Welcome to the blog of the Football Mad Blog Man, this my view on all things football and in no way represents the views of Christchurch United Juniors or Seniors, just my views, no matter how slanted or twisted, of the beautiful game, well not so beautiful if you saw the end of the Chelsea/Barcelona game but more on that later.

Glad to say that football in NZ seems to be on the up and up, the game may be some players down but the standard is definitely improving, and the number of female players coming through the grades is fantastic. Now we just need for organisations like Sparks to start funding the game properly and stop football being the poor relation in sports.

Also it would be good if Football NZ and Mainland could review their fees, why do we pay so much in fees compared to rugby and the like, beats me. Even horse racing, hardly a poor mans sport, gets more money than football, actually it seems that they get an awful lot of the funding dollar, go figure.

Hmmm, Chelsea may feel hard done by in the draw with Barcelona, well in fact they were robbed off a win and thats coming from a Liverpool fan, but the way the Chelsea players handled themselves leaves a lot to be desired. No player should man handle the ref during the game let alone chase him down the pitch, and Didier Drogba's rant at the ref at the end of the game was quiet disgusting. Come guys, you are grown men with thousands of kids world wide that look up to you, try to behave yourselves and play the game with respect.

And what about Ronaldo's reaction to be subbed, grow up Ronaldo, its a team sport not a one man show....

Well looks Newcastle could stay up after all, they came from 1 nil down to win 3 - 1, maybe, just maybe, the magic of Shearer is rubbing off on the players.

And the Transfer Gossip has already started, Ronaldo go to Real Madrid, hang on, no he's not, wait, yes he is and so on. Liverpool are being linked to almost every player who has ever kicked a football, Man City are going to buy every player who has ever kicked a football, Man Utd linked to any player with a value of 30 million pounds or more, and so it go's on, and on, and on, and on.............

Well thats this weeks rant, agree, disagree or just don't care..it's up to you.

Cheers
Football Blog Man