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The Ten Most Loved Footballers
As we all know, the spine-tingling hatred we feel towards other team’s players is part of what gives football its passion. But some players can cross the divide and feel the love whether they play at Old Trafford, Anfield or the Bernabeu.
COS takes a look, in no particular order, at some of the players loved by all fans.
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Should this Tory MP be manager of Team GB for 2012 Olympics?!
Most of us think we’d be pretty good football managers, partly the result of several popular computer games where it’s easier to guide a team to glory than it would be in real life (Cristiano Ronaldo hasn’t quite made that switch from Manchester United to Grimsby Town – yet!). It appears as though a certain Conservative politician has turned his hand to the beautiful game, raising some important technical questions that have surely never been considered before! Read more…
Match-Fixing: Is this football’s biggest demon going forward?
Match-fixing. It’s a word that sends chills down the back of any league of fan no matter who you support. Whilst match-fixing is one of those things you hear about once in a blue moon, everyone knows it’s still out there. We constantly question a match when a team comes back from three goals down to nick a draw; we wonder how a striker botched a goal from point-blank range. No matter what, it’s always in the back of our mind. Read more…
Chelsea link up with U.S. youth soccer for groundbreaking initiative
Many might not know it, but the U.S. soccer system is growing a pretty rapid rate. From Clint Dempsey, to Jozy Altidore and Freddy Adu, the American soccer system continues to produce some of the top talent in the world. But aside from the talent currently playing on the big stage, the U.S. system has been desperate for a global football link that could really make the youth academies something special.
On Wednesday that wish became a reality. Read more…
Leeds lose points appeal – justice has been done
This is not a Leeds-baiting article. Far from it, COS thinks it’s a damn shame what’s been allowed to happen to this football club over the past few seasons, which has resulted in a double relegation, administration, desperation, frustration and now consolidation. Fans of the club thought that it might be a case of celebration after Ken Bates & Co appealed against their fifteen point deduction made at the start of the season, but Sky Sports report they’ll will have to tough it out in the play-offs if they are to be promoted this season.
Whatever the rights and wrongs were surrounding this deduction (which were in addition to the ten points docked towards the end of last season), it would have been one thing restoring some or all of the deficit in the early part of the season but not when there’s only one match of the regular season remaining. It simply wouldn’t have been fair to the likes of Carlisle, Doncaster and Nottingham Forest, teams who are on the verge of securing promotion through that second automatic spot.
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators have therefore made the correct decision and it’s safe to assume that part of their thinking was an overturning of points would have almost certainly led to a series of counter-appeals by some or all of the teams mentioned above. The Football League will also breathe a sigh of relief that they have been found not guilty of acting unfairly towards Leeds in deducting the fifteen points.
United have a chance to now secure promotion to the Championship and will be favourites on the basis of their recent form, their huge following and perhaps the burning sense of injustice being felt at the club right now after this decision.
Crazy owner wants Mansfield Town to be Harchester United – quite...
Sometimes you just couldn’t make it up. People would look at you strangely, men in white coats would form an orderly queue to take you away, you might even wonder whether your cup of tea had been spiked with a hallucinogenic substance. However, it well and truly appears as though the owner of Mansfield Town wants to do away with the club’s name, history, heritage, you name it and instead call the club Harchester United.
The fabulous Mansfield Chad report that power-hungry John Batchelor is intent on mixing things up at Field Mill in a big way. The team currently occupy 23rd place in League Two and seem destined to drop down to the Blue Square Premier next season. However, if the ‘massive Burnley fan’ is to have his way, the club will become virtually irrecognisable from the ones that the fans know and love right now.
He told Chad: “Do we want professional football in Mansfield or not?
“Speculation as to how we could do it is rife.
“I can’t confirm or deny anything, but this can only be a positive for the club.
“Harchester is a virtual club – Mansfield as a town and club would benefit from that name.
“Fans have to accept that to have a professional club, it has to be done on a commercial basis and be profitable – Harchester is easier to promote than Mansfield. It is as simple as that.
“This would help to make Mansfield more attractive to national concerns, rather than local business. This would help me.
“I don’t mind if the fans don’t like it or call me mad. I have been called worse and I am not in this to be popular to everyone – I tried that at York and it did not work.”
It gets better. Batchelor apparently has contacts with Red Star Belgrade after working in Serbia and has mooted the idea of an Anglo-European Cup, featuring footballing giants such as Partizan Belgrade and, wait for it, Chesterfield. Should be a crowd-puller and no mistake.
He told Chad: “”It would be great to have an Anglo-European Cup in pre-season and Chesterfield would be my first choice as the other English team involved.
“There could be two semi-finals and then a final played at Mansfield.
“Why can’t we bring Europe to Field Mill. It would fill the ground.”
At least the current stadium name is safe then! Are the above ideas that of a madman or does something drastic need to be done if smaller clubs such as Mansfield are to avoid going out of business? What would you choose to re-name your team or is the mere thought of this enough to make real football fans sick?
Where’s our Gazza?
Dazza gives us his opinions on Gazza, and the current crop of ne’erdowells.
Well I have just watched England toil to a 1-0 defeat to France. It was interesting on several fronts namely Beckham’s 100th cap, the camaraderie of the French and English with Sarkosy in Buckingham Palace and most obviously Capello’s lack of bravery in naming the same old formation with the same old attitude . . .
Watching England is like watching Pimp my wheels – you have the Rio who as captain sounded like Frankensteins ineligible twin , Ashley Cole – pea brain extrodinaire with a diamond in his ear worth more than my house and let’s not forget our top player Rooney – how outstanding was he? We do not want it enough – we lack passion and we are scared to succeed.
We simply do not have the bollox or the know how at international level to achieve anything and who can blame any of them for having no pride, fight or momentum when on £100K per week is a minimum. We may have the premiership but we also have the dipshit of all FA’s who continue to allow our home game to be dominated by excellent foreign talent who increase share prices, deliver entertainment but fail hand over foot to help any of our talented kids gain the opportunities that perhaps they need . . .
Play the kids , blood them, build for 2010 afresh. Give them the freedom to play, to experiment, to make mistakes, take the long term view. Stop being the same and being left behind – we need more than ever a manager with the bollox to see this through and an FA who can stop medelling and allow young English talent to learn their trade – then and just then we may have a chance . . .
Class in permanent – bling lasts as long as it does not rust…..
Spurs manager Juande Ramos eyeing Almeria duo
Juande Ramos appears to have taken a leaf out of Rafael Benitez’s transfer books. The Tottenham Hotspur manager has been reported by Sky Sports to be eyeing the Almeria duo Alvaro Negredo and Mane.
Negredo is a highly rated centre forward while his team mate Mane is a left back with a versatility to play in midfield. Ramos needs to shore up his backline and strengthen his attack and no doubt that these two players fit the bill.
But whether Ramos would be able to lure the layers to White Hart Lane is another thing altogether. Negredo has been impressive so far in his first ever season in La Liga after being transferred from Real Madrod’s B team Castilla to Almeria in the summer and has sparked interest in a number of top European clubs. Real though do have a buy back option although the player as well as Mane has a contract with the newly promoted Spanish first division side until 2010.
But the duo may well change their minds about sticking to their contract should Juande Ramos decide to go all out for them this month. After all, playing for Spurs in the Premiership would be a better option than fighting relegation in La Liga.
Chelsea chasing Valencia’s Miguel
Chelsea were quiet in the transfer window in the summer and are relatively low profile this month too. Yet their scouts are searching throughout Europe the players that they would require to fill in certain gaps in the team for the rest of the season and one such player as identified by club manager Avram Grant is the Chelsea right back Miguel.
Sky Sports reports that Chelsea are eyeing Miguel and are inclined to sign him this month. Grant is not too sure about Portuguese international Paulo Ferreira in that position and although he has Juliano Belletti at his disposal, he would still like someone more solid..
Now that Valencia are going through an institutional crisis, Grant should be motivated to make the move. Of course the ideal player for Chelsea would be Dani Alves, whom many consider the best right back not only in La Liga but in the world, but he appears to be sticking to Sevilla at least for the rest of the season.
What do you think? Should Chelsea sign Miguel and instill more competition into the team? Would Miguel be a good signing for the Blues?
Hughes’ comments do the trick, but Arsenal’s ‘Black Arts’ prov...
From The Terraces publishes UNEDITED submissions we receive from you, the readers. It’s your chance to show us how this football blogging is done right, or to embarrass yourself and your ancestors. Simply write to: editor[at]caughtoffside[dot]com.This time, Skis gives us his views on the Blackburn-Arsenal love-in.
Well done Mr Hughes, your pre-match ramblings had the desired effect on that most idiotic of referees, Mike “Mr Burns” Riley, with the man in black allowing a number of poor Blackburn challenges to go unpunished. We then had the Blackburn opener that was so blatantly offside that only a blind man or an utter moron could miss it when standing directly in line with it – I’m assuming all linesmen must be fully sighted, so we either had a moronic ‘assistant’, or one who didn’t want to rock the Hughes boat at all. Denilson’s red card was a red card in all fairness, or a second booking at least, but even this tackle came about in light of some major provocation from the Rovers thugs in the build up – they tried to wipe out the youngster Barazite three times before Denilson took his own retribution.
But no matter, as what we saw last night from an Arsenal squad with an average age of 19¾ was absolutely astonishing. The opening 20 minutes or so was some of the best football I’ve seen in a long time, and certainly the best this season, from ANY side. One and two touch football slicing the Rovers midfield and defence open with all the incisiveness of a surgeon’s scalpel through tender flesh, the Blackburn players really were chasing shadows. And to come back again from the adversity of conceding an offside goal and then going down to 10 men on the stroke of the end of normal time showed exactly what this current breed of Arsenal youngsters are all about. The spirit throughout the club, seemingly from top to bottom, is absolutely spot on, with everybody working hard for one another. Even the allegedly wantaway Diarra gave a performance that was nothing short of sensational, and the previously ridiculed Alex Song was the best player on the pitch, marshalling the defence and providing a real attacking threat as well.
Seeing Hughes’ face contort with rage as his side were torn apart must’ve been a joy to behold for Arsenal fans up and down the country, yet he still failed to show any humility after the match, claiming that this fledgling Arsenal side had been formed using “more money than he could even dream of.” Other than the ‘old man’ of the side, the 24 year old Eduardo, none of this Arsenal side cost much more than a kids’ t-shirt from Primark. But the Crozilian showed exactly why Arsene coveted him so much with two sublime finishes out of the very top drawer, caressing the ball past Friedel instead of attempting to bust the net like a lot of English strikers would. Fantastic stuff, and he will only get better.
If Arsene can somehow keep this group of ultra-talented individuals happy, then the future is very, very bright for the Arsenal…..and the future starts here.
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