Some of the balls used in Premiership matches may have been stitched by children in their homes, the league's official supplier, Nike, admitted yesterday. Nike is sacking its main manufacturer of hand-stitched balls, a Pakistani company called Saga Sports, because of concerns about "significant labour compliance violations"...An Oxfam senior policy adviser, Samar Verma...described Nike's decision to sack Saga Sports as "a very positive step in the right direction" but added: "It's a small step and the company needs to do more to ensure that trade union rights are respected."