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  • For those of you looking to get in the mood, here's a montage.6 If there's one thing six-a-side Masters tournaments prove, it's that ex-pros never lose it.

    Two-ton Totti, Tyson's feathered friends and a song for Titmus 2011

  • Games are six-a-side, 12 minutes per half, but that's more than enough when you're trudging through a mire.

    Paul Dodson: Football Mutations Paul Dodson 2011

  • The international break finds Roberto Martínez at a Manchester community centre handing out the prizes for the Prince's Trust Managers 'Cup, a joint initiative between the royal charity and the League Managers Association aimed at bringing a degree of competitive organisation to what would otherwise be a chaotic collision of mixed gender six-a-side teams from challenged backgrounds around the north-west.

    Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish Paul Wilson 2010

  • We're talking six-a-side, for half an hour, knee deep in a bubbling brook.

    Paul Dodson: Football Mutations Paul Dodson 2011

  • The issue of SARHWU's conflict of interest had been blown out of proportion and taken out of context, Vusi Nhlapo, president of the National Health and Allied Workers 'Union, the labour convener of the six-a-side meeting, told Sapa.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The announcement, due to take place last week, was postponed when objections were raised about the involvement of the SA Railway and Harbours Workers 'Union in Sun Air's restructuring committee since its investment arm was part of a consortium bidding for a stake in ten raised at a six-a-side meeting between labour and government on Monday when a progress report on Sun Air's restructuring was considered.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Once the restructuring committee had reached consensus, the matter would be referred to the transport sector restructuring task team and the six-a-side committees comprising government and labour before going to Cabinet, Ackerman said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • These were the announcement of the macro-economic strategy and the meeting of the "six-a-side teams" of government and labour agreed to in last year's National Framework Agreement.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • This was the first time economic policy was going to be enunciated, and it was important the six-a-side meeting should begin a process to "tease out policy issues", put options proposed in December in order, and "chart the way forward".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • In line with that process a six-a-side team from Government and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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