1. Luis Suarez Demands To Leave.
The news has been dominated this week by Luis Suarez essentially demanding to leave Anfield. He has even gone so far as to say he is considering legal action to escape the contract that he signed a little over a year ago.
Now, I know everyone and their cat have had their say on the matter, but here are my thoughts. If I had been going through a lot of personal issues, and my manager and company had stuck by me, publically stood up for me and were still paying me despite the trouble I had got myself into, I would feel an incredible amount of loyalty to these people. Suarez is obviously not a loyal kind of person.
I appreciate that he’s ambitious, but at
one point during the whole race issue, no one would have touched him with a
barge pole. I’m sure there was grounds for Liverpool to fire him (I know it
wouldn’t make financial sense but stick with me here) and what club in their
right mind would employee him, a documented racist?! I think Brendon Rogers
would admit that if Liverpool didn’t get into the Champions League in the
2014/2015 then he would have to concede Suarez has to leave, and that’s all
Liverpool and their fans are asking, and I personally think he should honour
their loyalty with loyalty back. It’s only my opinion, but I believe that
defending Luis Suarez like Kenny Daglish did after the Evra incident cost him
his job. Suarez should show some loyalty.
If he still throws his toys out of the
pram, I would make him sit out every single minute of his contract training
with the youth and wasting his career. I know legally they can’t do that as
contracts these days are sided mostly in the players favour, but if I could
enforce that, then I would.
2. Ricky Lambert Gets An England Call Up
In news that makes me believe fairytales are still possible in this
modern professional game of football, Ricky Lambert, a journeyman of the lower
leagues for many years, got an England call up this week for their friendly
against Scotland.
I’ve admired Ricky Lambert for a long time,
and whenever Cardiff have come up against him be it for Southampton, Bristol
Rovers or whoever, I’ve always said this is the player we have to be careful
of, and after his first season in the Premiership last year, he deserves it.
Is he good enough though? Well I think so.
He’s not going to score a bagful of goals, but he will take one or two
defenders out of the running allowing space for other players. I think Scotland
is the perfect team for him to start against because of his physical presence.
We will see, if I was an England fan, I wouldn’t be too worried about seeing
Ricky Lambert in the squad.
3. Hull City = Hull City Tigers?!
In news that hit close to home this week, Hull City owners
announced plans to turn the official name of Hull City to be the Hull City
Tigers, in a move that will sure cause a rift amongst their fans.
As a
Cardiff City fan, who nearly became a Cardiff City Dragons fan last year, I
feel for these fans who hate the idea of the rebranding of their club. I went
as far last season to declare to my mates that I will not support the Cardiff
City Dragons even if we get to the Premiership, I will go elsewhere.
For non-football fans or for part time
supporters, it’s difficult to put into words of why someone would feel like
that. The only way I can explain it is that the identity of the club is in the
name. You hear Cardiff City, you know it’s a team from Cardiff, wheras Cardiff
City Dragons sounds like a franchise that is currently based in Cardiff.
I don’t know, maybe it’s the way the game
is going, I hope not, but I feel the pain of the Hull City fans. Hull and
Cardiff fans have never seen eye to eye, but we are both passionate fans and love our clubs
and let’s hope it doesn’t come to pass as I think it’s the first step on a bad
road for the game.
On a quick side note, something you might
not know, one of the main reasons why the Cardiff City Dragons re-brand didn’t
go ahead, was a City fan from Caerphilly trademarked the name Cardiff City
Dragons along with a few other variations of it in order to stop any name
rebranding.
4. Qatar World Cup 2012
On what has been a slow news week away from the usual Suarez,
Rooney, Bale sagas, this story caught my eye. According to Greg Dyke, it will
be impossible for the World Cup to be played in the summer and will have to be
played in the winter.
Now, this is not someone without any
influence in the game, this is a man who’s part of the FA and should in essence
know what he’s talking about, so to my mind that means there is a strong
possibility that this is being talked about seriously.
Now, I have a few issues here. As a
Welshmen, I know the chances are unless we can clone 11 Bale’s we are not going
to be there, but surely if the world cup can’t be fit around the domestic
seasons of the biggest leagues in the world, then how the hell did Qatar get
the world cup? There are conspiracy’s out there but I’m not getting into that
right now.
We could be in a position in 9 year’s time,
where the Premiership will be devalued. During the month of the tournament and
the month build up before hand, all the best teams will lose their best players
for 2 months.
It’s a long way off, but we will see what
happens, it just concerns me that a high profile member of the FA is talking
about this being a possibility.
5. League Cup Starts
This
week saw the start of the League Cup currently held by (uch) Swansea City.
There wasn’t too many surprises, but the biggest ones were Carlisle knocking
out Blackburn on penalty’s and Newport County knocking out Brighton.
Unfortunately for Newport County, their captain and ex Cardiff City youngster
Byron Anthony suffered a horrific injury.
The 2nd round draw has also been
made, with the biggest game appearing to be Liverpool V
Notts County. City have a tough game against Accrington Stanley, but I’m sure
the focus this season will not be on the cup competitions again this year.
By @haydngleed
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