The Bucs and Browns are a combined 1-14 this season, while across the pond Manchester United stands second and Aston Villa stands eight in the Premier League standings. I know what some people are thinking, what is the connections between the four teams. The connections is simple The Browns and Aston Villa are owned by Randy Lerner, while the Bucs and Manchester United are owned by Malcolm Glazer (pictured right). Click to continue reading...

While Michel Platini's plans for reform in European soccer may, at first glance, appear a serious threat to English soccer club Liverpool's future in European competition, the club's long-term future may be significantly brighter once the new measures are put in place.
Liverpool were one of the clubs namechecked by Platini when discussing his reforms in an interview with the Daily Telegraph newspaper, saying: "If Liverpool pay €60 million (interest) every year to the banks, it's a lot of money. Click to continue reading...

News outlets out of Tampa are reporting that Malcolm Glazer is looking for a buyer for his National Football League team. The Glazer family have owned the Tampa Bay Buccaneers since 1995, moving them into a state of the art stadium and winning the 2002 Super Bowl. Glazer completed his takeover of Manchester United in 2005. Click to continue reading...

Those of you living in America probably couldn't stop hearing about last weekend's big National Football League game in London, the third such contest in three years, in which the New England Patriots tonked Malcolm Glazer's hapless Tampa Bay Buccaneers who have cut costs to the bone this season, and we can all have a guess as to why.

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I'm always curious to see where finances are coming from because as we've seen, money drives this sport. The ownership trend is one I'd follow over player and manager nationality. An interesting statistic: Of the 20 clubs currently competing in the English Premier League, half are foreign owned. Click to continue reading...

FourFourTwo.com have released their latest football rich list in English football. Where do the Man United owners, manager and players come?
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1. Lakshmi Mittal, QPR, £18.4bn
2. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Man City, £17bn
3. Roman Abramovich, Chelsea, £7. Click to continue reading...

La lengua inquieta del inquieto escocés Sir Alex Ferguson salía a pasear por enésima vez esta semana, atacando al rival mancuriano, a la sazón el City de las petrolibras, criticando que este es un equipo pequeño con una mentalidad pequeña. Y entra dentro de la lógica criticar a los nuevos ricos desde los poderes más establecidos (y anquilosados, me atrevería a afirmar) por varias razones: la primera, una cuestión de clase, de glamour, algo discutible atendiendo al modus vivendi de un señor que curriculums a parte jamás mostró una mesura dialéctica, algo decididamente glamouroso. Click to continue reading...

Asia is accustomed to hosting teams from Europe. Every summer sees big clubs from the west heading east to play exhibition games in attempts to win new fans and conquer new markets.
The likes of Real Madrid, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Roma and Juventus have all paid visits to the world's largest continent in recent years. Click to continue reading...

The Man Utd Supporters Trust (MUST) have seized on Sir Alex's statement that there will be no more summer transfers to demand that the club's owners use the £80m generated from the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo, £25m saved on Carlos Tevez and the £3.5m for Frazier Campbell to Sunderland into slashing season ticket prices.

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After missing out on Karim Benzema, Manchester United are now targetting Newcastle striker Michael Owen. Owen is available on a free transfer, freeing up some of the Cristiano Ronaldo funds for another player or - to Malcolm Glazer's delight - to manage United's debts.

United's options are beginning to run thin, and Sir Alex Ferguson believes that he could utilize Owen perfectly as a third striker.

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Any regular followers of this blog will know that updates have been few and far between since May. As the football season has reached its dramatic climax and the transfer window has reopened, the world of work has come under an enormous and ever increasing amount of pressure from the recession.

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Previously, I opined that Florida would almost certainly get some World Cup matches, but it would most likely come down to just one host city. After doing some research, I think that Miami is an almost lock to be the site, not Tampa.
Just look at the facts. Since the 1994 World Cup (which had Orlando as a venue), Miami/Ft. Click to continue reading...

Ah, isn't buying a football club the easiest thing in the world. Look how quickly Abramovich bought Chelsea, the Glazers bought Manchester United and the Abu Dhabi group picked up City. Compared to the protracted nature of the proposed takeover of Portsmouth, even buying Newcastle United may be easier.

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The Carlos Tevez transfer wrangle has taken a fresh twist as the Argentine stopped off in Rome for an extra few days as his teammates returned to Manchester.

Tevez was the only member of the squad not to board the plane on Thursday morning and his distance from the rest of the team pours further fuel on the fire that he is set to leave Old Trafford for good.

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It's impossible to see Manchester United relegated from the Premier League...well ever, especially if Sir Alex Ferguson can deliver more success and then can pick a worthy successor to take his place once he retires. United have been so thriving so much recently, that it's difficult to imagine Ferguson letting the club's owner Malcolm Glazer in having too much of a say in who succeeds him.

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Non-league outfit take a leaf out of Radiohead's book  FC United have come up with a novel way of ensuring they don't lose fans during the current recession – they've asked them to decide their own season ticket price. This is obviously good news for anyone who was planning to sell their soul to pay for [. Click to continue reading...

Great idea from a great club! From Hoddle and Waddle on Top of the Pops to the dubious D-list appeal of Celebrity Soccer Sixes, football taking inspiration from the music industry has not always ended happily. But non-league FC United, the club born of opposition to Malcolm Glazer's takeover of Manchester . Click to continue reading...

With the prediction by Lord Triesman, head of the Football Association, that the current global economic crisis could spell a ‘terrible danger' to clubs with spiralling debt, meaning could we actually see a Premier League club go to the wall? According to Triesman the Premier League is currently in £3bn worth of debt so the [. Click to continue reading...

The number of Premier League clubs owned by Americans became four this week after Dallas-based businessman Ellis Short acquired controlling interest in Sunderland. Short now owns the largest single stake of Sunderland at more than 30 per cent, and gives him effective control of the northeast club. He joins fellow Americans Malcolm Glazer, Randy Lerner, Tom [. Click to continue reading...

A reader* wrote in with the suggestion that I post something about the U.S. government's takeover of AIG, since AIG sponsors Manchester United. I originally didn't want to because I don't really understand the whole AIG/giant economic meltdown. But Kevin Drum doesn't understand soccer and still posted on it, so I suppose I will write something. Click to continue reading...

FC United of Manchester launched in the summer of 2005 by fans of Manchester United who had grown increasingly disenchanted with affairs at the club. The hostile takeover by American Malcolm Glazer was the final straw, although it was not as much Glazer's nationality as his mortgaging the club to high heaven to complete the purchase that was the primary sticking point. Click to continue reading...

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SKY -Football rich lists: Find out the wealthiest players and owners
Sky/Simon Ward- Football's Richest Club Owners
..1: Lakshmi Mittal (Queens Park Rangers)
No-one really expected the title of wealthiest club in Britain to shift a few miles across west London – certainly not to Loftus Road, anyway. Click to continue reading...

Imagine how many hundreds of thousands of words were wasted discussing the possibility of Cristiano Ronaldo moving from Man United to Real Madrid this summer. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the word count went into the millions as the story was the biggest tease from June through August. While the episode appears to be [. Click to continue reading...

Adolf Hitler and Malcolm Glazer have a lot in common; both are small coiled springs of incomprehensible rage, and they most definitely do not respond well to disloyalty. Here then is a slice of nice internet-conjured amusement, re-subtitling ace war movie Downfall to capture the board's rising contempt for a certain Portuguese winger's capricious, money-grabbing nature:
Beware parents, this clip features some good old-fashioned family racism, as well as language that would make a sailor blush, so please exercise extreme responsibility before showing this to anyone under 5'7". Click to continue reading...

Malcolm Glazer may resemble a leprechaun but who said leprechaun's can't be stubborn and angry, as, if reports are to be believed, United's owners seem to be regarding this whole Ronaldo fiasco.

This situation gets slightly more bizarre every day, which is unlikely to be helped by speculation that Real Madrid intend to cover any fines Ronaldo will likely receive if he plays hardball with United.

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Are leveraged buy-outs bad for football? Two experts slug it out. Click to continue reading...