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Attack, Attack, Attack As the tireless cliché goes: football is an art form – creative and elegant. That’s what we want it to be, anyway. Never have football teams been so heavily criticised if they didn’t exhibit The Beautiful Game in its glorious entirety. It seems passes are being praised more than goals. And as…
Reports that UEFA are considering expanding their Champions League competition (UCL) today floats in the wake of previous proclamations concerning the future of continental football. Primarily, the Barcelona President Sandro Rossell’s threat to UEFA, that major European clubs would form a breakaway continental league in 2014, when the European Club Association’s (ECA) ‘contract’ with UEFA…
About a year and a half ago, Terek Grozny were making the world footballing headlines as somewhat of a running punchline, a bizarre club whose news was reported for a laugh. Even though that only a decade before Grozny was accurately described as “Hell on Earth,” Grozny was opening a brand new arena with an…
It is perplexing as to why no football-governing body has embraced and employed video technology in the refereeing of football matches. Fans at home sit in agony as, seconds after an incident has occurred, they can see in detail the true course of events, while officials on the pitch are left to make split second…
On Friday morning the FA announced their decision to strip John Terry of the England captaincy for the second time in his career. The removal of Terry as captain revolves around an ongoing race row with Anton Ferdinand, where Terry was alleged to have called him a ‘black c**t’ during Chelsea’s away game at QPR…
Sunday, 29 January 2012. SPL Leaders Celtic take on SFL One side Falkirk in the Scottish league cup Semi – final. With such importance & potential funds ahead for the victory it was incredibly surprising that only 30,000 fans filled the 52,000-seater stadium. Over the years Scottish football attendances have been a concern. However, as…
In the 70’s, Viv Anderson became the first black player to be capped by England. During a routine warm up session for his club team, Nottingham Forest, a 19-year-old Anderson was bombarded with bananas, apples and pears in a racist attack by opposition fans. When he retreated to the relative safety of the Forest bench…
AVB lambasted the way in which reserve team football is structured this week stating that, “the youth development system in England is not right, in my belief. There is plenty of effort and talks to get it right but in my opinion it is not… The older ones should play nationally. The younger ones should play regionally.…
When Richard Keys and Andy Gray faced disciplinary action over their comments about female referee’s assistant Sian Massey earlier this year, fans of football were sent the clear message that sexism still exists in football in the U.K. Unquestionably this affects the quality and success of the female game. The United States women’s national soccer team won…
Following widespread debate on ‘The Rooney Rule’ Carla Palmer wrote to us about her husband and Leicester City development centre coach and scout Andrew Palmer’s experiences in the game. Follow her on twitter here: http://twitter.com/#!/MrsP1304 There are 92 professional football clubs in the UK and about 25% of the players are black. Despite the fact…