In the last couple of years Glasgow Rangers have really carried Scottish football at home and abroad. Domestically they have been unrivalled and in 2008 they reached the final of the UEFA Cup losing 2-0 to Zenit St.Petersburg. With the current state of Scottish football and Rangers recent successes are they punching above their weight?
In light of their 3rd place finish the Champions League group stages it must be said that they have done extremely well, in that they have had quite significantly limited funds in recent times. However, many would argue that this has proved beneficial as the squad has been galvanised by the limited changes and consequently improved team spirit.
It must be said that there is a considerable step up in pace and technique when Rangers are enjoying Champions League campaigns or even the said lesser Europa League. If you look at the so-called bigger leagues, with the clubs’ financial investments and the millions they are spending on players, then that can make a difference at European level. It is always going to be harder for Rangers to compete financially with that. To an extent Rangers have held their own and have not embarrassed themselves at all whilst competing with the so-called bigger teams.
Having said that, if you look at the games Rangers have played so far this season in Europe, I think the Scottish Champions have shown that they are still able to compete at that level, you only need to look at their draws with Valencia and impressively away to European heavyweights Manchester United.
It can be said that the achievements in the Europa League in 2008 were nothing to do with luck, with Rangers finding themselves in the latter stages of the competition once again it will be their skill and ability that will prove whether Rangers have or have not been punching above their weight in recent times. However, with the club consecutively playing in Europe each season it must be acknowledged that Rangers are not punching above their weight and they deserve their place in either European Cup competitions.
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Sir Alex Ferguson has praised the contribution of former Manchester United captain Gary Neville, who retired this week after 602 games with the club.
Neville is a product of the United youth system and announced his retirement with immediate effect on Wednesday after a glittering career that included a Champions League trophy, eight English Premier League titles, three FA Cups, two League Cups, the Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.
The right-back won 85 caps for England between 1995 and 2007, playing in two World Cups and three European Championships.
Ferguson said Neville, whose struggles with injury this term had limited him to just three first-team appearances, was forced to announce his retirement when he was not included on United’s European squad list for the second half of the season.
“Yeah we’ve been discussing it for quite a few weeks now,” Ferguson said.
“He was going to do it on Sunday when the international week was on, but once we’d given our squad for the second half of the European season the media were alerted to that, so Gary thought it would be better to come out.”
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Ferguson went on to describe Neville as an ‘incredible, fantastic man’ and said he would always be highly thought of at Old Trafford.
“He came to us as a 13-year-old boy, an avid United fan and remained that way all his life and made a great career out of a fantastic will and determination to be the best. He is an absolute legend at our club and will remain so for the rest of his life,” he said.
In the last four seasons I have watched literally everything about my club, Plymouth Argyle, drastically change. Attendances for matches have dropped from around the 13,000 mark to just over 6000 for most home games, our players have been sold for a fraction of what they are really worth to make quick money and now play at a much higher level than the club. A club that used to be comfortably mid-table in the championship now finds itself in its third relegation battle in a row, the last two of which have resulted in the Pilgrims dropping like a stone into League Two. And the slide may not quite yet be complete for Argyle, and the now severely depleted Green Army.
This of course has all happened due to yet another case of mismanagement of a football club that spiralled Argyle into millions of pounds of debt and the longest administration process seen in recent years. What happened to my club has been well documented, so I won’t break down everything that happened. However the most important thing is that we were saved by local businessman James Brent and the Green Army still have a club to support.
Cast your eyes down the League Two table and you will find Argyle 23rd of the 24 teams and encased in the relegation battle. Should the Pilgrims fail to stay up this season it will represent the first time the Devon club has ever played non-league football. The sheer thought of seeing Argyle play in the conference sends a shiver down my spine.
The majority of Argyle fans, including myself, know that if we go down to the conference it is very unlikely we will return to the football league at the first, or even second time of asking. The standard of football at conference level is actually very good, and I believe that at about half of the teams in that league could do well in League Two. None of the teams that have been promoted from the conference in the last 7 seasons have since been relegated back down. This shows the quality that exists there and with only one automatic promotion spot, it is extremely tough league to get out of. Which is why Pilgrims everywhere know that if we go down, we may spend quite a few seasons languishing in the conference before finally returning to the football league.
The fact that Argyle are not as good as down already is something for us Argyle fans to take heart from though. After nine games we had only one point to show for our efforts, and had only scored four goals. At that point Peter Reid was replaced temporarily by central midfielder Carl Fletcher as manager, who has since been handed the job permanently. Ever since that point results have gradually got better and better for Argyle. Fletcher has won five games and drawn six, leaving us at the time of writing on 22 points – only two from safety. We were even briefly out of the relegation zone for a week, but a poor result against Port Vale coupled with a win for Dagenham sent us straight back under the dreaded line.
With 19 games left of the season, Argyle are yet to play all the teams in the bottom half of the table and will believe that they can pull of the greatest of escapes. No team is safe in the bottom half of this league; you only have to look at what happened to Lincoln last season to see that.
If Argyle stay up you will not find a happier set of fans anywhere else in the country. We won’t have won a league, a trophy or even been promoted, but we will have survived the most terrible of times as a football league club. We will have beaten administration and all that it entailed and not let the idiotic behaviour of the past board ruin our club. We will be a normal football club again and hell, if we survive this year, next season could well be a promotion push as James Brent has indicated he wants the club back at League One level at the very least.
If we stay up, it will be a victory for football.
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And so there we sat, the footballing world, huddled inside on a still freshly enjoyable evening, lips pursed, bums squeaking, fingers poised with intent over the twittersphere, primed in anticipation and wet with giddiness at the prospect of watching the pinnacle of the beautiful game in all it’s glorious fruition.
The two biggest sides, the two biggest players and the one biggest head in football battling it out for a place in the biggest game in the world’s biggest sport. Unmovable object vs. irresistible force, brains vs. beauty, Coke vs. Pepsi, dogs vs. cats, El Classcio Supreme. Add your own orgasmically gushing Tydlesly-esque superlatives here. This was going to be a feast of utterly unquestionable awesomeness surely? “This is it!” – as Michael Jackson once prophetically announced before dropping limply to the floor in agony, prompting a wave of bizarre conspiracy theories and a worldwide sense of deflated disappointment. And if you can find a more obscurely accurate metaphor for the events that transpired in the Bernabeu last night, you might as well stop reading here, it isn’t going to get any better.
Quite why anyone actually thought we were in for a grand spectacle in the first place is slightly peculiar, considering the last two installments of El Quatro Classico had been typified by tense, bitty, low scoring grindhouse football and one of the teams was managed by Jose Mourinho. But alas, many of us nevertheless did. Just as we’d done before the last game to raise such global expectation – the World Cup Final – swayed a little too romantically by the stature and grandiose of the occasion before it descended into a cheat off between thuggery and theatrics.
Not long after Ronaldo had fired his first customary shot into the Sun it became painfully obvious what the housewives favorite in the dashing coat had set his team up for, and what the heavenly ordained Princes of perfection and Guild of the guapa would do to counter it. In case you missed it, or nodded off somewhere around the 30 minute mark, it essentially went something like this:
Foul, dive, foul, dive, hysterical shrieking arm waving. Foul, dive, dive, dive, foul, imaginary card, foul, dive, synchronized arm waving in the referee’s face, dive, foul, big girly non-fight, dive, half time, fight.
Sandwiched somewhere in-between the handbagging and entirely pointless super slow motion footage of players gesticulating to each other or falling over were indeed some sparse attempts at semi competent football. Both Ronaldo and Villa had decent efforts saved but the actual playing highlights to that point could have easily been condensed into a novelty seaside gift shop flick-book or diagrammed on the back of a fag packet.
Barcelona’s customary tactic of complaining en masse about absolutely everything continued unabated off the pitch as their ludicrously haired reserve goalkeeper Pinto (a player who once – brilliantly – managed to halt an opposition attack by imitating the referee’s whistle) got himself sent off for waving his arms about in someone’s face (a recurring theme throughout the evening and possibly – given the neutral nationality of the officials – simply the Spanish equivalent of speaking slower and louder in English in order to get your point across to a perplexed foreigner.)
Despite this complete embarrassment to the occasion the second half started as if neither team had seen anything wrong with it, and in fact, thought it could stand to include a hell of a lot more. Pedro, obviously taking inspiration from his teammate – the eminently dislikable Sergio Busquets (or ‘Crumbling Biscuits’ as I prefer to call him) – decided to pull out the old Rivaldo “Oh my God I’ve been hit in the chest but the pain has inexplicably manifested itself in my face” routine and everyone bar the kit men ran onto the field to protest this startling medical irregularity and wave their arms around in peoples faces again. By this point it had gone well beyond descending into farce and could have genuinely – contrary to all common sense – have been improved by the addition of Lee Evans doing his Norman Wisdom but somehow fooling people into thinking it’s Lee Evans shtick in the center circle.
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Then Pepe got sent off.
Depending on what side of the fence you’re sitting on Jose Mourinho’s one (very successful and feted) man against the world persecution complex is either endearingly arrogant or narcissistically infuriating, and considering most people in English football sit quite comfortably in the “OMG isn’t he amazing? And look how wonderful he looks in that coat!” garden, the anti-brigade are often quick to get riled up by the man. But even the most ardently anti-Jose observer must surely find the startling regularity at which his players seem to get sent off against Barcelona a perplexing occurrence. After the aforementioned medical marvel Sergio ‘Crumbling Biscuits’ and his amazing face pain come ‘peek-a-boo’ antics against Inter last year, it’s only natural that any manager would’ve raised his concerns over retaining 11 against 11 in future encounters. Can anyone really see Ferguson or Wenger not tub thumping the issue if they’d had a player dismissed in the last five successive matches, seven in all?
In true Ferguson style, Jose had presumably assumed his broaching of the subject would afford his teams a degree of protection from self aware referees, but instead they seem to have had the opposite effect, and after Pepe had been unjustly dispatched (though being a nasty player/looking like an evil Kiwi fruit probably counted against him) Jose bypassed the arm waving and took the tried and trusted route of speaking slower and louder in English to the perplexed foreign officials and was promptly dispatched himself, to sit in a cage and pout angrily whenever the camera came near him.
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From then on his rope a dope tactics were futile and the game, by extension, was beyond Madrid. Thankfully however, buoyed and assured by their now customary player advantage, Barcelona were free to stop waving their arms around in front of people’s faces (and their own) and play some kind of football which, blessedly, resulted in the ever mercurial Lionel Messi scoring one of those goals that should finally convert the last in the ever dwindling number of people still trying desperately to claim Ronaldo is the superior player. It was lovely to watch, but – like the cherry on top of a particularly moldy piece of salmonella chicken – couldn’t rescue the game from what it was, which was, by all accounts, a horrible and ugly advertisement for world football. While Messi continued to confirm his glittering reputation, smudges may have appeared, for many, on Barcelona’s.
The last time Manchester United met Barca, in the Rome final of 2009, Guillem Balague (though it could feasibly have been Gabriele Marcotti, I always get them mixed up, like Ronaldinho and Trisha) pitted it as all that was wrong with the corporate, materialistic global game against all that was right and beautiful with it, right down to their contrasting shirt sponsors. Yesterday he spent his evening fiercely defending the arm waving, face-clutching gamesmanship of the Spanish Champions (and their opponents) to a vanguard of angry, self-righteous tweeters (is there any other kind? – [N.B, why not follow me on Twitter?!]).
Despite all their undoubted elegance and beauty with the ball, the once small movement decrying Barcelona as anything but the bastions of the beautiful has started growing, albeit only a little. This time around (assuming both sides don’t implode cataclysmically in their second legs) there may well be a fair few converts to the evil, corporate, materialistic side of the football beast. The Champions elect and diminutive demi-gods have certainly gone ever so slightly down in my estimation. And I say that with my hand on my heart. Or is it my face? No, heart, no, wait, which is which again?
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Liverpool could owe a debt of gratitude to former manager Rafa Benitez for his part in revamping the Liverpool youth academy that has been in decline in recent years. In the summer of 2009 Kirkby was transformed with the help of Rodolfo Borrell and Pep Segura, who were key figures in the set-up of Barcleona’s academy. Benitez also brought back one-time chief scout Frank McParland to oversee the progression of Liverpool’s rising stars.
It is hoped it won’t be long before the next wonder kids are coming through and breaking into the reserve and first team. If the foundations that Rafa has put in place start to bear fruit then Liverpool stand to save millions on transfer fees. Who will be the next Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher or Michael Owen?
There have been places in the first team squad this season for the highly rated duo of Jay Spearing and Martin Kelly. So it appears there is already evidence that Liverpool can start to produce their own players again. The excellent youth and scouting system that has been put in place is not purely reserved to British players. Take the example of Daniel Pacheco, who is currently on loan at Championship side Norwich City. Pacheco was playing for the Barcelona academy before being recruited into the Liverpool reserves and then the first team. It remains to be seen how good of player he will be, but he certainly has a lot of potential.
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The bottom line is the future for Liverpool looks bright and there is plenty of evidence to suggest Liverpool can produce some real stars. There is something about seeing your club’s youth players breaking into the first team and you just know these youngsters are thrilled just to play for the club. You do sometimes wonder with these foreign signings how much they value playing for the club and how much they really care. However, when a player has come through the youth system (even if they aren’t British) you feel they have become part of the family of that great club. They just want to go out there and impress the fans and you can be sure they value the opportunity they have been given.
The Premier League needs the next crop of young and hungry British players and I am delighted to see that Liverpool are doing all they can to produce them. Rafa Benitez did many great things for Liverpool and I am pleased to see even after he has left his legacy will live on through the next crop of Liverpool’s rising stars.
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With the increased speculation that David Beckham may be ending his 8 year hiatus from English football with a loan move to Tottenham Hotspur, I was left asking myself; what can Beckham offer the White Hart Lane club?
There is the obvious increase in revenue, as Beckham is still the football marketing equivalent of the Philosopher’s Stone, but is that enough to warrant a loan move to a side who perhaps should be looking to secure players who will guarantee them an extended run in this year’s Champions League, and a spot in the competition for next season?
One thing Beckham does offer is that he isn’t cup-tied, which many of the better players will be. But I still don’t believe that the 35 year-old can really offer Spurs anything too substantial on the pitch. Perhaps a few inspired substitute appearances, and some inch-perfect balls for Defoe and Crouch to latch on to will vindicate his presence in the side. I believe, however, that his presence will be most felt off the pitch rather than on it.
Although Beckham’s off the field appearance at England’s World Cup campaign in South Africa during the summer can’t be seen as an overriding success, that is not to say that his experience is not welcome/cannot be utilised by teams. Especially teams in Spurs’ position. What I believe Spurs need, to keep them pushing into the unknown in terms of European endeavour, is experience. Tottenham are a principally youthful side, and what the signings of both Rafael van der Vaart, and William Gallas have done, aside from bolster the ranks, is to give the side a balance of youth and experience, and not just any experience, experience at the highest level. This is also what Beckham can bring.
By helping the likes of Aaron Lennon, Beckham can earn his money, not just on the pitch, but off it. The emergence of Gareth Bale as a winger this season has, for me, only served to highlight Lennon’s fatal flaw; his lack of a final product. Both Bale and Lennon can strike fear into full-backs the world over, but what Bale has, once he has beaten the full-back, is the ability to deliver, more often than not. If Beckham can work with the likes of Lennon, and get both of Spurs’ flanks operating to the level that Bale has the left working to, then Beckham could be worth every penny, without even setting foot on to the White Hart Lane pitch.
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Rising Socceroo Matt McKay cannot guarantee he will remain at Brisbane beyond this season as he looks to cash in on his breakthrough Asian Cup campaign.
The attacking midfielder is suddenly a player in demand after emerging as a surprise star of Australia’s run to the Asian Cup final.
The 28-year-old kept Socceroos mainstay Brett Emerton out of the starting line-up for the decider, won 1-0 by Japan in extra-time, after winning over coach Holger Osieck with a man-of-the-match display in the 6-0 semi-final demolition of Uzbekistan.
McKay is sure to be on the radar of clubs both at home and abroad following his exploits in Qatar.
Brisbane Roar, the runaway A-League leaders, recently signed their captain to a long-term contract but coach Ange Postecoglou has all but conceded McKay will be poached in the near future.
McKay was tight-lipped about his future when he arrived in Brisbane on Tuesday morning but hinted his Roar days could be numbered if the right offer was tabled.
“(I’m) definitely (staying with Brisbane) this season. I’ve signed a new three-year deal and it’s a very good deal,” he said.
“The Roar are going places and I want to be a part of that, but if the offers were to come in then that is out of my hands.”
“The club will deal with it there and then. But I am really excited about the rest of the season.”
“I want to concentrate on this title (so) I can promise you I will be here for the rest of this season.”
Osieck regarded McKay as a handy back-up player before the Asian Cup but was forced to drastically change his thinking as the tournament progressed.
One of the few A-League players in the squad, the Roar skipper went from bench player to an integral member of the side in just four games.
“I said I didn’t want to go there to make up the numbers and I probably surpassed that,” McKay said.
“He (Osieck) said he wasn’t sure of me at first but told me that I’d proved myself and he was very happy with my performances.”
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“Being in that team with the calibre of player was a great feeling and I learnt so much. It made me a better player.”
“I am very happy with the way I went – just disappointed with the final result – (and I think it) showed the A-League’s a good breeding ground for players.”
With McKay set to return, Brisbane can secure the minor premiership with victory over North Queensland in Townsville on Saturday night.
The Roar have gone 23 games without defeat, setting a new record for the longest unbeaten streak in Australian football history.
Chelsea head coach Carlo Ancelotti stated that he was not too disappointed, despite seeing his side lose 4-3 at home to Newcastle United in the third round of the Carling Cup.
The Blues fought back from 3-1 down to draw level three minutes from time, before Shola Ameobi headed home a last-gasp winner for the Magpies.
Ancelotti told his club’s official website:“I am disappointed for the result, this is normal, but I am happy for the performance, absolutely happy.
“We had a fantastic reaction when we went down 3-1, playing ten against 11. We showed good spirit, good personality, especially from the young players and this is good for us.
“This was a competition for the young players, they needed to have experience and they had a fantastic experience tonight.
“It was very difficult, but at the end we can say that we are happy with the performance of our players and that’s it.
“This is not our priority, we have a very important game on the weekend and I wanted to rest some players.
“I want to judge the match, not my players. We did our best. We are disappointed with the result obviously. We conceded four goals, but the performance was good.”
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The game also saw Salomon Kalou and Yossi Benayoun suffer injuries which are likely to keep them out of action for at least a couple of weeks.
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A humble Pep Guardiola paid tribute to Manchester United and committed himself to Barcelona following Saturday’s emphatic Champions League win.Guardiola was on the touchline to witness one of the all-time great performances as Barca ran riot at Wembley, trouncing United 3-1 to lock up their third Champions League title in six years.
The 40-year-old, who was rumoured to be considering departing the Camp Nou should Barca win Saturday’s final, flatly denied those reports in his post-match remarks and said he was committed to seeing out his contract with the Catalan giants.
‘I will say it again, I have another year on my contract and I intend to work it out,” Guardiola told TVE.
”I feel privileged to have these players. Everyone has worked towards this. We are very happy. But I have to look inside of me. I am happy to be here as coach of these guys, but it is not an easy job.”
“We must congratulate Manchester United for the great match they have played. We are pleased because we know how hard it is to win the Champions League.”
“We had some time to prepare this encounter and I thought we played excellently tonight.”
“We went 1-0 up but we knew that with all of United’s history and stature in the game they would come back at us. In the end, though, we managed to control the match and we won very well.”
Lionel Messi, who has already attracted plaudits as the greatest player in the modern game, was hailed by his manager as the best ever after a scintillating goal in the 54th minute put Barca ahead for good.
“Lionel is the best player I have seen and probably the best I will ever see,” Guardiola said.
“He made the difference. Messi is unique, a one-off. I just hope he doesn’t get fed up. “
“When he doesn’t play well it is because something is wrong with his environment. Let’s hope he can continue playing well.”
The Barcelona coach was less sure if his side could be labelled the greatest of all time however, deferring to greats teams of the past led by the likes of Alfredo Di Stefano and Johan Cruyff.
‘I don’t know (if Barcelona are the best ever),” Guardiola said. “It is impossible to say.”
“I didn’t see the Real Madrid of Di Stefano and the Ajax of Cruyff. We try to play as well as possible.”
“I hope in the next 10 or 15 years the people will remember them and have enjoyed them.”
A mixed week for Liverpool where on the pitch performances look promising; however off the pitch it is anything but as news broke yesterday that Kenny Huang is withdrawing his interest in taking over at Anfield. It must be a source of frustration for Roy Hodgson, who would be desperate to have the funds to be able to strengthen the Liverpool squad.
This week at FFC we have seen a mixed bag blogs which has included…Liverpool cannot afford to get deal wrong; reserve shake-up could benefit Reds and shouldn’t Liverpool be looking to cash in?
Plus we have taken a look at the best Liverpool stories on the Web this week.
Rafa giving his ex-employers Liverpool a transfer headache
Liverpool cannot afford to get this DEAL wrong
Reserve shake-up could benefit Liverpool no end
The 5 Liverpool starlets vying for a breakthrough this season
A little perspective with regards to Hicks and Gillett
The European Adventures of Liverpool
Ridiculous…you may as well compare Joe Cole and Chris Smalling
Last minute deals at Anfield?
Shouldn’t Liverpool be looking to cash in?
Caption Competition: A Reina Rarity!
Top 10 Premier League ‘scallywags’ who forced their transfer moves
Why football supporters feel the need to defend their corner
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Best of Web
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We’re World-Beaters, We’re Hopeless! The truth lies in-between – Live4Liverpool
Purslow: LFC bidders being checked then sale as soon as possible – Anfield Road
Gunning For Glory – Kopblog
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Ryan Babel still struggles to dazzle for Liverpool FC – Liverpool Echo
LIVERPOOL FC: Solid start but same old problems – Well Red
Liverpool’s 25-man Squad: Who makes it, who doesn’t? – Live4Liverpool
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