By Alan Duffy

Liverpool big cheese Ian Ayre has set the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons by stating that the bigger Premier League clubs should be able to negotiate their own overseas TV deals.

Currently, all 20 top tier clubs share the overseas revenues, but according to Ayre, the bigger clubs deserve a larger slice of the pie.

Through the miracle of Blogger scheduling at the time this post is published I will be out campaigning for the Labour Party. I do not claim to be Mr Socialism, I am not out every night, I don't know the words to The Internationale, I've only been a member for 18 months...one thing I do know is that I am absolutely loving it.

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.

Shakespeare was wrong:
There is nothing rotten in the state of Denmark.
At least that is my impression from traveling around the country at the UEFA U21 Championship these past two weeks.
Half-way between Germany and Sweden both geographically and culturally, close enough to London and the continent, yet far enough away to dance to its own Viking beat, this seems as close as it gets to a model country.

"Carlo [Ancelotti] gave me a magnificent bottle of wine. But I immediately told him there is no point in giving such a wonderful gift if he then fails in the final. In fact, I told him I would only drink his wine once I see him lifting the Champions Cup." —Alex Ferguson, ahead of 2005's Champions League final

Those who follow Liverpool are hardly a monolithic block.

NFL v Premier League: Socialism v Capitalism in sport format is a post from: Just Football

by Roger Domeneghetti

Whisper it (just so you don't upset Sarah Palin and her Tea Party chums) but there's a small corner of good ol' America that's looks a bit, well; socialist and that would be the NFL.

The Leipziger Derby
We're acquiring a bit of a thirst for local derbies here at European Football Weekends. Following the rabid success of the Spakenburg derby, we're heading off to Germany in a couple of weeks to see Hertha Berlin take on FC Union Berlin before heading down for the big one in Leipzig: Lokomotive Leipzig v Sachsen Leipzig.