This weekend’s events will have been analyzed and dissected in a million different ways b various websites and journalists. So, this week, I will give you guys a short blog post. I want you all to think about the 7 questions that I have decided to put out there, a lot of the addressing the power that money brings in football. Some questions will remind you how “expensive” some decison can be, as they sometimes end up costing certain people their jobs. Discuss and debate these issues in the coments section, or amongst your colleagues at work or, of course, on twitter.
- So, what have we learnt from the English Premier League kids? You spend a lot of money, you will win a lot of trophies. Manchester City are now Premier League champions. Chelsea FC are now UEFA Champions League winners. Is this only the beginning of the sugerdaddy era in top-level football?
- ·Chelsea fired former coach, Ander Villas-Boas, in March 2012 during his first season in charge. Roberto Di Matteo, AVB’s assistant at the time, takes over and goes on to lead Chelsea to an FA Cup and UEFA Champions league double (along with automatic qualification for next year’s UEFA Champions League). Orlando Pirates, suspend and then fire coach Julio Leal midway through the season due to most probably their bad performance in the CAF Champions League. Augusto Palacious, takes over and goes on to win the Premier Soccer League title, thereby ensuring that Pirates win the domestic treble for the second consecutive year. Is stability overrated? Can we assume that firing the coach in the middle of the season isn’t always a bad idea? Should we ask the Family Business FC (Kaizer Chiefs) for their advice?
- Most of us watched the UEFA Champions League Final. Most of us were almost about take a trip to dreamland due to pure boredom (no thanks to Chelsea). Was that Chelsea performance a great display of defensive football, or was that a display of anti-football? Is there such a thing as anti-football?
- Alessandro Del Piero is 37 years old. One of my all-time favourite midfielders, Paul Scholes is 37 years old and is still pulling the strings at the most successful club in English football. Didier Drogba – a beast of a striker -is 34 years old. Big-Benni McCarthy is also only 34 years old. Siyabonga “Bhele” Nomvethe is 34 years old. So, at what age is a player “too old”? Pitso, I am looking at you, sir.
- And, finally. ONE BILLION RANDS. One billion Rands to be spent on only TWO soccer clubs in South Africa. Really, Vodacom? Really?
Thomas Monyepao
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