Footaballers get Twitter warning

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Footaballers get Twitter warning While the instant communication that comes with the social media explosion has brought about some new problems. Defining the limit of free speech on the anonymous internet, where the worlds of public and private collide, is one of the biggest challenges that today’s lawmakers face, according to ITV Football’s Sean Martin.

As usual, where politics go sport surely follows, and the recent furore over the super   injunction unceremoniously dumped the footballing world into the eye of a huge political storm. Whilst freedom of expression has been protected, and blanket censorship condemned, this hasn’t yet gone universal and similar protection has yet to be afforded to other sportsmen.

The fact that Twitter has now been banned by many sports teams is posing a real threat to the freedom of speech for players. Two of the teams from the Ryder Cup of 2010, the All Blacks world cup squad and the Leicester Tigers have already got bans in place and Alex Ferguson, who has expressed his disdain for Twitter more than once, is reported to be considering doing the same at Manchester United.

The censorship of Twitter is spreading like wildfire through sport, without any acknowledgement at all that this blatantly flouts their fundamental commitment to the freedom of speech. Freedom of expression needs reactive and not proactive censorship and should not be treat as if access to it is akin to drugs or firearms, as speech does not pose danger.

Jim Jefferies rejects Hearts offer

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Jim Jefferies rejects Hearts offer After being replaced as manager by the former coach of Sporting Lisbon Paulo Sergio, Jim Jefferies has turned down the offer by Hearts to become their director of football.

Jeffries sacking took place on Monday, and reports quickly emerged that 34 year old Sergio had been lined up to take over the reins at Tynecastle.

The one time Journeyman striker, who hails from Portugal, has been duly appointed and when Hearts confirmed his appointment they also announced that Jeffries had rejected their offer to stay at the club. Jeffries also released a statement, in which he voiced his disappointment at leaving the club, especially with the strong connection he had with the Hearts.

He went on to thank the club for the opportunity the club had given both him and Billy Brown over the past 18 months. He went onto say that while he appreciated the offer to stay at Hearts and develop in a new role, he didn’t think the time was right for him to make that move, but he may reconsider it in the future. He ended by wishing the staff and players the best of luck for the new season

The reports that Jeffries was on his way out the door first emerged on Monday following a meeting at the club. It’s understood that the players, probably thinking about their crucial Europa League second leg game against the Hungarian team Paks, were very unhappy when the news was delivered to them on Monday.

The players were the apparently told that they were getting a manager who had previous European experience and that they were to come to Tynecastle on Tuesday to meet that man. Ironically, Sergio’s Sporting Lisbon side were dumped out of the Europa Cup at the last 32 stage in February, by Rangers.

Arsenal pricing fans out of the Emirates stadium

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Arsenal pricing fans out of the Emirates stadium As well as being devoted, you have to be pretty well off to support Arsenal these days. It has been revealed that tickets for certain seats at the Emirates stadium are the dearest in the country. Not only do they charge £100 for these seats, they also have the dearest pies, with a chicken tikka filling coming in at a whopping £4.

Liverpool fans are the worst off overall however, their top tickets cost a much more affordable £48, but their cheapest tickets are £39, making them the priciest. This means that the cheapest day out for Liverpool fans adds up to £43.95, nearly three times what it would cost you at Newcastle.

The survey was held across all of the 104 clubs that make up the top 4 divisions in the English league and also the Scottish Premier League. It came as no real surprise that those who support London teams are often paying more for their match tickets. The top seats at Chelsea cost £87 while at Tottenham you will pay £80, but both clubs offer cheaper options, and a budget ticket at Chelsea will cost £23.50.

Further north they drop dramatically in price. The champions, Manchester United, offer seats for £35.60, while you can get into their neighbours Manchester City’s stadium for £25. Fans who support teams in the North West have the best deal, as some of the cheapest seats in the premiership, costing only £10, are available at Blackburn’s ground.

The prices of programmes also vary greatly, the dearest ones are £4 at Leeds, whilst Crawley charge a mere 50p.

Brazil slams the FA and Lord Triesman

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Brazil slams the FA and Lord Triesman The English FA and Lord Triesman, their ex-chairman, have received a scathing attack from the Brazilian Football head. The Football Association was branded by Ricardo Teixeira as pirates and he vowed that while he was in FIFA he would make their life as miserable as possible.

The Brazilian has become incensed at Lord Triesman for his accusations following the World Cup 2018/22 bidding war. Triesman suggested that Teixeira demanded to receive incentives for his votes during which time England eventually lost. Teixeira was cleared last May in a FIFA probe but is not ready just yet to forget and forgive.

Fabio Capello national coach and Alex Horne the general secretary of the FA will surely receive a cold reception upon arrival Thursday in Brazil for the qualifying drawing for the 2014 World Cup.

He said he will make their lives a living hell and while he is with FIFA at the Brazilian FA/CBF the English will not get a foot in the door. He has been quoted as saying the islanders, a name he refers to British with, are pirates just a bunch of pirates.

He says the accusations by Lord Triesman were complete nonsense. He feels the English are just upset since they lost. He says why not look me in eye and tell me I tried to do something as stupid as trying to get a bribe right there in the stands in front of everyone. For over the past two decades Teixeira has been on the executive committee of FIFA and will run as president in 2015 when Sepp Blatter ends his reign.

Revealing WAG book tells all

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Revealing WAG book tells all A Model has exposed the world of wannabes and WAGs in a new revealing book, after having previously dated at least three star footballers. Now writing freelance, Victoria Shelley, 31, partied in VIP lounges for three years with the most recognisable faces in football.

She witnessed sex acts women performed on one another, girls removing their breasts from their blouses and them following the stars to their hotels in desperation to bed a star footballer.  She saw players who were married have affairs constantly behind their unknowing wives backs.

She says she had short flings with two strikers that played Champions League and a one year relationships with a footballer in the Premier League. It was an addiction wanting to be a WAG. She said it would give her a buzz just being with someone that was idolized by millions.

It’s a Girl’s Game is the name of the new novel and tell through fictional characters, real-life stories. She saw two girls performing sex acts on one another while they sat on the knees of a very well recognized married player and for the six or eight that made it into the area of VIPs there were at least another two to three dozen outside wanting in.