It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

argies 78 got through on a fiddle - negates one hell of a lot as a result

That was FIFA's fault over the timing of the games. Nothing has or can be proved regardless of who might say what but it still doesn't negate the other 6 (?) matches they played.

Ah, the Argies. What a fine man Antonio Rattin was....not!

Ajax first lost a final to Milan AC in 1969.....then in 1971 beat the Greek side followed by two other consecutive wins in 1972 against Inter Milan and Juventus in 1973.....culminating in a world club trophy win......they also thrashed Bayern Munich along the way 4-0/1-2.....playing some incredible flowing football......to me they are the best ever !....after that some of the stars moved on to Barcelona and other shores....by the way ?.....what's happened to the 30 yard strikes at goal ?......can't remember too many this time round...Walcott is all I can remember...

Euro 2012: The best goals of Euro 2012

I see they have adopted hawk eye and such.....I suppose that's good news......we have a tremendous system in tennis....but in football : it takes so long to adopt anything new............it's not going to change the game : it's going to improve it !......at 2-2 ; England would have adopted a new system against Germany......it is only when you twist Fifa's arms behind their back that you get anything....

Finally! Football transfer numbers and costs in global fall

International football transfer numbers and player buying fees have fallen sharply worldwide in the past six months, says governing body Fifa.

Completed player deals fell by 9% in the first six months of 2012, but their total financial value plunged by more than a third, falling by 34%.

Total income from 4,973 transfers around the globe was $576m (£371m).

John Terry cleared.....thank god that is over......back to football.....he was superb in defense for England.....shame about our midfield which was crap most of the time but once the ball was upfront I thought we did ok.....just the midfield that was hopeless......I see England are fourth in the rankings and it is possible to become third with a few more brownie points under the belt in the autumn....

Required field, 'thank god that's all over?'

You must be as mad as Fred1new, he called a fellow footballer a fucking black cunt and was cleared of racism.

Before posting such a stunningly dumb comment try and stop to think for a nanosecond.

This is far from over

Football is football and not endless political bickering.......I'm more interested in how our midfield is going to improve than the rowing going on behind the scenes about racism or not !...

Although hardly a term of endearment to call a fellow footballer a 'fucking black cunt', a touch of realism here has to be appreciated . What is the difference in being called a English, Irish, Scottish female apendage on the football pitch? None whatsoever in my opinion, sadly wrongly or rightly it is part of the game footballers are hardly the sharpest tools in the box and in the heat of a competitave match resort to such obscenities. If John Terry had been walking down the street or been anywhere other than on a football pitch would he have uttered those immortal words?

what absolute muppets - read the verdict

the idea that JT is/was racist shows how little research you've undertaken - try thinking for once - you may enjoy it

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4430026/Rio-race-slur-br-on-Ashley.html

perhaps some background as to who was likely to be one of the real drivers behind this case - a fine product of the inner london school system

My point being Mr Say is that this case should never have gone to Court in the first place, they were like kids in a school play ground. THe FA alone should have been allowed to act, by charging them both by theire actions on the pitch which is undoubtably what will now happen. Instead who now has to pay the bill for this farce of a court case? At the end of the day it was a spat between two players who are paid an obscene amount of money to kick a football and haven't got a single brain cell between them.

"haven't got a single brain cell between them" - isn't that amoeba-ist! :-)

No, that's me being polite skinny, trying to reform my ways by not using abusive and obscene language, not easy :O)

Joe Say seems to have less than the two brain cells Chirs Carson credits Anton Ferdinand and John Terry with, which is just as well because if Joe Say had more than one his head would catch fire as they occasionally crashed together. This muppet didn't say JT was a racist but he did use a racist comment. Only a one eyed Chelsea thug could think otherwise. Unless the FA now ban JT for about ten matches, the Kick it Out movement will have been set back years.

The irony of some arguments (brain cell comment)

How about actually reading the verdict (I know its lengthy but if you try hard enough you may get through it in a week)

Or is the court as equally amoebic as I (in your eyes), or made up of chelsea thugs themselves ?

Don't be late for school now

Or ..... Terry's defence squad premier league, prosecution amoebic.

Won a small bet on the GB women against NZ.....goodo !.....