grant an exclusive footballing franchise to the Jockey Club

让赛马会独家经营赌波

By contrastMan Uwhich pays Beckham the highest footballing salary of all Cmillionlimited wages topercent of turnover

相比较而言，为贝克汉姆开出足球界最高薪金660万欧元的曼联，其工资支出只占总收入的48%。

||1:With Manna-da—third from left above—tall and strong in defence, newly independent India almost beat France at the London Olympic games in 1948.||2:Under his captaincy, it won its first international football gold medal at the Asian games in 1951.||3:For a very short while, in his time, it walked in the sun as a world-class footballing nation.And it walked barefoot, because, in those years, that was how Mr Manna and his colleagues played.

||1:1948年伦敦奥运会上，凭借后卫线上身高体壮的曼纳（图中左起第三），新近独立的印度险些击败法国。||2:在曼纳的带领下，印度又在1951年的亚运会上第一次在国际赛事中摘得足球项目的金牌。||3:虽然仅昙花一现，但印度也曾跻身国际足坛前列，头顶世界级强队的光环，而且可以说是赤脚打天下，因为在那个年代，曼纳和他的队友都是球场上的“赤脚大仙”。

||1:Memories were his wealth, he told interviewers in his old age.||2:He so loved the game that almost all of them were good; he needed no more.||3:He still regretted missing the first penalty kick against France in the London Olympics, and turning down the chance of taking the second penalty because he was afraid of missing again.||4:It still rankled that India had not gone to the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, with him as captain, because the Indian Football Federation had not realised its importance.||5:He was sorry, too, that India was not even doing well in the Asian games.||6:But he lived in hope of a return of national footballing confidence.||7:No, he was not religious, he would say with a smile.||8:But he kept a picture of Goddess Kali, barefoot conqueror of demons, tucked away in his pocket.

||1:回忆是他的财富，他在晚年接受采访时这样说道。||2:他太热爱足球了，在他眼里足球的一点一滴都是好的；他有了足球心满意足。||3:不过他仍然后悔在奥运会上错失对法国队的点球，也后悔因为害怕再次失手而不敢面对第二次点球机会。||4:作为队长，心痛的还有看着印度退出1950年的巴西世界杯，因为印度足协对世界杯的重要性不以为然。||5:他也为印度在亚运会上也黯然失色感到遗憾。||6:但是他还是心存希望，希望有朝一日印度足球重整旗鼓。||7:当被问到是否信教时，他会微笑地说，不。||8:但是他会把迦梨女神（Goddess Kali）的照片妥帖地珍藏在衣袋里。

When the footballing trophy was brought to Bamenda, Cameroon’s third-biggest city, placard-carrying protesters joined the crowds of onlookers.

当喀麦隆第三大城市巴门达捧回足球奖杯时，手持标语牌的示威者加入了围观人群。

Lessons of a footballing Armageddon

足球大决战的教训

So far, no footballing Yao Mings have materialised.

不过，到目前为止，足球界的姚明还没出现。

That isn’t the only sense in which North Korea’s players, like their fans, inhabit a totally different footballing universe.

朝鲜的球员和球迷一样，生活在一个完全不同的足球世界，而上面所说的还不是唯一的表现。

But Maradona has continued to say he wants complete control over all footballing decisions.

但是马拉多纳一直说他想完全控制球队所有的决策。

And, as ever, footballing potential is closely linked to monetary muscle.

而且，一如既往地，球队夺冠可能性与球队经济实力有着紧密的联系。

“The boy wants to be a player and the footballing tradition of his family has helped, ” Ferguson said.

弗格森还表示：“他期待成为一个优秀的球员，他家庭中的足球传统也很好的帮助他做到了这一点。”

Norwegians could point to their country’s unexpected 2-1 victory over Brazil’s footballing princes at the 1998 World Cup.

挪威人可以指出他们曾在1998年世界杯出人意料地以2：1的比分战胜了巴西足球王子。

During the video, Ballack delivers key HIV prevention messages while demonstrating the footballing skills he is so famous for on the pitch.

视频中，巴拉克展示了他闻名遐迩的球技，同时也传达了重要的防艾讯息。

Importantly, too, he avoided the British footballing tradition of ruining himself with drink.

同样重要的是，他没有沾染英国足球界那种酗酒自毁的传统。

For better or worse, it sets the economics of the game, and dictates the rhythm of the footballing week.

无论是好是坏，电视已奠定了足球的经济状况，掌握着每周足球比赛的节奏。

Footballing mishaps are the latest in a series of catastrophes to be blamed on a surfeit of maleness.

在这些不幸的足球赛事之前，也有一系列灾难被归咎于男性化过度。

It will be a good footballing game but hopefully we come out on top and get all three points.

这将是一场精彩的足球比赛，但我们还是更可能赢得比赛，全取三分。

As for Sneijder, an argument could be made that the former Ajax and Real Madrid player epitomises a number of Dutch footballing stereotypes.

至于斯奈德，他引起的这次争执让这位前阿贾克斯和皇马球员成为荷兰球员的典型。