The shocking events of Sunday morning mean that all other ideas for blogs this week might seem pointless and rather trivial. Sometimes, just sometimes Football isn’t the most important thing in the world and the tragic passing of Gary Speed aged at just 42 proves that. The inquest into his death starts today and it would be entirely wrong of us to speculate as to what happened. But what we can say with certainty is that Gary touched lives far beyond the fans of the clubs he played for. Eve....

The European Club Association (ECA) made itself some headlines last week when the President of Barcelona, Sandro Rossell (who just happens to be the Vice President of the organisation) said that the Premier League should be reduced to 16 teams. This reduction, he said, needed to happen: “We have to convince the Premier League to reduce to 16 [teams]. We could perhaps play Barcelona versus Manchester United on Saturdays. It wasn’t just the EPL he wanted to see slashed, though. He ....

Last week I said that Leisure Leagues would come up with some ideas to end the International Break. If you recall I was rather annoyed that, last week, for the third time this season, there was no football in the top two divisions. It is a ridiculous situation, really bordering on the farcical So, in a bid to help the authorities I am going to come up with some suggestions that cold stop this happening in future seasons. So starting with the most radical: 1) Scrap friendlies and allow all qualif....

So for the third time already this season football in the top two divisions takes a break We had a daft stoppage after three games, another one barely a month ago and now, for two weeks there is no football in the Premier League or championship. And the reason for this? Our old friend, the international break. It never used to be like this. It doesn’t seem all that long ago – but in reality was probably 20 years ago, the same as most things that seem recent turn out to be! – th....

Wolves Manager Mick McCarthy was pretty unequivocal last week after his side came from 2-0 down to grab a point against Swansea. During the game a section of Wolves fans had chanted “you don’t know what your doing” at the Wanderers boss, and he seemed a touch upset by this post match. “Let me clear something up. It (the negative support) doesn't help. Let's not give them any credit,” he blustered. "Let's not give any of the dissenting voices, the mindless idi....