It may be a vast contrast from the peak of his career in 2005, a year in which he proved himself to be the best player in the world and received the Ballon d’Or, in addition to the numerous trophies he won with European champions Barcelona, but Ronaldinho is still showing glimpses of his Brazilian flair; something he holds in abundance.
After transfer embargos, numerous delays in the publication of club finances, the President being arrested for money laundering, Birmingham City would be forgiven for the avoidance of the constant of the field unsettlement the club has persisted to attract in recent years. However, with Peter Pannu, the acting chairman at St Andrews whilst president Carson Yeung remains incarcerated in the far east ahead of a November hearing for financially-related crimes, looking for outside investment, the Blues’ soap opera mybe about to take another twist in its far-fetched plot-lines.
It is something of a guilty pleasure but everyone likes a good mass brawl on the football pitch and this is a good one.
You could evoke the memory of Gary Speed on 6 different occasions in Nova Sad on Tuesday night as on a night where all home nations saw a stalling reversion back to the reality at hand in qualifying for Brazil in two year’s time, it was Wales’ result in Group A that stood out as the most startlingly significant for the observer, whilst those connected with the post-Gary Speed era begin to murmur the prospect of a change in manager in haste.
Every football fan knows if you want something a bit mad and zany, you go to South America home of the word “loco”.
As football’s ugly side, in this case the pathetic brawl between Crawley and Bradford at Valley Parade back in March, still has ratifications for those who were involved, it is Rotherham manager Steve Evans who has again been hit with punishment to plunge his reputation further into the low embers of footballing disrespect.
Stuart Pearce and his Under-21 side booked themselves a favourable draw for the Euro2013 playoffs on Friday, despite the lack of starlets such as Oxlade-Chamberlain, Butland, and Kyle Walker, who have all been on full England duty.
Many a sportsman’s autobiography has described going into the ‘zone’ when crossing the white line on to the field of play.