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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.
Will the FA punish Brown and Ball for their attacks on Alonso and Ronaldo?
Two off-the-ball challenges that the referee did not see. Two challenges that merited straight reds (if Scholes can get a red for swinging but pulling his punch in and not connecting, these two were stonewall reds). Two challenges that need post-match video reviews to be punished – and if either player had scored, would have…
Are you a “true” football fan?
Are you a ‘true’ fan? In the year or so of managing Soccerlens, I’ve heard this quite often: you’re not a true fan, if you were you’d … (add your own rationalisation here – these usually run along the lines of ‘know the history’, ‘trust the manager’, etc etc – anything to deny the other…
Curbing violence in football
Last night’s incident in Rome just magnifies the need for football authorities to step in, take a stand and implement measures that minimize football violence (on-pitch, in the stadium and outside between fans) without hurting the game itself.
The State Of The “Beautiful” Game
Here’s an experiment – please read the following two paragraphs and tell me what you think:
Arjen Robben dives for Chelsea’s cause
Is Mourinho going to say that Manchester United have all the luck this season because Robben got a yellow card for his poorly-executed dive for Chelsea?
On diving and video reviews
The diving demons reared their ugly heads again over the weekend with Cristiano Ronaldo diving to win a penalty (which Saha scored from) and a free kick (which had no real effect). Ronaldo has been criticised in the media for his actions, and rightly so. But thinking back on it, diving, and the more general…
Kevin Nolan on diving
An extract from Kevin Nolan’s weekly column at BBC, where he’s talking about diving (in reference to Torquay’s chairman’s announcement that he’d sack divers after the their third offense – the players aren’t happy, apparently):
Wayne Rooney – Diver?
The spectre of diving in football reared its ugly head again this Premiership weekend with Zokora being the latest of foreign imports to take a theatrical tumble and win his side an unfair advantage. However, as much as Steven Gerrard would like to think that diving is a ‘foreign’ phenomenon, the sad truth is that…
David Beckham diving video
It’s a scene out of a very horrible nightmare for me – I imagine this is how Thierry Henry fans felt when he went down (at least twice) in the World Cup.
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