The chairman of the European Clubs Association, Karl Heinz Rummenigge, has revealed that 
the UEFA Cup could be set for a rebranding; to ‘refresh’ the appeal of a tournament that has failed to live up to the expectations of 10 to 15 years ago.
Rummenigge said:
“The hope is that a refreshment of the name and brand can help achieve better results than we’ve seen in the Uefa Cup in the past.
“There has been a general impression that it has become a second-class competition and that we should get back to how it was ten or 15 years ago.”
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It seems almost inevitable now that Gudjohnsen will be joining the Hammers.
C’Mon Yu Irons! was the very first with the news about Gudjohnsen’s interest in joining the hammers when he leaves Barcelona, and now his father whom is also his agent has told the media that his his son will be coming back to the Premiership.
Quote from the East London Advertiser today:
Gudjohnsen told the radio station that his close friendship with West Ham’s Icelandic owner Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson and his desire to move back to London made a move to West Ham more attractive.
Portsmouth have now shown an interest in Gudjohnsen, harry is even bragging that his son Jamie and Eidur are very close friends.
Newcastle also showed an interest, bur Gudjohnsen has stated he has
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By WSC
The FA Cup final is often said to have a global audience of some improbably huge figure – the current
favourite guess is over a billion. In practice this simply means that a significant proportion of the population of each country that takes the live broadcast is presumed to be watching the match. Estimations of the total viewing statistics will be revised downwards this year because the final can’t be presented as a showpiece for some of the best players. Well, good.
In the recent past, the decade-long dominance of the Cup by the current Big Four had prompted concerns about the health of the competition, with attendances generally in decline. Now some at the FA are said to be worried about the diminished global viewing audience for the 2008 final while Sky have long been resigned to a falloff in advertising revenues ever since Manchester United and Chelsea were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Concerns about profit – how much can be made and how much can be lost – seep into most public discussions about football now. Money’s corrosive influence is embodied by the increasingly absurd chief executive of the Premier League, Richard Scudamore, who continues to pop up with reminders, or warnings, about his Game 39 plan. Meanwhile, several Premier League clubs have justified fielding weakened teams in FA Cup ties on the basis that the first-choice team needs to be saved for League fixtures – avoiding relegation being deemed to be more important than a cup run..
Of course there is monetary value attached to reaching a cup final, not least in boosting the transfer value of the players involved, such as Cardiff’s Joe Ledley and Aaron Ramsey. Any manager who hasn’t taken the FA Cup seriously might feel that he was right if his team stayed
By Frank Williams
We have all heard some rather strange and wonderful rumours in the last week or so, could this 1 be any worse?
I received a comment on a recent post
The Comment said:-
If nobody has heard the rumours yet then let me be the first to start the ball rolling. Curbs is waiting for the chop. all the chairman is waiting for is the manager we all want to make his mind up before he leaves….. lets hope he wins the FA cup to sign
