Rangers Going Bust

Rangers chairman, Alastair Johnson, announed today that his club, Rangers FC, are very close to becoming bust. This came up when they club announced half-yearly figures showing that the club owes £29m. Alastair Johnson stated that in June the clubs debts will drop to around £22m. However, he is worried that the club could go out of business if the decision over tax payments goes against them.

Footballer Dies Due To Head Injury

Huw Thatcher "lived and breathed sport"

Today it was announced that Under-15 Sunday League footballer, Huw Thatcher, was killed due to natural causes. 15 year old, Huw Thatcher was playing for Hepworth United Juniors in a game at St Giles Road in Brighouse on Sunday when the incident happened. The school student was later taken to hospital, where sadly he passed away.

Injured: Walcott, Van Persie & Fabregas

Hello readers,

As I live in the UK, today the news was released here that Arsenal's 3 top players; Robin Van Persie, Theo Walcott and captain Cesc Fabregas could all miss their 2nd Leg Champions League match against Barcelona at the Nou Camp.



Van Persie injured knee after scoring his goal against Birmingham on Sunday

 Theo Walcott is suffering a strained ankle ligament, as am I, and is expected to be out for 3 weeks; missing the match against Barcelona, and a key match against Leyton Orient tomorrow night in the FA Cup.
Robin Van Persie has injured his knee, even though it was expected to be a pulled hamstring. RVP injured himself in the League Cup defeat to Birmingham City on Sunday. He is out for 3 weeks and is definately out of Barcelona, unless a miracle happens.
Cesc Fabregas, the captain and possibly the biggest loss, is out for atleast a week - meaning he will miss the FA Cup replay against Leyton Orient and "possibly" the match against his home club, Barcelona.

If we hear any more information on these 3 big injury blows, I will report it as soon as possible. How do you think this will affect the team? Leave a comment.

Check Out This Site - True Football Manager

Hello Readers,

Today I present a new segment in which I will post, when I feel is necessary. I will post a link to a certain site, accompanied with my own comments and a screenshot of the site. The blog post is called "Check Out This Site" due to the fact I am presenting a site which I feel deserves to be mentioned.

My first site to present is one written by Vitaliy Mokosiy, from Ukraine. His site of a blog format and is written in perfect English - considering he doesn't speak English as his first language. His site is a Football Manager blog where he posts; his own story & his tips. It is called True Football Manager.

Above is a screen shot of his website, showing his post about his most recent club Boston United. He has many posts starting from 2007 all about Football Manager with the occasional joke. Vitaliy has become one of the top Football Manager bloggers and is now an official "SI Gold Affiliate".

His website/blog is http://www.truefootballmanager.com/

I have been reading his blog for almost a year now and it has encouraged me to view football in a different way and tought me a new approach to playing Football Manager. I would enjoy seeing him as a manager one day as he goes into so much depth about information we would glaze over, however he analyses everything possible and this allows him to become one of the top Football Manager bloggers.

And so, to end this post. CHECK OUT HIS SITE! Leave a comment.

Player Power - Sort It Out!

Rooney Signs New 5 Year Deal With Manchester United

For around the first 100 years of their existence professional footballers were treated much like workers in other industries. The employers held most of the cards and players received a rough deal. They had barely adequate pay, lacked influence and no real freedom of movement.

Now, football has taken a turn for the worse. Players are payed ridiculous amounts of money (Rooney recieves around £250k per week), and even this doesn't satisfy them. Firstly, they get paid loads and are expected to do what the club wants them to do, this is how football used to be, why has it changed? Simple, player power has developed. Since clubs decided to pay their Key Players outstanding amounts of money players have started to not live up to the standards expected.

In the early 1950s player wages increased to £20. This was £5 more than the regular weekly wage of a normal working class citizen. How things have changed! The players now recieve what they want, when they want... Player Power!

Players rights are now at no end. If they want, they can insist on sticking to the length of their contract being respected. We have had multi-millionaire players who prefer to sit on the bench for years and collect a fortune rather than be transferred. Others choose to see out their contract and leave to stuff their already full pockets' on anything they desire

If a player decides to break his contract and move on – to play in Europe or, in Tevez's case, to be closer to his family, the Club can do nothing other than sell the player. Some can be real reasons, homesickness. However, most of the time they are rubbish, the player just wants to earn more money.

Fans can try all they want to keep the player at the club, e.g. Cristiano Ronaldo, but in all truth the player doesn't give a toss. All he wants is to move to a bigger club, if you can get much bigger than Man Utd, and rake in the cash.

Player power has proven a big topic in the news lately, Carlos Tevez was eventually persuaded by Roberto Mancini to stay without a wage rise, but players like Rooney need to get their priorities straight. You signed a contract stick with it, and live with it!

Now I ask you, my readers, what is your view on this topic. Do you believe player power is a huge aspect of todays game? What do you think will happen next? Will players continue to ask for more wages or move? What do you think?