In its most binding contractual form, the gallery pays the artist a fixed annual salary in return for taking the pick of his work.Aladren, aged 32, abhors contracts and charges only 30 per cent commission for work sold from her files, 40 per cent if the sale is the result of a gallery show. The East End of London now has hundreds of artists' spaces.New-deal galleries, often run by artists, have the same go-it-alone spirit. Nylon, which opened in April, has already begun networking with galleries.The movement started with the setting-up in the early Nineties of "artists' spaces", studio-galleries in lofts and warehouses where art is both produced and sold - an attempt by artists to bypass the established gallery system, with its traditional 50 per cent commission, or to sell despite rejection by gallerists. "Everybody's having a great time feeding off the game but, hold on, one day the grain is going to run out - the fat of the land will not be there forever."If pay-per-view television makes watching soccer comfortable and cheaper and more accessible you're persuading fans not to go to the grounds. It may be terrific for Manchester United, Arsenal and to an extent Liverpool or Chelsea, I'm not sure what pay-per-view does for Coventry or West Ham or Southampton. I don't want to see us with five or so super clubs and the rest just making up the numbers.".
AS ROY HODGSON took the stage, a wave of applause swept Birmingham's International Conference Centre. The 23-year-old has signed a two-and-a-half year contract with the Oakwell side. The former England under-21 international cost Palace pounds 1.1m from Watford in 1994.Millwall have been charged by the Football Association following a series of pitch invasions during their game against Manchester City at the New Den on 29 September. The Second Division club have 14 days to respond to the charge of failing to control their supporters.Though John Motson has done well out of televised football, he thinks it is possible to have too much of a good thing.In a new video, Motty Takes The Mike, the BBC commentator rails against the overhyped world of the Premiership."It's overkill and I'm not sure the game can sustain it," he said. City's record buy is in Joe Royle's City side for the First Division game with Reading - but Terry Venables, the Palace manager, is trying to finalise a deal to put the striker in his team at Bradford City instead.Because of a change in transfer rules, Bradbury can join Palace on loan by noon and still make his debut today before completing a pounds 1.5m transfer to Selhurst Park on Monday.While the two clubs sorted out the details of the deal yesterday, Bradbury trained at Maine Road and Royle said: "Lee is available to play for us and, if Shaun Goater is not fit, he will be in the team." The City manager is also lining up a loan striker to replace Bradbury today, if the sale is agreed in time.Palace have raised funds towards the purchase of Bradbury, who cost City pounds 3m from Portsmouth, by selling another striker, Bruce Dyer, to Barnsley for pounds 700,000.
"The tournament is another one they have dreamed up from nowhere. "I think it was a wise decision," Arsenal's French manager, Arsene Wenger, said.Fifa backed down in September in the face of the opposition, allowing clubs to release their players just 48 hours ahead of the start date to reduce the inconvenience. But this failed to satisfy the clubs who pay the players' huge wages.Chelsea's chairman, Ken Bates, said this week: "I think it is a waste of time and I will not be releasing my players."If Fifa try to impose sanctions they will be ignored," Bates added. FRANCE HAVE pulled out of the controversial Confederations' Cup against the wishes of Fifa, world football's ruling body, but to the delight of leading European clubs. "We decided to pull out of this competition because we did not want to send to Mexico a team which would not have been the one which won the world title," the French Football Federation president, Claude Simonet, said. He suggested that France would instead play a friendly against "an English team" some time in February. The eight-nation Fifa-organised competition has been heavily criticised by both clubs and a number of countries because of its timing in the middle of the European league season. Life: Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne, 1964, for match-fixing.
Bans lifted eight years later. 12 months: Billy Cook (Oldham) 1925, refusing to accept sending-off.8 months: Eric Cantona (Man Utd),attacking a fan.8 months: Billy McLafferty (Stenhousemuir) 1992, missing disciplinary hearing.7 months: Frank Barson (Watford) 1928, sending-off.5 months: Kevin Lewis (Man Utd) 197112 matches: Duncan Ferguson (Rangers) 1994, violent conduct11 matches: Paolo Di Canio (Sheffield Wednesday) 1998, pushing referee Paul Alcock.10 matches: Kevin Keegan (Liverpool) and Billy Bremner (Leeds) 1974, sent off for fighting in Charity Shield.9 weeks: Dennis Holywood and Brian O'Neil (both Southampton) 19719 matches: Steve Walsh (Leicester) 1987, poor discipline.9 matches: Paul Davis (Arsenal) 1988, punching opponent.9 matches: Frank Sinclair (West Brom, loan) 1992, clashing heads with referee.8 matches: Mark Dennis (QPR) 1987, 11 sendings off.8 weeks: Derek Dougan (Wolves) and John Fitzpatrick (Man Utd) 19696 weeks: Ronnie Rees (Nottingham Forest) and George Best (Man Utd) 19706 matches: Chris Kamara (Swindon) 19886 matches: David Batty (Newcastle) 1998, 3 sendings off, and pushing referee David Elleray.1 match: Emmanuel Petit (Arsenal) 1997, manhandling referee Paul Durkin.. It is nothing to do with a Continental attitude, it is just the individual.". Life: Willie Woodburn (Rangers) 1954, after five sendings-off. There is no suggestion that the referee dived, he just lost his balance, but without that there wouldn't have been such a furore."However, Marcotti was quick to play down suggestions that the "Italian temperament" was the main reason behind Di Canio's behaviour."Since the second World War there have only been two incidents of players assaulting referees. A similar situation in Italy would have been dealt with much more leniently."Marcotti outlined an incident involving Pavel Nedved, the Czech international, during a recent Italian Cup game with Lazio."Nedved put his hands on the referee - not as bad as the Di Canio incident - and received a three-match ban Even then most people thought it was too many," he said.
"In Italy, most people accept Di Canio lost his cool and shouldn't have done what he did, but these things happen. "It looked fairly comical at the time but if it had been a bigger, heavier man there wouldn't have been as much of a problem. "What message does this punishment send out to them and what confidence will they have in the FA? It is fair to say I am disappointed with the verdict because I thought it would be longer."Paolo Di Canio has been found guilty of a major disciplinary issue and I don't think the punishment is correct."Di Canio received an eight-match suspension for his attack on Alcock in addition to the three-game ban imposed for his initial sending off offence."There is a massive problem with the recruitment of referees, with less than 50 per cent lasting less than a year," Don said. "The Referees' Association is trying to look at ways of increasing the number of people who are taking up the whistle - what kind of message does this ban send out?"By contrast, Gabriel Marcotti, an English-based journalist working for the Italian sports' daily Corriere dello Sport, said the Football Association had gone over the top."There is no doubt that the referee falling over made the situation look worse than it was," he said. The former World Cup official said the Football Association was sending the wrong message to the thousands of officials who control park matches throughout the country. "There were 340 assaults on park referees last season," he said. It could be argued that yesterday's bounce merely represented a bottom-fishing move from the year's low.