When football changed forever

 

When Football Changed Forever

This documentary on the history of club football is fascinating in the sense that it shows how things have evolved over the years in English football in terms its clubs and leagues. There was no Premier League back in those days so they had 3 divisions, division 1, 2 and 3.  Nowadays football is predominantly like money mania where clubs are investing huge amounts of money on players, fans, stadiums etc, whereas back in those days, money was not so much of an issue. The video starts of by showing Manchester United’s record breaking deal for Paul Pogba. It uses this news story to link in with the main subject of the program which is about the English football league and how money was being spent in those days. Football matches did not have as bigger crowds than we do now, this is probably because football matches weren’t as noisier as they are now in terms of atmosphere.  It’s fascinating to know the thoughts of ex-footballs from the 90s on how different the game is from when they started playing to nowadays. Also the fact that there was only one match being shown each week, it goes to show how things have change in terms of broadcasting football matches on television and radio, this is probably to do with money and the ownership of the broadcasting companies who have the rights to broadcast these football matches. Professional club football started with only 5 teams: The Arsenal, Crystal Palace Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United.  This is where the FA came into power and took over club football in England. The FA came up with a 3 divisions in which they updated over the years as they began scouting players and introducing new clubs. I think this documentary portrays the evolution of English football and how things have changed as time has gone on especially in terms of money and tradition in the sense that teams are now starting to invest more money into buying new players i.e. Pogba and new stadiums such as the Olympic Stadium.

To sum up this program, I think this documentary is useful for investigating and analysing the past and the present of club football, it shows the culture of English football and its history. It also shows that football is a fair sport and there are no underdogs in football and each team has the capability of winning football matches, which makes the sport more popular and interesting to watch.

 

Mourinho VS Guardiola Episode 2

Mourinho VS Guadiola

Episode 2 

Tonight Mourinho and Guardiola will stand toe to toe against each other at Old Trafford for the second time as United meet City in the Fourth round of the EFL Cup.

 

Having lost the home fixture 1-0 in the Premier League, Jose Mourinho's side will be looking for some revenge when the two sides come face to face in the English Football League Cup. City come into the tie tonight in red hot form, United on the other hand come into the game on the back of a 4-0 defeat at the hands of Jose's ex-team Chelsea. After the humiliation at Stamford Bridge, Mourinho said that he once again felt betrayed by his players-

"You come with a strategy, you cannot concede a goal in the way we did.'
"We were coming to have an offensive approach. We wanted to create chances; we showed that after the 1-0. The second and the third were counter-attack goals.
"It is one of those days when you give the advantage to opponents by doing nothing.'
Tonight United face Pep's Manchester City, who are looking in red hot form. Yet again it will be another test for Mourinho as he will be under pressure and desperate to get back to winning ways.

Who will prevail in this mouthwatering cup tie, all will be revealed tonight.
  

 



Unhappy Return to Camp Nou For Pep!

 Unhappy Return For Pep

It was an unhappy return to the Camp Nou for Pep Guardiola as Manchester City went down to a comprehensive 4-0 defeat at the hands of Barcelona in the group stages of the UEFA Champions League. It was the magician Messi who opened the scoring after 17 minutes. City's new goalkeeper Claudio Bravo did not last the whole game as he was sent of in the 53rd minute for a hand ball incident outside the box. Messi added another to make it 2-0 in the 61st minute and went on to score a third in the 69th before Neymar finished the game off in the 89th minute.

City had themselves to blame as they squandered some great opportunities to get on the score sheet including a free header from John Stones which went sailing over the bar.

City were disappointing in my opinion. I was expecting a fascinating contest between these two footballing giants but Man City never really turned up.

We all know that FC Barcelona is one of the best clubs in the world and also have the luxury of producing world class players such as Messi, Neymar and Suarez, but I get the feeling that City gave them too much time and space on the ball to weave their magical footballing skills.

I also think the decision to swap Joe Hart  for Claudio Bravo has proved to be a huge mistake for Guardiola because Bravo is the sort of keeper who likes to use his feet rather than his hands. it will be interesting to see what England's no:1 does after his season-loan spell at Torino.

Have City made the right choice by giving the managerial job to Guardiola?

Can he deal with the pressure of the champions league?

All will be revealed in the next 8 months

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Jos Buttler confronting Bangladeshi players

Sledging and Confrontations in Cricket

During the 2nd one day international between Bangladesh and England, we witnessed a fierce confrontation between England's Jos Buttler and Bangladesh's Mashrafe Mortaza and Sabbir Rahman. Sledging is becoming quite a common think in cricket, the only question is, is their a barrier for sledging. When we look back at the incident yesterday between Jos Buttler and the two Bangladeshi players it seamed like Jos Butler was unhappy about something that Rahman was saying. 
Sledging in cricket makes the game entertaining, especially for Tv viewers. The only question is: Is there a boundary for sledging? We all love a bit of banter but should there be limitations put in place to stop this issue from getting out of control? Should umpires use cards as refferees do in some sports to calm the situation down, what do you think?