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...

Feast your eyes on the goal of the season, 20.47 mins in http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b039tplj/The_Football_League_Show_2013_2014_31_08_2013/

Man U bought the wrong one out of the two imo , Fellani had his day (year) in the sun last season. Lazy ba*stard who don't like it when things are going wrong.

3 games gone and we got same number of points as Man U ... well I never :-)

... and 3 of their's were against the Welsh gypo's who are going down !

The only game worth talking about today, Burnley v Blackburn Rivals... another 3 Championship pts on the way no doubt. KO 12.15 so we may even be top by 2.15pm!

IT's A GRAND OLD TEAM TO PLAY FOR!!!!! IT'S A GRAND OLD TEAM TO SUPPORT! Davie Who? Well done Blue Boys! ROBERTO MARTINEZ, ROBERTO MARTINEZ!!!!! :O)

Aye nice one Chris makes us look good :)

Stan .... 3,795 years without beating your local rivals according to Sky apparently but I was hoovering at the time so may have been longer ..... good result today then Stan :)

Just goes to show what a generous and caring club we are towards our near and dear neighbours. Mind you the chicken chasing bar-stewards still haven't beaten us for 4 years now, despite us giving them something like 15 corners to score a goal from on Sat. They also blatantly pulled down Danny "super" Ings on the halfway line with little time left when he would have definitely got the winner... But am I bitter? -):

Don't be bitter Stan it's only a game .... but nice to see those inbred pikey wanna be us useless tw*ts down the road from us struggling :-)

But Dil, there only one place below you.

Meanwhile back to the quality Division: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24028130

... And it just gets better.

16:25 18th September 2013.

Burnley Development Squad earned a memorable victory on Wednesday against a Liverpool side that included Reds’ striker Luis Suarez.

The classy Clarets were on song on Merseyside, earning victory through goals from Cameron Howeison and Steven Hewitt.

And the Reds, for whom Uruguayan striker Suarez completed 90 minutes as he continues to sit out his first team ban, had no answer as Burnley held out for a fabulous win.

I thought he'd been quite lately http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24240487

Dil you poor old git.. Hope your all right matey -):

Where's he hiding then ? -):

My brother lives near there , nice place but there were a load of gypo's round about too at one time wonder if they were involved ?

TJosé Mourinho is said to have felt 'betrayed' by Sir Alex Ferguson after missing out on the Manchester United job. Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images
José Mourinho is said to have broken down in tears at the news that David Moyes had been given the Manchester United job. The allegation is contained in a book by the respected Spanish journalist Diego Torres, who writes for El País.

In the book, Prepare to Lose: the Mourinho Era, Torres says the appointment "provoked an earthquake" and that Mourinho felt let down by Sir Alex Ferguson, who had recommended Moyes to the United board.

"Mourinho ... thought that Ferguson was, besides his ally, also his friend and godfather. He was convinced that they were tied by a relationship of genuine trust. He thought that his fabulous collection of titles constituted an 'endorsement' unreachable to any other contenders. When he knew that Ferguson had chosen Moyes, the Everton coach, he was struck by a terrible disbelief. Moyes hadn't won absolutely anything!"

Torres said that Mourinho was on the phone constantly to his sports agency Gestifute. "Mourinho wouldn't stop calling them. His 'interlocutors' had heard him sob loudly and they were spreading the word. The most feared man in the company was crushed."

The book, whose account has been denied by Mourinho's adviser, goes on to describe the Portuguese spending a sleepless night in a hotel in Madrid, "the most unfortunate hours of Mourinho's phase as Real Madrid coach. He endured them between dozing and waking, glued to his mobile phone in search of clarifications, on the night of the 7th and the morning of the 8th of May, tucked into the Sheraton Mirasierra hotel." Moyes's appointment was made official on 9 May.

Mourinho, according to the book, was sure that Ferguson would call with an explanation but he heard nothing. He recalled reading comments from the United director Sir Bobby Charlton pouring scorn on the idea of him getting the job.

"He was tormented by the memory of an interview of Sir Bobby Charlton in the Guardian in December. His judgments gave him a big uncertainty. 'A United coach wouldn't do what he did to Tito Vilanova', stated Charlton, evoking the finger in the eye, when asked if he saw Mourinho as a successor for Ferguson. In regards to the admiration that Ferguson professed towards him, the veteran footballer implied that it was a fable: 'He doesn't like him that much'.

"In the morning he called Mendes so that he urgently got in touch with United. Until the end he wanted his agent to pressure the English club as an attempt to block any operation. It was an act of desperation. They both knew that Mendes had put Mourinho in the market a year earlier."

The book says that "Mendes had already been told in the autumn of 2012 that Ferguson's first option was Pep Guardiola. He had been explained the reasons. In Gestifute, the message from a United executive rumbled like a drum: 'The problem is that when things don't work for Mou, he doesn't do club politics. He does José politics.'"

Mourinho, the book says, "felt betrayed by Ferguson and feared that someone might stop taking him seriously. For years the propaganda machine acting at his services had divulged the idea of a friendship that now was revealed as a fantasy image. To give coherence to the facts in the public light, Gestifute's advisers recommended he should say that he already knew because Ferguson had called him to inform him.

"On the 9th of May someone from Gestifute got in touch with Record newspaper to say that Ferguson offered his crown to Mourinho four months ago but that he refused it because his wife preferred to live in London, and that was why he ended up choosing Chelsea. At the same time Mourinho offered an interview to Sky in which he declared that Ferguson kept him in the loop about his decisions but that he never made him the offer because he knew perfectly well that he wanted to coach Chelsea. The contradictions were not planned."

Mourinho went on to take up the offer of a second term at Chelsea from the owner, Roman Abramovich. When he took up the job in June he claimed to have known of Ferguson's plans to stand down but said he was always intent on returning to Stamford Bridge.

"I knew that Ferguson was retiring many months ago," he said. "I would have turned down every job in the world – the Manchester United job, every one – for Chelsea."

Mourinho's adviser Eladio Parames has denied the book's account. "This story does not have any sense," he is quoted by the Portuguese newspaper O Jogo. "It is completely false. It has no head or tail."

Chelsea declined to comment.ruth or Fantasy?

I wonder if dithering dave wishes he was still at EFC. Personally glad he isn't, his career choice :O)

Best thing for you lot was him leaving imo then taking Fallini with him instead of Baines.

He'll be gone by end of season imo but on the down side I don't rate who you brought in but I guess it was all you cheapskates could afford :)

27th September 2013

Qatar World Cup And Man City Owners In Shambles After Slave Labour Revelations
By Christopher Arnfield -




Qatar World Cup in doubt as revelations about migrant worker deaths are exposed.

Hot on the heels of the farcical suggestions that the World Cup should somehow be magicked away to the winter months after FIFA have suddenly realized that it is too hot in the summer in Qatar, we now hear further revelations about the deaths and slave labour conditions of migrant workers in Qatar working on the World Cup, as well as earlier revelations about similar conditions in Abu Dhabi, ruled by the owners of Manchester City.

Of course, we now know that these revelations are true, so how does this sit with the World Cup organizing committee and the Premier League`s `fit and proper person` rules?


In the case of the 2022 World Cup, this is so mired in controversy now that it is imperative upon FIFA that they rescind the award of the World Cup to Qatar. Should they fail to do so will seriously harm FIFA`s standing and could even invite legal action against them from other associations. The shame of it is that hundreds of migrant Nepalese workers are being forced to work for no pay in dreadful conditions with the result that hundreds are dying every month. This would not have been tolerated 100 years ago, let alone in the 21st Century. How can a civilized world accept this stain on humanity? Well it cannot.

The World Cup must now be moved to another country and the nearest loser in the so-called bidding was Australia, so why don`t they give it to them?


Well the reason is simple. It will mean yet again that Sepp Blatter, man of many faux pas will have to admit that he was wrong to insists that they won the bidding; a bidding process that looks bent from any angle you look at it!
In the case of the Manchester City owners, they were also found to have treated migrant workers like slaves on dreadful conditions and poor or no pay. You may wonder how that can be allowed in the 21st century, but it seems that the West will bend over backwards or any other way to accommodate the Emirs of the UAE even if it means turning a blind eye to human rights abuses that were rightly shunned in South Africa.
How could the owner of Manchester City be deemed a fit and proper person , when his rule over this tiny Emirate makes him responsible for these abuses?

Yet again, the Premier League are blinkered when it comes to applying the rule where rich owners are concerned., with Richard Scudamore showing that petro-dollars mean more that the lives of slaves being worked to death in the Sheik`s backyard.

It looks distinctly hypocritical for the English football authorities to criticize Qatar when they are happy to allow a different Emir to get away with the exact same crimes.

LOL another nail driven in. Well done Baggies.

CC,

To be fair to David Moyes, he's spent 11 years trying to get Everton above Man U in the league and he's finally succeeded. Credit where credit's due and all that!