Monday, December 03, 2007
Uncorinthian Spirit
Freshly relegated to the second tier of Brazilian football following a tumultuous few years, the Sao Paulo club Corinthians have reaped what they have sown.
The long saga of their relationship with the mysterious MSI group is ferociously complicated, but the American football scribe Thomas Dunmore has given a good summary of the whole sorry business on his excellent Pitch Invasion blog.
It is a telling irony that the first club to have seriously shot itself in the foot by getting involved in murky third-party ownership deals has a name redolent of a far more innocent era in sport. Not much Corinthian spirit to be perceived in the hunger for Russian oil and gas money shown by the management of the Brazilian club.
The lesson to be learned is surely that third-party ownership of players is a potential cancer of the modern game, as Michel Platini has already indicated. News of Corinthians' relegation should be pinned up prominently on noticeboards at any other club considering entering into the sordid world of go-betweens and money-laundering that constitutes third-party ownership.
The long saga of their relationship with the mysterious MSI group is ferociously complicated, but the American football scribe Thomas Dunmore has given a good summary of the whole sorry business on his excellent Pitch Invasion blog.
It is a telling irony that the first club to have seriously shot itself in the foot by getting involved in murky third-party ownership deals has a name redolent of a far more innocent era in sport. Not much Corinthian spirit to be perceived in the hunger for Russian oil and gas money shown by the management of the Brazilian club.
The lesson to be learned is surely that third-party ownership of players is a potential cancer of the modern game, as Michel Platini has already indicated. News of Corinthians' relegation should be pinned up prominently on noticeboards at any other club considering entering into the sordid world of go-betweens and money-laundering that constitutes third-party ownership.
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In some respects third party ownership of players is a problem but for many South American clubs it is the only way the can get or hang onto players because they simply don't have the financial backing and power than teams in Europe possess.
...In some respects third party ownership of players is a problem but for many South American clubs it is the only way the can get or hang onto players because they simply don't have the financial backing and power than teams in Europe possess....
That's just a fact of modern football life, though. It's the same for us.
It doesn't mean you have to get into bed with shonks to stay afloat, unless you've managed your club badly to start with, IMO.
That's just a fact of modern football life, though. It's the same for us.
It doesn't mean you have to get into bed with shonks to stay afloat, unless you've managed your club badly to start with, IMO.
I'm not on topic, but do you have a copy of the fateful Australia vs Iran game, or do you know where one might be obtained? The one with the serial pest Peter Hore running onto the pitch? None other than the said serial pest himself has been hassling me to try to track down a copy of the game.
...I'm not on topic, but do you have a copy of the fateful Australia vs Iran game, or do you know where one might be obtained?...
Hi Hamish,
My good friend Shane Davis (the ausfootballreview.com man) is currently uploading it all onto YouTube. You can do a search there and I'm sure you'll find it.
What explanation does Mr. Hoare give for his idiotic act, by the way?
Hi Hamish,
My good friend Shane Davis (the ausfootballreview.com man) is currently uploading it all onto YouTube. You can do a search there and I'm sure you'll find it.
What explanation does Mr. Hoare give for his idiotic act, by the way?
http://youtube.com/user/Hirald0 is the page concerned.
Mikey, is there any chance that you could burn some DVDs of these old games that you've got your hands on? Especially the 86 world cup that you were talking about last week, and the old Socceroo games.
Cheers
Mikey, is there any chance that you could burn some DVDs of these old games that you've got your hands on? Especially the 86 world cup that you were talking about last week, and the old Socceroo games.
Cheers
Actually, the link I just posted has Arabic commentary. I didn't find an english one but I didn't look very hard.
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