It may not be a popular argument but I would be devastated the day that diving was completely removed from the modern game. Sure it sours the beauty and it’s ridiculous watching grown men cheat. But therein lies its own beauty.
Whilst discussing some football anecdotes over a game of five-a-side today, I remembered this gem I saw on the web a few months back. The clip shows something which to be honest is ridiculous.
How often have you heard “how much?! For him?!” or “he’s not worth that, not in a million years!” Sometimes clubs make transfers that seem ludicrous to an outsider and even to some insiders. In order to highlight this point, I will now show one transfer comparison, which I find to be baffling, that took place this season.
The closest us Brits usually get to the Danish Super League is when one of their teams, usually FC Copenhagen or this year Nordsjælland, gets battered by one of our lot in the Champions League group stages. This year, one youngster from Danish club AGF Aarhus is causing a stir right at the heart of English football.
My latest trip into the depths of some of the more obscure European leagues to try and find some Premier League worthy talent takes me to Switzerland. My trip took me to the oldest club in Swiss football, FC St Gallen.
The recent headline news about the huge centre of excellence for English Football got me thinking. What sort of squad can we expect, not in Brazil 2014 but in Russia 2018?
The Ukrainian league might not be classed as that obscure anymore and there are certainly some world-class players that play for the top clubs, notably Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kiev. One 23-year-old is setting a blistering pace for others trying to make a name for themselves in what can be a difficult league.
Today I thought I would do a bit of snooping into some of the European leagues we don’t look at all that often, and try and find some of the star players that play there. This blog looks specifically at the Swedish Allsvenskan and one player who is currently top scorer with an impressive 22 goals in 25 games.