If you've heard of that name already then you don't really need to read this column. If you haven't heard of that name and you are a soccer then you do need to read this column. Brian Glanville is the greatest sports journalist in the English-Speaking world. I have never read a better writer on any sport then Brian's writing on soccer. Click to continue reading...

Well, on one level, it at least gives us a chance to look at this rather nauseating picture again.

Mmm. Badge.

I suppose it also signifies that Arsene, and the Arsenal hierarchy, are serious about wanting to keep him at the club, and that they're willing to improve his wages to achieve this. Click to continue reading...

So, Mark Clattenburg is a narcissist as well as antisocial.
We had already gathered as much.

Watching Arsenal versus Real Madrid in the Emirates Trophy, something felt not-quite-right.
Something was missing from Clattenburg's officiating.
Then he gave Arsenal one of his more generous penalties and we suddenly realised. Click to continue reading...

For the many things that British football has exported across the world - naked greed, hooliganism, you know the sort of thing - but some of them, just some of them, have been worthwhile. The league system is an British invention, as is international football. One of the less celebrated exports, however comes in the [. Click to continue reading...

In a summer when clubs and players have acted fairly appallingly to engineer transfers I find it rather heart-warming that we have a manager who not only doesn't engage in the same kind of tactics but who is brave enough to speak out against it.

I know that after three years without a trophy and almost over a week without making a signing himself Arsene has his critics amongst Arsenal fans but to man Arsenal fans should be right behind him when he says that big clubs need to act better.

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There was an interesting interview with Chairman Peter Hill-Wood on the official site yesterday. Most of it was run of the mill stuff, about how the board are patient but not complacent, and it ties in with what Danny Fiszman said a few days previously - that it's time to bring some silverware to the new stadium.

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What happens to footballers when they arrive at Stamford Bridge? They go from being nice sensible lads who have kept their heads down throughout their career and let their football do the talking to snarling millionaires who appear to live by the eighties ethos of 'greed being good'. Frank Lampard is . Click to continue reading...

Money, Greed and WAGs. If there was ever a motto that most EPL players live by today, this would no doubt be the one. In a world where players constantly jockey for more money in a business built on who's making more per week, the EPL summer transfer window has turned into a free-for-all where even [. Click to continue reading...

Money, Greed and WAGs. If there was ever a motto that most EPL players live by today, this would no doubt be the one. In a world where players constantly jockey for more money in a business built on who's making more per week, the EPL summer transfer window has turned into a free-for-all where even [. Click to continue reading...

Loyalty.

That's a word that many footballers in this day and age don't have in their vocabulary. In recent times we've seen it at first hand at our own club Arsenal.

Over the summer two of our best players have shown that money is the be-all and end-all with them. Adebayor and Hleb should hang their heads in shame at their disgusting attempts to quit Arsenal to satisfy their greedy needs. Click to continue reading...

The eternal greed machine that is league soccer just outdid itself. The present over-correction in the market which reversed club domination over players now leads players to opt out of multi- year contracts and hold out for more money. Arsene Wenger believes that the present course is out of control reminiscent of a Wild West mentality.

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Greed forces owners to finally start work Liverpool have received permission to proceed with their Stanley Park construction. The new £350m stadium can originally house 60,000 fans, although it could be further expanded to house 73,000 if further planning permission is granted. The stadium is scheduled to open in August 2011 and will feature an 18,500-seat single [. Click to continue reading...

The first three days of the European Champions yielded only nine goals, but on the 4th day seven goals were scored. Goals are good. Goals are right. Goals work. Goals clarify, cut through, and capture the the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Goals, in all forms, goals for life, for money, for love, knowledge have marked the upward surge of mankind.

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"I would like to play for Real Madrid.."
And with that, CR7 begins his long trek to Spain. Let me be the first to say, buh-bye.

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MARKHAM - The Pistolas F.C. officially landed their main partner today as famous Main St. Markham pub, THE DUCHESS (http://www.duchessonline.com/), agreed to sponsor the team jerseys.

The agreement cleared the way for PFC to then turnaround and donate the league issued uniforms through the passback program at TFC games, whereby needed children and adults in impoverished and war torn countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America can get uniforms and equipment they would have never had the luxury of having. Click to continue reading...