icons.com

For anyone interested in football this is another must site, icons.com is a brilliant site to keep upto date with what’s happening on in the lives of football players. Mainly, the talk is purely football but it’s a great way for supporters to read the ‘truth’ from the horses mouth shall I say. There’s top names signed up for the site like Ryan Giggs, Robbie Fowler, Bergkamp, Van Bronkhorst, Patrick Berger the list is endless. You are bound to find players from your team. They cover all divisions and most of the European leagues. The only problem is that some of the European players submit their comments in their own ...

If you’re a football fan, you always want to know what the players in your team are getting upto or you might just want to know how they are personally getting along. Afterall you can read about them in the papers but you simply don’t know how much of it is true. Icons.com allows you to visit the homepages of the top players from the premiership to the nation-wide, as well as that they also cover players from European leagues. I have to admit being a massive Liverpool supporter I visit the site weekly, well every Monday to be exact as that is the day when Robbie Fowler normally enters a new piece into his diary section. You can even contact the ...

It has often been said in footballing circles that the clubs are the epicentre of the sport. It used to be the case that players were not able to exert any real control on the game, and no matter how extravagant their antics, on or off the pitch, managers were always able to bring them back down to earth with a bump. However, the balance of power in the sport has definitely shifted with a series of milestone changes, notably the decision to abolish the maximum wage (1961), the proliferation of agents (1980s onwards), the influx of the TV millions from Sky (1992 onwards) and the Bosman ruling (1995). One of the other major changes to the sport of ...