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Head of Almeria Football Fed arrested on child porn charge

Posted by admin in Blog on August 7th, 2009

Nicolás Uclés, the venerable head of Almería football who has been behind the scenes for the last 30 years and is one of the reasons why football here is so well run (so it seems, I don’t follow it myself) was arrested in a dramatic police operation at 1,30 yesterday morning after police kicked his door in and dragged him away.

In a statement issued, he admits to having downloaded around 4,000 porn clips from the net (I’m no expert, but I would say that is a LOT of porn) but denies having downloaded any illegal images.

Ideal says that it is rumoured that he was denounced by one of his own technicians who spotted suspicious traffic on the internal network. Certainly it seems as if his own organisation have dropped him like a hot potato.

The Andaluz Football Fed has come in to the offices and changed the locks, it seems.

Full story here

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RTVE fires its sports director over football national hymn row

Posted by admin in Blog on May 14th, 2009

Today’s row is over the high pitched whistling emitted by Basque and Catalans which drowned out the national hymn played before yesterday’s football match between Athletic and Barça. Fans screamed nationalist abuse, let off air horns and generally drowned out the national anthem and the King (who also attended).

However, the sports director of RTVE, the national broadcaster, ordered that the live transmission of the match be cut off due to the protest and switched to the Bilbao studio, until the anthem ended and the fans settled back down.

This has lead to a surge of complaints from members of the public, who say either that the anthem should have been transmitted in full (despite the background noise) or that RTVE have censured a nationalist protest in the best Franco style. In all, an almighty row.

This has lead to the head of the sports director of RTVE, Julián Reyes, who has just been fired by Javier Pons, the head of RTVE.

It has also lead to me getting a very short haircut, as Damien from Turre was so incensed by this that he clipped a tad too short.

It also lead to a nasty riot in Barcelona which ended up with around 50 people in jail.

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Gentleman in a wheelchair tries to riot at football game

Posted by admin in Blog on December 4th, 2008

A gentleman in a wheelchair has been fined 3.001€ & banned from sporting events for 6 months after he tried to start a riot at the Meditterranean Games Football Stadium in Almería during last Sundays match against A Coruña.

It seems that an official asked him to move his wheelchair away from an emergency exit he was blocking, and asked him to move to the wheelchair area (which is front row anyway, and apparantly fewer than 20 meters away). He refused, claiming that he had attended every match for the last two years in the spot and liked it.

The official called a policeman over, who repeated the request. It seems that the chappie then got nasty, and started screaming that the police were attacking him. A crowd formed, people started pushing, the police had to call for backup to calm the situation, and the chap in a wheelchair was (I was going to say frogmarched) to the police station. CCTV cameras later proved the officials had acted correctly.

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