Liverpool’s 3-2 win at Ewood Park saw a number of unusual occurrences. Firstly, Liverpool won. Secondly, Andy Carroll actually put the ball in that net thing he seems so scared of. And finally, after Pepe Reina’s suspension, we saw a rare outing for not one of Liverpool’s reserve goalkeepers, but TWO. After Alexander Doni, making just his second Premiership appearance, was sent off for a challenge on Junior Hoilett, Brad Jones replaced him to make his Premier League debut, despite signing for the club in 2010. Doni and Jones are good examples of keepers who sit there, collecting their pay packet, whilst not over-stretching themselves. Occasionally they have to bend over and pull the splinters out of their backsides, but life isn’t altogether too taxing. Anyone fancy a bit of first team football anywhere else? Don’t all coming rushing at once… Here’s the Top 10 Back-Up (And Lazy) Goalkeepers:
Manchester City defender Joleon Lescott has told the club’s fans to remain calm in the lead up to their all-or-nothing clash with QPR this weekend, and not celebrate prematurely.
The Etihad Stadium outfit are on the verge of their first top-flight title since 1968, and are odds on with topbet sportsbook to beat Mark Hughes’ relegation-threatened side this Sunday and claim top spot.
Despite City being overwhelming favourites for the crown, Lescott has told the supporters to keep their feet on the ground for the time being.
“I’d say to our fans, keep a lid on it this week and let’s not get carried away,” he told The Guardian.
“If it happens on Sunday, they can celebrate then. It’s in our hands but there’s another vital game to go.
“It’s a massive game at the weekend. It’s not all over yet but, if we could close the title out, it would be unreal. You dream of these things. I never once thought: ‘Yeah, I’m bound to win the Premier League.’
“But it was always in my mind. It will be crazy days if we win it. We’ve been nervous at times this season but we deserve to be up there.
“When I first arrived here it was more hope that we could win the league rather than real belief. But we’ve developed and got more players and are all starting to really believe. It’s developed over a period of time. It’s been a growing feeling,” he concluded.
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As we all know the Championship fixtures were released this week and, I’m not going to lie, it’s nice to see names like Bolton Wanderers, Leeds United and erm, Barnsley, among our list of opponents next season.
I mean, no offence to the teams that we were playing in League One, but a lot of the guys we’ll be against next season have recent Premier League credentials.
Bolton, Wolves and Blackburn were all Premier League outfits last season and there’s no doubting the history and heritage of the likes of Nottingham Forest and Derby County.
When you look at the Championship table ahead of the 2012/2013 campaign, 13 of the 24 teams who will be involved have been in the Premier League in the past 10 years and have at least a bit of a brand about them. Also, if you look at some of the teams who haven’t been in England’s top flight in the last decade, such as Wednesday and Forest, we at least have a big name behind us.
Our first four games of the season will see us take on Derby, Birmingham, Millwall and Crystal Palace. While only one of the above (Birmingham) challenged for promotion last season, they are all tough sides to break down and will be a stern challenge for a Wednesday side that will be finding their feet in new surroundings.
I’ve said it many a time, especially to my colleagues in South Africa, that the English Championship is possibly the toughest league in the world. I by no means think that it’s the best league with regards to quality, but with regards to the excitement and the unpredictability of who will make the top six come the end of the season, you never really know. It’s as open as a 24-hour McDonalds.
Look at the Premier League, for years it’s been dubbed a two, or three, or four horse race, and understandably so. We all know that the top spot in the division is only really up for grabs by a certain hierarchy. Now take The Championship, there are a whole host of teams who could take the title, and even more who will feel that they can genuinely challenge for at least the playoff places.
We’ve just gone up, we know in our heads that we ‘should’ struggle. Yet even so, the odds on us winning the league, or at least getting into the playoffs, are not that high. For this reason, among others, I’ve always said that England’s second division is near on impossible to bet on.
However, despite all of this good news. Despite the fact that we’ll now be sparring with the cruiserweights instead of the welterweights, there is a hint of sadness when I look at next year’s fixtures. The reason is, even though I do like to see Sheffield United fail a tincy bit, Derby Day is epic, even for little old me listening to Wednesday World in Mzansi.
Yes, we’ll get to play Barnsley and Huddersfield. Of course, beating Dirty Leeds will be great fun, but none of these derbies quite pack a heavyweight punch like our red and white rivals. I’ll admit it, I’ll miss them… only a little bit though.
When the fixtures came out this week I checked the opening day and then skipped right through to December. I’m coming home for Christmas and I needed to see when I could end my Hillsborough drought. I did hope that we’d have Leeds while I was back, but to be honest, I’m happy with a home game against Charlton as long as I get to sing Hi Ho Sheffield Wednesday in the blistering cold once again.
To sum it up folks, I’m looking forward to next season. There’s still a few transfers on the cards for Dave Jones, and we’ve signed well so far. There’s still reason for us Wednesdayites to believe that, when I do come home in December, I’ll be seeing a side that are at least sitting comfortably in mid-table.
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Anyway, as a parting note, in true Wednesday fashion, we’ve already found ourselves in the relegation places, 22nd, after just 0 games. We’re yet to hit the back of the net and have racked up no points, however on the plus side, we are yet to concede.
Germany coach Joachim Low is expecting a Greece to prove tough competition in Friday’s Euro 2012 quarter final but refutes the claim that Fernando Santos’ will deploy an ultra defensive game plan.
It has been suggested that the Euro 2004 winners will implement a similar strategy to the one that Chelsea used during their Champions League final victory on penalties against Bayern Munich last month
However Low has dismissed any comparisons after stating they won’t be facing “the Chelsea of the Mediterranean” but did warn his players not to take their opponents for granted.
“I have heard a few times that they are the Chelsea of the Mediterranean, but it is not that way,” he said. “Greece play good combination football. Their defence is strong, they are strong in the tackle and defending and countering is in their blood.
“They have been playing that way for years. It was similar or practically the same in 2004 [when they became European champions in Portugal].
“They get written off sometimes, but then they are always there. But anyway, Chelsea play a different football to what we saw in the final or semi-finals of the Champions League.”
Having remained unbeaten the group stage Low also admits the knockout phase is tricky to navigate but is confident his team can handle pressure of being favourites to bag a semi-final spot.
“Logically we are favourites, but we can deal with that,” he said. “But remember – knockout games have their own character so it won’t be the case that the favourite automatically reaches the next round.
“We saw that in the group when Russia were the big favourites and we have all seen what happened. But if we show all of our inner strength and belief, then we are strong enough to beat the Greeks of course. I am convinced we will win.”
Greece coach Santos is aware that his side are the ‘David’ to Germany’s ‘Goliath’ as they prepare to face off against one of the favourites to win the tournament they triumphed in unexpectedly eight years ago.
He wants the current squad to revel in their role as the underdog and believes the success of 2004 should provide an extra boost of motivation ahead of the game in Gdansk.
“If we see it as a David and Goliath task, then this is good for us because we all know that Goliath lost,” Santos said. “They are a big team and usually get to the semi-finals and we are talking about a very consistent nation.
“But I am willing to accept the role of David, just as long as history repeats itself.”
“I would like to seize this opportunity to say what an inspiration for us the 2004 success is,” Santos said. “We showed great resolution and strength and we were written off before that tournament, but we still reached the final and won the cup.
“That should be a source of inspiration for us this time.”
Team News
Jerome Boateng is available for Germany with Joachim Low likely to bring him back into the starting eleven at the expense of Lars Bender despite right back netting the winner against Poland in their final group fixture.
Skipper Giorgos Karagounis and left-back Jose Holebas are suspended for Greece after picking up their second yellows of the tournament against Russia. Sotiris Ninis, Grigoris Makos and Giorgos Fotakis will battle for Karagounis’ spot in midfield while, Georgios Tzavelas had already usurped Holebas in the left-back slot.
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Key Players
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Once again the Bayern Munich man has been a leading light for Germany in midfield. When he’s at his best Schweinsteiger is up there with the best in the world and he’s been on another level for die Mannschaft during the tournament displaying his exquisite range of passing and defensive tenacity when he isn’t pinging the ball around and driving at opposition defences.
Soitiris Ninis
The likely candidate to replace captain Giorgos Karagounis in the engine room, it will be Ninis’ job to lead from the front and provide the creative inspiration for Greece. Much will be expected of the Parma man who has failed to live up to his reputation as a goalscoring midfielder but has the opportunity to showcase his undoubted talent against Germany.
You could say Sol Campbell has never been my favourite player in football, largely down to my North London roots, but I can’t help but feel that he and the large part of the nation had been duped by the BBC in their scaremongering of what football fans can expect had they stepped foot in Poland and the Ukraine this summer. I personally have never known an international tournament pass off with so little trouble and full credit to both nations for their handling of the Euros.
Of course Panorama have past form don’t they, in the selective material they provide you with and I do wonder how deep they actually had to dig in order to come up with the footage that they used. If they want to find incidents of brutality and other dark sides of football then I reckon I could deliver them enough material for them to put on a feature length special, on any given weekend in English football. Are they really that naive that they think crowd trouble and in some instances racial abuse doesn’t exist in England? I truly believe they have a lot to answer for with that documentary, especially when families of players refused to travel to support their loved one for the fear of trouble. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will be pleased to know that a hotel TV was where his dad watched his International tournament debut, in what was arguably his biggest game in football to date. Thousands of other England fans also refused to travel in light of their revelations.
I’m not saying what we did witness was acceptable, in fact it was utterly despicable, but to tarnish two nations’ football supporters by generalising them as perceived bigots is completely wrong and out of order. The English supporters that did travel came back with nothing but positive stuff to say about the host nations and the way they were treated. Many saw it as arguably one of the best international trips they had been on, largely down to the lack of trouble and the past victimisation supporters have had to suffer at the hands of police and the authorities on their respective travels. I suppose the likes of the Beeb wouldn’t be interested in reporting this positive aspect of football, as there is nothing that can be dramatised or any negative aspect to report. Maybe recent events will ensure Panorama keep their nose out of football once and for all – given their catalogue of non-revelations they have produced in the past.
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Even the stock exchange flotation has turned out to be just another way for the Glazers to milk Man Utd for all they’re worth.
So why does Ferguson continue to be outspoken in his support?
Finances Explained
The Glazers financed their £800 million purchase of the club primarily by securing loans against the club’s assets. In effect, the owners were only able to afford to buy United by taking a loan, and loading it onto the club itself (a bizarre concept that the Premier League let stand; doesn’t that mean any one of us could do the same thing? I’ve always fancied owning Real Madrid). The £660 million loan incurred £62 million annual repayments, which come straight out of United’s coffers. The fury amongst supporters is pretty understandable, considering this repayment is being made on a loan taken against their own worth; a debt free, super-rich football club was instantly transformed into a club with crippling debt, simply so that the Glazer’s could find money for their initial purchase. In 2010, the debt was refinanced via a bond issue (essentially an I.O.U contract, and a different type of loan) worth approximately £500 million. Essentially, this meant the club had raised £500 million out of nowhere, which they used to pay off almost all of their debt to international banks (as far as I can work out, this means they took out a second, different loan, and used it to pay off the first one, thus giving them a new debt with different terms and conditions). The annual interest on the bond is £45 million per year, reducing the overall interest payments United are liable for. Crucially, this bond issue allowed the Glazers to start stripping the clubs assets, and using the club’s income to repay their own loan, and help repay the PIK loans they so desperately need to wipe out. The debt restructuring now allowed them to: carve out £95 million from the club’s finances; sell and lease back the training ground; take 50% of the club’s profit each year, and use it pay off the debts.That’s right – if they need to, the Glazers can take half of United’s yearly earnings, and use it to pay off their debts. United have now floated the club on the New York stock exchange, hoping to sell 10% of the club and raise around £244 million. Although initially promised to be used to pay off some of the debt, it has now emerged that the large majority of this money will simply be gobbled up by the Glazers. Senior employees stand to gain around £204 million from a share scheme. The Guardian claim that around £96 million is to be used to pay off debts – a measly amount. Finally, the Glazers have made moves to prevent any takeover attempts by consolidating their position by quietly altering the club’s constitution. Michael Moritz described it as “the equivalent of armed robbers leaving the scene of a crime and throwing nails on the road to stop pursuers”.
Ferguson Support
How is it that Alex Ferguson still finds time to praise the Glazers, who continually suck money out of the club via annual repayments, take money directly from the club’s profits, and contradict their claims of clearing the club’s debt? It would take a brave person to claim the Glazers aren’t milking United for all they’re worth. And that man, seemingly, is Ferguson. Many have claimed the Glazers’ leeching has affected United’s spending power, despite Ferguson insisting money has been made available to him. It seems to be that Ferguson really has spent little money out of personal choice. If that is the case, then perhaps it isn’t that surprising he has a good relationship with the owners. In a statement released earlier this week, Ferguson denied he was gaining financially from the owner’s controversial policies, and instead praised their managerial approach. “The Glazer family have let me get on with my job, there is no interference or obstruction, only support”. His praise for the Glazers must be because they let him do what he wants, and spend what he wants. As a manager, that is ideal. As an ambassador of the club, it is disheartening. He has rejected and dismissed the fans’ concerns, and is beginning to tarnish some of his legacy. Just because their ownership is beneficial to him, doesn’t mean that he should be happy seeing the club get stripped of its assets. His lack of concern for the financial welfare of the club is worrying. It is particularly disappointing because he is arguably the only person that could stand up to them. Untouchable and uncontactable, the Glazers’ low profile and immense power has made all of the fans’ attempts at overthrowing them futile. If Ferguson made a stand, people would have to listen. He is the only person involved with Manchester United that is as untouchable as the owners. Turning the other cheek and ignoring the problem is not beneficial to United, even if Ferguson believes it is beneficial to his current team. His continuing support is disappointing.
Tottenham are readying a bid for Shakhtar Donestk attacking midfielder Willian according to Sky Sports.
The north London club are going through something of a revamp this summer, with new boss Andre Villas-Boas eager to make his inherited squad his own.
With Luka Modric looking extremely likely to leave the side this summer, AVB is eager to add to his midfield creative options, and has been scouting Europe for suitable replacements.
The Brazil international has impressed domestically and in the Champions League in his time in Ukraine, and seems destined for a move to a bigger club.
Chelsea are known suitors of the South American star and have had a number of offers turned down by the eastern European outfit.
However, Spurs are ready to enter the race for Willian’s signature and are preparing an offer this week.
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With so many competitions each season not to mention the constant media pressure on both players and managers, is it realistic to expect a team to win it all? For a top club there is four competitions on the table, and when you factor in the not so small matter of internationals too, their players are on the go all the time – risking burn out not to mention injury to boot.
Of course there have been occasions where teams win it all – United did the treble in 1999 and Barcelona have done it more recently, but in reality it takes an awful lot and then a little bit more to win not only the title but the domestic cup and also the Champions League – not to mention a huge deal of luck with decisions and draws.
Players in the modern game have to contend with not only domestic fixtures but also the international tournaments that are on pretty much none stop – Juan Mata has not only played nearly all of Chelsea’s games, but gone to both the Euros and the Olympics to boot – meaning that the player has literally not stopped. This sadly is all too common for players these days and fatigue can play a huge part in deciding where trophies go in the latter part of the season.
Take the Champions League last season – both Barca and Real Madrid were majorly affected from the title deciding Clasico being smack bang in the middle of the Champion’s League semi-finals, with Madrid’s going into extra time and penalties to boot. It can often be forgotten that players are human and feel exhaustion and emotion like the rest of us – and in front of thousands of people every single week, not to mention the glare of the media spotlight.
A full season in the Premier League is 38 games, not to mention the added rigours of the other domestic competitions – it is no wonder that some managers will sacrifice the Carling Cup or even the FA Cup in pursuit of what they and everyone else sees as bigger glory – either domestically or in Europe.
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As we go into an international break this week, some players are able to rest or in Kaka’s case, train twice a day in order to get some first team football in the future, but others such as Ronaldo or Iniesta have to not only contend with traveling but the fixture – and a friendly or qualifier at that. Should such a player come back to their club injured it is entirely reasonable for the club to feel aggrieved – they are paying the wages after all, and with the amount of fixtures the club and players already face, a ridiculous friendly can seriously curtail the chase for trophies towards the latter end of the season. Winning it all? Possible, but highly unlikely.
The in-vogue saying this season in the top flight is most definitely the term ‘transition’, but as Liverpool embark upon a deliberate change in tack under Brendan Rodgers, bumps in the road such as their slow start to the new Premier League season were to be expected, but what will the club’s latest boss have learnt so far from his charges?
To make matters simple, let’s start from the back and work our way through the side, beginning with goalkeeper Pepe Reina. The Spaniard should be comfortable with the ball-playing role that he’s been asked to perform, as it could be seen as fairly similar to the sweeper role he was given under Rafa Benitez during which he enjoyed his best spell of form at the club.
However, the 29-year-old’s dip in form has become a slump from which at the moment, there looks to be no return. With the club’s coffers being tightened, Reina remains an attractive saleable asset and without an upturn in form, Rodgers may want to follow up his initial interest in former Swansea goalkeeper Dorus De Vries again, or move for a more recognised stopper altogether next summer.
At centre-back, Martin Skrtel and Daniel Agger have both struggled initially with their new roles too. The 4-3-3 system is heavily reliant on the wingers hugging the touchline and the full-backs getting up and joining them in attack. This in turn should see the centre-back pairing be pushed further apart than they are normally comfortable with as they pass the ball between themselves, while also being in a position to cover the flanks.
You would presume that Agger would be familiar with this role given his skills and how Denmark like to play, but both he and Skrtel could be found guilty of committing some game-changing and result-defining individual errors against West Brom and Manchester City, with Skrtel’s pass back to Reina that gifted Carlos Tevez a late equaliser the best example. Jamie Carragher is still on the wane and Sebastian Coates still shaky on the rare occasions he does start, but even during a period of adjustment, they’ve underperformed hugely in what on paper is one of the team’s strongest positions of strength and a platform of their good form in recent times.
The full-backs are a tad more promising, with Glen Johnson starting the season reasonably well, even if he was caught woefully out of position for Lukas Podolski’s goal against Arsenal. Martin Kelly could hardly be blamed for the Yaya Toure striker against City either which saw Reina flapping hopelessly at a Tevez cross before it bounced off the unlucky defender.
There’s still a worry whether they are good enough technically to play the roles that they are being asked to perform and whether the likes of Jose Enrique and Johnson are too wasteful on the ball. Stewart Downing’s conversion to a left-back role in an attempt to prolong his future at the club is an interesting development that could pay dividends further down the line, even if it is somewhat humiliating for both the player and club at the same time in the short-term.
In midfield, Joe Allen has settled superbly into his new surroundings, while Jonjo Shelvey has been excellent whenever called upon so far. Lucas Leiva’s injury against City was extremely unfortunate but to be expected after such a long spell on the sidelines, with niggling muscle injuries sadly the norm in these cases, but it also robs the side of anyone capable of breaking up play in the middle of the park.
The club’s captain Steven Gerrard has been a big cause for concern so far and he looks as if he’s really struggling to get to grips with Rodgers’ methods. It’s not that he’s prone to trying the outrageous Hollywood passes like he used to, but that he seems positionally lost at sea, neither helping out either defensively or in an attacking sense and his form has been ropey and his passing very poor by his own standards.
Up front is where the main problems lie, though and the fact that Liverpool have scored just two goals from their opening three league games, with not one of them coming from open play, is a huge cause for concern. It’s worth remembering that Rodgers’ Swansea side failed to score on 15 separate occasions last term – the most in the league – and scored just 44 times altogether, so it may just be that this ethos is simply not conducive in English football to the free flowing of goals.
Luis Suarez has been at his profligate best , despite a corker of a free-kick against City and has been exceptionally poor on the ball, acting as a brake to any potential build-up play in all three fixtures so far. Borini has also struggled to involve himself enough and he looks a little lightweight on first inspection. The one ray of light has been the form of 17-year-old Raheem Sterling though, who was rewarded with his first senior call-up to the England side just the other day after breaking through into the starting eleven and displaying a maturity well beyond his years.
With so much changing both on and off the pitch in terms of the team’s style of play, the fresh faces and the swathe of departures, coupled with a tricky opening run of fixtures with Manchester United still to come on the horizon, a slow start was to be expected. It’s not that the pace of change has been too fast, because in these instances, dragging it out could do just as much if not more damage, but Rodgers has issues to overcome right throughout the side.
Would he have spent so much on both Assaidi and Borini is he knew he wouldn’t be able to find £6m for Clint Dempsey this summer? It’s extremely doubtful and the operational problems at the club are still getting in the way of progress, with Ian Ayre a big part of that, while FSG’s dithering is now bordering on the systemic. Their failures in the transfer market were a stark and harsh lesson in resource management which he will be hoping not to repeat in the future with the setting up of a technical committee at the club, while a recognised executive is reportedly being pursued to replace Ayre in the near future.
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His 4-3-3 system is reliant on the players right through the spine of the side performing, while those out wide add the sprinkling of panache to proceedings and only Joe Allen is in any sort of form at the moment, with Reina, Suarez, Skrtel and Gerrard all struggling. Andre Villas-Boas has proven at Chelsea and to a lesser extent at Tottenham, that sometimes players need longer than you might expect to learn a new system and teething problems are inevitable.
One of Rodgers’ greatest strengths is his belief in his own methods and he’ll need that this term, particularly after a terrible deadline day for the club which left them a striker light until January. He has a small and unbalanced squad at present, wrestling with a change in style and burdened by the financial failings of the previous managerial administration.
Change will not be easy, nor will it be solved overnight and when it comes to truly assessing his work, we may not fully know even by the end of the season. But one thing is for certain, restoring the club to the top six, let alone the top four over the course of the next two to three years is going to be an absolutely huge job and the side will continue to be unpredictably frustrating for the foreseeable future as they continue to get to grips with the changes being implemented by their new boss.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has condemned the section of his side’s fans that chanted unsavoury taunts aimed at Liverpool fans and the Hillsborough disaster.
A small section of Red Devils’ supporters were said to have sang the chants in the team’s 4-0 win over Wigan on Saturday, and the Scottish boss has stated that the incident was unacceptable.
“I didn’t hear it but everyone seemed to hear it and I could tell from the directors’ box, David Gill [the chief executive] was disappointed,” The Telegraph quote Ferguson as saying.
“That’s a new chant, it only started after the Suárez situation but in view of the climate and having spoken on Friday asking supporters to adhere to the policy that we want to adopt [it was disappointing].
“We are completely in support of Liverpool Football Club at this moment and we understand what those families must have felt reading that report.
“So it was disappointing to hear that and you’re right, it was a minority and in our society there is a minority that want to be heard and that is the difficulty nowadays but as a club we are totally supportive of Liverpool Football Club in this situation they’re in.
“It’s going to be a very emotional day on Sunday and we’ll support them in every way we can,” he concluded.
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United take on Galatasaray in the Champions League on Wednesday.