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Removal of Usmanov Article

Pitch Invasion 07 September @ 12:53 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Last week, we published a blog post discussing the new investor in Arsenal, Uzbeki steel magnate Alisher Usmanov. I quoted extensively from an article by Craig Murray (former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan) on his website, craigmurray.co.uk. That article has now been removed "at the instigation of Schillings, lawyers retained by Usmanov." This morning I also [.

Usmanov’s Lawyers Try to Silence Craig Murray

Pitch Invasion 20 September @ 03:45 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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To follow-up briefly once again on the ongoing Alisher Usmanov saga, his high-priced lawyers have finally gotten their way and Craig Murray's website has been taken down. This follows the massive legal pressure put on by Schillings to websites such as this one, that only seek to put into the open claims by Murray which [...]

Usmanov Raises the Stakes

Pitch Invasion 21 September @ 08:23 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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We now perhaps know why it was this week that Craig Murray's website, which related Uzbeki/Russian oligarch's Alisher Usmanov's time in prison in the 1980s (he was eventually pardoned, but not by Gorbachev as his lawyer's wistfully imply; rather, by Putin, a close friend of the Uzbeki) and his connections to the very shady Uzbeki [...]

Tom Wise on Alisher Usmanov

Pitch Invasion 27 September @ 09:05 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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In a debate on the European Union's common foreign policy on energy in the European Parliament on Tuesday please, try to stay awake in class Tom Wise, UK Independent Party MEP, put onto the record some of Craig Murray's revelations about Alisher Usmanov. Thomas Wise (IND/DEM). – Madam President, when the EU talks of [...]

Get ready to say good-bye to the beautiful game, Arsenal fans

Football is for the Madman 28 September @ 10:25 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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With Alisher Usmanov increasing his stake in Arsenal to 23%, Arsene Wenger has warned that English football is losing it's soul. The Frenchman backs his statement by speaking of stadiums emptying, media coverage becoming dominant, and the clubs becoming less about the supporters and more about the investors.
Not only Arsenal fans, but all football fans should listen to the man.