Why? Delighted for Karl Robinson. Young coach who's been close a couple of times and stuck with it and has finally won promotion.

Nearly spewing at all the Gerrard love-in nonsense on the BBC love text. Absolutely horrendous

Brendan Rodgers quotewatch w/e 17.11.15

Gerrard is bigger than the Beatles.

Can't remember who said it but I read this week that Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, if in the premier league would win it by 15-20 points. I have to agree totally. Barcelona made PSG look like schoolboys who in turn, schooled Chelsea with their best player sent off

Regards

King James

Ridiculous isn't it. I can understand Liverpool giving him a bit of a fanfare. He's been a borderline great for them.

Not a player I've ever really rated that highly, of course he was in the top end of PL players in his prime, but was never world class. Despite the worshiping on the BBC and elsewhere over the weekend, there is a reason Liverpool didn't want to give him a new contract, he didn't warrant it. He's been average for a few years, his much heralded transition into Andrea Pirlo never happened and he was a liability for Liverpool in the deeper role. He'll be immortalised by Liverpool fans for being the best player in the world ever and remembered by everyone else for the slip that cost Liverpool the title. His personal life wasn't without incident either and only his Liverpool FC captain status kept him out of prison, which was wrong.

There should be far more being made of Frank Lampard's exit from English football than Slippy G's IMO.

Really? What for? A bar fight? Know many people who got thrown in jail for a bar fight do you because it's exceptionally rare for people with little or no previous history.

Oh dear FIFA.

Don't let your members launder money through the US. The FBI are hungry and its feeding time

rlAn Ode to Sepp Blatterrl.

As football gets stronger and more popular in the USA the FBI pounce. Could it be that vested interests in US sport and its partners have influenced law enforcement? Who knows, maybe Sepp has been out-Blattered?

It wouldn't surprise me. There's incredible money in football. The kind of money that finance likes to get hold of e.g. tax-free. The Israel suggestion wouldn't shock me either.

UEFA saying there should be a postponement is like trying to take down an elephant with a feather. They should stand up to him irrespective of what the other FAs say. Blatter needs kicking out, the whole thing needs reforming and its ethos changing.

FIFA could be a fantastic organisation but all this tax-free corporation bits, shafting countries with infrastructure then not given them tax, buying off FAs, ticket prices, attendances, greater transparency in voting etc. It could be a forward-thinking, world-leading organisation that uses its immense funds to energise different societies i.e. if you want to work with FIFA and have a world cup in your country then there are certain minimum requirements that must be met. It becomes an organisation that gives a genuine legacy, which Blatter constantly yaps on meaninglessly about.

First and foremost in those are human rights. I know it's sport but it has a responsibility to those who participate in it, both legally and morally. Currently it operates outside that sphere. If it were any other corporate organisation it would bow to customer pressure and conform. However, FIFA being the monopoly that it is will do what it wants. Where else are you gonna get your football? That's where UEFA comes in. Change or UEFA should break away. It's got the money and the players. The MLS would follow and then after that FIFA would be stuck. Two big cash cows like those gone would break it I think. Sweep the deck clean.

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Cheerio Sepp.

Lets hope the F.B.I find something on you and your cronies.

I reckon either the FBI or the Swiss have something on him for sure. No way would he do such an abrupt about turn without it, he's far too stubborn for that. Wouldn't surprise me at all if Sepp has agreed to fall on the sword in exchange for not being named as corrupt and also ratting out his cronies.

Nice to see Raheem knock a few noughts off his valuation. Bet his agent is in tears

If Raheem Sterling is worth 50m then messi must be worth over a billion

Regards

King James