Last night’s friendly between Germany and France saw the latter beating one of the best teams in the world and one German team considered to be one of the best ever, only behind the great team of the early 1970s that beat England 3-1 a Wembley in April 1972. What can be drawn from this…
When comparing the size of London and Paris, there are many similarities. Both are mega cities with more than 8 million inhabitants. There are flamboyant shopping streets on both sides of the channel. The biggest disparity between the two however, is number of football clubs in the top divisions of French and English football. London…
Didier Drogba, Michael Ballack…the list could be continued and will be in the future. But what these players have in common is a successful playing career with their club sides and defeat on the international stage. Sometimes bitter defeats, sometimes truly deserved. This piece will highlight both players’ highs and lows and near misses. Ballack…
The Barcelona of this season are not that of the two previous ones, that much is certain after they have lost at Osasuna last night. Their dominance over the last couple of years was suffocating to the point where the competition lost all its excitement. Only the Clasicos delivered some spark, only albeit for the…
After the resignation of Fabio Capello as Manager of England it appears that the country has been plunged into a crisis. If one follows the live blog of the guardian, one is inclined to think to follow a live match or live debate but not the mere reactions to Capello’s decision to call it a…
It has been highlighted elsewhere on this blog that small football clubs are suffering while bigger clubs get ever richer. That process has accelerated with the arrival of pay per view television and heavy marketing of the game at the top level. Yet those small clubs struggling to make ends meet should be the focus…
The English Premier League praises itself as the best and the most competitive in the world. While it is certainly a very good and very successful league in terms of revenue and playing, the issue of competitiveness needs to be re-addressed as it appears that the English league is a rather closed shop and the…
Rarely has women’s football been touched upon here but a piece in the L’Equipe magazine about the PSG Ladies offered a good intro for the topic. The men’s team are the focus of the media since their take over by the Qatari Investment Authority in May 2011. [typography font=”Crimson Text” size=”18″ size_format=”px”]Financial Gulf [/typography] While…
Yesterday’s news that Marco Reus of Borussia M
After weeks of speculation and names being dropped, just before the year ends Antoine Kombouare has resigned and PSG will have a new manager come 2012: none other than Carlo Ancelotti formerly of Chelsea and AC Milan among others. Ever since the take over in spring 2011 by the Qatar Investment Authority and the arrival…