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.
Why do we love English football quite so much? We have a Premier League that is consistently contested by just four teams. We have the swanky stadiums but a fundamental lack of fans to fill them. In addition we have clubs being operated by billionaire...
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Written by Stephen Darwin. 7 comments
Over the years racist chanting and banners have dogged the European stage. Clubs and players alike have all demanded action, have all appealed for more to be done however their cries nearly always fall on deaf ears. UEFA act yet their action is far...
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Written by Ben King. Comments Off
As AFC Wimbledon fans took in a post-match pint on Saturday, it’s unlikely the hands raising the pint glass had many fingernails left. But Dons fans can now relax somewhat. Bar their promotion rivals Hampton and Richmond Borough going goal crazy...
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Written by Gary Andrews. 13 comments
The Big Four? Try the Only Four. If fans of the English Premier League are increasingly bemoaning the seemingly unshakeable dominance of the former, imagine the absurdity of a division comprised solely of four teams. Yet when the new Lithuanian football...
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Written by Nick Smith. 4 comments
It would be hard to find a Englishman who does not sing the praises of the significantly large contingent of foreign players that ply their trade on the world’s biggest stage, the Barclays Premier League.
Machester United’s Portugese...
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Written by Troy Palmer. 11 comments
There are some things in football that seem immovable, irreplaceable and constant. The teams that make up the top flight of this nation’s favourite game also appear unshakable in their conviction and status.
However over the past few...
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Twenty years ago ninety-six people left home to go to a football match. They never returned, crushed to death in one of the biggest sporting tragedies Britain has ever seen.
This week, the City of Liverpool will remember those whose lives were...
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Written by Gary Andrews. 4 comments
When Lord Mawhinney last week voiced his fears that a big name club could go out of business if football’s worst excesses weren’t reigned in he could have hardly asked for a better example than Championship club Southampton. Having struggled...
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A few days before England coasted to victory against Slovakia in World Cup qualification, Cardiff City cruised to a 3-0 mid-season friendly against Merthyr Tydfil. But while the result may have been meaningless, the match itself wasn’t as the...
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I was sitting in the East stand the day Wayne Rooney scored that thunderbolt against Newcastle back in 2005.
We were coming to the end of what had been our worst season...
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Written by Scott the Red. 27 comments
