BREAKING NEWS: It has just emerged that all the main sport channels have banned ex-footballers from being able to be pundits during high profile football matches.

Jamie Redknapp came under fire from Liverpool manager Rafael Benetiz form saying that ‘Liverpool were missing Xabi Alonso' in the recent 2-1 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford.

GB's away being a bit busy. Last night, however, saw us over in Reading for a night out here
The reason being GB has devloped an almost OCD- like interest in music like this and a dude was playing these sort of tunes at the pub.
The dude's wife is a hippy chick. The living embodyment of stuff like this.

In the cut and thrust of professional sports, athletes, coaches and clubs must use every conceivable tool available to achieve success. With the global media coverage that football receives, media management has never been so important both on and off the pitch.

Off the pitch, clubs have glitzy interactive websites, their own print media and even their own TV stations, designed to increase revenue and manipulate their captive audiences.

Old Asia hands love a good tale that highlights the incompetence of their host country and will sagely add that 'what do you expect, only in Indonesia' or 'this is Thailand.' The moral high ground is of course a comfortable place to sit and mock others shortcomings but what happens when a mirror is shoved in front of their face?