Soccer Dribbling Moves

February 27th, 2010 by Admin

Scissors/Step Over

The objective of this move is to simulate a change of direction to the outside. Start by dribbling forward, plant your right foot to the outside of the ball and swing your left leg around the front of the ball in a counterclockwise direction. Your foot will go from the right side of the ball to the outside (left) side of the ball. Plant your left foot and use the outside of your right foot to accelerate away from the defender.

Be sure to use your upper body to sell the fake. Use your shoulder drop to get the defender leaning the wrong way. You can perform multiple quick step overs while going right at your opponent to try to throw him off balance.

Step Over/Reverse Scissors

Like the scissor move, the objective here is to simulate a change of direction, but this time to the inside. Start by dribbling forward, plant your left foot behind and the the left of the ball. Swing your right leg over or around the ball from the outside right to the inside left of the ball.

Push off your left foot and take the ball with the outside of the right foot. Accelerate away from the defender quickly. You can use this move with a defender on your back to perform a 180 change of direction.

Pull Back

Start this move with the ball between your feet. Perform a fake to the top of the ball in a kicking motion, but stop it with your cleats on the top of the ball. Use your foot to pull the ball back to get it rolling towards you.

This move is one of the easiest to teach to young players. Be sure to only use it in the attacking third of the field. If used in your penalty area against an alert forward, you could give up an easy shot opportunity.

Chop

You start the Chop move by dribbling forward. Touch the ball forward and plant your left foot as you would when shooting. Wind up with your right leg and opposite arm as if you are going to shoot or cross the ball. Instead of completing the shooting motion, chop your left down and cut the ball across your body with the inside of your right foot.

You will want to be sure to make a very sharp cut to avoid the defender and initiate the quick change of direction.

Stop and Go

The Stop and Go is a change of pace move. You want to force your defender to hesitate so that you can blow right by him.

Begin by dribbling the soccer ball quickly in a straight line.

Quickly put the sole of your foot on the top of the ball to stop it. Roll it forward and accelerate away from your defender. You can also use your instep to start the dribble again.

There is another variation where you hop on the ball with one foot while toe poking it forward with your other foot. This move is much tougher to pull off, but it is a very effective fake.

V-Cut

You will need to perform this move from a stationary position. Start with the ball in front of your left foot with your right foot on top of it. Pull the ball back so that it is right underneath your right hip. Quickly pivot your hips and push the ball with the inside of your right foot towards 2 o’clock. The ball should follow a V like path.

This move is most effective if your defender lunges or stabs at the ball right before you perform your pull back.

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Free Soccer Training Drills: Winning Tactics To Boost Throw-ins

February 26th, 2010 by Admin

Free soccer training drills

Someone like me would most likely realize the significance of adding free soccer training drills to ensure that all the team players are taught the methods to throw the ball in. While having youth soccer drills, almost 70 percent throw-ins are foul throws therefore the other team gets the control of the ball.

To overcome this issue it is essential that all the players in your team learn how to perform throw-ins correctly and get the possession of the ball right away. Thus the player may easily go behind the defense and make a hit for the ball.

All that is required to teach the players to get the ball back into play quickly is some simple actions and moves, performed correctly at the U-10 level and below.

While performing free soccer training drills, some soccer coaches tend to rely only on one or two players to take all throw-ins. These players are called the designated throwers. So the most worn out player in the game is the designated thrower. He is supposed to run up and down the sideline and also across the ground, to make a simple throw in.

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Here again I would reiterate the fact that each and every player in the team should be allowed to throw the ball in. All too often, when a ball gets kicked out of boundary, a quick-thinking forward prepares to pitch it back into play, only to be stopped by his or her coach. Now when this player objects, he learns that he/she not being a mid-fielder is not permitted to take the throws and the midfielders take throws only.

In coaching drills make sure that all the players are encouraged to reach the ball whenever possible. However a quick throw-in may give a chance to score, the effects of this method is not limited to this and goes far ahead of the win-lose theory. With young players, games may last only 50 or 60 minutes. Hence not too much of the time should go in placing the ball back into the play.

The soccer coaches who give importance to quick throws are important players in teaching strategic awareness towards their rivals. In football dills, as the usual defending against the unexpected restarts would not be practical for teams who defend against designated throwers, the defendant team has about 20 to 30 seconds to get back behind the ball.

To develop youth players for higher level of play the coaches should make time to groom their players. It is essential that all the beginners learn the technique of throwing-in the ball properly; and after that it could be reverted back to the ground for the kids to carry on the game.

Make no mistake about it; since skills, knowledge of the game, and stamina are limited at the lower age groups, during free soccer training drills, a coach should never ask the young players to do the impossible. You can subscribe to our youth soccer coaching community for more such resources and articles, periodic newsletters, and videos to help coach young players.

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Should Young Soccer Players Use Throw-ins?

February 24th, 2010 by Admin

Soccer Classroom believes that coaches at  U6 and U8 should not utilize throw-ins as a method of putting the ball back into play. The reasons for this:

  • Agility skills are still being developed and throwing a ball in properly is very difficult at these ages
  • We spend all our time explaining  to these young soccer players they can only use their feet. From there, we tell them to pick up a ball and throw it in a very specific way. Now, think about that from a young player only starting to understand the game. That doesn’t make much sense, does it?
  • Far more important skills to develop other technical soccer skills. Remember, the only point of a throw-in is to get the ball back into play.
  • Since the players do not understand space and are challenged to “go the right way”, they are very likely to throw the ball in the wrong way

It is much more effective to simply play another ball into bounds and pickup the “out of bounds” ball, so play continues fluidly and without distraction. This optimizes the time of the ball to develop soccer skills at this age. They will certainly have plenty of time to learn the technical and tactical side of throwing the ball in at later ages.

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Soccer Clubs Formation

February 23rd, 2010 by Admin

The first step in creating a soccer club is deciding the level of skill or competence you want your club to achieve. With this you will be able to determine the members you wish to get. It is important to invite the players who pass the level of competence you aspire for the group.

Soccer Club Formation Base

The formation you choose should be based on:

  1. The ability of your players.
  2. Your players speed and endurance.
  3. The number of substitutes you have.
  4. The length of the field.
  5. The other team’s strengths and weaknesses.

(If you play fewer than 11 on the field, the same principles still apply, but you will need to reduce the numbers accordingly).

You should use a formation that gives your players the best chance of being successful. For example, if you have a great goalkeeper, a fast, tough and skilful player who can play Sweeper, and either Fullbacks with lots of endurance or lots of subs, or play on a short field, you can play a 1-3-3-3 and push your Fullbacks up to the halfway line when you attack. However, if you play on a long field, don’t have many subs, and have Fullbacks who aren’t fast and who lack stamina, your players can’t be successful if you ask them to push up to the halfway line on your attack and you will be better off to use a 3-2-2-3 formation (3 FB’s, 2 Defensive Midfielders, 2 Offensive MF’s & 3 Forwards).

Keep in mind that in any formation your players will need to shift with the ball, sag when on defense and push forward some on the attack. I find it helpful to give my players some clear rules to follow so they understand their responsibilities.

Team Formation Responsibility

It will be the responsibility of the age group coordinators to form teams within their age group. This will be done based on the team formation process outlines below. Once teams have been formed, the club president will review and approve the teams and submit them to the club registrar for processing.

The club registrar will register players to teams as submitted. The club registrar will also be responsible for obtaining and distributing player cards to all teams, adding and deleting players and providing team rosters to coaches upon request.

The concepts of “Positions”, “Support” and “Shift & Sag” teach teamwork and, when combined with a “Formation” and “Style Of Play”, they provide the organization for your team’s play, and collectively are called your “System of Play”.

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Soccer Coaching Get Rid of the Laps

February 21st, 2010 by Admin

If you can understand why running laps in youth soccer is huge waste of time you will not only be a better coach, but a better all around youth soccer trainer.

Last year I watched a youth soccer practice and by the time I got home I was still in shock. Most of my thoughts were simply of renaming the coach to “old school” and I was also a bit angry. I wasn’t angry at the coach. He was doing what he thought was right and what had been taught to him. I was angry at the director of coaching for this soccer club for not watching his coaches, correcting them and bringing them up to speed on the best practices / methods for youth soccer player development.

Running “laps” in youth soccer is common and done for many reasons. Some coaches use laps thinking it will condition their players. Others use laps for warm ups, while others often use them as punitive exercises for players that are misbehaving. Unfortunately all of these reasons are wrong and slightly misguided.

First look at conditioning.
Youth soccer players and even competitive players don’t run laps the entire soccer match. Most of their conditioning needs should be geared towards how they play. Short to medium bursts of extreme speed followed by a slow jog or walk is what they do in a game. This is what we should condition them for. High intensity 1 v 1 or 2 v 2 “wave games” are the best for conditioning players and combine soccer skills with conditioning. If you want to have them do sprints, put a soccer ball on their feet. The players should have a ball on their feet with every form of exercise. You can increase the number of touches by over 300 each practice simply by adding a soccer ball. Do this over 20 practices and you have increased the number of touches a season by over 6000 per season. By the way, that is more touches than most collegiate players will get during games their entire playing careers.

Warm ups:
With such little time available to train youth soccer players, EVERY minute of your practice should involve some form of SOCCER training. Being prepared really helps with proper warm ups. The warm up section of your practice should include not only ball touches, but player movement as well. Have a series of drill stations set up that keep all players moving and not waiting in line. Focus on dribbling, moves and passing. Instead of your players standing in a circle passing the ball, make them move. Have them touch the ball to the middle of the circle, pass and replace the player they just passed to. Then instead of just one ball, add two or three balls so that it becomes “mayhem” in the circle. Eyes will be watching every direction and players can’t stand still for more than 5 seconds. After 5 – 10 minutes all will be breathing hard and be tired. Now is the time for a good stretch.

Punitive exercise:
Youth players should NEVER be told to run laps or perform physical exercises for misbehaving or breaking rules. This is the time for a CALM, non-embarrassing talk about the behavior. We should let the player know that their behavior is taking away from other players’ training and it should be corrected. If the behavior continues after the talk then players should sit out on more fun activities like scrimmages and small sided games. Let the player know you’re not angry, but the bad behavior needs to have some repercussions. Teaching a soccer player that running is a “negative” is a huge mistake.

Last month I worked with 2 former division one soccer players. I had them run through what I call the “Play and Puke” 1 v 1 session. A high intensity 1 v 1 session, it is extremely taxing on the players but is a TON of fun for them. After the session I asked them a simple question. “What is easier, running laps or playing this game?” The answer was unanimous, “Running laps is a piece of cake compared to that game.” Then I asked another question. “Which is better SOCCER training?” Again they all agreed that they used GAME skills in the game while at the same time working muscles they seldom used.

My point is simple. Running laps shows lack of creativity and understanding in a soccer coach. This is not just my theory but also promoted throughout the world of youth soccer. We often hear the phrase, “Remove the three L’s from your practices, Lines, Lectures and Laps.” Very good advice.

While creating Blast The Ball and Soccer U we tried to get this point across to coaches, parents and players. Conditioning only lasts a few weeks after it stops. Once it stops it is gone forever. Technical training and skill training gets ingrained into the soccer player’s mind and body and becomes a part of them. It will stay there forever.

How to set up the game:
Field size will vary but should be around 40 yards long and 20 yards wide.
Small goals or two cones are placed on each end.
Players are NOT allowed to shoot until they are within 5 yards of the goal.
3 to 4 players stand ready with a ball on their feet on EACH end. They MUST be ready with a ball on their feet.
The first player receives a pass from an opponent at the other end of a small field. They play 1 v 1 challenge until the ball crosses the end line, whether the ball goes in the goal or not. When the ball crosses the end line the player that kicked the ball across the line must now recover quickly as another player waiting with a ball on the same end is taking off trying to score. The former shooter is now the new defender and must recover quickly. That 1 v 1 match ends with a player shooting and then the next player, waiting with a ball, charges off trying to score. Again the player that shot the ball must recover to defend.

This training can now be done with in a 2 v 2 format as well. Encourage overlapping and diagonal runs when working this game in a 2 v 2 or 3 v 3 setting. Help offensive players understand that having them both “following the ball” doesn’t open up space or create fast breaking attacks.

High intensity “soccer training” creates well conditioned and skilled soccer players. Laps create good runners. Make sure you know who you’re training.

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How to Kick a Soccer Ball Harder

February 19th, 2010 by Admin

How to Kick a Soccer Ball Harder
By Coach V
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I don’t care if you are 8 or 38 years old, a funny thing happens when we place a soccer ball on the grass in front of a goal. Something in our mind seems to ‘snap’ and we try and strike the ball as hard as we can. Most of us however don’t realize this actually slows down the soccer ball’s speed.

While creating Blast The Ball and Soccer U we had the pleasure of capturing literally hundreds of hours of soccer players and thousands of soccer kicks. This research showed some interesting results. Trying to kick a soccer ball ‘harder’ often slowed down the speed of the ball. Why you ask? Well let’s start with another sport that will help us understand.

Talk to the “long drive golf champs” and you will find a common thought among them. Swing at 80% of your top force. Now, why would a golf ball go farther at 80% vs. 100%? It comes down to the “speed of the club head” which is the last part of several body parts involved. Swinging, or “kicking”, at 100% of force often causes us to TENSE UP many of the muscles involved in the full “multifunction process” of the swinging / kicking motion. Think us this as a “whipping” motion. Staying slightly “loose” during the kick allows our foot to be at the end of an accelerating chain of events. Tighten up any of those events and you slow it down. Try throwing a baseball with a totally STIFF arm. The ball travels about half the speed. Keeping a loose arm with a whipping motion increases the speed greatly. The same applies to the soccer kick.

A couple of key points to a stronger, longer and faster soccer kick.

1)Relax.
Allow your entire body to go limp. Shake it out. Let your head, neck legs and every part of your body relax.
The only part of your body that will have tension is your ankle.

2)Large last stride / loading.
Make your last stride a long “forward hopping” load. Your heel should come close to your behind.

3)Allow your knee to come through first.
This is known as “storing the load”. Your lower leg will form a V shape. Keep that V shape as long as possible and at the last minute let it extent in a WHIPPING motion.

4)Kick with the big toe knuckle.
Approach the ball from a slight angle. The largest bone in your foot is the first metatarsal which is just above the big toe knuckle. This translates into FORCE or energy at impact.

5)Break the pane.
Pretend that the ball is sitting in front of a large pane of glass. You want to break the pane with your body, not just your leg or foot. This means that your forward momentum should continue through the shot. This will also cause you to land on your SHOOTING foot, not your plant foot.

6)Watch your foot contact the ball.
If you can see your foot strike the ball you are kicking properly. Doing this also keeps your body in a slightly “bent over” position. Straitening up will kill some of the power release.

To prove this point to younger players you should have them start VERY close to the goal. Have them move back little by little WITHOUT changing their kicking effort. When you see them “forcing” their shot, have them move back very close and feel the loose shot again a few times. Then have them move back out to a far point and use the same “close kick”. Both of you will be amazed.

On a final note I suggest you video tape the player kicking. You can even use a digital camera that yes a video recorder. Try and set the “frames per second” as high as you can. This will allow you to slow the kick down to a frame by frame view. When we shot Blast The Ball, many of the cameras were set on 3000 frames per second. This allowed us to see EVERY detail of the kick. Younger players will be amazed at the footage and trust me, if you tell them they are doing something wrong they will disagree. Show them threw video and they will understand.

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Youth Soccer Skills One by One

February 15th, 2010 by Admin


A funny thing seems to happen in youth soccer. At some point we forget about basic development and start focusing on being competitive. Unfortunately this often happens too early and the results are irreversible and often permanent.

I get many emails and questions from people about the Blast The Ball and SoccerU series. A great of them are from parents and coaches wanting to make sure that the training shown is appropriate for their age groups. It’s funny, because you can tell that many of them have ordered soccer training videos before, but were disappointed because they were too basic or not appropriate for their soccer players.

While different ages of youth soccer players learn differently, they all must be taught individual skills starting at the same place. It is a stepping process that must be done the same way, regardless of age. Will they understand the skill at a different rate? Yes. Will they be able to master the skill and take it to the field at a different rate? Yes. But remember something very important. If a soccer player has never been taught a skill the need to start at square one, regardless of age.

The stepping or learning process for soccer technical skills is simple, but must be followed. Here is an example of the building blocks.

Step One: The Raw Basic Skill

This includes the actual skill broken down to its finest points. Not just receiving a soccer ball, but what does our body do during this process? What position is our foot and leg in? Are we receiving with pressure or without pressure? Is that pressure in front of us or behind us? A simple skill like receiving a soccer ball correctly has many deep aspects that must be examined, demonstrated and performed.

Step Two: Performing the Skill Repetitively

Now that we have learned the skill, we must perform the skills over and over until our body and mind understand it as a natural and instinctive movement. No pressure, nothing to think about except the skill and how we do it perfectly.

Step Three: Adding Pressure

Now that we have mastered the soccer skill, we must now add pressure. This stage is often called “lights out” for younger players. Up until this point we had nothing to think about except for the skill. Now our mind and body must perform with a defensive player putting mild pressure on us. Now when we receive that pass, there is an incoming defender closing in on us. Can we still perform it perfectly? We repeat the skill with moderate pressure over and over. Most of the time the assisting player is told NOT to touch the soccer ball, only to let their presence be known.

Step Four: Performing the skill in a game-like setting.

Now we move the skill to a small sided game or grid with small goals. This is the “failure allowed” area. We ask the players to use the new skills in a small game and they are told that most of their attempts will probably fail. That is fine. WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE FAILURE. Remember the old saying of, “It is better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all.” If developing soccer players are placed in a “real game like” area or setting, they will revert back to their old habits. They DO NOT want to fail in soccer game so they are hesitant to try something new that might fail. This is a VITAL step in developing skilled players.

Step Five: Praising it in a real soccer match.

During the next soccer match, stop shouting at the referee and your players. Simply be quiet and watch for a new skill used on the field. It will happen. Watch closely for a player that now receives the soccer ball with that new “away touch”. When you see it happen, shout out his name and loudly praise him. Do it so all the other players can hear. Even if it didn’t go perfectly, praise him for the effort in trying. He will GLOW as bright as sun for the next 3 minutes.

The real problem that exists in youth development is that we start to skip these phases as the soccer players get older. Is it because of pressure? Do we think the players will think we are babying them? We must fight the urge to simply run drills. Having soccer players run through drill after drill simply reinforces the “incorrect way” they now perform the skill. Regardless of the age we must start every player at the basic skill level and follow this plan.

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Soccer Fever

February 14th, 2010 by Admin

The soccer Fever is coming world cup 2010. Huge Event with lots of celebrations and will give us a new world champion. It will take place in picturesque country of South Africa and the first game for the Soccer World Cup in South Africa will be played on 11 June 2010. The games will be played at Cape Town, Rustenburg, Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, Polokwane and Nelspruit.

Look around you, seems like every one talking about soccer. Soon the English Premier League will start. This will be an extra extravaganza for all the soccer fans. Fans Start to buying their favorite teams soccer uniforms and soccer jerseys. I am with Manchester united and I bought a replica soccer uniform of Manchester United. If you can’t able to find replica soccer uniform in cheap rates you can also visit mysocceruniform. Enjoy the English Premier League and Soon the BIG even world cup 2010.

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Free Soccer Training Drills: Learn The Art Of Throw-ins

February 13th, 2010 by Admin

Free soccer training drills

If you are like me, you probably understand the importance of incorporating free soccer training drills that teach every player in your team to throw the ball in. Practically 70 percent of throw-ins are foul, during the youth soccer drills and the other team gets hold of the ball.

For this reason it is vital that each player inside your team should be prepared to perform the correct throw-ins and get the ball into play immediately. By catching the defense unexpectedly through a sudden restart the chances of keeping hold of the ball increases highly.

All that is required to teach the players to get the ball back into play quickly is some simple actions and moves, performed correctly at the U-10 level and below.

Some soccer coaches tend to count only on some selected players in free soccer training drills. These players are tagged as designated throwers. Evidently the designated thrower is the most pressurized player on the field. He is expected to race up and down the sidelines as well as through the field, have a simple throw in.

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Once more I would repeat the rule that each and every player in the game should be given a chance to throw the ball in. Often, when the ball goes out of the boundary, a quick step forward can help it come back in to play, but the coaches do not allow this to happen. The player is told to that he/she is not a mid-fielder and hence only the mid-fielder makes the throws.

In coaching drills make sure that all the players are encouraged to reach the ball whenever possible. A quick throw-in not only gives a chance to score, its effects go far beyond the win-lose theory. With young players, games may last only 50 or 60 minutes. Hence not too much of the time should go in placing the ball back into the play.

Soccer coaches play a vital role developing strategic awareness among the players, by stressing upon quick throws as compared to those who don’t. During football dills the defendant team has about 20 to 30 seconds to get back behind the ball as the usual defending against the unexpected restarts cannot be applied for teams who defend against designated throwers.

Proper time should be given to players if the coaches sincerely want their young players to perform at a higher level. It is very important that all the beginners know the proper throw-in method and after they have learnt that, the ball can be returned to the field to let the kids play.

Be careful about this; skills, know-how of the game as well as stamina are related to age; during free soccer training drills, you should not set the impossible goals for players. Subscribing to our youth coaching program, you will receive helpful resources and articles, periodic newsletters and videos in order to train youth players.

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Football Today:a Show or a Game

February 8th, 2010 by Admin

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Contemporary Football is not just a great game that captures millions of hearts in the world. It turned into a show that is now watched by millions of television viewers.
In order to address the question, key points of Steve Wagg’s statement must firstly be assessed. The meaning of ‘football as a television show’ is an ambiguous one to say the least, therefore it is important to define what criteria the sport of football must meet for it to be considered ‘a television show’.
This essay will begin by addressing the actual presentation of football on television, the techniques used in today’s programmes and the direct practical affects of televising the game. However it will move on to issues such as the effect of television on football’s place in society, the blurring of the lines between broadcasting companies and clubs, and football’s increasing reliance on television revenue as a means of survival.
Even when the issue of football as a television show has been addressed, consideration must be paid to Wagg’s claim that this is not just one of football’s roles in British society, but the ‘main significance.’ This suggests that football now has more importance as a television programme than it does to countless other issues that include regional and national identity, escape from the reality of the rest of a football fan’s life, profit making business or simply as a form of leisure.
Although to address football’s development into a television show consideration must be paid to underlying issues, the most obvious and direct issue raised by the question is that of the actual presentation of football on television.
The study of football’s presentation on television raises some valid points and shows undoubted development of the sports role in entertaining a media audience, however to answer the question fully consideration must be paid to more than just the techniques used to deliver the game to an audience. To justify Steve Wagg’s statement that football’s significance is as a television show, evidence may be needed that the game itself has been directly affected by the medium.
Television has been criticised for damaging the game, Ed Horton describing its moment of arrival as ‘when the cancer set in’ in his book Moving the Goalposts; Football’s Exploitation. However despite this kind of criticism, it cannot be denied that the very image and reputation of football has been affected and boosted enormously by television, particularly since the arrival of satellite broadcasting.
Sky, Granada and NTL are amongst the television companies holding shares in Premiership football clubs including Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Leeds and Liverpool- clubs who, as they are floated on the stock market, have a legal obligation to consider any offer that is beneficial to their shareholders whether it is for the good of the game or not. (McGill, 2001) Although at the moment broadcasters do not hold controlling stakes in clubs, it is feasible that they hold a degree of influence somewhere down the line. Football clubs may not be mere investments that will be left alone by broadcasting companies according to former Sky chairman Sir Frank Barlow, who stated that ‘clubs are being bought up by TV companies who are gaining increasing power and influence over club matters.’
The bid by Sky to take over Manchester United forced the issue of club ownership into the public eye and highlighted the potential power of broadcasting companies if they were to dominate the ownership of British football. Sky (or BSkyB as the company was called at the time) announced a ฃ575m bid for a 100% share of the club in September 1998, a figure which was later raised to ฃ623m. The bid was met with immediate controversy, Manchester United fans fearing the running of their football club as a money making machine by the infamous Rupert Murdoch. The bid was referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission which recommended to Trade Secretary Stephen Byers that the takeover be blocked, advice that he promptly took. Although the bid was unsuccessful, the issues that it raised are applicable to today’s clubs, where although broadcasters do not hold controlling stakes, they most definitely have their feet under the table. The takeover bid is a case study useful in highlighting the potential results if the lines between the industries of broadcasting and football were to become completely blurred.
Steve Wagg’s statement raises some immensely valid points and demonstrates that television’s effect on football is evident in many areas. However the claim that the game’s main significance is as a television show is one that is incredibly difficult to prove and is a claim that is, in the opinion of this essay, unjustified.
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