Bedoya has left Rangers and signed with Helsingborg, a team currently in the mix for a place in
the UEFA Champions League group stage, through the rest of the Allsvenskan season, according to
Yanks Abroad. Ironically, Helsingborg's opponent in the final UCL qualifying round is Rangers'
rival, Celtic.
So threatened an unnamed SPL chairman on Wednesday.
The spark of our latest top flight conflagration is a move by the SPL's non-Old Firm teams to flex
their muscles.
They want changes to the leagues voting structure which, with an 11-1 mechanism kicking in on
certain issues, has long been seen by many as a way of allowing the Old Firm to exert a degree of
control over the rest of the clubs.
Mick McCarthy pays price for misplaced priorities - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Wolves have quite literally taken the ‘Mick' out of their own club following the sacking of
Mick McCarthy after just over five and a half years in charge. A difficult season for McCarthy
culminated in a crushing 5-1 home defeat to fierce Black Country rivals West Brom.
KATHMANDU, May 24: Koilapani Polestar, the only team from outside the Kathmandu Valley in
the history of the Martyrs Memorial A Division Football League, is hard hit by financial crunches.
Despite creating a history, the Nawalparasi-based Koilapani is having a hard time at the top-flight
league due to ever increasing expenses.
KATHMANDU, May 24: Koilapani Polestar, the only team from outside the Kathmandu Valley in
the history of the Martyrs Memorial A Division Football League, is hard hit by financial crunches.
Despite creating a history, the Nawalparasi-based Koilapani is having a hard time at the top-flight
league due to ever increasing expenses.
The downward spiral that has enveloped Rangers FC continues to get more overbearing.
After players rejected pay cuts that would have relieved the club's financial burden, team
administrators released a statement saying that they are accelerating the sale of the team. The
club is currently in "a perilous financial situation" to the point that it might not be able to
afford to play the rest of its games this season, according to the statement.
Bologna is now facing a huge financial crisis. The club has not been able to pay wages to the
players since last August. According to the Italian regulations, after three months of unpaid
salaries, the players have the right to put the club into administration.
"Peter Wilt and Tom Dunmore host the inaugural Pitch Invasion podcast, exploring soccer culture
around the world from the American Midwest. In the first show, Peter and Tom talk first to Montreal
Impact head coach Jesse Marsch about the challenges of starting a soccer club, putting together a
team from scratch, and fan culture in MLS.
How many times over the years have I commented about police cancelling football matches because
they cannot guarantee security?
Well, now it has happened in England with a friendly at Wembley being called off because of the
riots initially in London but spreading round the country.
I remember when the financial crisis spread through South East Asia back in the 1990s.
Never quite seen the attraction in Darren Bent. Old school forward, nothing more. Does a job at
fair to middling clubs. Moving to Villa for 24 million is lunacy, I thought England was in the
middle of a financial crisis?
Anyway why don't we start valuing players based on the number of followers they have on Twitter?
Here we are in the January transfer window, and we are all excited over the new stars
that will be coming to the Emirates.
There is talk of this one, and talk of that one. Yet behind all the hype in the press you have
Wenger telling us what I am afraid is going to be a very big disappointment for us all, and that is
they do not want to spend any money with this financial crisis going to only get worse.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted that disappointing results as well as the financial crisis
are two reasons why the Emirates Stadium is not enjoying a full attendance. Speaking after the 3-0
win against Bolton Wanderers on ...
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has revealed that he knows nothing about Theo Walcott's freak injury
at the end of Arsenal's 3-0 win over Bolton.
The Gunners were on course for a major celebration as skipper Robin van Persie completed a
century of goals with an impressive brace and Alex Song struck late with a clinical finish.
Singapore prides itself on being a slick, efficient country where everythng works on time and there
are no surprises. Maybe, but not in football.
Two or three years ago the National Stadium was scheduled to close while they built a glorious new
hub, Singapore as well as Malaysia and Thailand call everything a hub.
After the financial crisis of the past few years, and the looming reality that clubs will either
regulate themselves or be forced to curb their spending by UEFA, it seemed that the big spending
days of the Premier League were behind us.
The death of Bruce Winfield on Monday at the age of sixty-one marks the end of a short spell as
the co-owner of Crawley Town, but supporters of the club are paying lavish tribute to a man that
reinvented the club in the last months of his life. After several years of seemingly perpetual
financial crisis, Winfield's revolution began at the start of July.
It had been hoped that, when Halesowen Town of the Zamaretto League Premier Division entered
into administration in September of 2009 that their problems might finally be starting to come to
an end. The club exited administration after having been bought by the brothers Graham and Godfrey
Ingram (Godfrey was a former player with Luton Town, just in case the name is ringing any bells)
and the Supporters Trust, which had been boycotting thee club on account of the mismanagement of
previous owner Morrell Maison, cautiously ended the boycott of the club that had seen crowds slump
by 70% to only around the 100 mark.
Michael Bradley's first season with Roma has hit its first speed bump.
According to Italian publication Gazzetta Dello Sport, Bradley suffered a muscle strain in his
right leg and will be out for Roma's trip to Inter Milan this weekend. There is no timetable given
for his return, and the injury will be monitored in the coming days, so it is unclear how it will
affect his standing for the U.
Welcome to the Friday Crackovia Club! This week's episode focuses on the Euro
Championships and Ronaldo's newly-minted 'role' as a nationalised property of Spain. Gerard
Pique and Sergio Ramos decide to have dinner together to dispel the 'bad
blood' between them before defending their Euro 2012 title.
The financial crisis at Rangers has moved to the next stage, with the club announcing they're
serving notice of intention for entering administration over its debt. Rangers are involved in a
court case over roughly $78 million they reportedly owe in taxes. "From my early days as chairman I
saw that administration was a very real option to enable the Club to address these challenges and
make a fresh start," Rangers chairman Craig Whyte said.
 Just why are so many managers in football unemployed and out of work at the moment. Could be that
the financial crisis is effecting managers too? Or is it simply because they are bidding their
time, before going back into the big time job. This article is going to look at all these reasons
and [...
The financial crisis is affecting everyone. People are losing their jobs and some have to foreclose
their homes. As a result, there is a decline in home building making some doubt that now is now the
right time to build a home. But what if there was no financial crisis? What if you can borrow money
from the bank?
Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina claims the club blocked him from making a £20million move to
Arsenal in the summer of 2010.
Reina admits he was tempted to leave Merseyside after returning from Spain's victorious World Cup
campaign last year to find the Reds in a downward spiral.
Manager Rafa Benitez had been sacked, while director Christian Purslow was desperately seeking new
owners to replace Tom Hicks and George Gillett as the club struggled under a financial crisis.
I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting much at all from this match. However, after seeing our
players give it their all for much of the first half, I almost felt like we had a chance for the
three points. But sadly fatigue, and terrible goaltending (if it can even be called that?
Everton were only able to register a first-team squad of 18 (out of a possible 25) players. Their
financial crisis has seen them sell their best midfielder, Mikel Arteta; their starting striker,
Jermaine Beckford; and sell or loan bit-part (but experienced Premier League campaigners) Yakubu
and Yobo.
Interesting piece on the BBC about people re-evaluating Marx's theories on Capitalism
As a side-effect of the financial crisis, more and more people are starting to think Karl Marx was
right. The great 19th Century German philosopher, economist and revolutionary believed that
capitalism was radically unstable.
It's probably no coincidence that while Barcelona dominates the club football landscape and the
Spanish National Team, youth and adult, has seemingly won every trophy available to them in the
past 3 years, Â the Spanish domestic league isn't just in shambles, it's shutting down indefinitely
through a player strike.
Don't believe the hype over yesterday's strikes. The lollipop ladies and nurses didn't cause this
financial crisis so why are the government raiding their pensions? This article on New Statesman
outlines exactly why these changes to the pensions are unjustified.
Just look at the graph, the pensions outlay is decreasing as a percentage of GDP.
It is no secret that the football authorities of this land are as useful as chocolate dildos but
yesterday's announcement that the Football League were deducting 10 points from Plymouth Argyle was
further confirmation of that fact.
The penalty was an automatic one, foisted on the Pilgrims after they appointed administrators to
help them out of the financial mire.
The U.S. had long been considered a favorite to host soccer's World Cup in 2022, but they were
beaten out by the tiny Middle East nation of Qatar. FIFA revealed on Thursday that Russia was
chosen to host the tournament in 2018, and Qatar for 2022. Qatar won the final round of voting 14-8
over the United States.
