Common sense Although Abuja's 2014 Games bid is mystifying, Natasha Woods says Glasgow still must win hearts as well as minds From: The Sunday Herald | Date: May 13, 2007| Author: | Copyright 2007 The Sunday Herald. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

WHILE Louise Martin was detailing the efforts Glasgow have made to promote their case across the Commonwealth a mission which has covered 68 countries, involved 352 flights, 28 lost bags and encounters with two cyclones and one volcanic eruption her equivalent from the Abuja bid team was talking about cats.

"Confidence? Well I would say we have the confidence of the cat which sits pretty well on the rolling ball without falling off, " said Dr Tijani Yusuf, the secretary general of the Nigerian city's team. That, apparently, is an old African saying. And, according to Yusuf, it's a fair ...

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