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Sexuality and PIE

· Socialist Challenge No. 13, 15 September 1977 · pp. 14-15 of the scan · 1,227 words

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Exclusive! Socialist Challenge reveals Whatever next, wondered Daily Mirror foothall editor Fearleu* Frank McGhee commenting on the inability of the English football team to hear Switzerland lasz week: The nation that invented football has been humbled by the country that gave the world the cuckoo clock:

The shame of it all, and this on top of the accusations. in the same issue that former England team manager Don Revie tried to bribe opponents-to lose matches while he was manager of Leeds United.

Arab Emirates on a £340,000 Mirror with its expose has done TEANULT its patriotic duty and exercised Revie from the green and pleasant felds of English football REVENGE Revenge is the name of thi game. if there B thing disliked by the people who run sport in this country and the writers they Feed whisky to half time, it's 'bounders' like deserting England for foreign Arabian clime in are about to be eliminated from the World Cup.

Revie went for money, and foothall doesn't like such public manifestations of its own moraliv. So Revie is erposed. He wil always a baddie after all, which is remarkably convenient, for it explains not just why be deserted for oll money but also why 03 aE HOT TE DithEn failure under his leadership. All our woes can be atributed TO I NOBL MC MOGCTE COE puterised football manager now exposed and damned.

FORGOTTEN principie wien hel eas in charge which the plavers probably never aw, never mind us levie's alleged crime is that h weDt oB 1o atlempt to bribe players to throw games. But if be did, then he simply took the business ethic in sport one stage further, Is there really mach difference beiween a footanother team Trom another team to lose player natches and buvins And others have long before somes over which Revie is said to aid down the at have walked. The illasion that HIE A AIC d DICLLT cattered one by now The adver tising hoardings on the football all pools, the "Big Match' on V. the scarves, th even the peanu sellers on che terraces chant aut 'business, which contrasts with that shown For the present performance of the England football team Il Revie was bribery, he certainly did noc walk BOEUE come from somewhere, and given Revie's reputation for watchig MS MaCI D IMUACL I CE from him. There is the inevitable question; is he simply the one who has been found out? Stan Anderone of the players Revie is aid to have tried to bribe, asked tin ineb al of ches l The game is that s all. MOre SuCOesSTa aE 1, It is easy to determine Revie is heing sineled out. If he hadn't left tbe sinking ship of English football there CATC DET CSI CHR hadn't had the affrontery to ti OUTSIDIED man", bave bothered.

£340,000 But Revie didn't do that. By taking his United Emirates, he did a better Job of exposing British football than the Mirnor will ever do. By bat singic gesture ne snow hat big time footbal ba= abour mone)

To condemn Revie is like con demning an apple from a tree obeying the laws environment. Revie's real crime was that he was a loser. He failed magazines, to restare English football to its ORO TORT NOR HC IS a simply unpatriotic worse, he robbed the business millions that can be made from a O SONE COMET C OL EOC successfal national side.

responsible for The moncy must bave of cheats. before he was sacked and the Mirror would neve HLAE the cach is simply of its own report, bribesformant Much DON REVIE: He's done a better job of exposing British football than the Dally Mirror will ever do.

So the Duil Miror goes for his morality and according to ope apalas mal TOT 2003L Stokoe up will say.

£14,000 for spliling the beans If the indications are right, and TC OGe CapIso moRoagcE noE Greenwood — Mr. Clean himself - has little success in winning as Revie, Jus watch the campaign He wasn't tough enough, they He should have been TOTE TE HLS "preity football', ,hut just make sure we win. Sack bim, they holer, And mayke preemy tim with an engraved cuckoo clock for his trouble BY RICHARD CARVER THE LAST wock or so bas seen a loe of discussion ieria vicuss can c-guraa 'delioquent" violcoce in young people. What nobody seems ver) Interested in is whether it can be used to stimulate police violence A recent example from Spair MAES WIR BLan RTVE, the Spanish broadcast ing corporation. bought a cog called Hurrebor's Men SCHIC from an American TV network The series is based on the Specia Wenpons and Tachs SWAl units set up by the Los Angele police after the Patty Hears kadbaD and whose major succes was to roast the Symbionese Liberation Army alive.

FAMILIAR FORMULA The Formula is famillar! group of dedicared fighters for SHW U ULCR teeth, wages the struggle againsl organised crime, peychopathic TOTECE CESIS SOS CIC narional minorities. Even many American critics denounced it a TESLISL The Spanish public was eve ibore hostile, provoking a def CIOC ErOm Steve Pomest series" lending actor: *1 гереш that Harrebson's Men is violent series. In any case it's for And he accused the Spanish of there is an mOrE sinister aspect. RTVE bought thi series when the GRAPO kid

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