The big scandal in France these past weeks has been the erupting racism scandal in the French Soccer Federation. A paid online journal has in a seemingly ambitious and thorough report has revealed of a sanctioned and flagrantly racist future model in the French national soccer team. Academies, those who built the whole of French…
Maybe it’s just me who can not keep up with our time. The focus of this week in Europe has indeed been the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid. The media however seems to be focusing on the wrong things. In my soccer world, I would think that when two really great teams, two arch…
While waiting for the upcoming match between Schalke and Manchester United, I thought to share this interesting list of the top 100 highest paid soccer players in Europe. All this information was compiled by the Portuguese magazine football finance so credit goes out them. The player on top of the list is a Portuguese to,…
You’ve probably heard about Brian Reader book about Liverpool’s American ex-owner’s time in the club. Now the Daily Mirror began publishing excerpts from “An Epic Swindle – 44 Months With a Pair of Cowboys”, and the story is good enough for a wider audience. When George Gillett and Tom Hicks had just taken over LFC,…
“Nothing we can punish him for” Manchester United’s fans demanded that Kenny Dalglish, just like Wayne Rooney, would be suspended after using profanity during the match between Arsenal and Liverpool. Now news from the English Football Association (FA) presents that the Liverpool manager is freed. – Aside from the FA’s point of view, this is…
King Kenny dosen’ take shit from anyone, even Arsene Wenger. As Mr.Wenger seems to get more cranky for each season, Kenny had enough and told him to “piss off”. Now the question is if FA will suspend Kenny for his choice of language as they did with the Rooney incident. FA has truly shot themselves…
EPSN is a great sports channel, and me being from Europe I can tell that the European sports channels have a lot to learn from ESPN in how to entertain your viewers. However ESPN have one big problem and that is that nobody seems to know shit about soccer. There presentation is beautiful but they…