UEFA have their priorities wrong.

For me, the Union of European Football Association have their priorities wrong. UEFA wants to kick out Manchester United, Chelsea and other sides who have growing debt. The problem is that they are trying their best to get rid of these clubs because of financial problems. However when dealing with clubs or national teams who chant racist and homophobic they only get small fines that they can pay out of their pocket. I just don't understand where they are coming from with this. The Association is supposed to be on the forefront of stamping out racism and yet it keeps on happening in alarming rates. In most instances nothing happens to them. All those people can just go back to the park and chant the same things and the club will just pay the fine, tell the supporters not to do it again and the cycle continues.

I am not saying that they don't need to punish those who have large debts. I am just saying that if you want to banish those who have those debts, I believe that you should also ban clubs who condone racism (and homophobia) or at least deduct points from them. Maybe it will lead to those clubs/national teams to tell their supporters to either stop their conduct, or ban them from the stadiums forever. They may even force them to play behind closed doors so that it will keep the small minority who do make those chants out. If that happens you may see some vigilantes among the fans who see these actions going on and do something about it. Only with firm action can you begin cutting down racism in stadiums.

Gallas' Tough Time/ Take Heed of this "Dream" Talk

I have been reading my new British newspaper online site (I used to read The Sun and now I read Daily Mail) and in it, William Gallas states that he is having the worst time of his career. It is about time that he took responsibility for his liabilities. To Sir William: Ever since you've gotten the captain's armband for Arsenal, you have struggled mightily and just haven't been able to pull out the same form that made you a good player before you decided to leave Chelsea. Maybe you should not be captain for Arsenal anymore. It is too much responsibility for you. The fact is that you are not a very good leader and that is okay. We all cannot be leaders. Then again it does not make you a follower either. I am not the leader type but personally, when I get on the field, I try to do my thing. That is what you need to start doing: leading by example. You do not need the armband to show your skills. It isn't necessary.

If I were an Arsenal fan I would be afraid of what Fabregas has just said. Even though he did confirm that he was committed 100% to Arsenal, he said recently that going to back to his youth club (Barcelona) would be a dream for him and he would like to go back there when he can. That is a dangerous thing to say, even though he says that he is fully committed to Arsenal. I remember another player (Christiano Ronaldo) saying it was a dream to go to a Spanish club and then we had to deal with a summer of whether he was staying or going. Plus he has been speaking to his ex-teammate Aliaksandr Hleb, who is at Barcelona at the moment. The fact that he has not ruled out means that he could possibly go to Barcelona next season. It is going to be interesting what happens at the end of this season if they don't win a trophy, because if Arsenal does not win one for a fourth consecutive year, Cesc will weigh the pros and cons and Barcelona will try to pull him in. The thing is that I don't even know what Arsene would do: he might think well 'I can just make another Fabregas, it's nothing'. Thus making more Arsenal fans frustrated about getting rid of their star players.

SWP back in form..

I did not realize that Shaun Wright Phillips went back to Man City until he scored two goals in his first game. I know that Man City is happy to have him back and I know that he is happy to be back with them. With three goals in three in three Premier League games back with the side and he also added a goal tonight in their UEFA Cup match against Omonia Nicosia.

Now we all said that his three seasons in Chelsea were a bust. He only scored four goals for his three seasons there. However I think he learned how to be a true pro with his experiences in Chelsea. He saw how other star players handled themselves in pressure situations and he made rare appearances that got his experience up. So as for his performances in the royal blue, they were a bust, but I believe Manchester City have an experienced and even better pro than they had when they let him go to Manchester City. And I'm glad for him, especially since he is repping the lil fellows. So go SWP go!

Two different managers...One Team

Now, we have seen Chelsea for the first month of the season and I'm not going to crown them championship already or anything but they look darn good. And I am just going to assume what Jose Mourinho would say if they were to win the Premier League and/or the Champions League, it will probably go something like this: "Well, he (Scolari) has accomplished all this with my players." This statement is flawed in many ways but I'm not going to really discuss that. I'm going to try and discuss how two different managers formed this Chelsea team into a dangerous team for anyone playing them.

Now we know how Jose Mourinho manages his teams. He finds ways to counter and score and also how to bog down to get his results. His style was not always the greatest, he will be the first to admit this, but they got the job done. Meanwhile you have Scolari coming in and he wants the ball moving very fast. You will not see his Chelsea squad booming balls into Drogba for him to just hold it up. He wants his guys for the most part to keep the ball on the ground and be able to express themselves and not stay in one spot like a machine or something like that.

Now how does this come together? Think of this team playing the lower teams in the Premiership or even the weaker opponents of the Champions League on the road because believe or not you need to beat them to win championships because they are the competition that you are suppose to win. These teams will try to intimidate teams like the Chelseas, Man Utds, Arsenals of the world. They don't plan on playing attractive soccer, they just want to put ten men behind the ball and counter attack. Scolari is going to want to play attractive soccer, keep the ball and find ways to score, but what if that is not necessarily working at the moment? What if their scare tactics are working for the first 45 minutes of the game? Now you can bring out the same players that Mourinho had and they can find a way to score goals as dirty and as cheap as anyone, then once you can get that first one no matter how it is, the flood gates will open and that's the different between this team who were bullied by a Stoke City for a half and then turned up the heat on them, and an immature who wants to walk the ball in the net ALWAYS and ends up losing to a Hull City side (by the way I do like the Arsenal even though I'm criticizing them). The strong team knows how to just get the result and look at the next game. Mourinho and now Scolari have helped to form this side in being a favorite to win everything they enter because they know how to win by any means possible.