The news the Fabrice Muamba has today had a “brief chat” with his Manager Owen Coyle is a great fillip to everyone who cares about football, or who was watching the game on Saturday either at White Hart Lane, or as I was, on TV. What we have seen in the last few days really shows that football, for all its faults can still be a tremendous force for good. It can bring people together in a way that other sports, and indeed pretty much anything else, cannot. We have seen football fans p....

As Derek McGovern put it in the Daily Mirror this week: “since the start of December, Manchester City have kissed goodbye to the Champions League, to the FA Cup and to the Carling Cup, but not to Carlos Tevez.” And so it was that perhaps the most surprising aspect of the transfer window is the fact that Carlos is still at the Etihad. In recent months it was said he was going to PSG, to one of the Milan Clubs, back to South America, that he was going to retire from football, but nothi....

If you have never heard of Seyi Ojo it might be a name to keep an eye on. The player is a striker has been subject of much speculation recently and last week signed for Liverpool, who pinched him from under the noses of Chelsea. Nothing especially unusual in that. Except that Ojo is 14 years old. Such transfers have become increasingly common recently. 15 year old Midfielder George Green has moved from Bradford to Everton last month, for example, he is widely being touted in the press as “....

Last week I said that 5aside.co.uk 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 qualifier....