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 | rferrett User Ralph Ferrett, Male, 32, Registered : March 11, 2010, 9:35 am Tracks Played : 16239 |
Anyone who follows me on Twitter, or is a friend on Facebook will know I am a big fan of Mario Balotelli. The man is box office and as a top flight neutral I can’t help loving everything about the circus that goes with Mario Balotelli.
Yesterday, in a cracking game at the Etihad, Balotelli was once again at the centre of attention, plus ça change. He has be embroiled in a stamping controversy and I thought I would have my 2 cents. Now before I start I want to make
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Well for a variety of reasons Lunchtime Legend has been gathering dust for the last few weeks so I thought it was about time I posted something here!
Plymouth Argyle
And the topic is going to be one of my familiar tropes, football democracy. On Saturday I received my membership card for the Argyle Fans Trust. Around the same time as the news was breaking that the players and staff had once again not been paid by the club.
Whilst it had started to look like the club was moving in the
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Supporting a lower league side means that as a top flight neutral you can engage without fear of reprisals mercilessly joshing your compadre’s who have “second teams” (often first teams TBH) in the top flight. I have an unusually large number of Liverpool supporting pals, which is a little odd given the geographical distance between Plymouth and Liverpool. However I am sure they all have bona fida reasons for supporting Liverpool, their milkmans sisters cat once went to Merseyside or something and it has nothing to do with Liverpool being the dominant force when we were growing
Continue reading Liverpool, Spurs and the Europa League.
It is easy when you spend a lot of watching football to become pretty cynical about it. The politics, the shady business, the cheating, the diving, the shameless exploitation of fans. A game in which Sepp Blatter is the most important single individual… I often wonder why I spend so much time watching football, reading about football, talking about football. I certainly come to question why it is referred to as “The Beautiful Game”.
The great thing about football, the reason why it is a global game, why sport the world
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So do Football and business mix? Clearly the quick answer is yes, almost all of our clubs are now run principally or exclusively as a business. Our top clubs talk in terms of “brands”, of revenue and no doubt think of us not as fans, but as paying customers. Many clubs are now floated as PLCs.
The tussle between business of football and the fans!
And when the business side of things goes wrong, as it has recently for my club Plymouth Argyle then it can be heartbreaking for fans. I’m sure we
Continue reading Football + Business = Oil + Water?
I must say I was shocked when I saw the shortlist for the Ballon d’Or this year. Not because the three players on the shortlist (Xavi, Iniesta, Messi) were not excellent players who had achieved a great deal in the last year. But because there was a glaring, glaring omission form the list.
For me the player of the year.
That omission being Wesley Sneijder of Inter Milan and Holland. The player who I felt should not only be nominated but also should have won the award. Inter Milan were *the*
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Whilst this season has seen some fantastically unpredictable football, that has surely thrilled most fans, and certainly the neutral, for me the most striking thing that has been happening this season in terms of football has been the growing financial crisis.
Whilst this has been simmering under the surface for years it really seems to be coming to the fore, firstly with Conference side Chester City being wound up and expelled from the Conference to the soap opera that has been Portsmouth FC in the Premier League.
That well known clubs may
Continue reading Football needs “socio” fan ownership.
I guess there is going to be a fair amount of hand wringing in the press about the fact that noEnglish team is in the Semi-Finals of the Champions League. In fact just glancing at my RSS feed confirms this. But you know what, I am glad, I really don’t care and in fact I think it is actually a really good thing.
Firstly I have always had a bit of an issue with this idea of the “divine right” of our “big four” to not only always qualify for the
Continue reading Why I’m glad the English Clubs are out.
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