UEFA back home-grown talent
The News Review:
- UEFA back home-grown talent
- New trips, remote worlds Home-grown adventure companies venture into…
- Explosion in Philippines kills six
- Starting out
- From glam to grime, the year in music
UEFA back home-grown talent
Telegraph.co.uk – Dec 12, 2004
Chelsea, for instance, have spent almost £200 million on mainly imported players during Roman Abramovich’s reign. UEFA expect to push through the controversial plan at their executive committee meeting on Thursday, then have it approved at their annual Congress in April, in time for implementation next season. Although the actual number of home-grown players per squad is undecided, The Sunday Telegraph has learned it will be either six or eight. “This is essentially about youth development, to turn clubs back towards the concept of developing their own people and not simply always buying overseas,” executive committee member David Will said. However, Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein is clearly not as keen. “There is a groundswell of opinion that this won’t work,” he said. “Before such radical concepts are passed through, they have to be weighed up very carefully.
New trips, remote worlds Home-grown adventure companies venture into…
San Francisco Chronicle – Dec 12, 2004
Elias National Park is a wild and remote place, a land of superlatives. America’s largest national park by a huge margin — it’s six times the size of Yellowstone — it sports more glaciers than anywhere except Antarctica and Greenland. It’s the largest roadless area in the United States and home to the tallest coastal mountains on the planet, including Mount St. Elias, which towers 18,000 feet over the Gulf of Alaska. After a bush pilot sets you down on the tundra, you’ll spend a week walking through a vast, trail-less wilderness that’s home to grizzly bears, eagles, wolverines and nine of North America’s loftiest peaks. The 10-day exploratory trip departs June 18 and costs $3,795. Contact Geographic Expeditions, (415) 922-0448 or (800) 777-8183,.
Explosion in Philippines kills six
TVNZ – Dec 12, 2004
“The earth shook,” said one dazed woman. “It was a loudexplosion. Police said it was too early to say whether the blast was anaccident or an attack but they noted recent reports of threats byAbu Sayyaf, a home-grown Muslim rebel group linked to a regionalmilitant network, Jemaah Islamiah. “It could be a bomb,” said one policeman at the scene. “We’rewaiting for the experts. Shoppers and merchants fled the market in panic after theexplosion in the meat section. Police cordoned off the area.
Starting out
Telegraph.co.uk – Dec 12, 2004
“People who aren’t woodcarvers would find it difficult to understand, but we were used to patterning and had done a lot of restoration work for the National Trust so this was just another form of copying. We used an original early Victorian rocking horse for the design. “When the Banks started the rocking horse business in Beccles they sourced their hardwoods from one of the last home-grown oak yards in the country, which was just opposite their house. The yard has now closed and they have to go further afield. “But we try and source locally wherever possible. We buy in brass for the fittings and skins to make our own leather saddles. Our assistant, Carrie, does the leatherwork and helps me with painting the horses.
From glam to grime, the year in music
Guardian – Dec 12, 2004
On the one hand, downloading is so rife that no one’s buying music any more and the industry is dying and we music lovers are all criminals who will be sued or shot. On the other, the big corporate acts preen themselves in videos designed to make them look obscenely rich. No surprise, then, that the music generating ground-level excitement has been from two home-grown scenes – ‘grimy’ garage and new punk, both based mainly in east London, both rooted firmly in non-bling bling realities, represented respectively by Dizzee Rascal and the Libertines. Add the Streets, Franz Ferdinand, Wiley, the Futureheads, Estelle and Razorlight, and 2004 begins to look like the year in which the street struck back. So, why doesn’t it feel like a big new wave of something? Perhaps because there is a slippery quality to these acts that prevents them being put into a convenient box – prevents them being labelled the leaders of a new movement. Nevertheless, for this writer, singles such as ‘Take Me Out’ by Franz Ferdinand and ‘Wot Do U Call It?’ by Wiley are proof that this is British pop’s most creative and uncompromising period since the early Eighties. These are not just great records, but great records that tell you what it’s like to be young and British in 2004…
So, why doesn’t it feel like a big new wave of something? Perhaps because there is a slippery quality to these acts that prevents them being put into a convenient box – prevents them being labelled the leaders of a new movement. Nevertheless, for this writer, singles such as ‘Take Me Out’ by Franz Ferdinand and ‘Wot Do U Call It?’ by Wiley are proof that this is British pop’s most creative and uncompromising period since the early Eighties. These are not just great records, but great records that tell you what it’s like to be young and British in 2004. Producer-driven records from America – no matter how accomplished and clever – have sounded fake and empty in comparison, with only Kelis and the Scissor Sisters challenging our homegrown stars. In a year when everyone has been falling over themselves to pronounce The Death Of The Album, because of downloading, the irony is that it’s been an LP – a concept album! – that has defined the past 12 months. Pop’s a mess, but OMM’s album of the year strives to make sense of our messy lives.