DazBlade

England v Ukraine streamed on the internet but at what cost?!

Well, this is absolutely disgusting and just another way of cutting off football fans. The match should be on TV and not limited to the internet. Anyone interested in football want to watch the game on their (big screen) TV and not sit in front of a computer to watch the game and pay up to £11.99 for the priviliege. What a big rip-off.

It is not good – I like to watch the England football team as I support them! In fact I like watching most international football, so this monetary rip-off sucks big time!! – I only hope they don’t get the million subscribers they are hoping for and every football fan just boycotts the shameless rip-off!!

Do not pay rip-off “streaming” fees to watch something that should be primarily broadcast on the TV. By all means put streaming sporting events on the internet but do not do that instead of broadcasting them on TV – the internet should be used as a secondary method of showing the event and not as the sole method.

Want to know what all the fuss is about? Then visit this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/8286886.stm

The result of the independent tribunal hearing into the Carlos Tevez affair was very heart warming. Finally some justice although it is far too little, far too late.

The tribunal has ruled against West Ham over the Tevez affair, according to my beloved Sheffield United and its about time too!! SUFC will be claiming millions of pounds in compensation but that will not compensate for being relegated from the Premier League which, as we all know, should have been West Ham who got booted out.

I found the statement by the FA particularly amusing: “For clarity, the FA did not sit in judgement on this case, did not have any influence on the decision and did not appoint any of the tribunal members” – hmmm, well Derrr!! If they had of appointed members then the decision would have been just as corrupt as the cheats that committed the heinous act in the first place!!! Thankfully the FA had no input in the decision.

You can read the full story at the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7632324.stm

That was the message imprinted on the balloons released by the Man City fans when they visited Bramall Lane for the FA Cup 4th round tie. Well, whoever printed those balloons clearly knows very little about the beautiful game of football or maybe its a case of wishful thinking, perhaps.

In fact, it was those very same balloons that apparently confused the City defence and Goalkeeper into handing us our first goal or thats what they would like you to believe. How anyone cannot tell the difference between a big blue or white balloon and a football, is just unbelievable. Here’s a tip, City – A balloon is big, bouncy and slightly mis-shaped. Whereas a football is smaller, white and circular!

The reality is that their defence cocked up. The appropriately named City defender, Michael Ball, appeared to kick at fresh air as the football went through the middle of his legs and landed at the feet of Luton Shelton who calmly controlled the ball before slotting past Joe Hart and into the back of the net. Hart then proceeded to stamp on the balloons as if somehow they were to blame as opposed to sloppy defending.

Sheff Utd 2 Man City 1 – We matched them in most areas and simply out played them in others and we got a very well deserved win. For me, the man of the match was definitely Sheff Utd defender, Leigh Bromby, who actually can tell the difference between a balloon and a football…

Lets take it through to the next round now, when we will play Middlesboro at home.

Come on you Blades!

PS note to Boro fans – if you wish to bring some balloons to the match then you are more than welcome!

Yes, McClaren should be sacked, no question of that. However, anybody who watched that actual game last night will have seen a lacklustre performance by a group of players that obviously could not care less whether they qualified or not or whether they won or not. Other than Peter Crouch, I think most of those playing last night should be sacked too.

This is a real low point for English football and it is going to take a lot of hard work to turn it around, starting with appointing a decent manager would set the ball rolling nicely. I do not want to predict who will or who should be the next manager but lets just hope that whoever it is, actually has some experience of winning trophies, can motivate his players and doesn’t keep changing formations every time the wind changes direction!

The statement on Chelsea’s website simply states “Chelsea Football Club and José Mourinho have agreed to part company today (Thursday) by mutual consent.”

Wow, I mean the relationship between Mourinho and Roman Abramovich was maybe looking a bit strained but I would have never had guessed this happening, at least not so early in the football campaign. I personally think Mourinho will have more success stories to write in the footballing world, wherever he ends up, they will be a very lucky team.

What a week of football it has been. England gain 6 points in 2 games beating both Israel and Russia 3 – 0 which now sees them in 2nd place in their Euro Championship group.

Today, my beloved Sheffield United beat Wolves 3 – 1 even though they were losing 1 – 0 at half time. What a good ‘buy’ James Beattie has been, after his 2 goals today, he as now scored a total of 4 goals since arriving at the lane. I just hope we can now keep up the good work and get back in the premier league to which we were wrongly ejected last season due to the FA refusing to deduct points from West Ham who really should have been relegated in our place.

Well, I’ve just heard the disheartening news that the so called High Court as made the decision to deny my beloved Sheffield United their very valid appeal to the injustice against them towards the end of last season.

I mean, we are not asking for anything that is not deserved, are we? The grievance against West Ham is not “alleged”, they actually broke the rules, fact! They know it, we know it, the whole world of football knows it, I mean, how do they get away with something so blatant?

Some may argue that we (sheff utd) should be relegated as we did not play well enough to stay up. Well, on the face of it that would seem a fair point. But lets examine that in a bit more detail – ie: Irrellevant of how poorly we played or how poorly they played come to think of it, the simple fact is they broke the rules, they SHOULD have been deducted points and we would have finished above them on goal difference (assuming they were only docked 3 points). It is so obvious, where is the justice in that?

I think I’ll leave it that, for now anyway.