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With clubs getting desperate for overnight success, the concept of time is becoming an elusive commodity for managers
Two managers have been booted out of Premiership clubs after three games of the season, and although no one is crying in the streets at the departure of Kenny Dalglish or Christian Gross, the circumstances of their dismissal speak volumes for the feverish state of the game.
Neil Reynolds finds out more about the Baggies' visionary chairman
Distinguishing Features Fiftyish, with dark hair and a light moustache which gives the impression that one or other is false; they’re not.
The annual statement of football's accounts does not make good reading for fans of Nationwide clubs. Patrick Harverson looks at the numbers
Ask most fans how they think the European commission’s 1995 Bosman ruling, which allowed out-of-contract players to move clubs on free transfers, has most changed domestic football and they will talk of the hundreds of foreign players who make a living in England today.
Amazingly, not everyone in Europe has welcomed the proposed super league. WSC correspondents sum up reactions in three of the key countries
Germany
When the plans for a European super league were first presented in the German media, reactions were as vague as the proposals themselves. Most Bundesliga club officials grieved over the loss of morality in sport in a rather populist manner, knowing that the vast majority of German teams would be excluded from the feeding troughs of the ESL and may have their very existence threatened. But even for those who will be involved in it, the new era may bring about just as many problems as advantages.
Even without their English based "stars" Jamaica triumphed in the annual Shell Caribbean Cup. Billy Mitchell witnessed the events in Trinidad
It’s been quite a summer for the Caribbean. Jamaica played in the World Cup finals, Dwight Yorke from Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) was involved in a £12.6 million transfer. Nevis threatened to secede from St Kitts and become the world’s smallest nation state (8,000 people). In amongst all that was the Shell Caribbean Cup.