Paul Doyle on the fears in France

With the best clubs to tighten their belts and have chosen the best players clubs like QPR French tax and Al Gharafa in Qatar

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featuring "The Toon" in the middle of floating fans traveling to Newcastle on Tuesday night, a tribute to the last wave of talent from all channels tricolor. In France, meanwhile, all waving a handkerchief stained with tears as fires Ligue 1 an increasing number of high level players. More most likely to come before the transfer window closes on Thursday.

When French President Fran?ois Hollande has announced its intention to impose a 75% tax on the salaries of players, I thought it was going to be celebrated as an equal. Many supported the proposal, but football clubs were horrified and complained that it would be "the death of French football" and against-productive, as it could cause an exodus of players and get nothing but the ruin of clubs because TV revenue and attendances would fall. believes that the league would cost € 1000000000000 French clubs. Holland eventually backed down, however, the exodus of players from Ligue 1 is gaining ground.

Lille Eden Hazard departure for the European champions, Chelsea, was a gesture that everyone concerned, as Olivier Giroud to Arsenal. People have long been accustomed to such transfers, especially since the 1990s, when France became a major exporter of talent, as the fruit of Clairefontaine was taken by the biggest clubs in England, Italy, Spain and Germany. But now, ranging from low-ranking international foreign clubs.

• "The bottom club in England has already won one of our best players! Do not I ask?" exclaimed the director of Rennes Frederic Antonetti two weeks after his team lost 2-0 at home to Bordeaux, with Yann M'Vila Harry Redknapp looking forward from the stands. As it turned out, of course, M'Vila Redknapp decided not to move forward and rallied Rubin Kazan Antonetti point, but still relevant ". France will derail ... our teams are financial constraints "

Virtually all teams the French first division is tightening their belts, the obvious exception of Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain. While Premier League clubs are set to benefit from a 71% increase in television season lowest income, League 1 TV deal seems to fall. The result is that most clubs are willing to listen to offers for the players and the players are ready to go.

Not only is there still talk to impose a surtax on the rich, but there are a growing number of destinations for players to choose from. With power increasingly globalized football, there is an increasing flow of players who choose to imitate M'Vila and head to Russia, Turkey, the Middle East, China and Brazil.

In the past, as a striker Guillaume Hoarau Loic Remy or could go to other French clubs once they become surplus to PSG and Marseille, respectively, but the clubs can not compete if Remy St?phane Mbia followed QPR and Aerbin Hoarau went to Dalian in China. Similarly, the Brazilian midfielder Nene, a leader of the Ligue 1 assist providers in recent seasons, has left PSG and Lille to Lyon, but for Al Gharafa, Qatar.
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Waitrose pulls beefburgers 'as a precaution' amid horsemeat scare

supermarket stops selling burgers made by Dalepak, one of the companies at the center of research horse

Waitrose has become the latest supermarket to remove from their shelves after the crisis of minced horsemeat.

The company said it had stopped selling frozen hamburgers made by Dalepak - one of the companies at the center of the investigation into horse meat - pollution. "As a precautionary measure" following the suspension of registration of the company

Ten million hamburgers are made in supermarkets throughout Ireland and the UK since it was known that certain lines sold by Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and Iceland contained traces of horse meat.

• In a statement, said its burgers Waitrose has since been tested and found that 100% beef.
• "Because we are 100% sure of the integrity of our supply chain," he said. "The ingredients of our burgers are simple but the meat traceable back to British farms we know.

"Our technical team visited the site last week Dalepak and we were pleased that our products have been manufactured to our high specifications and separated from those of other undertakings (ours occur to 6 hours before further hamburgers, etc.). "

ABP Food Group, one of the largest European suppliers and processors, has ceased to work in the factory Silvercrest Foods in County Monaghan, Ireland, after tests last week revealed a contamination of frozen hamburgers.

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Spotlight on Walter Tull, hero who fought prejudice on the pitch and in the trenches

New game explores the life of Walter Tull, one of the first black players in England who also became an officer in the First World War

After the extraordinary success War Horse

the novel by Michael Morpurgo that inspired the National Theatre and Steven Spielberg, another forgotten history the first World War is now set to find a wider audience.

next month, nearly a century after the great conflict began, Bolton Octagon Theatre will mount a play that tells the story of Walter Tull, one of the first black players in England who came to die on the Somme as black army officer first. Cited for bravery under fire, Tull received posthumous recognition many now believe it deserves.

Tull was born in Folkestone, Kent, in 1888, and has been a campaign for a Military Cross andhis history was a decisive influence on the final novel Morpurgo

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"I was inspired by Walter Tull value of his childhood in an orphanage, abusing the terrace and its desire to participate and do their part, his courage under fire and his heroic death in France, "said Morpurgo. He wrote his novel about prejudice and secrets, dedicated to the memory of Tull, hoping that explicitly encourage the authorities to celebrate the life of a soldier with a medal or a statue in the capital. "I felt more people should know about this extraordinary man, who would be inspired by it, as it was," said Morpurgo.

But by acclaimed director David Thacker, Tull was a major figure for over a decade. Thacker came across this story when he realized Tull played for Northampton Town football club's childhood. The director has started work on a screenplay by Phil Vasili biographer, who was researching the life of Tull. "We even had a lead cast, but it was very difficult to interest Now, the ongoing fight against racism in football. Relevance of his life is even more clear."

• Vasili and Thacker found. Then he had lived in the city of Rushden, Northamptonshire, exceptionally sharing a house with a young White House "We could not know much about Annie Williams, his home, and you want to know more," said Thacker , who recently returned to his roots in theater as artistic director of the Octagon. "We realized that we would have all been radical enough to live well, so we filled the character of Annie in the room and made a suffragette."

Tull signed for Tottenham Hotspur in 1909, but suffered racist abuse in the field. A report in a match against Bristol City said: "Let me tell those Bristol hooligans that Tull is so clean in mind and method to be a model for all white men who play football."

The party scene in the room. "Edwardian Tull is great," Thacker said. "After the Spurs was recruited to the town of Northampton by Herbert Chapman, the manager happened to Arsenal. Northampton Tull is still proud. A statue of him at home and were the first club to support our demand for the show. "

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