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This is part of our efforts to improve football. In this column we discuss the key issues facing football – using more technology, money in the game, diving / simulation, developing young players and football training in general, changes to rules (governing football and clubs) and a lot more.
Manchester United Fans Jailed for Roma Incident – Is Fan Violence Getting Out of Hand?
Four Manchester United fans who were involved in altercations with Roma fans before the Champions League clash between the two sides last week had lengthy jail terms handed down to them on Friday by Italian courts.
Manchester United are richer than Arsenal
When Manchester United announce their financial numbers from the 2006/07 season next month, they will be announcing record numbers in both profits and in turnover. After the club had an excellent year on the pitch, winning the Premiership title and making the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League, along with making the FA Cup final,…
Fan Abuse? Get A Bloody Backbone!
In this world of terror, poverty, famine and drought, nobody ever gives footballers a thought. Some earn just over £35,000 per week, they are made to train most of the week, and have to play football in front of 40,000 screaming fanatics on a Saturday. On top of this they are often subjected to abuse…
Rape claim at Manchester United Christmas Party
Update 2: Jonny Evans out on bail, Manchester United say that Jonny Evans is innocent and is cooperating with the police to clear his name. Update: The Sun reports that 19-year old Manchester United player Jonny Evans has turned himself in to the police and is now being questioned with regard to the rape claim…
It’s Time for English Football to Make a Break for Winter
It is Christmas time and the goose is getting fat as they say! It is also that time of year when the English football season goes into overdrive. Our four professional leagues make silly demands on our footballers to ask them to play four games in the space of ten days while the rest of…
Ref Watch: Alan Wiley – Arsenal v Chelsea
We had two heart attack games today, two scrapped victories, two goals and about two thousand fouls. The fact that only a handful of them were awarded is only due to the competence of the referees in charge of these electric derbies. I cannot say much about Mr. Halsey because I only saw him on…
Who is Alhassan Bangura?
Many of you are by now familiar with the situation facing Watford midfielder Al Bangura. If you haven’t, well, you haven’t been reading Soccerlens regularly enough. This article is intended to give you a better idea about who the promising midfielder is beyond the pitch, what he has been through, and why his case means…
Watford’s Al Bangoura Probable Deportation by British Goverment
The story of Alhassan Bangoura has been fairly well documented in the gathered media over in Britain over the last few days.
No Conspiracy Against Liverpool in Robberies
Footballers are rich guys with a posh lifestyle and often celebrity wives and girlfriends. So they are an advantaged species right, these footballers who earn in one week what many cannot earn in a whole year?
Police fail football as 7 Manchester United fans are stabbed in Rome
Once again Rome was burning and once again the Manchester United fans were enveloped in it. Although the security alert in the Italian city was heightened to Category A, considered as a high risk level, the police forces still failed to control the fighting that broke out between Man United and AS Roma supporters just…
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