Premier League fury at UEFA plan
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- Premier League fury at UEFA plan
- Plea to call time on more beer tax rises
- Mike Hodgkinson explores the Santa Barbara landscape behind the…
Premier League fury at UEFA plan
Telegraph.co.uk – Jan 29, 2005
The European governing body will this week agree to curb overseas imports in order to encourage the development of domestic talent. As well as ordering clubs playing in the Champions League and UEFA Cup to have no more than 25 players per squad, UEFA will also insist that one third are home-grown, either trained by the relevant academy or developed by another club from the same national association. However, the move, which will be pushed through at Wednesday’s executive committee meeting and then approved at the UEFA annual congress in April, has been criticised by the Premier League. “Our clubs have invested tens of millions of pounds over the past seven years in their academies,” a spokesman said.
Plea to call time on more beer tax rises
ic Birmingham.co.uk – Jan 29, 2005
And while home-grown beer boosts the UK economy and reaps £300 million in exports each day, 99 per cent of wine in the UK is imported. “The Chancellor has reached a point of no return by taxing beer because the more he taxes it, the greater the decline in sales, so it doesn’t generate much more money,” said Mr Matthews.
Mike Hodgkinson explores the Santa Barbara landscape behind the…
Guardian Unlimited – Jan 29, 2005
The competing European and US traditions unite in Buellton, at Pea Soup Andersen’s – a roadside restaurant that has married the American service ethic with traditional “old country” recipes for 80 years. It’s priceless, and cheap. More upscale, but no less deserving of a mention is the Los Olivos Café in Los Olivos, 10 minutes’ drive north, which looks elitist from the outside but combines the welcome of a friendly neighbourhood bar with great home-grown food. It has its own off-licence, featured as a location in Sideways, and represented the second (and last) of our major wine-based lapses. Still, a more resolute stance had to be taken – so we made for the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez. It doesn’t feature in the film but it does encapsulate the current tone of the valley more than any other local property…
The most lively and popular spot is a cafe called Reds. Owner Dana Walters told us: “We don’t get a ton of tourists, which is somewhat nice because we have a really great local crowd. “R eds has live music, a liquor licence, comfy chairs and a nice line in woolly hats for sale. The day we visited, they were hosting a benefit for the victims of the La Conchita mudslide, caused by the January deluge that inflicted on southern California two years of rainfall in 10 days. Reds is worth seeking out, along with the nearby Again Books (a couple of blocks south, across the railroad), which has an extensive collection of vintage magazines and a solid California history section. It stands on the site of an abandoned olive oil factory. Similarly, Chaucer’s Books, in a nondescript shopping mall called Loreto Plaza at the weary end of State Street, also deserves a visit, not least because – two doors down – there’s Harry’s Plaza Café.