Moving away from the distraction of David Moyes replacing Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, three weeks ago, I noted:
The cup finals in England, Spain and Italy this season all involve two clubs from the same city/metropolitan area – all Madrid final in Spain, all Rome final in Italy and all Greater Manchester final in England.
Double checked, and Wigan is part of the Greater Manchester metropolitan county, but not part of the Greater Manchester urban area.
A summary of the voting at the FIFA Congress:
Blatter has been cleared by the Ethics Committee.
Bin Hammam not only withdraws his candidacy, but he has been suspended by the Ethics Committee. Jack Warner is also suspended.
Blatter is now unopposed.
UEFA adopted financial fair play rules last May. As reported at that time in the Guardian:
“Uefa has approved plans to force clubs in European competition to spend only what they earn. The financial fair play rules will require clubs to break even over a rolling three-year period if they want to play in the Champions League or Europa League.”
There are several levels to the identity of a football club:
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This year marks 125 years since the Football Association “legalized” professionalism in football.
A collation of my responses to comments on David Bond’s article entitled “Key Period In Battle For Man Utd” concerning the Red Knights’ plan to buy Manchester United from the Glazers.
Following on from here and here, I did the following computation based on the information here (assuming every club plays once a week, or each round of matches is played in the same week):
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