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Top story
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Nine top-flight clubs are now under foreign ownership - and more are set to follow. As the cash pours in, what is the game in danger of losing? Tom Bower assesses what the cost could be.
Selling off the family silver
What money can't buy
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More features
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The time machine
For a few days in 1972 - and again in 1976 - Lasse Viren was the greatest athlete in the world. Tim Pears analyses the distance runner's remarkable ability to hit his peak only when it mattered most - at the Olympics.
The time machine (part two)
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'I used to carry I gun, now I use my gloves'
He was abducted at the age of five and forced to kill as a boy soldier for Ugandan rebels. He escaped to America, where he became a world champion. Now a film is to be made of his life story. Bestselling novelist Uzodinma Iweala talks to Kassim Ouma.
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I don't know how I could have gone on
A thrilling early win for Padraig Harrington and tense times for Sergio Garcia. Robert Winder, who was behind the scenes at Carnoustie, reports on a week of high drama on the links.
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Best and worst
Observer writers report on why 2007 might be the worst ever summer of sport while Neil Clark recalls the golden summer of 1977.
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Front
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The last word is with you
This is my last issue as editor, says Jason Cowley.
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August's ten
Greatest shots
Last month's ten: sporting myths
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Stories of the month
Come on in, the water's freezing | Why are football clubs closing their women's teams? | Last seen: Mark Philippoussis
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Polly Vernon's fashion watch
Most sporting endeavours do not translate into great fashion opportunities - but for some reason, tennis does, says Polly Vernon.
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Letters
The price of perfection | A timely investigation | The grass is greener | A case of misdirection | The other Wasim | The godfather, part II | Blue's not the colour
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Testimonial
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Triumph & despair
Alex Zanardi: 'I once thought I'd rather die than have no legs but now I see I was wrong'
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The back pages
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Ten questions for Jamie Redknapp
The former England midfielder on the Spice Boys, playing truant with his dad and underachieving with Liverpool.
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Your holiday reading ...
Nick Greenslade on the best summer books.
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Recommended
The Cricketers' Who's Who | Welcome to the Terrordome | Muhammad Ali: The Legend | The Flying Scotsman
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How I landed in the soup with Campbell
Geoffrey Mortlake: One of the many things we may never find out about Dr Thaksin Shinawatra is whether it was while he was reading his copy of OSM that he determined to offer the Manchester City job to Svennis. But it seems plausible.
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On the nose
Bets of the month
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December 2007