Ben McAleer 
Chelsea’s Russian owner isn’t known for being a tolerant man. We are fast approaching the 10th anniversary of Abramovich’s takeover of the Chelsea, as in the summer of 2003 he pursued his dream of owning the champions of Europe by purchasing the club.
Deadline day the day that every football fan looks forward to at the end of both the summer and winter windows. Ruining productivity all over the country as people sit in front of Twitter or Sky Sports all day in the hope they see their team can pull off a coup on the last day of the window. The final day of the windows have become one of the biggest events in the footballing calendar over the last few seasons.
Amidst all the deadline day transfer madness and expectations there was a bit of news that filtered through that shows that English Football hasn’t gone completely mad.
After one of the most bizarre managerial appointments, where we saw ex Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola take the Munich hot seat, although last years Champions League finalist are one of the most famous clubs in world football, it was such a shock to most as Chelsea pursuit of the spaniards has been well documented came to an end.
Despite being 12th in the Premier League table, West Ham are in danger of being sucked into the relegation battle. After the game against Chelsea on December 1st, no one would have listened to you if you said that West Ham would be 7 points away from the relegation zone in 8 games time.
Arsenal and Liverpool meet at the Emirates this evening in the pick of the mid-week Premier League fixtures.
I must start this article with a sincere apology. It seems that I have committed the heinous crime of living outside of Manchester, which somehow means my support for Manchester United is much less than that of a scouser that supports Liverpool or a cockney West Ham fan.
I was recently in Ecuador, South America, to spend time with a team called Sociedad Deportiva Aucas. It is a club that has fallen from grace in the last 10 years and now lies in the third tier of the league system.