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Listed below are comments made by Jack between Saturday, 2nd May 2009 and Tuesday, 1st December 2009.

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Spain can end Europe's historical failure 3:40pm on 01 Dec 2009 Phil, surely Fernando Llorente has a good chance of making the Spain squad, as he offers something different to the other Spanish strikers?
Maradona earns World Cup reprieve 11:38pm on 18 Nov 2009 I find it a shame that in the week that Uruguay (the first South American team to win the World Cup) are in a playoff we get articles about Brazil and Argentina.
Football's trusts must keep the faith 11:04pm on 21 Oct 2009 Looking at the examples of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and AFC Wimbledon and FC United over here, it is a lot easier to do if it is done from the start.

I could possibly see a fan trust taking over and running a League One/Two club or lower, but there is just too much money in the Premiership (and even the Championship) for a supporters trust to take over one of those clubs.

Imagine you need 100,000 members to take over Liverpool. With the club being worth roughly £400m (plus debt) that would need each member to put in £4,000. A big ask even before taking the current economic climate into consideration.

And if such a trust were to successfully run a club (at any level), I think it would only work as they do it in Spain i.e. members elect a president (or chairman as we call it) who then runs the club. Even then you have the farcical presidential campaigns where each candidate promises he will buy one of the current world superstars (or all of them in Florentino Pérez's case).

Ebbsfleet is another case of how it might work/go wrong.

An interesting (and thought provoking) topic.
Premier danger for South America 7:08pm on 21 Sep 2009 I do agree that this new 'home grown' player rule will encourage clubs to bring players over even earlier - and this could do more harm to youth development then good - but if FIFA decide to ban U18 players moving abroad it would make counting foreign players as homegrown a lot harder.
The amazing adventures of Kiwi striker Kris Bright 9:43pm on 03 Sep 2009 I'm sure he's not the first Kiwi to play outside of his own country, get over it.
2010's dress rehearsal 8:02pm on 29 Jun 2009 'The eight-team tournament won by Brazil was played in just four cities and more than 95% of the crowds were South African.

Next summer will be very different, with 500,000 foreign fans expected to descend on South Africa to watch 32 teams in 10 venues across the entire nation.'

Does this suggest that we wont suffer (as much) from the buzzing bee like vuvuzela noise?
Never ending story 7:59pm on 29 Jun 2009 The season ended after the international qualifiers a few weeks ago.
Review of the week 8:08pm on 20 Jun 2009 36, Steve Bruce was successor to Ricky Sbragia.
From prodigy to superstar 8:28pm on 26 May 2009 Three articles in two days Tim, we are being treated.

Many say Messi is not as good as Ronaldo but I feel Messi is better than Ronaldo was at Messi's age.
Glory hunting is not for me 10:20pm on 02 May 2009 This is what football should all be about. Supporting your local side (no matter how bad they are), going week in week out and experiencing the highs and lows.

Sadly though, nowadays it is assumed that you must follow a big club (because most people do) and when I tell someone that I support my local club they seem bemused that I don't support a big club as well.

Supporting a small club is great, not as many people know how s*** my team is, but I do miss the banter sometimes.

I think if more people supported their local team the gap between the big four and everyone else wouldn't be so vast.

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