Off The Record
If there’s something that must be said, but cannot be said within blogging / journalistic confines, this is the place to say it. We’ve used this column to poke fun, to provoke and to just say our minds.
England vs Europe – Tapping Up and the Press
We’ve talked a lot about Real Madrid’s transfer strategy with regards to Ronaldo and recently of the Tottenham-Manchester United-Liverpool story where the Tottenham chairman has reported United to the Premier League for ‘tapping up’ Berbatov. For the rest of Europe, such comments don’t arouse as much self-righteous indignation as they do in England. In fact,…
3 Secrets To Real Madrid’s Glorious Success
…and how your club can adopt it to entice players too good to play for your club, turn opposition fans against their own heroes and butter both sides of the bread by wooing players and footballing authorities while screwing every club that comes in your way. Read on, young club chairman – learning this could…
What Coaches Want From Their Players
As fans we see the game of football very differently from the coaches and managers. How many times have we watched a game and then heard the manager talk about it afterward and said to ourselves, “What game was he watching?” I coach a football team over here in the southwest of England. It is…
3 Reasons Why English Players Cost More
The common perception amongst Premier League followers is that the average English footballer is an overvalued, over-hyped, one-trick pony whose abilities pale in comparison to players of similar age and experience from outside England. (The fact that sometimes these foreigners are brought in on the cheap heightens the contrast.) There are 3 simple reasons why…
What’s More Important?
A few questions for our readers – go through the list, pick your answers and share your thoughts in the comments: What do you value more as a football fan? 1. Winning the league or winning the cup (consider the highest level cup competition your team can compete in a regular season)? 2. Having the…
Taking Pride In Losing Money?
An employee chooses to stay in a low-paying job with a small company with medium growth prospects, turning down a higher-paying job in a bigger firm with better chances of success. What do you suppose were the reasons behind his choice?
A footballer’s best friend
No matter what you say about beautiful WAGs, fast cars and money, the ball remains a footballer’s best friend: OVER THE WALL: Moral, Don’t lose your ball… from nextsoccerstar on Vimeo.
What Are They Doing?
Oliver Fowler takes a quick snapshot of what footballers are doing this summer. Take a look for yourself:
Intelligent Footballers – Is It Possible?
It is a well publicised and widely held belief that footballers are as thick as two short planks. The stereotype of an uneducated ruffian with little schooling and the total inability to string a comprehensible sentence together is confirmed each time you see the likes of Wayne Rooney interviewed! That is very unfair because many…
Should we abandon automatic qualification in Euros and World Cups?
Many would agree that allowing the hosts of a tournament free passage into the competition is simply an absurd policy. However, this policy seems to imbue the two major world soccer tournaments today — The World Cup and the European Championships or the Euro, as is more popularly called. In the World Cup, 32 places…
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