I like your thoughts about the current football scene. Its bad enough that the rich teams are totally ruining the market. Its frightening to see the La Liga is conquered by two teams only, while the closest rival Valencia trail by a whopping 25 points to real madrid. I mean, what that makes for the other teams. Eventually, fans would dwindle down to only these two teams.

Then we look at BPL, where not only fierce competition is coming from outside the Big Four, but also debt. To be competitive, most english clubs spend more than they earn and trying too much to compete with big team salaries. Its frightening that a lot of english clubs are running out of cash and dropping like flies in the previous seasons.

I say Arsenal has it best because the board and the manager is looking towards the future and preventing what I call as doomsday for the football scene. How ironic is world cup that would supposeably raise the standards of the game, but at the same time inflate the cost of players and clubs. To make sense, when there is no balance and equality in the game, the lesser team will lose out in the race.

I agree too. There should be a transition period whenever an influential player decides to leave his team. Its only fair Arsenal have given so much to Fabregas to shine, the least he could do is help the team move on.

Lol, veri nice mang. I heard At. Bil were trailing in the first half. Final whistle, At. Bilbao won 5-3.

keep up with the century mate, its Van Perseus these days.

Its understandable that Fabregas is jealous of his close friends at Barcelona is enjoying some of the best football season. But he must realize that Arsenal has an equal opportunity to be a winner coming next season. As for this DNA nonsense, I don't see Pepe or Torres whining about not going back to spain.

Oh yes, next season I'm gunning for Jose's Real Madrid to serve Barca some humble pie.

dude, you wanna hit the report, then by all means be our guest. No need to expect others to do it for you.

I supported Spain ever since WC2006. This year, aside from Spain, I'm also looking forward to see Holland and Denmark.

yup, dats why china can score from long range free kick against lloris. I think Ronaldo gonna have a lot of goals and enjoying himself curling the ball 50 metres away.

LOL at England yesterday. I think Burnley has a better chance at world cup than England does. Everybody sux last nite. Terrible, terrible passes. Terry bad pass, gerrard bad pass, rooney bad pass, heskey bad pass, wright phillips bad pass. I tot I was watching coca-cola championship.
At least Capello did try a lot of tactics, but none of them works..because he has a bunch of clowns on the field. To be honest, the only decent player last nite was Ashley Cole.

gile mahal dawg. He is only worth 100X vuvuzela to me.

yea, no direct quote. Some more, I recall Cesc said about not wanting to discuss anything about transfers until after wc. Its just another hot news agenda. I suppose the reporters has nothing fresh to put on the table.

Great game eh? Good lah walcott wasn't in the shame team. england defence was such a shame. terry couldn't hold the line, glen never looked like a rb in the first place. l think this shows the english that their standards of football is getting behind. yes. epl is the most competative league in the world, but that is probably because of the money involved and the quality brought in by the foreign players.

finally some interesting story in the transfer room. I think its good henry is moving on to mls. It'll be a shame if he is just to warm up the bench at barca. Also, don't ever assume the American football league isn't as competitive as any other country. They did after all, pass the group stage in WC.

last nite was the best! My colleagues are all betting on brazil to win, but I told them Oranje will prevail to the semis.
Next Monday, I'm gonna have a heppi day breggin.

I reckon then a certain greatest player in the world will drop in value.

You're out of your mind! 20M for Messi? I think that's a bit disrespecting. I think it should be...

You mean the old fans or all Arsenal fans? Personally for me, I embrace change. True, a club should not forget its past and history, but not to a point that a club is living in the past. Moving on with time and since change is only natural, Arsenal should be adaptive to the current as well. But then again, who am I to compare to those die hard fans of North London. Though I might agree with the thing against Emirates, I still feels that the newer emblem feels perfect to reflect the club.

Waiting for a new thread. This one reeks of wc.