It’s impossible to keep this up season after season. The new stuff, added with caffeine, puts so much pressure on the cardio (vascular) system. Now you put into that painkillers or even anti-biotics (if they’re ill), it’s a minefield.” There have been calls for a ban on metal-bladed boots due to the serious injury and risk of injury one player can cause to an opponent. Chester may not be at this level much longer, their league position suggesting playoffs at least, and a swift return to the National League after last season’s relegation. The original club (owned by the notorious Stephen Vaughan) was wound up in March 2010. Supporters group City Fans United formed the new Chester FC later that year and moved into the vacant Deva Stadium. These days, Chester are guided by ex-Salford City management duo Bernard Morley and Anthony Johnson, who left Moor Lane in May over ‘irreconcilable differences around personal terms.’ Make of that what you will. Two defeats in February slowed Chester’s progress, and they arrive fifth in the league, nine points behind leaders York. In concluding the academic article, I pointed out that no Liverpool players have failed tests. I am not alleging any wrongdoing on their part. Nor am I intimating that they’re all on the juice. I’ve simply studied the support systems, those involved and what’s needed to achieve what they have achieved.

The Premier League has now become the most watched league in the world. It is broadcasted over 212 territories to 643 million homes worldwide.Development of programs: Football organisations are also developing programs to help youth and amateur athletes improve their skills and performance. These programs can include camps, clinics, and other activities that will help players hone their skills in the sport.

Twenty seven years later Uruguay again faced Argentina. This time the tie between the neighbours was in Montevideo in the inaugural World Cup Final. Ninety-three thousand supporters crammed into Estadio Centenario to see the hosts win 4-2. FIFA had awarded them the staging of the tournament due to a consensus that the country was the best team in the world. Uruguay had won gold at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, where they beat Switzerland 3-0, and retained their title at the 1928 games in Amsterdam, again victorious over Argentina. La Celeste had also won six of the previous twelve Copa Américas, but it was the World Cup final win which firmly cemented Uruguay’s place as international football’s first great team Questions need to be asked to why the FA or UEFA haven’t enforced a stricter regime on foreign owners controlling English clubs. Years previous Fifa President Sepp Blatter demanded a stricter regime in an attempt to end profiteering foreign raids on Premier League clubs. Sepp Blatter voiced his fear in 2008 of ‘foreign’ billionaires investing in English clubs, warning that the game is at a crossroads where the richer clubs will only get richer will those without wealthy benefactors will gradually decline in an uneven playing field, not prepared to spend vast sums to gain success;Naturally, CCFC’s activism didn’t start or end with bringing the Old Spotted Dog into fan ownership. Last summer, together with activists from feminist direct action group Sisters Uncut, IWGB union, No More Exclusions and two football teams for refugees, CCFC arranged a Kill the Bill football tournament to protest against increased police powers and the affront to human rights that was the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill. In 2018, Clapton members came together to create a one of a kind anti-fascist football shirt, using the colours of the International Brigades’ flag and the slogan ‘No Pasarán’, ‘they shall not pass’ to celebrate the international fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. In the fabric of the shirt and in the collaborative way it was made, the values of anti-fascism live on. In October 2018 and again in October 2019 on Capital Sports FM radio in Moscow we predicted the winners of the English Premier League. We told people to bet their houses on Manchester City in 2018 and then on Liverpool to win in 2019. This year, I’d do the same – but to bet everything that Liverpool won’t win the Premier League. Simple reasons why: