Football Diary
by Patrick O'Connor
“ME mam says I can come out to play.”
No, this isn't the throw-away line from a young kid as he skips to the park with his mates but the likely conversation between Mason Bennett and Championship football club Derby County.
Football Diary
by Patrick O'Connor
THE race to find the next superstar is so intense that clubs will go to almost any length to snap up potential.
Take Premier League side Everton, they have just committed a reported TWO MILLION POUNDS to sign a 15 year old lad from League strugglers Bradford City.
THE sacking of Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson on Saturday morning was preceded a couple of days before by comments from the chief executive of the League Managers Association warning that clubs should not be “treated as the playthings of the super rich”.
Hodgson was one of four managers reportedly at risk from the axe along with Gerard Houllier at Aston Villa, Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea and Avram Grant at West Ham.
FORGET about tactically constipated football matches in the top leagues or the never-ending stream of European fixtures where substitutes have to study a spread-sheet with the coach before coming on. No, if it’s good, old-fashioned entertainment you’re after, you can’t beat the lower leagues in the Football League.