How Global Financial Crisis is Affecting Rugby Football in Europe

In recent times, the implications of the Crisis on sports, rugby included, has began to show. Teams have started to feel the pinch and many have started taking measures to brace for the looming tough times ahead.

While every rugby team aims to crown their season with some sort of silverware to mark their success, more and more teams are becoming wary when it comes to signing new players. This is due to the high transfer fees demanded for players.

Continental Glory
As a result of this, club coaches are making do with what they have, even at the expense of continental glory. Rugby clubs in Europe seem to be more concerned with maintaining their top flight status in their domestic rugby leagues and less concerned with concurring the continent. And can you blame them? To win a continental trophy like the Heineken Cup requires a team to have depth in the squad. To attain this depth, a team needs to have a few big name signings on their team sheet.

€700 000 Spending
To have such players a club has to splash out about €700 000. But with the cash crunch starting to bite hard on the sport in Europe, few clubs if any are willing to spend such an amount on one player.

Negative BalanceSheet
The situation is the same across the board. Big clubs are also crying out for cash injection; with many barely been able to remain liquid. Many have reported negative results in their end year results.  Read more... (528 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

March 15th, 2010 by admin
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Briefly Examining The Football Controversy

By far the most popular sport worldwide is football. Every year, millions of fans come together to experience the exciting moments offered by football players in venues around the globe. Being a team sport, football not only exercises the human body and mind, but also brings people together to produce measurable results. With famous players from every country, like the Brazilians Pelé and Zico, or the Hungarian Puskás, football-which is usually referred to as Association football in order to distinguish it from rugby football-has literally been worshiped mainly by male fans.

At least once, every boy in almost every neighborhood has been invited to participate in a friendly match of football -also known as “soccer.” Promoted by international competitions like the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, both held every four years, football has become the main subject of several discussions held among men and a cause of tremendous joy or misery. Watching a great goal or loosing a game can be the subjects of debate or celebration amongst football fans, sports writers and athletes alike. But, most importantly, football unites and excites people of all ages everywhere in the world regardless of their religion, their culture, or their political and ethnical backgrounds.  Read more... (444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

March 11th, 2010 by admin
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American Football And The Nfl

American football has grown an enormous worldwide fan base since the American Professional Football Association was formed in 1920, with the first game being played on October 3rd of that year. From that day on the sport has grown to be what it is today with a bigger fan base in America than Baseball, and a fan base that follows every season of American Football avidly from every corner of the globe. The NFL was born out of the APFL two years later in 1922 and eventually became the Major League of American Football.

As mentioned, as the sport grew into a phenomenon so too has the fan base with the love of the sport growing increasingly each year that in the American Football season of 2008 it was unknown of the number of people in the global fan base. These fans attach themselves to a team and are proud of their team in the good times and stick by them in the harder times. As avid American Football fans they love to display there admiration for teams and players through wearing the teams jersey´s, drinking from their teams mugs and the luckier ones owning signed apparel such as magazines and American Footballs.  Read more... (454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

March 2nd, 2010 by admin
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