, things could turn again. Early this month, English Premiership clubs Chelsea and Charlton Athletic played a match on a pitch that was so heavily sanded that commentators referred to the game as "beach football." The incident fueled speculation that in England at least, faux pitches would become commonplace. For its part, the English Football Association Premier League - which currently...
...Guardian. "But I'd rather be playing football for nothing than sitting on my backside every Saturday afternoon." How perfectly McKinlay and Summerbee sum up the current hand-to-mouth plight of the Football League. Its 72 clubs inhabit the three tiers of competition beneath the country's Premiership and are still reeling financially after the League's three-year, $448 million deal with failed broadcaster ITV Digital collapsed last March. (Financial hiccups caused by shrinking revenues are familiar across European soccer these days: earlier this month, for example, Fiorentina was thrown out of Italy's Serie B division...
...Diouf came with a question: Could the Senegalese striker with the dazzling skills also show the world he can conquer his erratic temperament? Liverpool seems to think so. Last week, Diouf was thought to be on the verge of completing a $15 million move to the English Premiership giant. VALUE: $15 million, up from $6 million...