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The relationship between sport & society is investigated in terms of the leadership in society & human rights to argue that, in the case of the International Cricket Councils (ICC) actions in Zimbabwe, political issues were used as power levers on the group members. Discussion of the ICCs plans for global expansion is related to abuses & human rights in Zimbabwe & the concerns for players safety during tours by the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) & Cricket Australia (CB). The author concludes that the claims by Cricket administrators inability to make distinctions between sport & politics is in tension with the players & politicians right to make moral decisions, & was actually a device to secure increased authority over the ICC members.

In the period September 1996 to January 1998 the Australian Soccer Players' Association and Soccer Australia were locked in a dispute over payments to, and a collective agreement for, Australia's international players — the Socceroos. The major theme of the paper is that the tenets of unionism prevailed over `macho management'. The dispute is situated in the context of Australian soccer's recent history — charges of maladministration, if not worse, and the 1995 Stewart Report — and collective bargaining, since the formation of the players' association in 1993. The article provides an account of the major events and machinations associated with the playing out of this dispute.