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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.
Notts County On the Brink – The Cost of Broken Promises
In July on this site I waxed lyrical about how the oldest league club in world languishing in the bottom division of the football league had been taken over by a foreign consortium in a fairytale the audacity of which bewildered the football community. However less than a season later the Nott’s County bubble has well and…
MLS referees don’t cut it for World Cup
FIFA released the list of 30 referees from 20 countries who will officiate at the World Cup and the United States is not represented on that list, even as an AR. Putting aside politics and questionable selections such as Martin Hansson, the Swedish referee who missed Thierry Henri’s handball, the decision is a sharp indictment…
Lilian Thuram: “Italian Society is Racist.”
Lilian Thuram was a World Cup and European Cup of Nations champion with France in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He was capped 142 times for Les Bleus which is the French record. Thuram, a defender, began his highly decorated career in the French Ligue 1 with AS Monaco. He featured many years in the Italian Serie A….
Chelsea free to buy Ribery in summer after CAS overturn ban
It is business as usual in football – after all the bluster of the initial ban against Chelsea, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned the ban amidst a curious settlement reached between Chelsea and Lens. The official CAS statement reads: “The CAS has noted that, in the agreement, the two clubs and the…
Surely it’s a wind up?
The latest fashionable place to be seen as a football club is in court facing a winding up order. Virtually all of these relate to debts owned to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs – i.e unpaid tax.
Portsmouth could be a repeat of Leeds United
On January 23, 2010, the League One club Leeds United had to come back on level twice against the Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur (who, by the way, scored nine goals against Wigan a few weeks ago) in White Hart Lane. Spurs do still have a chance when the replay the match at Elland Road,…
Is this the end of the Golden Age of English Football?
As Manchester United’s rout of Wigan signalled the end of the 2009 and the start of a yet unnamed new decade, the signs on the horizon raise questions as to the future of English football over the next 10 years? Can the growth and success of the noughties be replicated or do a plethora of…
Now hail Wenger for prudence
Amidst all the talk of football and finance over the past week or so, it’s been interesting to hear the outrage of fans and pundits alike at the state and prognosis of football clubs in England. One man who could be forgiven for a wry smile and a shrug of the shoulders is Arsene Wenger…
Where will Gold and Sullivan take West Ham?
West Ham have had more than their share of problems off the field as a football club and the news today that David Gold and David Sullivan had completed a 50% takeover of the London club will be welcomed by the fans. Any Premier League takeover these days is accompanied by a set of promises…
Calciopoli: The Scandal Returns
It’s been four years since the fateful days when Juventus’s world exploded. Relegated to the Serie B, fined, stripped of their titles and of their star players, La Vecchia Signora had to start from scratch. But now information is emerging. Information that suggests a completely different reality. A conspiracy theory has always existed among the…
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