Uefa has produced its alternative to the wild scheme of FIFA – which goes completely against EU law. The UEFA proposal, which the EU has indicated it could well accept avoids the issue of the nationality of players and instead requires that clubs playing in the European competitions should include in the 25 man squad…
31/05/2008 by Tony Attwood. There’s an Arsenal web site that is currently running a yes/no question along the lines – should Arsenal sign another striker? The majority have said yes. Which is fine – except we are getting a bit overloaded. We have Adebayor – scored the same number of goals in Season 3…
Arsenal in clear as UEFA start to define its approach to debt Posted By Tony Attwood On 26/05/2008 @ 10:07 am In Uncategorized | No Comments The Daily Telegraph has reported that UEFA has held a committee meeting too look at the issue of the bankruptcy of this year’s two Euro Cup Finalisits. Unfortunately there…
The two teams in tonights cup game owe 1.5 billion pounds between them. They are the most debt laden clubs in the world – and the fact that they have made it to the final says something utterly awful about football. This is Match 39: the great dream of the English Premier League. A game…
The Daily Telegraph has reported that UEFA has held a committee meeting too look at the issue of the bankruptcy of this year’s two Euro Cup Finalisits. Unfortunately there is no mention of the committee meeting on the UEFA web site (although it might well go up in due course) but there is no doubt…
The media in Britain often represent a bandwagon – someone creates a story, and everyone else jumps on it. You can always tell the papers that have just followed the lead of others because they are the ones that run little reprints of their past stories, under headlines such as How The Times broke the…
Arsenal unaffected by EU rejection of FIFA wild ideas Posted By Tony Attwood On 28/05/2008 @ 05:18 pm In Uncategorized | 1 Comment Vladimir Spidla, European Commissioner for Employment, Social affairs and Equal opportunities has confirmed what Untold Arsenal has said for months, that the FIFA plan to limit the number of “foreign” players in…
“We were at the crossroad between the interests of clubs and national teams, and the congress of Fifa has given very clear indications of where we have to go,” said Sepp Blatter as he pushed through his infamous rule about home grown players. The crossroads is exactly where FIFA is. Its position has been undermined…
30/05/2008 by Tony Attwood. “We were at the crossroad between the interests of clubs and national teams, and the congress of Fifa has given very clear indications of where we have to go,” said Sepp Blatter as he pushed through his infamous rule about home grown players. The crossroads is exactly where FIFA is. Its…
The Arsenal Curse strikes again Posted By Tony Attwood On 28/05/2008 @ 05:39 pm In Uncategorized | 3 Comments Poor sad Flamini. He leaves Arsenal, which is bad enough in itself, and then the Arsenal Curse begins to hit – just as it did on Birmingham City FC after the attack on Eduardo. First, he…
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