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	<title>A Load Of Ballacks</title>
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	<description>Neil Barker's football comment</description>
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		<title>Ultra Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A documentary about Italy&#8217;s ultras
For my final postgraduate project I was given the task of producing a 30-minute radio documentary. Shocked by the stabbings of Mancheter United fans in Rome and the killing of Italian police officer, Filippo Raciti, in February by the &#8220;Ultras&#8221;, I decided to investigate this unique set of football fans.
What followed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;An overhyped moneyspinning festival of tedium&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite writers is the acerbic Charlie Brooker of the Guardian.
Now he freely admits he knows nothing about football and despises it to the extent he defines the sport thus:
&#8220;an overhyped moneyspinning festival of tedium in which the world&#8217;s thickest millionaires kick a rubbish ball round a poxy field to the wonderment of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aloadofballacks.com/2007/03/25/an-overhyped-moneyspinning-festival-of-tedium/</link>
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		<title>A foot like a traction engine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My fledgling career as a sports hack took on a new dimension this week with my debut presentation of a sports bulletin in the studio.  
So now is your chance to get a load of my ugly mug describing the University of Westminster&#8217;s sporting adventures.
It was a pleasure putting the package together and filming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aloadofballacks.com/2007/03/18/a-foot-like-a-traction-engine/</link>
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		<title>Going back to the roots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a report I did investigating accusations from our university football team that they were verbally absued and threatened in a match against Acton Town police.
Sports journalism does not get any more local than this! 
For a full written report of the incident please click here
[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

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		<link>http://www.aloadofballacks.com/2007/03/18/going-back-to-the-roots/</link>
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		<title>Imitation is the highest form of flattery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the main reasons for my relative inactivity on this blog over the past few weeks is having to quickly submerge myself in the world of TV journalism.
Just when we thought we had mastered the art of radio journalism the focus has now shifted onto the visual form.
Working with two media (audio and visual) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aloadofballacks.com/2007/03/18/imitation-is-the-highest-form-of-flattery/</link>
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		<title>Not quite having our poppadum and eating it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A false start to the second week on the Midday News at Five Live. 
We arrived to be informed that the station would be taking live commentary from Melbourne of Andy Murray&#8217;s Australian Open clash with Rafael Nadal, which was due to commence at 10am.
This placed us in the unusual position of having to produce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aloadofballacks.com/2007/01/22/not-quite-having-our-poppadum-and-eating-it/</link>
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		<title>Bungs, mad cows and a Dutch master</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not every day that you get to spend time in the company of Jeremy Paxman, David Blunkett, Polly Toynbee, the makers of the X Factor as well as sporting gurus such as Head of BBC Sport, Roger Mosey, Garry Richardson, John Inverdale, Kevin Gearey, Mihir Bose and Premier League Chief Executive, Richard Scudamore.
This potpurri [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aloadofballacks.com/2007/01/18/bungs-mad-cows-and-a-dutch-master/</link>
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		<title>Up at 5 for Five Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So after a Christmas and New Year of joviality and idle contemplation it has been back to the grindstone over the past few days.  
Last week at university was spent composing assessed news bulletins, vox pops and news writing and the next two weeks will see all these skills I have garnered put to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aloadofballacks.com/2007/01/16/up-at-5-for-five-live/</link>
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		<title>A Standing Debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks I have been investigating the issue of standing at Premiership football matches.
My efforts have culminated in the following 4 minute audio package including interviews with important figures in this deabte such as Amanda Matthews from the Stand Up Sit Down campaign and John De Quidt, chief executive of the Football [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aloadofballacks.com/2006/12/14/a-standing-deabte/</link>
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		<title>Biscuit baron is bait for more Blatter ballacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One vital piece of football news got lost amongst last week&#8217;s copious build-up and subsequent fallout from England&#8217;s abysmal start to the Ashes.  
Eggert Magnusson&#8217;s £85 million takeover of one of this country&#8217;s most venerable footballing institutions - West Ham- did not go uncovered but definitely should have been examined more by the broadsheet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aloadofballacks.com/2006/11/28/biscuit-baron-is-bait-for-more-blatter-ballacks/</link>
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