The Pitch Invasion Podcast Episode 1

Can't wait to take a listen to this:

"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.

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.

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 [...

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.

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.

Yep. Not looking good for us.

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, the Spanish domestic league isn't just in shambles, it's shutting down indefinitely through a player strike.

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.

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.

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.

SOURCE: REPUBLICA

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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.

SOURCE: REPUBLICA

PRAJWAL OLI

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 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.

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.

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.

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?