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Nottingham Defeats Manchester, Portsmouth To Be Named Sport England's City Of Football

Nottingham has defeated Manchester and Portsmouth to "win the right" to stage a £1.6M ($2.6M), two-year "pilot project aimed at testing ways of getting more people playing football regularly," according to Martyn Ziegler of the PA. The FA had £1.6M of public funding for the amateur game "cut by Sport England in March after failing to reverse a decline in participation." In a new funding initiative, Nottingham "has been named as Sport England's City of Football, beating Manchester and Portsmouth." Sport England said in a statement that Nottingham clinched the bid "by mobilising an impressive group of private, public and voluntary sector partners from both inside and outside the traditional football family, to do whatever it takes to get more people -- particularly those aged 14-25 years -- playing all kinds of football regularly" (PA, 9/16).

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