Sportsocracy - 4th Edition - Premiership football fixtures going global and other sports issues.

Sportsocracy - 4th Edition - Premiership football fixtures going global and other sports issues.

What money spinning encounter this could be. An extra possible league fixture for all premiership clubs to play, which would be situated on foreign soil, on a continent with the right facilities to accomodate a football match.

This could mean you get a match e.g. Fulham versus Middlesbrough - I hear you echo - what an encounter to see the premiership brand expand to foreign territory, anyways to be honest hardcore fulham and boro fans will be irate and undeniably "pissed off" that they will have to spend astronomical amounts (pending if easyjet is available and where the match is situated), to go abroad to see a match which they could have gladly gone to on home soil for a small price of the fee which they would have to pay to go abroad to watch it. Again its great for the 'bigwigs'the people in charge and its not fair on the real fans who pay week in week out to watch their team play home and away in england.

All premiership clubs eventually agreed it was a good idea, strangely some of them changing their minds and all it took was a bit of a nudge (a wedge of a couple of million each). Other than that is seems preposterous that this could go ahead, again I think its a fairytale story and a total irrational and un-imaginable idea or dispicable proportions.

For once im glad that Sepp Blatter has said something reasonable but brilliantly rash, he promised if this goes ahead it will have effects upon the English FAs bid for any world cups or major footballing events. Go Sepp, what a venemous volley to the idea he gave. All in all he is right for saying this because domestic league football and its fixtures should stay in the country it has always played its domestic football in.

If fixtures start moving around everywhere it would get silly, football would break down, the core society of fans would lose interest and eventually it would look nothing more than a smorgaasboard of premiership fixtures thrown across the globe on a Harlem Globetrotters type tour on a footballing scale of 20 clubs.

Sponsors would also be rubbing their hands together and the media would also think what a great idea lets plug it, mainly because of possible TV rights deals.

I sincerely hope that this idea does not get took seriously because if it does football would start to crumble and go on a downward spiral and lose the trust of the solid, home foundational, support.

On other football levels what a weekend for English FA cup football. The semi-finalists consist of 3 championship sides : - West Bromwich Albion, Barnsley, Cardiff City and the only premiership opposition left, the Harry Redknapp led Portsmouth. Barnsley and Cardiff gave the most shocking results of the weekend with Barnsley dispatching World Class opposition in Chelsea with a single Odejayi goal and Cardiff giving Middlesbrough a 2 nil thumping.

In the weekends SPL ties, Aberdeen nearly upset Celtic fans, when they led Celtic right upto the 91st minute. Celtic looked likely that they could be dumped out of the only cup competition they are left in. With 2 minutes added onto the 90, celtic needed a miracle, possibly one straight from the gods, ironically it was possibly from greek uber-god, Zeus himself.

The miracle came When substitute greek internationalist Giorgios Samaras arrived in the opposing box in the right channel and played a perfectly timed ball into the defensively filled aberdeen 8 yards box. It was then left upto Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink to powerfully slide the ball home to set up the replay at Celtic Park, 1-1 draw. To be a Celtic fan nowadays requires a good healthy heart, and the only team that requires a GP check up before watching a match.

The replay is tuesday 18th of March, roll on, roll on, lets hope its another Celtic masterclass, god we need one.

As for the Kopites, tuesday evening was a special one as they celebrated a 1-0 victory over Inter Milan at the San Siro due to a finely struck long range effort from Fernando Torres, to seal the two legged tie at 3-0 on aggregate to the reds. Four british teams are now in the quarter finals of the champions league. Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool make up the English quartet, with Barcelona, Fenerbache, Roma, and Schalke 04 in the mixing pot as well, the quarter finals are going to be electric.

The champions league this time around will surely see another english team in the final or will it whats your views?