Sebastián Rodríguez, joven futbolista mexicano de 12 años, fue elegido por visores de la
Academia del Chelsea para probarse con el equipo londinense el próximo febrero.
Durante las visorias que hizo el cuadro inglés hace par de días en la ciudad de Monterrey, Nuevo
León, el originario de Monclova llamó la atención a la gente de los "Blues" luego de estar tres
días en un campamento organizado por el club londinense y al cual asistieron 346 niños.
By Alan Duffy
Blues Brothers...
All blessed with good footballing names, Rio, Cole and Jay Dasilva are the latest youngsters to
be snapped up by the big boys, after the Luton Town youth players were signed up by Chelsea, each
for a five-figure sum.
Well, this is unique. Luton Town announced today that Chelsea have signed three players from the
Hatters' youth academy.
According to the Luton Town website:
Brothers Rio, Cole and Jay Dasilva have signed terms with the Blues in separate transfers each
worth five figures which will in total net the Town a suitable sum.
Well, this is unique. Luton Town announced today that Chelsea have signed three players from the
Hatters' youth academy.
According to the Luton Town website:
Brothers Rio, Cole and Jay Dasilva have signed terms with the Blues in separate transfers each
worth five figures which will in total net the Town a suitable sum.
Football has a habit of re-writing history. If it isn't trotting out statistics with the prefix
"since the Premier League began", then it's defining a relatively arbitrary cut-off point of
"post-war". Despite these handy devices it has not stopped Manchester United supporters claiming
superiority over Liverpool with their 19 titles (first title won in 1908), one ahead of Liverpool's
18 (first one won in 1921).
Late October is a funny time of year. Your first or second favourite club is now in full swing
across the ocean, while your second or first favourite club is wrapping up their season with a game
steeped in frivolity and mediocrity. Toronto closes out their season against a side who was
eliminated from the post-season sometime in mid-July.
Football on the moon is a post from: Just Football
My season ticket just went up
And Blatter's on the moon.
£250 for the European Cup
and Blatter's on the moon.
My best friends had to give it up
The FA's on the moon.
Loftus Road you're charging what?
The FA's on the moon.
So it all comes down to ninety minutes. There can, at least, be little debate that this year's
Blue Square Premier play-off final is being played between the two best teams left in the
competition, following Crawley Town's testosterone-fuelled championship win but, as we pan across
the banks of empty seats at Eastlands this afternoon, it is difficult not to reflect upon the
wisdom of the decision to host the showpiece of this league here although we are talking here about
ticket prices and specifically not about the decision to play the match in Manchester and wonder
what a spectacle the match might have been had it been played in London.
AFC Wimbledon play Luton Town in the Blue Square Premier play-off final in Manchester this
afternoon and, setting aside concerns about the ticketing arrangements for a moment, there is a
definite sense of headiness in the air this morning as supporters of the two clubs head north for
the match. For both clubs, there is an obvious sense of injustice that they find themselves in this
particular division in the first place.
This match was supposed to be a foregone conclusion. Indeed, the final aggregate score
perpetuates that feeling. Truth, however, can be stranger than fiction and the supporters of
Wrexham FC can be justifiably proud of the performance of their team at Kenilworth Road this
evening. In the first leg of this Blue Square Premier play-off, Luton Town put in a display of
consumate professionalism at The Racecourse Ground as the home side froze on their big night.
Value is a relative concept, and it is all the more so in the case of sporting events. In recent
times, for example, the standard fall-back position for those that defend the increasingly
extortionate prices that many football clubs now charge for season tickets has been the size of the
waiting list for season tickets at their club.
The landscape of the lower divisions has, perhaps, changed more than we have noticed over the
last couple of decades. Twenty years ago, Luton Town were in the First Division and had been there
for some time, while Wrexham were finishing at the bottom of Division Four. Both teams were,
arguably, a little lucky.
This whole March/April home games thing is really backfiring. With the horrible weather we've been
having, don't be surprised if the pansy schedule people decide that TFC's home opener won't be
until May. Summer holidays will be brutal. Anyways, I've been sick and I know you all miss me.
Right.
The pressures of the outside world don't often often intrude into the world of
Twohundredpercent, but they have this evening and our normal service has been slightly interrupted.
Everything will be back to normal with a fresh Mungo tomorrow morning, but for tonight we're going
to leave you with a handful more non-league videos from the last couple of days.
