0 - 3 Few days back, news about Roma and Cagliari spread in soccer world where their match was postponed for on-ground security reasons in Serie A. Now, unfortunately that match has been forfeited by the authorities for the same reason and Roma has been rewarded default win with a comprehensive 0-3 margin. This is probably the first time in current Serie A where a match has been abandoned completely and a team has been given a benefit out of it. Basically, as told on several occasions, the stadium Is Arenas is the main reason for this match’s postponement on two occasions. When match could not be passible on Sunday, authorities decided to cancel the match and declare Roma as winner. Is Arenas and its home crowd is known for its misconducts, security breach, and uncontrolled hooting, even we have seen this ground does not have proper security arrangements to control out of control crowd which has been proven on several occasions in the past. Due to this fact, the scheduled match … [Read more...]
Messi and Villa: No conflict between them
La Liga 2012-13 has shown us many surprises and one of them is recent infield spat between FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and David Villa where, apparently, Lionel Messi was yelling on David Villa over some issue. Actually, everybody saw what happened on the ground and everybody is surprised to see a cool player like Messi is behaving like this. Basically, there could be several reasons for such loss of control on the field: one could be, that match between Barcelona and Granada brought many shocks like Messi’s inability to score a goal even after getting so many chances. Perhaps, after the brilliant display of soccer, Barcelona could not fire a goal until 87th minute, this delay and frustration could be the reason for uncontrolled behavior of Messi. Otherwise, we have seen him showing great level of comfort even during many embracing situations, like in the last match when referee dismissed a penalty, we saw him smiling on that decision. So, how comes a 25 years old start footballer … [Read more...]
John Terry Quits International Football
John George Terry, the former captain of England’s national football team and Chelsea has decided to finally quite the international football over his racial criticisms in the recent past. Considering his age of just 31 years, England has lost an elite member of its national team and all coz of his own on/off field behaviors. John Terry has several charges of racial remarks and one of them was against Anton Ferdinand in a match between Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers last October. Though, he was cleared by the court for said comment in July this year, but another similar case is yet to start in Football Association’s disciplinary hearing. Said hearing was supposed to be started on 25th September, but the star footballer decided to resign from international games even before FA could start its case against him. John Terry has as many as 78 playing caps for England and over 500 match appearance for Chelsea. For the record, he has been the most successful player for Chelsea winning it as … [Read more...]
Big Fee Bounties are Running Football: Arsene Wenger
We have seen how millions of dollars have thrown by popular football clubs, having good financial back, to buy players from around the world. Last summer, transfer window showed what it could gain you if you are a young and promising soccer player. English premier league’s topmost team’s longest serving manger: Arsene Wenger has slashed on the clubs who are voluntarily throwing million of dollars to buy top players. According to him, this is ruining football coz at last football is going to suffer for all this. He gave an example of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club aka PSG who bought young nineteen years old Brazilian attacking midfielder Lucas Moura for £36 million. He calls it a crazy move by the club. Basically, according to him, this is the good era of soccer but this is not going to be lasted as it is now, coz big club’s giant sponsors are all concerned with their balance sheets at last, so they are encashing the rising popularity of soccer and its biggest branded players. … [Read more...]
Cagliari and Roma Serie A Match postponed for security laps
Is Arenas stadium is again in the news for its substandard security measures or rather uncontrolled behavior of its home crowd. In a latest turnaround, forthcoming match between Cagliari and Roma was scheduled for coming Sunday, but the same has now been postponed for improper security arrangements at the stadium. Actually, there were some cases of crowd misbehavior so authorities decided that this match has to be played under closed doors without the presence of any spectator, which Cagliari ignored altogether. Perhaps, Cagliari asked its fans through its website to come and gather on the stadium irrespective of what authorities say about it. However, they asked their fans to come and meet peacefully to avoid any untoward happenings. This overruling of authority’s order has been taken up seriously by the authorities, so they held a late night meeting with local police and decided this postponement. Many think that Cagliari provoked its fans to come and join the match which is … [Read more...]