A Couple of Weeks to go and what do we know....?
Saturday, 02 August 08, 06:11 AM · Comments(0)
Yep it's just two week sbefore the start of the new football season in England, despite what you might think with 100s of Intertoto / Uefa Cup or Champions League Qualifiers plus the obligatory friendlies and pre season tournaments. Do we actually know anything now that will give us a clue to teh upcoming season?
I know, for example, that unsurprisingly the world of football is surrounded in its own hypocritical goldfish bowl that seems to allow everyone to act one way one day and then complain the next day when someone does it to them. Today's examples are Spurs and the way they see the acquisition of Ramos as different from Liverpool's "stealing" of Robbie Keane or maybe Adebayor and his new found love of his beloved Arsenal. Toss in the words of Sepp Blatter or Alex Ferguson orpretty much any other "name" in football and they all do it all the time - strangely the one who hasn't (YET!) has been old hard case Roy Keane - surely just a metter of time in the universe that is football.
Looking across L'Equipe this morning, the key reported stories are "Gallas keeps his armband" and "Merci Monsieur" - A big thank you following the retirement of Lilian Thuram, one of the few footballers who realise there is a bigger and more important world beyond the corridors of football.Arsene Wenger expressed his sadness at the man's need to retire due to heart problems.
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