As we look ahead to what is a feast of football, over the Christmas period, Carlo Ancelotti has spoken out against his captain’s claims that Chelsea don’t have the strength in depth to cope with any injuries during this time. The Italian boss claims the squad is good and in great condition and won’t suffer during the busy Xmas schedule.
In the papers this morning there has been a mixed bag of stories which includes Wenger ready to fight the FA over Wilshere; Hodgson pledges to bring in quality not quantity, while Sir Alex Ferguson looks to a new team era.
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Villa move for French starlet – Sky Sports
Wenger ready to fight FA over Wilshere – Guardian
Ferguson looks to new team era – Daily Telegraph
Only ‘crazy’ cash will net Ash – Sun
Terry is wrong – Chelsea CAN cope with injuries – Daily Mail
Hodgson to bring in quality not quantity – Guardian
Can we Av SWP on loan please? – Sun
Becks’ Utd dreams crushed – Sky Sports
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World Cup ref Webb encourages diving – Mirror
City tell moody Balotelli to lighten up – Guardian
A major problem for Dagenham and Redbridge is having to repeatedly sell our best players.
The club’s brilliant reputation for signing rough non-league diamonds and making them better is a huge part in our success, yet also the biggest downfall.
Over the years the likes of Craig Mackail-Smith, Sam Saunders, Paul Benson, Romain Vincelot and Danny Green have all left the Daggers for clubs in the higher echelons of the Football League.
Take last season for example, the clubs highest ever League finish of 21st in League One, one point away from safety. This wouldn’t have been achieved without a squad effort, but yet again it was a couple of the rough diamonds who shined when given the chance to play at a higher level.
Danny Green and Romain Vincelot were pivotal performers in giving us hope of survival against the pundit’s predictions. Scoring 23 goals between them in a side battling against relegation is likely to attract many potential suitors, and it did. From the start of next season they will both be plying their trade in the Championship, Green having been one of the mainstays in a Charlton side that has finished with 101 points in League One. Add to these two the sale of prolific striker Paul Benson (who incidentally this season has done wonders for League 2 winners Swindon) leaves me wondering if Dagenham weren’t a ‘small, selling club’ where it would actually be.
However, and this is the most crucial part-the special nature of the club would not be the same if we had 10,000 supporters through the gates every game like the Swindon’s and Bradford’s of this world. The family atmosphere that a Dagenham and Redbridge home game provides for home supporters and neutrals alike is something I have not come across elsewhere in the Football League. Of course having a relatively small fanbase means the club simply can’t compete on wages even with the so-called bigger clubs in League 2.
So, when players eventually do move on to bigger and better things no one is surprised and no one begrudges them the move. The reality is without a clause written into their contract allowing them to move on if the opportunity arises the fans may not have seen them bring the club established Football League status.
We are Dagenham, and we know that John Still and co. will be working their socks off to find the next group of Dagenham diamonds to develop give the club success on the pitch and then sell on for profit.
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The evolution of what we now know as the modern football magazine started with weekly newspapers which had high football content. Then came “Boys Papers” the newspaper with only football content but were aimed at the children’s market featuring short stories on football matters (the forerunners of comics). Finally in the 1950’s we had what a modern reader would recognise as a football magazine.
The first sport based newspaper was the Athletic News established in Manchester in 1875 as a “weekly journal of amateur sport”. In 1886 James A. Catton began to contribute football reports for the newspaper. He initially used the pen name of “Ubique”. Later he took the name “Tityrus”. Catton eventually became the editor of the newspaper and was acknowledged as the most important football writer in Britain. The first season of the Football League began in September, 1888 and James A. Catton responded by publishing The Athletic News on Monday instead of a Saturday. Much to the delight of Catton, Preston North End won the first championship that year without losing a single match and acquired the name the “Invincibles”. In 1891 sales reached 50,000. Two years later he had doubled to 100,000. On the 22nd August 1900 the increasing popularity of football meant they renamed Athletic News to Football Chat, but that only ran till 5 December 1900 (Nos. 26-41).It changed name again to Football Chat and Athletic World and stuck with that name until 1907.
Over the years it continued changing the name:
Athletic World and Football Chat 19 March – 23 April 1907: Nos. 323-328.
Continued as: Football Chat, Cycling and Athletic World-6 August – 31 December 1907. Continued as: Athletic World, Cycling and Football Chat 7 January 1908 – 28 April 1909: Nos. 366-434.)
The Athletic News continued to prosper and by 1919 it had a circulation of 170,000. As one football historian, Tony Mason, put it by the end of the First World War “the Athletic News was the voice of football and the paper of the discerning football enthusiast.”
By the late 1920s Sunday newspapers such as the News of the World and The Sunday People devoted about 25% of its space to sport. Most of this involved reporting on football. The Athletic News tried to compete with this type of coverage but in 1931 it accepted defeat and merged with The Sporting Chronicle.
In 1911 the “Football Players Magazine-Official Journal of the Association Football Players Union” was launched under the editorship of Evelyn Lintott. A very far sighted move with the Football League and Football Association many years away from producing their own publication. There is an argument for this to be classed as the longest running football magazine as it became “Soccer: The Official Journal of the Football Players Union” in 1947 under the revitalising influence of Jimmy Hill. The Union became the Players Football Association under Jimmy Hill’s stewardship and their magazine “Footballers World” launched in 1993 and continues to this day. (Based on my own subjective definitions as it was aimed at their own members rather than a mass readership I will actually award the football magazine longevity award to “World Soccer”.)
All these pre-war periodicals were still missing the crucial element of full colour photography; in 1931 the first newspaper colour photo was printed in a The Times. In 1937 magazine publishers started printing in colour. Odhams launched Woman with high-quality gravure printing, which was Britain’s first full-colour magazine.
The first British Football magazine that fits my criteria of colour, football only content, quality paper and being available at the newsagents was Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly in September 1951. (A special mention should go to the December 25th 1948 issue of “Sport Weekly” as it featured a full colour team picture of England on the front cover.)
CBFM would be the first to feature colour on the front cover every issue. Amazingly with so many major publishing houses around he launched independently as Charles Buchan’s Publications Ltd based at 408 The Strand, London WC2.It continued for 274 issues until the final issue came out in June 1974.
Raich Carter’s Soccer Star started a year later after CBFM on the 20th September 1952. In the summer of 1955 the Raich Carter logo was dropped and it ran as Soccer Star until 19th June 1970 when it merged into “World Soccer””.
World Soccer was the world’s second oldest monthly football magazine when it started in October 1960 and is today the world’s longest running football magazine as it is still being published by IPC, with a monthly circulation today of around 52,000.
The 1960’s and 70’s were the golden era of high circulations and many famous magazines were launched:
“Jimmy Hill’s Football Weekly” (27th October 1967 – April 24th 1970)
“Goal” ( 16th August 1968 – 1 June 1974)
“Shoot” (16th August 1969-June 2008)
“Striker” (10th January 1970 to 4th March 1972)
“Book of Football”(1969)
“Inside Football” from August 15th 1970 until the 26th February 1972
“Scorcher” (Footballs first comic) (10th January 1970 – 3rd July 1971)
“Match” (6 September 1979 –Present)
“When Saturday Comes” (March 1986 – Present)
“90 Minutes (October 1990 -17th of May 1997
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It’s amazing to look back now on the circulation figures of 250,000 a month back in the early 1960’s achieved by Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly, still more than the current big three of “World Soccer”, “When Saturday Comes” and “442” can muster in total.
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A week is a long time in football and Spurs have been given a massive reality check since their splendid victory in the Champions League. Harry Redknapp needs to get Tottenham firing and quick, if they have any chance of maintaining their position in the top four this season.
This week at FFC we have seen a mixed bag of Spurs blogs which has included…What to do with Gareth Bale; Spurs looking to cash in come January and the missing ingredient in Tottenham’s armoury.
Plus we have taken a look at the best Tottenham stories on the Web this week.
Are these worst Tottenham Kits of our time?
What to do with Gareth Bale?
Tottenham looking to cash in come January?
What is Tottenham’s apparent obsession with winger?
VIDEO: St Hotspur Day
The missing ingredient in Tottenham and Man City’s armoury?
Bold move by Tottenham, but surely plays into West Ham’s hands?
£40 fad proving the secret behind Gareth Bale’s success
Promised Tottenham so much but ultimately delivered little
Would French ace benefit from £3m Tottenham move?
Tottenham star reveals what most supporters are thinking
Top TEN Premier League bargains to be had in January
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Tottenham’s Next Manager – Harry Hotspur
Headaches and Heartaches – Spurs Musings with Jimmy G2
Bale, Taxis and Two-Fiddy’s Up – Who Framed Ruel Fox?
The Four Horsemen of the Spurcalypse – Dear Mr Levy
It has been a tough time for Arsene Wenger this season with pundits, ex-players and the press doing everything to stick the knife into the Arsenal manager this season. The decision to take off Oxlade-Chamberlain earlier this year against United caused more headaches than the Frenchman could have imagined and scrutiny over his management like he has never received before.
One aspect that is often overlooked is the very fact that he lost arguably his two best players this summer in Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas; therefore it is slightly harsh (especially with Jack Wilshere being injured all season) to start questioning Arsenal’s performances this season. It wouldn’t have been the first transfer mistake that the Gunners’ boss has made during his time at N5 and it will undoubtedly be his last.
This top 10 highlights the players that Wenger should have retained (with the exception of Nasri and Cesc) over the years and were perhaps moved on before their sell-by date.
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It’s a debate that’s seemingly raged since Rome 2009, when United’s midfield was picked apart by Barca’s merciless possession football, a situation sadly repeated at Wembley just over a week ago.
Many have argued that United’s midfield is uninspiring, pedestrian, not creative enough, the worst of the top five.
The retirement of Paul Scholes has thrown United’s central midfield issues into even sharper relief, with many believing that a creative central midfielder is a must, or United will be left behind big spenders Chelsea and Manchester City.
Amongst the United faithful (certainly on Twitter) the two names most mentioned are Dutch World Cup finalist and Inter Milan treble winner Wesley Sneijder and Croatian schemer Luka Modric . Here I will explain why, in my humble opinion, neither is the answer to United’s midfield issues and why a creative midfielder is, in fact, not needed at all.
Sneijd to the left, Sneijd to the right
Wesley Sneijder. World class. The two phrases seem to go hand in hand. When people are asked about attacking midfielders, clever players, schemers, men to unlock defences, they invariably always come back to Sneijder. The little man with the big shot, the feather light touch and the intricate control. However, there are several problems that I have with Sneijder.
The first problem is that, for a creative midfielder, Sneijder’s stats in Serie A last season were far from impressive; only four goals and five assists in his 22 league games.
While he is without a doubt a top-class attacking midfielder, there is another issue that for me is where the main problem lies; how would Sneijder fit into United’s tactics and formation? As a player, Sneijder has been most effective throughout his career playing in systems in which two defensive midfielders (Cambiasso and Zanetti for Inter, Van Bommel and De Jong for Holland) handle defensive duties, enabling Sneijder to merely hold his position in the final third behind a lone striker.
At United, Sir Alex has never utilised a system with two defensive midfielders and, towards the end of last season, often played a 4-4-1-1 formation, with Rooney operating behind Hernandez as a classic number 10, a position in which Sneijder would be most effective. To sign Sneijder would almost inevitably mean breaking up the Rooney -Hernandez partnership and moving Rooney from his best position just off the front man.
The way to solve this, many would argue, would be to play Sneijder in a two-man midfield. I would reply by saying that Sneijder simply cannot play in a two-man central midfield. This was one of the main reasons for his acrimonious exit from Real Madrid; they played him in a two-man central midfield and found themselves over-run in central areas time and time again.
Whilst the signing of Sneijder would definitely excite me, I struggle to see how he could fit in with United’s tactics and formation.
Mod is not the man
So what of Modric? The argument’s are familiar, the cry tried and tested. “We need Modric, he’ll solve our problems” is the phrase most commonly heard. There is little doubt that, despite Gareth Bale scooping the individual honours, Modric was the star of Tottenham’s season and is likened by many to Paul Scholes, seen as the natural replacement to the Ginger Prince.
While Modric’s pass success rate is superb, his rate of goals and assists is anything but. Last season Modric finished 82nd in the assists list for the Premier League with 3 behind players such as Matthew Taylor, Ian Evatt (a central defender), Elliot Grandin, Jason Roberts, Jose Enrique and even Thomas Hitzlsperger, a player who did not play a league game for bottom of the table West Ham until February. In terms of goals scored Modric finished 102nd, behind players such as Liam Ridgewell, Chris Samba, Alex Song and Youssouf Mulumbu. The stats can sometimes be deceiving, but they simply are not that impressive.
While Modric would be an impressive signing, and one which would certainly excite me, the main argument that I would put forward against Modric is that United simply don’t need a creative midfielder.
A Roma Raid
I would argue that, rather than a creative midfielder, what United are missing is a destroyer; a destructive, aggressive central midfielder to add a bit of anger, a bit of bite to our midfield. We haven’t had a fiery central midfielder, a real leader who will get his team-mates fired up and remind them of any errors they may make since Roy Keane left Old Trafford. Someone good in a midfield battle, someone willing to fight for possession, someone willing to stand his ground and someone, quite simply, who is a ball winner.
We lack both a real leader and a true defensive midfielder (a role into which Michael Carrick was forced by Owen Hargreaves persistent injuries), and both can be found in one man; Roma vice-captain Daniele De Rossi. A World Cup winner with massive experience of playing at the top level both in Serie A and the Champions League, De Rossi is a player who takes no prisoners and will not shirk from a midfield battle. While he is best known as a defensive midfielder, he can also play in a box-to-box role and, in addition to his qualities as a ball-winner in the centre of midfield, he is also a leader who will provide inspiration and a bit of much needed anger to our midfield.
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De Rossi is capable of chipping in with the odd goal, but his main role is to win the ball and disrupt other teams’ rhythm, something sorely lacking against Barcelona.
On a wing and a prayer
In this current United team, creativity is provided by the wingers and the number 10, Wayne Rooney. All that is needed is a ball-winner and leader to control of the centre of midfield in the very biggest games, to win the ball and then simply play it wide or forward to Rooney, the main creative force behind Hernandez. Rooney, Nani, Valencia and Giggs provide the creativity and all that is needed is a ball-winner in the centre of the park to ensure that these players (Rooney especially) receive the ball.
Quite simply, United do not need a creative midfielder as, in the traditional United way, creativity comes from the wingers and forwards. All that is missing from this United team is a leader and ball-winner who will not lie down in a fight and will prevent the side being over-run in central midfield. That man is Daniele De Rossi.
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Newcastle United have given their full backing to Chris Hughton, as rumours over the Magpies manager's future continue to do the rounds.
Hughton's current contract runs out at the end of the season, but Newcastle insist that the former Spurs coach is the right man to take the club forward.
A short statement read: "Chris is our manager and will remain our manager and it is our intention to renegotiate his contract at the end of the year."
Meanwhile, Hughton admitted that the continuing speculation was not helping him, after seeing his side beaten 4-0 at home by Arsenal in the Carling Cup.
He added:"It's difficult not to notice the speculation, but I can't do anything about that apart from the best job possible.
"I had a remit last season to get into the Premier League and this season it is to keep us in the division. So far, we've had our ups and downs but done okay.
"I can't affect anything that is said, but I think it is unfair. As far as I am concerned I'm a very strong character and have to work around these situations.
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Glenn Hoddle has put his hat in the ring for the vacant England manager’s position.
Hoddle was the head coach of the Three Lions between 1996 and 1999, before being sacked for making controversial comments about disabled people.
He has largely been out of work since then, but has admitted he would love another chance to lead the nation.
“If I were to die tomorrow, my life would be incomplete,” he told The Daily Mail.
“Would I get that opportunity (to manage England again)? Probably not. But I don’t dwell on the past and, if we fast-forward to the present, I think we have a batch of players capable of going to the Euros and doing well. I find it a very interesting moment.
“Because Stuart Pearce, Harry Redknapp, Roy Hodgson, myself – anyone – who went to the tournament with the status of a caretaker would have the pressure off him and the players would be liberated too, not least those who have been on the fringes and are accustomed to thinking that the manager doesn’t fancy them.
“Look at how a caretaker has worked for the England rugby team in the 6 Nations – they’ve done fantastically.
“Everyone’s got an edge. No-one’s sure of a place and everyone has an incentive. So I’d back the FA if they decided not to go for a full-time manager yet,” he explained.
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Whether Paul Scholes plays his last game for Manchester United in Saturday’s Wembley showpiece remains to be seen, but it will be a grave shame if it is the last time we see him of the ‘Ginger Prince’ at the top of level of the English game. Scholes is arguably the greatest midfielder of his generation in England and one who has been treated extremely poorly by his country.
It is an absolute travesty the way the national team wasted Scholes’ talents. Only in England would we put our most talented ball playing midfielder on the left wing, largely down to the crazy belief that Gerrard and Lampard would provide the better midfield axis. Sven Goran Eriksson has a lot to answer for in my opinion and you can fully understand why Scholes felt enough was enough and brought an end to his International career. Zinedine Zidane called him the ‘complete footballer’ and one he wished he had the opportunity to play alongside, yet our national manager felt Lampard was the better option. In truth it is an utter disgrace and one of the underlying factors behind England’s great failings in the last few tournaments.
One of the other likeable features of Scholes is that even in this modern era there is no ego or arrogance about him. Unlike some of his fellow United team mates he doesn’t court the media, doesn’t seek to be controversial and is simply the consummate professional in an era where there is very few. Scholes is arguably a managerial dream and I wonder how many times he has felt the Fergie hairdryer, if he has at all? He possesses an incredible will to win and according to Nani the Ginger Prince certainly doesn’t hold back, even in the 5 & 7 a sides.
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It is this 100% attitude that defines him as the player he is and why it will be incredibly sad to see him hang up his boots, if he does so after Saturday’s showpiece. I certainly can’t think of a better English footballer in the last 15 years – it is just a shame that he was continually let down by the very people who needed him the most.
Wayne Rooney’s future might be sorted for the meantime, but as one door closes another always opens. Has the England forward shown his fellow Manchester United team mates that their club owners can be held to ransom when it comes to contract negotiations?
Arguably not, Wayne Rooney is reguarded as one of the best strikers in world football and there is know other Manchester United player that has the same pulling power that he does. This said, in know way does it prevent Rooney’s team mates from attacking contract negotiations of the future aggressively and uncompromisingly.
As said before there is know other player in the Manchester United squad that is of the same ability, and certainly know other player that can bring in the same revenue from off the field ventures. Were any other United players to take such a forceful stance in contract negotiations I have know doubt that Sir Alex would pack their bags for them and show them the Old Trafford door.
Although there is none like Rooney there are a number of United players that carry a significant weight for the team. Im talking your Darren Fletchers, your Nemanja Vidic’s and Patrice Evra’s, what is to stop them from asking for a considerable increase in their salaries? Although individually good players they do not bring the same desired effect that Rooney does, and that is goals. I think that any other players attempts would prove futile and fruitless. Also, what’s to say these players would play such a game anyway?
If not these players it only takes an individual with a jacked up sense of self importance to start the proverbial ball rolling. Who knows what the future brings, football’s an unpredictable old game.
Javier Hernandez, Chicharito, the Little Pea. Old Trafford’s latest golden boy, Sound familiar? At the moment this young starlet is showing know signs of disappointing, but given the build up and the outcome of the Wayne Rooney saga, is it totally out of the question to think that one day Hernandez could be the one to rock the boat and hold the United owners to ransom? Personally I can’t see this happening.
I guess we once thought that Wayne Rooney could no know wrong…on the pitch anyway. This leads me to my next point, is it really the agents who are pulling the strings? Although bordering on a different debate it deserves to be touched upon. It is reported that Wayne Rooney’s agent Paul Stretford will pocket a cool £3million for his role in getting Rooney to sign a new deal extending his time at Old Trafford. Would it be ridiculous to say that it was Stretford who masterminded Rooney’s contract negotiations?
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Anyway, I believe that now the Rooney situation has been resolved it is only a matter of time before a similar situation arises. Who it will be, I don’t know. As I struggle to conclude this article I Cant help but feel Rooney has either found a chink in the Glazers armour or, has the Wiley Scot, Sir Alex has masterminded his own deal and secured a large sum of money should Rooney decide to leave next summer? We saw a similar situation with Ronaldo, does lightening strike twice?
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