Football

MG. I am worried that you are not really joining in with the "next season is our season" delusion that we expect and love from our plastic scouse bretheren.

west ham set to announce rio ferdinand as manager and harry as director of football

things are looking up b&d

Apparently he was down in Brixstane last night... Footballing legend, would've loved to shake his hand...

Our best chance of winning the championship will involve getting relegated first.

Signing of Bent completed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/11659791/Revealed-Darren-Bent-cost-Aston-Villa-27000-per-touch.html

£27k per touch,
£57k per pass,
£1.7m per goal.

Kept us up that season I suppose but still >>>>>>>>>>

Chant of the game at the England match was apparently "Sepp Blatter paid for your ground"

Crystal ball time from someone on Twitter 2 months ago April 4th 2015

https://twitter.com/Robish13/status/584351758987698176

We all know what will happen this summer. We'll buy some bang average players like Ings >and Milner and furtherly confirm ourself as average

the sepp blatter self promotion fifa film that will mean the world won't forget him when he's gone took $300 at us box offices last weekend
only another $24,999,700 to recoup

west ham set to announce rio ferdinand as manager and harry as
director of football

things are looking up b&d

Sadly the news is worse than that. Ferdinand and H Rednapp are only off to BT to join up with Lineker and Owen for Champions League.

WTF does Harry know about Champions League?

Am I the only one who really, really wants to see this film? Or at least hear Tim Roth being interviewed about it?

He got there once with the Mighty Tottenham!

Though since he didn't have time for the Europa League, and didn't seem to have much interest in European football at all, probably not the greatest of hires..

On a west ham note, bilic leader in the clubhouse for the vacant job with the hammers..

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/08/slaven-bilic-west-ham-united-manager-marcelo-bielsa

though I'm getting super excited about Marcelo Bielsa rolling up and bringing his hard charging style to london.

Bilic has been announced as our new manager.

Just be grateful you didn't end up with di Canio in charge.

Tonight, I think. They were setting up barriers this morning.

montella available

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/08/fiorentina-sack-vincenzo-montella-lack-of-respect

So is John Carver.

That really doesn't bear thinking about.

isn't carver staying at Newcastle to help steady the ship, whilst they can't find a manager?

He's been sacked today. Presumably Schteve doesn't like the cut of his jib.

interesting article from Michael Cox, about Uefa co-efficients,

"This, of course, is the irony of the situation: Premier League clubs need to take the Europa League seriously to help maintain a Champions League slot. If not, then that Champions League place will instead become a Europa League place, and the consequence of ignoring the competition will be having to spend more time participating in it. The Premier League could, frankly, become a victim of its own arrogance."

full article with lots of numbers here...
http://www.espnfc.com/blog/tactics-and-analysis/67/post/2484883/premier-league-could-be-victim-of-europa-league-arrogance

Looks like the bribing bidding process for the 2026 World Cup has had to be put on hold.

Can't imagine why.

sepp blatter gets till december to hand over fifa

gives him time to shred the documents, make the transfers and flee to argentina / russia / qatar

i hope they get him

http://www.empireofthekop.com/2015/06/10/sorry-official-report-ranks-liverpool-5th-above-bayern-in-worlds-most-valuable-squads/

winning the squad value

in other news
messi just indicted in spain for tax evasion

What's your spend to trophy ratio like, @dicki?