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...by the president, a former army captain with authoritarian tendencies....
...From personal experience I can confirm it’s a short distance along the continuum from loving father/mother to full-blown Captain Bligh....
...Few can sustain their earnings power in the way that David Beckham, the former England captain and a one-time ambassador for the Chinese Super League, has....
...There is plenty of pace, talent and competition among the centres and the back three, ranging from the rapier that is Wesley Fofana to the human battering ram of Mathieu Bastareaud....
...I always thought that as a kid watching the Next Generation, I always identified very much with Wesley Crusher, because he lived in a world where he had to achieve and he had to become the person that the...
...… A stranger in his home port Even on land, Captain Cook never strayed far from water....
...This anthology includes excellent essays by Elif Batuman, Emily Witt and Wesley Yang....
...Whether it is Xavi or Holland’s Wesley Sneijder, these players spent their youth absorbing Cruyffian ideology: football is about making passing “triangles”....
...But the stupor that seemed about to overwhelm this match was interrupted quite suddenly by Dutch captain, Giovanni van Bronkhorst, who retires from all football at the end of the tournament....
...Mourinho charmed the then captain, Pep Guardiola, and persuaded everyone that he knew football. He was even allowed to coach the team in some friendlies....
...Other nominees are Holland’s Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben, just possibly Austria’s Andreas Ivanschitz (“I discovered him when he was 17”) and inevitably Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo....
...Wesley Sneijder won, with cheating. But what struck my friends was how happy a camp it was....
...Press ₤16.99, 254 pages FT bookshop price: ₤13.59 Next March sees the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade act - although it did not make slavery illegal, simply prescribing fines for captains...
...The German team’s captain was an Ossi. So was his righthand man, Bernd Schneider, and so was Germany’s supporter-in-chief, chancellor Angela Merkel....
...Romesh Kaluwitharana (54) and captain Marvan Atapattu (44) provided some resistance but the tourists were facing an uphill struggle as they aim to add to their first Test victory....
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