Other Football Stuff

A Norwegian sports show decided to experiment on how many amateur footballers are needed to beat a top division Football Club?

In a past blog I argued that using technology in football - such as the TV official would be wrong. That  football in this country sells and is successful around the World because it is a fast moving, dynamic, exciting game. That using technology would slow the game down and take away a huge amount of this controversy. I also argued that football relies on this controversy, in the vast majority of cases created by the officials, to sell the game.

The Premier League has sold television rights to its games for a record £5.136bn, 71% above the previous deal. Sky paid £4.2bn for five of the seven TV packages while rival BT paid £960m for the other two in the record TV rights auction. The deal will run for three years from 2016.

Part 2 of the Football Documentary set in 1995 following the misfortunes of Leyton Orient.

Fascinating Football Documentary set in the 1994 - 95 season following the misfortunes of Leyton Orient.

The 1962 European Cup Final was played in Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium between Real Madrid, the masters of Europe and precocious newcomers from Portugal, Benfica, who were the holders of the European crown.

This video biography highlights football superstar Thierry Henry’s fantastic talent and goal scoring ability. Henry ran at an incredible pace and with perfect balance, yet it all seemed effortless. He glided over the ground, taking yards off defenders. When he drifted in from the left wing and got the ball onto his right foot, invariably the outcome was a shot on goal. He scored an incredible 228 goals from 377 starts for Arsenal over an 8 year period, with many of the goals so very memorable.

In 1990 Graham Taylor became the England Manager. This documentary follows Graham and the England team during the ultimately unsuccessful World Cup Qualifying campaign for the 1994 World Cup Finals in the USA.