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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.
Does The Premier League Need a Winter Break?
It’s gotten to that time of year now where English football fixtures are beginning to fill in the calendar with two games a week and will continue over the festive season where other European countries are having a break from the game to re-energise. The re-occurring question has therefore crept back into divided opinions among…
English Football Needs Foreigners!
This debate has been raging over the blogosphere, and I thought I’d put my 2 cents in. As England fall flat in the Euro 2008 qualifiers, typically, they need a scapegoat. No, England isn’t on the verge of not qualifying because they’re a bunch of lazy, greedy wannabe tabloid-fodder. No, no, no, they aren’t qualifying…
MyFootballClub: taking over Ebbsfleet, and redefining ‘Fantasy’ Football
Ebbsfleet, playing 4 leagues below the Premier League in the Blue Square League, have agreed to be taken over by MyFootballClub. £700,000 is a lot of money and kudos to MFC and its owners for negotiating this deal and turning fantasy football into reality.
Women’s Football in England = Slave Labor
On Thursday we read that women footballers were paid £40 per day for the five weeks they spent in China representing their country and reaching the quarter finals of the 2007 Women’s World Cup. That’s £1400 for 5 weeks, £280 per week or to roughly convert that into dollars, around $3k / month. To give…
Should Sin-Bins be introduced in Football?
Blackburn Rovers chairman John Williams has called for sin-bins to be introduced in football. But could this actually work?
Broke For Your Team’s Next Away Game? If You’re a Reading fan, Not a Problem…
It is a pretty well known fact in football that the bond between club and supporters is very tight one, especially in the English Premiership. This does not only apply to big successful clubs but also those which, despite having been in existence for quite some time, found their bit of glory and spot in…
Nothing But Nets: Humanitarian Diego Gutierrez of the Chicago Fire
Image courtesy of Nothing But Nets. In a story discussed a few days ago by Steve Goff of the Washington Post and Soccer Insider, Diego Gutierrez of the Chicago Fire was named Major League Soccer (MLS) Humanitarian of the Year. Mr. Gutierrez, who is a native of Bogota, Colombia, is the spokesman for a very…
Sporting Directors – Good or Bad for Football Clubs?
Tottenham’s experiments with a sporting director has led many Premier League fans to question the wisdom of having such a figure at the club.
Football Fans Could Get Sued For Libel
Soccerlens has been accused of inviting lawsuits several times in the past – the West Ham affair (arguably an over-the-top response by Hammers but in any event a plausible case for libel), a few humourous pieces calling players gay or drug-addicts, and then there’s always the banter and commentary that goes too far in the…
Premier League coming to the US?
On Friday the BBC ran a story about the possibility of Premier League games being played in the US – mostly thanks to a soundbite from West Ham (non-executive) chairman Eggert Magnusson and another quote from Arsenal shareholder Stan Kroenke. I’d like to hear your views on the subject – whether such an event (even…
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