The fight against injustice is hard, prolonged and nasty, especially in the neoliberal, corporate-friendly governing structures in India at present.
Ghana has a World Cup qualifier eight days earlier against Uganda, and while teams are allowed to play both a qualifier and a friendly inside the same nine-day FIFA window, the sport's governing body prevents the friendly from taking place more than a five-hour flight and two time zones away because of the burden on players and their clubs.
In early December, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new (and industry-friendly) rules governing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
Safa said it had no knowledge of any investigation by football's world governing body into last year's friendlies, but promised stern action against any of its officials if they were involved in fixing.
But some see the collapse of the deal as only a partial loss for Beijing, given that public opposition had made the sale of Mr. Lai's Taiwan publications politically problematic for the island's governing, China-friendly Kuomintang party.
Mineworkers have criticised the Num, which is affiliated with the governing African National Congress, saying it is too friendly with business.
France, Germany and Italy are now governed by church-friendly center-right coalitions.
The story unfolds through the reporter's articles and diary entries about his experiences in a country governed by eco-friendly principles and a female president.
The mayor's Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB) is at the business-friendly end of the governing coalition in Brasília.
Especially as World Rugby, the sport's governing body, has developed a fondness for friendly fire.
At Fifa's congress in Zurich last month, moves to ensure friendlies would come under the governing body's control – previously they had been the responsibility of the host association – were passed.
