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NZ Herald
6 days ago
- Business
- NZ Herald
Whanganui's NZ International Pilot Academy being investigated by CAA after safety complaints
'This action has been taken under Section 314 of the Civil Aviation Act 2023, due to concerns around maintenance practises and the record-keeping processes,' it said. 'The prohibition applies to all flight operations and was deemed necessary to ensure the safety of students, staff, and the public. 'Ground-based training and instructional activities remain unaffected and will continue as scheduled.' Glanville told the Chronicle that the CAA chose to investigate following concerns raised through 'anonymous reporting'. 'There is a general prohibition of using our aircraft while they [CAA] determine if there's a safety aspect to it or not. 'We cannot use our current aircraft fleet, but the Part 141 licence we have is not suspended. 'We are not shut down. They are just investigating whether there is a wider problem with the maintenance of our aircraft.' The academy is funded by the Whanganui District Council and operates under the council's financial arm - Whanganui District Holdings. In 2023, the NZICPA signed a deal with Indian airline IndiGo to train 200 new cadets up to December 2026. Ten second-hand planes, costing $2.78 million in total, were added to the fleet last year. Whanganui Mayor Andrew Tripe said he had a meeting scheduled with the NZICPA board and chief executive for this afternoon. 'We are just trying to gather as much information as we can,' he said. 'The wellbeing and safety of students is a priority.' The academy started operating in 2017, with the council as a 100% shareholder. 'It's got its own board and management team, but, as councillors, we are expecting meticulous attention to safety from all our CCOs,' Tripe said. A report from Holdings chair Carolyn van Leuven to the council's council-controlled organisations and economic development committee in April said a twin-engine DA42 had been bought for the academy. 'NZICPA had previously identified the risk associated with operating only one twin-engine trainer, which was realised when our only DA42 was out of action for five weeks during scheduled maintenance and the shortage in New Zealand of rental DA42's,' it said. At that meeting, NZICPA chairman Matthew Doyle said there were 141 students at its accommodation facilities, with 26 instructors. The council is building a $3.6m partial parallel taxiway from the academy's hangar to the main runway to mitigate safety issues such as backtracking (back taxiing). Glanville's letter said no charges would be made to cadets for accommodation or food during the investigation, starting from May 23 'to the date that a cadet resumes flight training'. 'We are also permitted to lease aircraft not included in the prohibition notice,' it said. 'These will operate under the maintenance control of their respective owners until NZICPA's system is rectified and approved.' Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chronicle
Hindustan Times
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
HT Kick Off: Why Brian Glanville is football's man of letters
Anyone who has written or read a word on football in English owes a debt of gratitude to Brian Glanville, who died on Friday aged 93. The late Patrick Barclay, an excellent writer on the beautiful game and an even better raconteur, as I found out on a cold, sunny afternoon in Munich in 2011, was speaking for his tribe when he wrote: 'Most football writers fall into two categories: those who have been influenced by Brian Glanville, and those who should have been.' This is in my copy of the 2010 edition of Glanville's opus, 'The Story of the World Cup.' Glanville had been to 13 of those but it was in 1973 that he had decided to chronicle in a book what is now the most watched sporting event on the planet. For technical and tactical insight, background information and summary of each edition, it remains a must-have. You can also read it for its wonderful, if occasionally pungent, prose. Here's a nugget: 'Overall, despite the abominable conditions, the 1970 World Cup had been a marvellous triumph of the positive over the negative, the creative over the destructive. The Final itself took on the dimensions almost of an allegory.' Glanville was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included short stories, novels, plays, musicals and the screenplay for Goal!, the film on the 1966 World Cup that went on to win a Bafta. But it was the world of football writing that Glanville, an Arsenal supporter, straddled for over 50 years. Be it the fiercely opinionated columns in World Soccer, obituaries in The Guardian (it has been compiled as a book), match reports, books or investigative pieces. Brian understood football, Pat Jennings has said. Proof of the respect he had among managers came in an anecdote shared by my colleague N. Ananthanarayanan. Ananth, as the HT sports team calls him, was at the press conference after a Chelsea-Blackburn game when Mark Hughes was explaining to the media how they had shackled Frank Lampard. 'Brian had a long notebook, like the ones used by accountants of yesteryear, and no sooner had Mark said this, we heard the rustling of pages,' he said. 'As per my notes', Glanville began, and immediately Hughes said, 'Brian, I am not saying Lampard had played badly'.' No one loved football like him but Glanville's acerbic wit spared none either. England had beaten Germany in Berlin in 2008, a first in 35 years, but after due tribute to the team and their head coach Fabio Capello, with whom Glanville went back a long way, Glanville wrote that the Italian had gambled on three players (Stewart Downing, Matthew Upson and Scott Carson), 'won his bet on two of them (Downing and Upson) and lost embarrassingly on the other.' In an earlier issue of World Soccer, he wrote: 'Andorra apart, England's form under the wretched Steve McClaren was such that almost any opponent could be a menace.' Gareth Southgate was described as 'a one-paced centre-back' and Vladimir Putin as 'draconian, virtual Tsar of new Russia.' The suits at FIFA Glanville didn't like and he made it known in no uncertain terms. 'Yes, we all know about the corruption of FIFA, inevitable from the moment Joao Havelange unseated Stanley Rous as president in 1974, initiating an appalling 24 years of chicanery. It remined one of the saying from 18th-century English philosopher Edmund Burke that 'for evil to triumph, it is enough for good men to do nothing.' (World Soccer, January 2015). After Andrew Jennings's exposé on corruption in high places in FIFA, Glanville described its executive committee as one that included reprobates. In his mind, there was no doubt that Qatar had 'plainly bought' the 2022 World Cup. It was with 'shameless pomposity,' Glanville said, that an FA chief executive had said that no Englishman met the requirements of the England head coach's job. This was before Capello's appointment. For him, the Premier League was a 'Greed in Good League', one whose ownership rules were so 'fatuously lax' that Hitler or Mao could have owned clubs because neither had a criminal conviction. Equally, there was fulsome praise for players. Bruno Fernandes would be a good investment for Manchester United, Glanville had presciently said. Even at 17, Pele was 'superbly muscled goal scorer par excellence, gymnastically agile and resilient, a tantalising juggler of the ball' with a fine right foot and extraordinary temperament (The Story Of The World Cup). Patrick Vieira, at his 'dynamic, athletic, long-legged best' , Glanville wrote for World Soccer, would be a hard act to follow for Arsenal. Paul Gascoigne had the 'attention span of a gnat' off the pitch, Glanville wrote, but 'was he a great player? I would emphatically say yes.' My first World Cup assignment was also his last. It was Ratul Ghosh, the former sports editor of the Bangla daily Bartaman, who did the introductions in the cafeteria at the media centre in Gelsenkirchen. Portugal-Mexico was about to kick-off so Glanville, then a sprightly 76, did the several flights of stairs to the media tribune with us. He paused, not to catch his breath, but to state that accuracy of his deliveries and free-kicks notwithstanding, David Beckham was a one-trick pony.
Time of India
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Who was Brian Glanville? Legendary football writer and novelist dies at 93
Image Source: Getty Aged 93, Brian Glanville , possibly the best ever football writer , died on 16 May 2025. In a career that lasted more than seven decades, Glanville applied intellectual rigor and forensic analysis to his coverage of football, notably during a long association with The Sunday Times . A pioneering voice in football journalism Born on 24 September 1931 in Hendon, Middlesex, Australia, Glanville was just 19 when he took his first steps into journalism, co-writing a biography of Arsenal legend Cliff Bastin. He became a prodigious journalist, novelist, and screenwriter, writing for the Sunday Times for 30 years and World Soccer magazine for more than 50. His work reached outside the United Kingdom, and his work garnered international praise, including from Sports Illustrated's Paul Zimmerman, who hailed him as 'the greatest football writer of all time.' Glanville has written several influential football books, including the definitive 'The Story of the World Cup' and 'The Puffin Book of Football.' He also wrote and scripted the 1967 World Cup documentary 'Goal!' and even had plays and a musical put on. In his novel 'The Dying of the Light,' he examined the post-retirement difficulties faced by a former football player, demonstrating an insight into the game's effects on the lives of those who play it. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Things Just Aren't The Same Between William And Kate And Now We Know Why Daily Sport X Undo A legacy of insight and integrity left by Brian Glanville Glanville, who never minced his words and had harsh words for several England managers, including Sir Alf Ramsey and Bobby Robson, still counted players from both England and other countries, including Bobby Moore, as friends. His criticism darted from a place of such deep love for the game and such a commitment to journalistic purity. He was also an early proponent of studying systems of play, such as catenaccio, and introduced British readers to modern European trends in soccer long before they were adopted as mainstream concepts. Glanville's impact was not confined to his own writing. He was part of the jury that votes on the Ballon d'Or each year and was known for his generosity and approachability, treating young journalists and people he barely knew with warmth and respect. Also Read: Samuel Eto'o pays tribute to late Cameroonian football legend Emmanuel Kunde With the passing away of Brian Glanville, a curtain has fallen on an era of football journalism. His unmatched expertise, insightful analysis, and tireless devotion have helped him to make an indelible mark on the world of football. He is also survived by his four children: Mark, Toby, Elizabeth, and Josephine. Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Brian Glanville, journalist lauded as ‘the greatest football writer', dies aged 93
Brian Glanville, whose insightful football writing had a profound influence on generations of reporters and readers alike, has died aged 93. A novelist and respected columnist, Glanville was a prolific commentator on his beloved game, a passionate chronicler of Italian football and author of some of football's most influential books. He spent 30 years as a football correspondent for the Sunday Times, contributed to World Soccer magazine for more than five decades, and wrote compelling obituaries for the Guardian. His most recently published tributes considered the careers of Northern Ireland and Aston Villa winger Peter McParland and the Manchester United legend Denis Law. A lifelong Arsenal fan, his first book – with the Gunners winger Cliff Bastin – was published in 1950 and he was still writing about the north London club decades later, his final work a history of Highbury published in 2006. Glanville's The Story of the World Cup is considered a seminal work on the global tournament, and other books, such as The Puffin Book of Football, fostered a lifelong devotion to the sport for many young readers. He won admirers in the US long before the game enjoyed a wider following there, and Sports Illustrated's Paul Zimmerman called him 'the greatest football writer of all time'. As well as numerous novels and short stories, two plays and a musical, he produced the screenplay for the 1967 documentary Goal! World Cup 1966, and saw Sir John Gielgud play the lead in a BBC radio production of his A Visit to the Villa. His eye for the global game in the 1960s and 70s especially earned Glanville a place on the jury for the annual Ballon d'Or. Glanville had a good relationship with England's World Cup winning captain, Bobby Moore, but was acerbically critical of the national team's managers, and pulled no punches when it came to Sir Alf Ramsey, the victor in 1966 but whose reputation was tarnished by the team's failure in the heat of the Mexico tournament four years later. 'I have all sorts of amusing memories of Alf Ramsey, but he was a very strange man,' Glanville once recalled. 'He should have gone two years before he did. He'd blown it. He'd gone. He'd shot his bolt. I got on very well with Walter Winterbottom, but he was a rotten manager. Bobby Robson was grotesquely overrated. I thought he was a very inadequate manager and he failed so badly in Europe. He made a shocking job of it. He had a lot of luck. We nearly reached the World Cup final in 1990, but that was luck more than judgment.' Andrew Neil, among Glanville's editors at the Sunday Times, posted on X: 'Brian Glanville was indeed a true great. One of the brightest assets during my 11 years editing The Sunday Times. One of the greatest ever football writers.' The Guardian's former chief sports writer Richard Williams also paid tribute on social media, saying: 'RIP Brian Glanville, 93, maestro of the football stadium press box (and purveyor of truly awful jokes).' Tim Vickery, the BBC's South American football correspondent, added on X: 'I owe a huge debt to this man. A True giant of our trade, a mighty source of internacionalist inspiration. RIP Brian Glanville.' Brian Glanville, football writer and author. Born 24 September, 1931. Died 16 May, 2025
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Brian Glanville was fearless, witty and hovered in the press box like Banquo's ghost
Brian Glanville, who has died aged 93, was what Groucho Marx might have been had the old master of the one-liner shown any interest in football. I doubt if the greatest soccer scribbler of them all – the London-born son of a Dublin dentist and an Old Carthusian expensively educated in literature and song – met Groucho (Brian knew a host of famous people), but their exchanges would surely have blistered the paint off the walls. Nobody swore so elegantly as Glanville, who hovered in the press box like Banquo's ghost, the gathering's invisible conscience, ready to deliver a scathing observation, relayed, sotto voce, to a nearby colleague like a chorus baritone in one of his favourite operas. Sitting behind me in the Tottenham press box during one match, he leaned forward to remark – apropos bugger all – on the future of the then struggling young Sunday Correspondent: 'It has the smell of death about it.' Garth Crooks, who was sitting next to him, was as bemused as he was amused. Related: Brian Glanville, journalist lauded as 'the greatest football writer', dies aged 93 The joy of Glanville was, perversely, best experienced when he was at his most vitriolic. He loved football as few others could ever do, but he detested many things about the modern game, most vehemently commercialism and corruption, and let the world know it at every available opportunity. For most of his working life, those opportunities came around every Saturday afternoon for the Sunday Times in a golden age of football commentary as he went joke for pithy joke with the Observer's Hugh McIlvanney, Jim Lawton of the Express, and any other of the frontline heavyweights. Glanville, like many of his contemporaries, did not often bother with quotes from the principals, but he littered his work with references that showed the depth of his cultural interests. When he derided the efforts of a lazy full-back caught napping on the goalline as, 'alone and palely loitering' he was briefly impressed that I recognised it as a line from Keats's La Belle Dame sans Merci – followed by the inevitable put-down: 'Did poetry in your school, did they?' No pity there, then. It was part of what made up the Glanville we knew and loved. He was fearless – and feared. If that implies arrogance, so be it. But it was a price worth paying to hear and read the string of witticisms that lit up his work. He would pursue a story or an opinion to the end of its useful life, such as in the Lobo-Solti match-fixing scandal of 1972-73, when he wrote a series of stories under the banner of The Year Of The Golden Fix. When colleague and longtime friend Michael Collett said to him: 'Brian, I reckon you've made more from the scandal than they did from the fix itself,' he replied: 'You're too facking right I have.' He did not let many earning opportunities pass him by and hoovered up all sorts of stories for Gazzetta dello Sport (he lived in Italy for many years) while simultaneously reporting on a match, major or minor. I recall one international at Wembley when he interrupted the chatter to inquire: 'Anyone hear the results of the rowing from Nottingham?' There was an Italian competing. He wrote and spoke across several mediums – books, plays, occasional commentary, film and radio scripts – upsetting listeners in a 1950s BBC play about Hendon's Jewish community in north London, where he had grown up. It did not seem to bother him. Brian was at his happiest when looking in from the outside. As a scriptwriter, Glanville left us with many pearls in the incomparable film of the 1966 World Cup, Goal! When his beloved Italy went out to North Korea – a shock on a par with Vesuvius, in his opinion – he put in the narrator's mouth the memorable aside: 'So Italy go home to their tomatoes.' He also wrote, acidly, of the North Koreans: 'So little known, they might be flying in from outer space.' The film, matchless for its sense of drama and sun-drenched nostalgia, gripped an audience that would celebrate England's lone success at the highest level in the final. The campaign reached an ugly crescendo, however, in the foul-filled quarter-final win over Argentina. Glanville's contribution was that 'it is famous not just for Geoff Hurst's controversial offside goal but the Argentines' dirty tactics, which included spitting and kicking'. That unvarnished assessment came from Glanville's rock-solid confidence in his own judgment. He would listen to an argument, but not often back down. His then sports editor, the late Chris Nawrat, once insisted he finally go and talk to the England manager Bobby Robson (after years of roasting him in print without a single quote). Brian reluctantly trudged off with the paper's peerless photographer, Chris Smith, who would also operate the reel-to-reel tape recorder for the historic showdown. When they returned to the office, Glanville – technically illiterate – said it had gone so well they nearly ran out of tape, adding: 'What the bloody hell am I supposed to do with it now?' 'Transcribe it, Brian,' Nawrat said, surreptitiously tying some twine from the nearby art desk around Glanville's ankle until he pressed all the right knobs and the job was done several hours later. If Glanville listened to anyone, it was his enduring muse. Groucho Marx's wit was never far from his lips or his pen and Brian delighted in borrowing from the great man's litany of smartarsedness in conversation. One of my favourites, and his, was Groucho's quip after suffering some fools not-so-gladly: 'I've had a particularly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.' But any evening with Brian was unfailingly entertaining, a gift even. Another one gone, then, 'home to his tomatoes'. Kevin Mitchell was the Guardian's award-winning former tennis and boxing correspondent
