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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.
Arsenal Fan Share – Premier League’s version of MyFootballClub
As I write this, the Arsenal Fan Share website is down, thanks to poor choice of web hosting (they really went cheap here) and a deluge of traffic from excited Arsenal fans thinking that they could finally own a piece of their club now and stop those dirty Russians / Yanks from taking over. The…
Trusted FIFA employee is selling the identity of ticket holders onto the black market
A trusted FIFA employee has allegedly sold confidential lists containing personal information of 60,000 people onto the black market. Norwegian website, Dagbladet, has uncovered the list which contains information regarding the full name, date of birth and passport number of unsuspecting ticket buyers. FIFA do their utmost to prevent their tickets being distributed within the…
The Suarez handball and the case for penalty goals
Excerpts from today’s World Cup Podcast, with Adrian Clarke and Iain Spragg: Adrian Clarke: Hi, I’m Adrian Clarke and cheers for joining us on pint sized Soccerlens World Cup podcast. Hopefully you didn’t take too much notice of our pre-quarter final predictions which turned out to be absolutely useless… Iain Spragg: Who would have thought…
Sex trade at the World Cup
The World Cup kicks off in exactly 7 days, and hundreds of thousands of football fans will descend on South Africa to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime event. However, where there are tourists looking to have a good time, there are also underlying problems. We had some experience of this in Germany 2006 but South Africa 2010…
Why Africa Keeps Appointing European Coaches
A Brazilian, a Frenchman, a Serbian, two Swedes and, finally, an Algerian. At the 2010 World Cup – the pan-African showcase – there will be six teams representing the continent, but only one African trusted with coaching one of those sides to success. And that’s Algerian coach, Rabah Saadane, who was also in charge of…
FA’s new film featuring Chris Kamara – ‘Lucky Jock Strap’
To add to the ‘Get Into Football‘ campaign of the FA, they have launched a new film starring Sky Sports pundit Chris Kamara. The film, titled ‘Lucky Jock Strap, sees Kamara starring alongside Tottenham strikers Peter Crouch and Jemain Defoe as well as Manchester City midfielders Gareth Barry and Shaun Wrigh-Phillips in a light take…
FA Respect – Are You Losing It?
The Football Association (FA) has recently launched a new campaign in its Respect program on March 3rd when England took on Egypt at Wembley. It is time that we all lend our support to what is a great campaign designed to reduce levels of anti-social behavior, both on and off the pitch. Whoever has played…
Wolves Punished by Hypocrisy For Squad Rotation Against Manchester United
It has been announced that Wolves have been handed a symbolic £25,000 suspended fine for breaching Premier League rule E20 against Manchester United at Old Trafford on the 15th of December. The punishment relates to Wolves manager Mick McCarthy’s decision to name a team of entirely different outfield personnel from the club’s previous fixture. Premier League Rule E20 states: “In every League Match each…
Basey Leg Injury Leaves Charlton Doubly Disjointed
As the game of football continues to receive criticism from certain quarters for failing to embrace modern technology- particularly the introduction of video referees- the encounter last night between Charlton and Bristol Rovers in League One served to highlight a prevailing injustice in the game.
Homophobia in Football
The FA’s Anti-Homophobia ad, courtesy of The Offside: It’s raw, it’s in your face, it makes you uncomfortable, just like abuse makes you uncomfortable in a normal setting, and the point that what’s not acceptable outside a football ground shouldn’t be acceptable in it either is a fair point. We were originally under the impression…
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