Old Firm tug of war
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- Written by Donald Ramsay
It never ceases to amaze just how quickly the balance of power shifts between Celtic and Rangers, as they vie for dominance of Scottish football.
It never ceases to amaze just how quickly the balance of power shifts between Celtic and Rangers, as they vie for dominance of Scottish football.
All over the country kids and big kids alike would have come down stairs on Christmas morning to find a copy of FIFA 12 or Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 (PES) under the tree. It’s fair to say that more people would have been enjoying the beautiful game on Xbox or PS3 than would have at the local park this Christmas.
This week Rotherham United bucked a trend by not selling the naming rights to their new stadium. So how come the League Two side could ‘afford’ to bypass the lucrative naming rights idea when many of their Premier League counterparts could not?
There’s a joke doing the rounds just now that’s worth telling here. It goes like this: What have Scottish football clubs and David Cameron’s Coalition Government got in common? The answer, of course, is that they’re both out of Europe this side of Christmas.
The impact of Twitter as a whole cannot be understated. The social networking phenomenon currently has over 170 million users and reportedly sees over 250 million tweets per day. The world seems to have embraced Twitter and it would be naïve to think that Football was behind on this trend. Far from it in fact.