After years of waiting for a promising young player to develop, Wales have perhaps discovered that young players, just like buses, often come all at once. Their 3-0 victory over Scotland was ample demonstration of the burgeoning potential of players...
Read more »
Written by Alex Stamp. Leave a response
Although football today is a multi-billion dollar globalised industry which has spread its commercial influence to all corners of the planet, sometimes it pays to look back into the game’s annals and revisit the humble origins of what has now become...
Read more »
Written by Chris Mann. 2 comments
We live in a world obsessed with superlatives, constantly being sold by marketing ploys promoting their individual items. Football is sadly no different, how often are we told that Cristiano Ronaldo is the World’s best player, only to be told...
Read more »
Written by Adam Axon. Comments Off
FIFA’s official ranking system for nations was officially introduced in 1992. Initially it was a rather simplistic system, in which a win gave a team 3 points whilst a draw gave the team 1 point. This created a number of problems,...
Read more »
Written by Adam Axon. One comment
Smokefree United is a club of fans who all want to quit smoking. Sign up and you too can get all the coaching you need to quit and win top footie prizes.
There are plenty of great reasons for giving smoking the boot – like the difference...
Read more »
Written by Soccerlens. Comments Off
Cristiano Ronaldo leads a list of 30 nominees for this year’s Ballon d’Or that does not include a single player from the current world champions Italy.
Real Madrid’s Ronaldo, 24, won the prestigious award last year and will...
Read more »
Written by Adam Axon. Comments Off
In 1991, some 30 years after the Ballon d’Or was first awarded to Sir Stanley Matthews, FIFA commenced the awarding of their own award. The FIFA World Player of the Year.
The award uses a Borda Count system...
Read more »
Written by Adam Axon. Comments Off
Whilst the FIFPro player of the year award itself has a relativily short history (having only been awarded since 2005), the origins of the awards could feasibly traced back to 1898 and the formation of the Association Football’s Union in England....
Read more »
Written by Adam Axon. Comments Off
Think for a moment about the organisation of tournaments such as the UEFA Champions League or the European Championships. How do you decide how many teams are eligible for entry into each competition, when those teams should enter the competition or...
Read more »
Written by Adam Axon. Comments Off
Due to the critisim of the official FIFA world rankings system, alternative rankings systems have surfaced over the years. The most prominent of these awards is the World Football ELO rankings. As the name suggests the system is based of the ELO ranking...
Read more »
Written by Russell Wall. Comments Off
