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The last few weeks have seen invasions on the pitch, one club owner accused of inciting the fans, Premiership hotshots behaving badly and coppers and bottles being thrown at players.
Medium after medium has debated the amount of fines and the length
of match bans, who’s right, who’s wrong etc etc – but, hey, it only
happens in football! Continuing
on the subject of ‘throwing’, BS interviewed two African players who now play for European clubs
and found that both have endured the same missile-throwing, only
in the shape of – yes, you guessed it – bananas. Yes, in this day
and age. On a brighter note, in the boxing ring, Lennox Lewis brought pride back to Britain when he regained his heavyweight title in November. True to his word, the champion shaped up and with style proved wrong every critic who wrote him off – he was uncharacteristically vocal in labeling his opponent Hasim Rahman as Has-been Rahman and shouted lots of ‘big ups’ to those in his corner. Lewis, 36, will be having the long awaited showdown with Mike Tyson – which is rumoured to be his final fight.
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After winning the Olympic gold medal at the Seoul Olympics, Lewis lifted the WBC heavyweight title in 1993 – the first Briton to do so in almost a century. The 6ft 5in boxer has competed in 16 heavyweight-title fights since that time. His clean record was marred only when he fought Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman. The gentle giant of boxing has established himself as one of the greatest heavyweights in boxing history and he now need only fight the mighty Tyson to join the pantheon of heavyweight greats. I say he’s got what it takes, but then boxing is a funny old game – or is it football?
To add to his many awards, the world heavyweight champion was awarded the CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List. The awards system, as we know it, is a symbol of British culture and politics – representing the monarchy, the empire, and the establishment.
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But
what are the implications behind these awards in the 21st century?
BS questions the credibility
of such honours in an age where empire is no more – and asks two of
Britain’s former athletes about their views and feelings when they
received what is deemed the crème de la crème of sporting
achievement. All sports lovers will have, at some time or other, come across the term ‘equity’, – an elusive term, with a plethora of meanings, that permeates all our lives one way or another. On
a sporting strand, BS is initiating a campaign with a feature on the
nature of equity, grassroots and sustainability within (British) sporting
provision and will attempt to define all the jargon used in less fanciful
layman’s terms, so watch the Sporting Agenda section in this and future
issues. Further,
BS invites its readers to
give their views – I’ll be waiting with bated breath. I hope you enjoy the works of our global writers. They have indeed made this issue a treat to read. Cherry-Ann Carew Catch the full glory in February's issue of BlaqSport.
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