A column/blog you might enjoy

[thfcsteff]

Sorry for this shameless self-whoring, but check it out...you might enjoy it...
or not...

http://englishsoccer.wordpress.com/

 

[dcarney75]

You're writing's great, and I'm loving the piece which may or may not be about a current (for now) Spurs striker!

 

[thfcsteff]

Thanks mate...

Please pas it on to not only fellow Yids but others who might appreciate the spirit behind it...

 

[hughy]

Thanks for the link. The entry related to Berbatov wasn't to my fancy, however. Read through it, not really a meaningful enough point behind it.

 

[lily_lane]

Sorry for this shameless self-whoring, but check it out...you might enjoy it...
or not...

http://englishsoccer.wordpress.com/

Cheers for the link Steff, will check it out. :up:

However on first inspection I'm Eek to discover you're a Steffan.

I thought I'd been chatting to a fellow lady all this time and Steff was short for Steffanie.

 

[SpurSince57]

Like it. A lot. About 3,000,000 times better than so-called 'blogs' from Bertie Bullshit (AKA Harry Hotspur) et al.

 

[thfcsteff]

Like it. A lot. About 3,000,000 times better than so-called 'blogs' from Bertie Bullshit (AKA Harry Hotspur) et al.

Thanks 57...thanks for checking it out anyway Hughy, can't be liked by everyone but I appreciate you checking mate...Lily, yeah, sorry about that, I am the anti-bird my dear, indeed, if there's a woman that looks like me, get surgery and fast!!!!!!!

I was amused to see that the club officially insist Berbatov was dropped...not that I know for sure he wasn't, but I know what I believe!!!!!!

 

[guiltyparty]

I like your writing mate, nice blog, I will check in regularly. However, the whole 'Berba's the devil' thing is getting a bit tedious. The problem really isn't his actions, it's the level that player power has risen to. If any of us did what he did at our jobs, we'd get a reprimand then we'd be fired. Because football has become an insane moon orbiting the real world, there are no repercussions in his line of work. All this 'he signed a contract' stuff won't wash - you can't expect someone to know what his career will be like in a year's time, let alone four, five or six or however long clubs are trying to tie players into nowadays. It's a fallacy. If he didn't live up to our expectations, we'd off him in a second (hello Rasiak), so why shouldn't this work the other way in a fair employment situation? People still try to base football in an old-school world of loyalty and tribes, but it's not - it's now a workplace, and Berbatov is an ambitious, talented employee. Unfortunately, football's got to a point where it can't afford to have any kind of disciplinary system in place to restore order or else it will be out of pocket (just look at the disgusting way Newcastle took back Barton and didn't make him take a pay cut after it emerged that several teams would take him on on his wages). So while I'm angry at Berbatov like a lot of you, it's football's fault.

 

[tippspur59]

Its a good read.

 

[KentuckyYid]

I enjoyed it too

 

[thfcsteff]

I like your writing mate, nice blog, I will check in regularly. However, the whole 'Berba's the devil' thing is getting a bit tedious. The problem really isn't his actions, it's the level that player power has risen to. If any of us did what he did at our jobs, we'd get a reprimand then we'd be fired. Because football has become an insane moon orbiting the real world, there are no repercussions in his line of work. All this 'he signed a contract' stuff won't wash - you can't expect someone to know what his career will be like in a year's time, let alone four, five or six or however long clubs are trying to tie players into nowadays. It's a fallacy. If he didn't live up to our expectations, we'd off him in a second (hello Rasiak), so why shouldn't this work the other way in a fair employment situation? People still try to base football in an old-school world of loyalty and tribes, but it's not - it's now a workplace, and Berbatov is an ambitious, talented employee. Unfortunately, football's got to a point where it can't afford to have any kind of disciplinary system in place to restore order or else it will be out of pocket (just look at the disgusting way Newcastle took back Barton and didn't make him take a pay cut after it emerged that several teams would take him on on his wages). So while I'm angry at Berbatov like a lot of you, it's football's fault.

Agreed mate, don't disagree at all...dunno if you fished through some of the entries, but I have been fiercely critical of the 'business' of football well outside our situation. Indeed, the Luton fiasco has me furious!!!!!

Again, thanks for taking the time to check it, and hope you keep on checking in on it...I don't always focus on our issues for the record...

Cheer mate,

Steff