Because or their strong showing in this year’s Euro Cup, Russia’s back in Fifa after 11 years. Good for them!!!
Spekaing of FIFA, I just found this great bio on FIFA grand puba Michel Platini.
Kind of a wierd article here. Shane O’Rourke, head of Setanta North America, feels that the 50,000 Setanta subscribers in Canada will watch EPL games that the channel broadcasts instead of the Olympics. “My feeling is anybody who’s buying our channel is watching our channel. After all, they’re paying for it”, he says. Well, yeah they’re paying for it but the article makes no mention of polling data on this subject. And let’s not for get that this is a Tivo/DVR/time-shifted world where people can actually record games and watch them later.
FC Barcelona claims that Samuel Eto’o wants out of the club. I tend to ignore transfer rumours (all the Cristiano Ronaldo stuff annoyed me) but since the article lists Chelsea as one of the front runners to get him, I care about this one.
Sponsorship cash continues to flow into the Bundesliga, and at an increasing rate. Hopefully, teams other than Bayern Munich can use it to snag good players to win a league trophy.