Webster’s left Hearts for Wigan in May 2006, having spent three years of a four-year contract with Hearts. He was the first player to use article 17 of Fifa’s transfer regulations. Fifa awarded Hearts £625,000 but the Hearts wanted £4.6m and challenged Fifa’s at CAS. The court said compensation was £150,000, which was the value…
The forthcoming European league will not, as the press have supposed, come out of the European Champions League, but will be a reserve team league for clubs like Arsenal who have a second string that is far too strong to play in the national reserve league, and are looking for matches. Arsenal famously use the…
Could Chelsea go bust under Abramovich? Chelsea’s losses under Abramovich 2003-4 £88 million 2004-5 £140 million 2005-6 £80 million Total loss on 2005/6 transfers – £100 million Top salary – Peter Keynon, £5.2 million Future promises: Player salaries will account for under 55% of turnover Club will break even by 2009-10 On this basis –…
Police investigating the activities of Tottenham Hotspur supporters guilty of homophobic and racist chanting at Portsmouth have finally, after months of pressure from this and other blog sites, released pictures of 16 suspects today. That the event took place on 28 September and that only 16 of the hundreds – perhaps thousands – who joined…
Paranoia is the stuff of jokes, but for those who suffer from it, it is a totally debilitating condition. This past weekend the Ince character said in every newspaper that would give him space that “people are out to get Keane and me.” I would have thought most people couldn’t give a toss about either…
Football is about to change forever. If you doubt that, look at this piece from the Guardian which appeared on its web site on December 14 BRUSSELS, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Football’s governing bodies have learned nothing in the 10 years since the Bosman ruling, according to two of the game’s leading representative bodies. The…
The time wasting at the end of the game at Cardiff, with the home side holding on for a draw, rather than going for a place in the next round, sums it all up really. If Cardiff do get into the EPL they will fit there perfectly alongside clubs like Bolton, Blackburn, Fulham, WBA, and…
The image of the band playing on the Titanic while the iceberg joined in with the percussion is so hackneyed that I always try and avoid it, but after half an hour of sitting here I can’t find anything better to describe the news swirling around football. While most of the media focusses on the…
Tomorrow or the next day it will be known. 25 hours ago (that is around 7am UK time on Monday) I made my wholesome and exciting prediction that a certain Russian was on his way to us. At that moment virtually no one else was running the story, so I felt rather good (or rather…
I started this blog as an experiment just around a year ago. The experiment being to see if anyone was interested in following a different sort of approach to commenting on Arsenal – one that backed Wenger, covered issues that others didn’t bother about too much, including the financial background, and which maybe included a…
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