'Kevin Parker, the general secretary of the Manchester City Supporters
Club, said: "It's the most expensive amount I can ever remember paying
for a ticket in my life, for a Sunday afternoon game which is live on
satellite television."And it's not as if finding a television to
watch the game on is difficult nowadays. Even if the game wasn't live,
to charge £62 to watch it is ridiculous, but to charge that amount when
people can see it live on TV is crazy."'
'The top London clubs are notoriously expensive and Arsenal are the dearest
of the lot now the wage bill is so high, as a result of having to pay
players exorbitant amounts to prevent them leaving for, er, Manchester
City. It would be wrong to pin the blame for high ticket prices
elsewhere on City supporters – the club did not stop to check with its
fanbase before doing its bit to contribute to the inflationary rise by
throwing stupid money at players such as Robinho and Emmanuel Adebayor –
but what City have to come to terms with is that since winning the
title they are Category A, top drawer, and will be priced accordingly.'
'Statistics from Barcelona's La Liga campaign sum up Alves' minimal
impact. Alba has contributed two goals and four assists from 15 starts,
Adriano has scored five times from nine starts and even Montoya has
provided two assists from four starts. Alves has begun 10 matches, yet
hasn't directly contributed to a single Barcelona goal.
'
'The top London clubs are notoriously expensive and Arsenal are the dearest
of the lot now the wage bill is so high, as a result of having to pay
players exorbitant amounts to prevent them leaving for, er, Manchester
City. It would be wrong to pin the blame for high ticket prices
elsewhere on City supporters – the club did not stop to check with its
fanbase before doing its bit to contribute to the inflationary rise by
throwing stupid money at players such as Robinho and Emmanuel Adebayor –
but what City have to come to terms with is that since winning the
title they are Category A, top drawer, and
'Since moving to England 10 years ago, Proffitt has focused on portraying
working man's life. 'Football is central to who we are and where we
come from,' he said. Proffitt's paintings are inspired in part by
surrealism and cubism, and are created using layers of acrylic on
canvas. The colour and texture is steadily built up over a period of
several days before the details, collage elements and lettering are
added. Proffitt was commissioned last season to produce the cover
artwork for West Bromwich Albion's programmes and is this season working
with Port Vale and Aberdeen.'
'There is a new mood of militancy about west African football. The buildup
to previous Cups of Nations has often been dominated by will-he-won't-he
sagas as big-name players decide whether they really want to take a
month out of the league season to go to play for their countries. This
year, the coaches have hit back. The Ghana
coach, Kwesi Appiah, on Monday omitted Marseille's André Ayew from his
squad after the Marseille winger reportedly turned up late for a squad
get-together; he follows Nigeria's
Steve Keshi, who had already refused to select Peter Odemwingie and
Shola Ameobi on the grounds they didn't seem bothered enough about
representing their country.'
