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January 21, 2021

The Final Rehearsal (Part Four) The Unofficial Olympic Games

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (August 18th 2020) FIFA’s Quandary Established in 1904, the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) had only existed for six […]
January 21, 2021

The Final Rehearsal (Part Five) Establishing the Pecking Order

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (August 18th 2020) The Growth of FIFA The first modern Olympiads to feature football had no claim to be a […]
January 21, 2021

The Final Rehearsal (Part Six) The Foundations of An Abnormal Society

By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (August 18th 2020) Strange Fruit South Africa was a very strange member of FIFA – they toured South America and […]
January 21, 2021

Nothing to Celebrate

St Louis was not the original host for the 1904 Olympic Games – Chicago was – but St Louis’ ‘great and good’ were not prepared to allow such an inconvenience thwart their plans. They bullied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) into giving them the right to host the third Olympiad of the Modern era.