Arsenal have been negotiating a new contract with Theo Walcott for over a year and it looks like there is still no solution in sight. Walcott made a statement recently saying that the delay had nothing to do with money and he just wanted Arsene Wenger to give him a place as an out-and-out striker in the Arsenal team.
Football has been slowly dying for several years now, the sporting element to the game continues to
diminish and is replaced by the ugly face of rampant selfish greed. The inequality in terms of
money and the domination of the elite few is not only resulting in the league becoming less
competitive year on year, but it is also resulting in human nature's worst side being exposed in
the form
Football has been slowly dying for several years now, the sporting element to the game continues to
diminish and is replaced by the ugly face of rampant selfish greed. The inequality in terms of
money and the domination of the elite few is not only resulting in the league becoming less
competitive year on year, but it is also resulting in human nature's worst side being exposed in
the form of
"I really believe if you are a player who thinks only about money then you could end up
at Manchester City," said Clichy. "You have to think if you want to play for a big club
and have your image or if you want to play for a good club and earn big money. When you ask someone
to move for something like £300,000 a week it is just crazy.
I hate football. Whether it's the self-serving avarice of pampered primadonna players; the
shameless, corrupt greed of the porcine pilferers at FIFA, or the ignorant, enabling,'groupthink'
mentality of the 'fans', football is moral and ethical sewer, and has been for years. Every once in
while though, something happens that gives me a tiny sliver of hope that the game can still be
saved, and today, that hope comes in the form Sporting Gijon's Javi Poves.
Post London 2012, far too much has been written about the great Olympic spirit on show and how
it shows up the greed and downright common behaviour of the Premier League's football players. This
lazy comparison spewed out by writers who, more than likely, won't cover (or even feign interest
in) another rowing or taekwando event for another four years, totally missed the point about the
tribal (and bloody popular) nature of football in comparison to the totally different Olympic
atmosphere and its plethora of minority sports.
[I] know what you're already thinking. That I'm going to argue something entirely inarguable.
That in between skimming the dressing room copies of Nuts and Zoo the average Premier League
footballer is more likely to clutch a well thumbed copy of Ayn Rand's hymn to self interest,
‘Atlas Shrugged' than the collected writings of Tony Crosland.
Fernando Torres has slammed critics constantly rip apart his patchy form for Chelsea by
insisting that a European and World Cup winner deserves more respect.
Torres, who moved to the Blues at the beginning of the calendar year, has since scored only
three times in 25 appearances a statistic that has been received particularly well at former club
Liverpool.
"Greed is good." -- Gordon Gekko.Sure it was the international break, but some big news (more of a
talking point) came down this week when Liverpool Managing Director Ian Ayre made comments about
blowing up the structure of how the Premier League's international television revenue is shared and
distributed.
The greed of Liverpool Football Club is astounding given the fact they want to sell their own
overseas TV rights and in the process kill of half of the Premier League.
They, well their managing director Ian Ayre, wants to adopt the Spanish model, where individual
clubs have the freedom to negotiate their own packages based upon their global popularity.
Manchester City's Carlos Tevez is persona non grata in the Premier League at the moment after he
allegedly refused to come on as a substitute during a recent Champions League match.
Hypothetically, if Tevez was made available to Liverpool, would you take him? In a game
characterised by greed, corruption and naked self-interest, it's amusing to see players and
managers hypocritically foaming at
Why I'm not rejoicing over Premier League TV ruling
I am not a fan of some of the things the Premier League stands for and I understand the
accusations of greed that are often levelled against it but I cannot quite bring myself to join in
the rejoicing over its defeat by a Portsmouth pub landlady yesterday.
If you make it until the end of this piece and you think that "well, this may be the case but
some of it is brought on by the way we handle ourselves", I wouldn't say you're wrong completely.
Yet, it feels like everyone is against us. Of course many of those stems from the weekend
defeat.
The time has finally come for Scottish football to greet the future.
What should happen when the Scottish Football League clubs meet at Hampden today?
Problems and issues should be fully discussed. Threats made by other bodies should be retracted.
Fears over the sustainability of the current incarnation of the newco Rangers should be allayed.
But that's all it took for creditors to reject a CVA proposal and condemn Rangers to
liquidation.
Before those nine minutes: months of uncertainty and years of greed, lies, broken promises and
charlatans running a historic football club into the ground.
Transfer Delays and Greed – By JG Maybe Arsenal fans want or don't care if they have to suffer
another "Nasri" situation again; because some really don't seem to mind very much whether the
player who is brought in has integrity, respect and admires the tradition and style of Arsenal FC.
I'm not sure about [.
What ho Arsenal fans? After two weeks of wandering in the interlull desert, with only the horse
flies that feast upon our vapid flesh for company, a light twinkles on the horizon. Norwich be thy
name! I can almost feel that 9am train beer (is there a better kind of beer?) slinking seductively
down my gullet and slaking the thirst.
Well with First Kick over the weekend the Major League Soccer season though we'll have to wait
for our season opener as we've still got #BeatSantos Fever, don't forget the viewing party and
scarf party on Wednesday.
Rumors had been flying since Friday evening's Stars win against Montreal that Minnesota were
looking to bolster their roster with another player. Speculation was that it would most likely be
someone who could help in the midfield and would probably be a loan player from a Major League
Soccer team.
Rumors had been flying since Friday evening's Stars win against Montreal that Minnesota were
looking to bolster their roster with another player. Speculation was that it would most likely be
someone who could help in the midfield and would probably be a loan player from a Major League
Soccer team.
James Coston's recent Hat Trick and QOTD got me back in the mood to do another one myself. After
all, my last one came in late January so it's about time. The 3 topics I picked today are all good
talking points, and 2 of the topics certainly have ramifications in terms of the Chicago Fire. As
always, the customary QOTD will appear after the break, along with the rest of the hat trick.
The question of how to divide international television rights and just what's fair is, at the
end of the day, hugely complex. It touches on dozens of other issues that effect league parity and
directly mirrors a much older debate about the sharing of gate revenue. There's greed and
self-preservation behind every corner, and it's all set against the backdrop of a thoroughly broken
system that nobody seems especially interested in fixing in any meaningful way.
Adding 8 more teams/cities to the NFL would amount to a total of 40 teams, from 32. The eight
divisions would have 5 teams each, instead of 4. The question is, what cities (metro areas) should
new franchises be awarded to?
In the summer of 2012, sometime between Italy's 4-0 loss to Spain in the final of the European
Championship and the start of Juventus' preseason friendlies, Andrea Pirlo retreated from the
putrid society of man. He rose above the murders and deceit, the wars and corruption. He sacrificed
all of his worldly possessions and took up residence in a fortified bunker high up in the Alps with
just his axe, his wits and his beard for comfort.
It's not often that your non-soccer friends offer up astonishing soccer reading advice, but just a
few weeks ago, that happened to me. "Graham" Cory said as we sat on his couch watching an old show,
"I have a book you need to read. It was the first book to make me understand why people all over
the world love and enjoy soccer.
UEFA Champions League Semi-Final (First Leg)
Bayern Munich vs Real Madrid : 20.45CET
Nothing screams "BLOCKBUSTER" more than the Champions League
semi-final showdown between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. There
have been a handful of Bayern-Real playoffs in the last decade, but tonight's
edition will be exceptionally gripping because both sides are simply
desperate for the win.
One of the ploys David Stern has liked to use during the NBA lockout is blaming the agents.
Stern knows that nobody likes agent. If the NBA commissioner blames the agents, the public won't
have any problem with that. It's a smart idea.
"By some combination of mendacity and greed," explains Stern, "the agents who are looking out
for themselves rather than their clients are trying to scuttle the deal.
Nearly three months since the Bulls beat down Toronto at the Cathedral, but it seems like three
years ago. Despite winning two from their last three league matches, few supporters can be accused
of hubris as we begin the month that will determine whether or not the year's a success or a
humiliating failure.
Glory, Goals & Greed: Twenty Years of the Premier LeagueBy Joe Lovejoy Published by Mainstream,
August 2011£11.99 (Paperback)ISBN: 978-1845-96768-0 Our latest book review comes by way of Phil
Ascough, a regular contributor to TTU and author of Kissing the Badge, reviewed in these pages last
month.
Kenny Dalglish is undoubtedly transforming the fortunes of the team on the pitch at the moment, but
he wouldn't be able to do that without an effective management structure behind the scenes. FSG's
priorities are perfectly aligned with the way things should be done at Liverpool, which is why the
future is most definitely bright.
The road has been a long one, but with an absolutely fantastic Women's World Cup coming to a
close there has never been more at stake for the United States and Japan. But perhaps more
importantly, there has never been such potential for the growth (or revival or whatever you want to
call it) of women's football.
This is the twelfth and final post in a weekly series highlighting Italy's 4 World Cup wins from
qualifications to the finals.
Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of Italy's fourth World Cup win. And even if the events off
the pitch seem to still have a stranglehold on Italian football, I will always remember that day
when talent triumphed over greed, football over corruption.
