Facts on Football

MONEY OR FOOTBALL CUPS?

2012-02-24T22:34:00.002-08:00

the big question I ask is which is more important to win a cup and medal or to get cash?
It is not always good to win a trophy only.Let us look at Birmingham City for example, last year they defeated Arsenal in the Carling Cup final by 2 goals to 1.
But what did happen later, three months later Birmingham City was relegated and nine of the winning players were sold to generate cash for the cash strapped club.
While Arsenal are still in the E.P.L and still fourth in the table, by the way Arsenal has never been relegated.
So Arsenal have cash and playing in the Champion league and making money, Birmingham have all financial problems.

RYAN GIGGS HAS PLAYED 900 GAMES FOR MANCHESTER UNITED.

2012-02-24T08:36:00.002-08:00

Ryan Giggs the Welsh winger who has now played 900 games for Manchester United in 21 years. He joined the club in 1991 as a 17 year old boy.
And in that time he has played along with 141 team mates.Their manes had every alphabet except V and Z.
He is the only player to score a goal in each and every year he has played in the E.P.L.Yes he has lost a bit of pace as he is now 38 years old, but the great skill and trickery is very much there.
Sir Alex Ferguson says there will never ever be a player as good as Ryan Giggs again.

MONEY SPENT BY CLUBS FROM 1992 to 2011.

2012-02-23T22:28:00.002-08:00

This is the amount of money spent by the E.p.L clubs since 1992,since E.p.L. first started.
CLUB. SPENT. SOLD.
1) Chelsea. 744,440,000. 228,475,000.
2)Manchester City. 649,180,000. 166,035,000.
3)Liverpool. 552,205,000. 325,970,000.
4) Manchester United. 483,1556,000. 305,840,000.
5)Spurs. 412,050,000. 236,717,500.
6)Aston Villa. 305,190,000. 177,075,000.
7) Newcastle. 345,345,000. 245,525,000.
8)Sunderland. 223,515,,000. 126,030,000.
9) Fulham. 149,781,000. 58,095,000.
10)Wolves. 97,619,000. 165,619,000.
11)Everton. 218,245,500. 79,670.000.
12) Bolton. 130,970,000. 30,63000.
13) Stoke. 79,615,000. 30,50,000.
14)West Brom. 105,280,000. 66,167,501.
15)Queen Park Rangers. 51,547,500. 22,404,000.
16) Arsenal. 341,090,000. 319,474,000.
17)Wigan. 90,965,000. 81,942,500.
18)Swansea. 14,002,500. 6,860,000.
19)Blackburn. 195,462,000. 199,185,000.
20) Norwich. 31,770,000. 47,395,000.

ASHLEY COLE TO BE SACKED.

2012-02-23T07:36:00.002-08:00

Ashley Cole the English left back who plays his football with Chelsea. Has now been told to get out of the club owned by Roman Abramovich .
The trouble all started as Ashley Cole did not like the training tactics used by the Chelsea coach Andrea Villas Boas.And as the Russian oil tycoon had got the coach from F.C. Porto , in other words Ashley Cole was against the owner of the club. Anyway he is 31 years old and even considered as the best left back in both England and also the world.

ROBERTO MANCINI HAS CHANGE OF HEART.

2012-02-23T02:02:00.002-08:00

The Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini seems to have big change of heart.
He had declared after Manchester City lost to Bayern Munich in the champion league , that Carlos Tevez was well and truly finished at Manchester City and would never ever play a single game under him.
But now it appears after Carlos Tevez did publicly say sorry . Now Roberto Mancini says that Carlos Tevez will play for City , within a period of three weeks time.
It looks more likely Carlos Tevez will only be allowed to play, with the idea of selling him in the summer to the highest bidder.
Roberto Mancini has let himself down he should have kept his word or sold him last summer.

THE GLAZERS DEBT AT MANCHESTER UNITED IS 500.MILLION POUNDS.

2012-02-22T07:56:00.003-08:00

The debt of Manchester United under the Glazer family, who took over the proud club has now reached 500 million pounds, or you can say half a Billion pounds, that is scary indeed. With the Financial Fair Play coming into force soon.
Mind you the Glazers took over Manchester united in 2005 and it has reached this huge figure in seven years. They have even taken club money to pay back some of their debt.
Something unthinkable at Arsenal.

HE HAS SCORED THE MOST OWN GOALS.

2012-02-22T06:05:00.002-08:00

In the F.A Cup between Liverpool and Brighton, whivh Liverpool won with own goals scored by Brighton.
But in January 1995 , saw a strange record made that day.
The defender for the Belgian club Germinal Ekerson , named Stan Van dan Brijus scored all the three own goals to let Andrelecht win the match 3-2.
Today all is settled with he club , as Stan Van dan Brijus is the clubs chief scout now.

IF ARSENAL SACK ARSENE WENGER, WHO WILL THEY GET.?

2012-02-21T05:18:00.006-08:00

Many Arsenal fans are calling for the sacking of Arsene Wenger, but they forget that Arsene Wenger has brought Arsenal to the top four in the E.P.L. they once stood seventeenth in the table. And he has had had lot of injury problems with many players laid of for the entire season as well.
But my big question is who will replace Arsene Wenger? Will it be Alan Curbishly, Ian Warnock , Steve Bruce or sam Allardyce.
As Emmanuel Petit, the former Arsenal player said. Sack Wenger and Arsenal will regret it for ever George Graham the former Arsenal player and manager , can talk a lot now.But players in his time were brought for a few hundred thousand pounds , today below a few million pounds you get average players only .The good ones will cost 40 million pounds each, so what is a kitty of 55 million pounds to spend today?
By the way Wenger got Arsenal the new Emirate stadium, how many clubs have got a stadium today? Liverpool and Everton can not even have money to share a stadium.Arsenal have to pay back the loan taken on the stadium as well.

SHOULD WENGER BE SACKED?

2012-02-20T22:03:00.005-08:00

All the Arsenal fans want Arsene Wenger to leave the club, but that would be the biggest mistake ever.Yea trophies are not been won for 7 years, so what.Let us see how the club is in financial position and if fans are united.Look at the mighty Glasgow Rngers, they have won 54 trophies in all the most by any football club in the world. But today they are bankrupt, and under a administration today.
While Manchester City , Manchester United and Chelsea will not be able to balance their books by 2014, as Financial Fair Play comes into affect, then their wheels will come of and these clubs in the red will be forced to sell their players cheap. Arsene wenger will then have the last laugh as he can afford to buy players.
Wenger says he must make a yearly profitit yearly? He will be in debt again next year 15 to 20 million pounds. Has Roberto Mancini intends to make any yearly profit?
He will be in another record debt, last year it was 195 million pounds.Previous year it was 121 million pounds.
Arsenal have been in the Champion league for 15 years in a row, Tottenham Hotspur appeared once after ages , but they to lost verses Real Madrid by a 4-0 score.
Liverpool have spent 110 million pounds , are they in the top four of the E.P.L.
Memory is short, early in the season Arsenal was 17 in the E.P.L.Mind you injury has played a big part in Arsenal results Wilshire has not even kicked the ball as yet.
Wenger did not buy a player in the january window as most are not good and most are got on loans, the best players are free in summer window.
So leave Arsene Wenger alone, will you.

FERGUSON FAILED TO BUY HART FOR100,000 POUNDS.

2012-02-20T08:13:00.000-08:00

Sir Alex Ferguson admitted that he made a mistake in the year 2006 , when he failed to buy goalkeeper Joe Hart from the second division football club, for 100,000 pounds only.But at that time Manchester United and Sir Alex Ferguson had the famous Dutch goalkeeper, Edwin Van der Sar in 2006.
Ferguson said we all make mistakes in our lives, do we not.
Manchester City then paid 600,000 pounds for Joe Hart.
Joe Hart is serving Manchester City and England well, and as he is young he can serve them for 15 or 20 years easily.

2012-02-20T08:12:00.001-08:00

YOU CAN NOT COMPARE THE 1994 ARSENAL TO TODAYS ARSENAL.

2012-02-17T05:38:00.000-08:00

You just can not compare the 1994 INVINCIBLE S to today's Arsenal team. Here are the two teams . The old one had strength in the back as well as in the midfield .
The INVINCIBLE S.
1) Jens Lehman.
2)Lauren.
3) Kolo Toure.
4)Sol Campbell.
5)Ashley Cole.
6)Gilberto Dsilva.
7)Robert Pires.
8) Freddie Lunjberg.
9) Patrick Vieira.
10)Dennis Bergkamp.
11) Theirry Henry.
Todays Arsenal Team.
1)Szeczensy.
2)Bacry Sagma.
3)Koscielny.
4)Thomas Vermalen.
5)Andrea Santos.
6)Jack Wilshere.
7)Alexander Song.
8)Aaron Ramsey.
9)Theo walcott.
10) Gervinho.
11) Robin Van Persie.

RICH CLUB MALAGA WANT ROBERT GREEN.

2012-02-16T22:55:00.000-08:00

Rich Spanish club Malaga who are funded by cash bags The Qatari foundation ,and have Manuel Pelegrenni as their coach . Are now keen to get the former English goalkeeper Robert Green, who plays his club football with West Ham United, he joined West Ham United back in the year 2006.He also played for England one world cup match in 2010 in South Africa . He is remembered for not able to control the ball and the bounce that then went into the net.It was a real howler.And he is now 32 years old, and there is no progress with his new contract, as West Ham United want to see where they will end up, at the end of the season.Before offering a new contract to him.

RANGERS ACCOUNTS ARE 24 MILLION POUNDS UNACCOUNTED.

2012-02-16T22:14:00.000-08:00

The Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers, who are now under administrator. Mr white house , has now come forward to reveal that a shocking amount of 24 million pounds is now unaccounted with the Rangers accounts.
so the whole thing is getting more murkier by the day.
And the previous owner Mr Murray says he has no idea about the 24 million pounds , that are now reported as accounted. The very big fear now is are thee more money that has not been declared in the accounts.
Mr Milan Mandric has now come forward to say he is very keen to buy the Scottish club Glasgow Rangers.

LUIS NANI AND DANNY WELBECK FORGET THEIR PASSPORTS.

2012-02-16T06:09:00.000-08:00

The two Manchester United players Luis Nani and Danny Welbeck , had both forgotten to take their passports to the airport. As the Manchester United club had been knocked out of the Champion League and were now flying to Holland, to play Dutch giants Ajax at Amsterdam. To play Ajax in the Europa League instead.
I would very much like to know if Luis Nani and Danny Welbeck would forget to take their passports , if they were playing in in the Champion League quarter finals .
After all a passport is a very important document , and one should carry it with them to the airport.

10 TOP ARSENAL GOAL SCORERS.

2012-02-15T05:55:00.000-08:00

Robin Van Persie became the tenth top Arsenal goal scorer. He has now overtaken Dennis Bergkamp. Dennis Bergkamp had scored 121 goals in 424 games. While Robin Van Persie has scored 123 goals in 264 games..
NAME. GOALS.
!) Theirry Henry. 227.
2) Ian Wright. 185.
3) Cliff Bastin. 178.
4)John Radford. 149.
5)Ted Drake. 139.
6)Jimmy Brain. 139.
7)Douglas Lishman 137.
8) Joe Hulme. 125.
9)David Jack. 124.
10) Robin Van Persie. 123.

THE JANUARY 2012 TRANSFER WINDOW FELL BY 70%

2012-02-14T07:25:00.003-08:00

the 2012 January transfer window saw a a sharp fall in sale, it fell 70 percent compared to last January. This ear clubs tightened their belts falling in line to FINANCIAL FAIR PLAY RULES.
This window saw a lot of loans instead, either for a year or for six months.

WHO IS THE NEXT PERSON TO DIE?

2012-02-14T05:35:00.001-08:00

For every time Aaron Ramsey the Welsh footballer, scores a goal for Arsenal some famous figure dies soon. Is it a coincidence or a jinx ?
1) Aaron Ramsey scored a goal on 1/5/2011, verses Manchester United.Then Osman Bin Laden, died on 2/5/2011.
2) Aaron Ramsey scored a goal on 2/10/2011, verses Tottenham Hotspurs. Steve Jobs died on 5/10/2011.
3) Aaron Ramsey scored a goal on 19/10/2011, verses Marseilles. Mam mar Gaddafi died on 20/10.2011.
4) Aaron Ramsey scored a goal verses Sunderland on 11/2/2012.Whitney Houston died on 11/2/2012.
It is alright now as he does not score many goals, but if he scores more goals it will be a scary place to be in. Many leader will live in feqar.

GLASGOW RANGERS APPLY TO BE UNDER ADMINISTRATION.

2012-02-13T07:45:00.006-08:00

The Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers, have now gone under administration . This will mean they will have ten points deducted straight away, and they will now be 14 , fourteen points behind their arch rival Celtic.
Their huge debt was a matter of concern.So it was a dark and gloomy day at the Ibrox stadium.A dark day in the big clubs glorious history. As they are the club with the most trophies a total of 54 in all. Their clashes with Celtic are well remembered , just like Real Madrid verses Barcelona or Manchester United verses Arsenal. Or the Milan clashes.
Fourteen points are a lot and could even mean relegation.

WHO WILL SUCCEED HARRY REDKNAPP?

2012-02-13T06:29:00.000-08:00

The big question on everybody's mind now is who will be the next coach of the English team, now that Fabio Capello has resigned from the job.
The person who is in the news to take over the job at Tottenham Hotspurs is the former German footballer Jugen Klinsmen . Jurgen Klinsmen has married a American lady and was living in California U.S.A.And at present he is the coach of the U.S. team.

A LOT OF NOISE OVER SUAREZ AND EVRA.

2012-02-13T06:13:00.000-08:00

There was a lot of noise over Luis Suarez failing to shake the hand of Patrice Evra, Suarez was back after serving a eight match ban for racial abusing Patrice Evra.
First of all Liverpool should not have forced Suarez to shake Evra hand, such a hand shake would be meaningless anyway.
Here the root of the trouble is these footballers are paid far to high in weekly salaries, they have become more or less trouble makers like drunk driving ,sex assault, gambling, drinking and so on .They think no end of themselves.
Let us compare these players? Luis Suarez and Patrice Evra,Luis Suarez is a big hero in his country Uruguay, even though he has had problems with most of his clubs, While in Ajax he bit a player, now at Liverpool this racial problem.I the 2010 world cup, he prevented Ghana from scoring a goal by using his hands.
Patrice Evra is no hero in France for sure, he lead a revolt against the French coach in the 2010 world cup, over expelling Anelka.

2012 AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS FINAL.

2012-02-13T01:58:00.000-08:00

The 2012 African Cup Of Nations was a good one ,with some youngsters and underdogs giving us a big surprise. The biggest shock of the tournament was the final itself.
The final was played between Zambia , the underdogs and Ivory Coast.
The Ivory Coast were the hot favorites to win the cup. But Zambia called the Copper Bullets, gave Ivory Coast, called the Elephants the shock of their lives.
The much experienced Elephant players with huge stars like Dider Drogba, Kolo Toure and yaya Toure, Emmanuel Eboue with E.P.L experience should have won it with ease.
But Drogba missed a penalty in the 69 th minute. And after the match ended 0-0 after extra time. During the penalty shoot out Zambia won 8-7. With Gervinho blasting the ball wide, and Kolo Toure having his penalty saved.

EUROPEAN CLUB EARNINGS FOR 2010.

2012-02-10T21:57:00.000-08:00

European club earnings according to Deloitte for 2010-2011. It is made entirely from Broadcasting money, Match day earning and commercial revenue. please note the money for buying and of selling a player is not included.
CLUB. 2010/11 . 2009/10.
1) Real Madrid. 479.5. 438.6.
2) Barcelona. 450.7. 438.1.
3) Manchester United. 367.0 349.8.
4)Bayern Munich. 321.4. 322.
5) Arsenal. 251.1. 274.1.
6)Chelsea. 249.8. 255.9.
7) A.C. Milan 235.1. 244.
8) Inter Milan. 211.4. 224.8.
9)Liverpool. 202.3. 225.3.
10)Schalke. 202.4. 1139.8.
11)Tottenham Hotspur. 181.0. 146.3.
12)Manchester City. 169.6. 152.8
13)Juventus. 153.9. 205.
14) Marseille. 150.4. 141.1.
15) A.S.Roma. 143.5. 122.7.
Please note currency is in MILLION EUROS ONLY.

THE ENGLISH F.A . ARE PLAIN HYPO CRATES.

2012-02-09T22:56:00.000-08:00

The English F.A are plain shameless Hippocrates.They sacked their captain John Terry from the job of captain of England, but the England coach Fabio Capello then resigned.
The English F.A , then appointed Stuart Pearce as acting captain for the friendly match between England and Holland on 29/2/2012.
But 14, fourteen years ago Stuart Pearce was accused of racial abusing Paul Ince, back in 1994 in a match verses Nottingham Forest.
The press has now dug up this old story, and the F.A. better act fairly with both John Terry and Fabio Capello.
Mind you John Terry trial has not yet started so it is wrong to remove his armband.

IFABIO CAPELLO IS WANTED BY CHELSEA.

2012-02-09T22:41:00.000-08:00

It is reported in THE SUN that Chelsea are keen to get Fabio Capello as their new coach.The result at Manchester United did not help either.And Chelsea billionaire owner is loosing patience with him.And as Fabio capello is a free coach now , I would not be surprised if Andrea Villas Boas is sacked. After all Chelsea have sacked eight coaches in eight years.And most of Chelsea loses have come from paying coaches their compensation, and paying clubs compensation as well.
But with the aging Chelsea players and a misfiring striker Andrea Villas Boas inherited a old team , who may loose their place in the Champion League next year.