Quote:Offside decisions are often the most debated issues in football, but that could amazingly become a thing of the past if hockey's example is replicated.

The sport abolished the offside rule once and for all in 1998, a move that made for a more exciting and attractive game for spectators.

Now Hockey president Leandro Negre has confirmed he held informal talks with Blatter on how his game went about implementing the radical change.

Negre believes Blatter was keen on learning about how the sport was affected, although he stopped short of providing him with his final opinion.

Real Madrid topped football's rich list for the sixth year in succession, as Manchester United dropped to third.


Real Madrid topped football's rich list for the sixth year in succession, as Manchester United dropped to third.

Accountancy firm Deloitte have announced their annual Football Money League report, which again confirmed Real as football's top revenue earning club.

Indeed, Real posted record figures as their revenues moved in excess of €400million (£363m) for the first time.

The Spanish league is benefiting from the strong Euro at the moment and, partly as a result of that, Barcelona have leapt into second spot ahead of English champions United.




The Top 20

1 Real Madrid, Spain

2 Barcelona, Spain

3 Manchester United, England

4 Bayern Munich, Germany

5 Arsenal, England

6 Chelsea, England

7 Liverpool, England

8 Juventus, Italy

9t Inter Milan, Italy

9t AC Milan, Italy

11 Hamburg, Germany

12 AS Roma, Italy

13 Lyon, France

14 Marseille, France

15 Tottenham, England

16 Schalke, Germany

17 Werder Bremen, Germany

18 Borussia Dortmund, Germany

19 Manchester City, England

20 Newcastle, England

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Well for me Northern Ireland are in albania for a friendly. dont know much about albania but our away form is dire we could do with picking up something although it could probably be a 1-1 draw im not expecting much

England should win against egypt mind u.

aparently the redknights met today to organise a bid for the club!!!

Just wanted to say the green and gold protest is obviously alot bigger than i thought there were so many scarfs and shirts there yesterday!!

i bet 75% of the united faithful were wearing them!!! (but almost all of them wear wearing a red one with the or a red united shirt!)