12 Great Goals from around the world of Football (Video)

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Fernando Torres - Atletico Madrid
Amantino Mancini - Roma
Giuseppe Rossi - Parma
Scott Sinclair - Plymouth
Peter Crouch - Liverpool
Juan Pablo Arenas - Chile
Shota Arveladze - AZ Alkmaar
Thierry Henry - Arsenal
Zaltan Ibrahimovic - Inter
Wayne Rooney - Manchester UTD
David Nugent - Preston North END
Pato - Brazil

Top 7 Premier League Football Players from 2006/2007

The Fink Tank Predictor provides Forecasts and Ranking systems for Professional Football Clubs in Europe. It is a statistical model based on more than 5 years of scores. Player rankings are calculated by simulating the season repetitively and removing players from the equation and replacing them with players of an average score. Then they were able to calculate how many points each individual player added to his team.

By also factoring a players injury record (after all, what good is a player if he only plays 10 games a season) a computer model of the top players in Europe was made.

No prizes for guessing who came top in the English Premier League. The PFA voters were right to give the accolade to Cristiano Ronaldo (voted PFA Player of the year and PFA young Player of the year). Listed below



Top 7 Premier League Footballers

1. Cristiano Ronaldo - Manchester United Football Club
2. Frank Lampard - Chelsea Football Club
3. Gilberto Silva - Arsenal Football Club
4. Petr Cech - Chelsea Football Club
5. Jans Lehmann - Arsenal Football Club
6. Paul Scholes - Manchester United Football Club
7. Tim Howard - Everton Football Club

And bottom of the list? Kevin Davies - Bolton Football Club

Resources

• Times Online - Top 5 and bottom 5 List
• Times Online - Full List from Number 1 to 403

Top 7 reason NOT to buy a Football Club

1. Crowd Abuse
2. If you get it wrong you could lose a lot of money
3. Players really don't care about the owner (see no 3, top 7 Reasons to buy a Football Club)
4. Fans really don't care about the owner
5. It's a lose, lose situation. A thankless task. Win the league and the players and manager get credit. Get relegated or win nothing (see Newcastle United, Aston Villa, West Ham, Leeds United etc etc) and the fans want more money and better players.
6. Unless you own one of the big teams no-one will care what you think in the Premier League meetings. (see no 6, top 7 reason to buy a Football Club)
7. No-one knows who you are

• Top 7 Reasons to buy a Football Club


• Want to buy your own Football Club. Footballs most ambitious project.


• Why Buy a Football Club?

Top 7 reasons to buy a Football Club

Yet another Premier League takeover is on the cards with Billionaire Mike Ashley buying 41.6% of Newcastle United Football Club, valuing the Geordies at £133.1 million, not quite as much as Liverpools £178 Million but still a vast sum of money. I wrote about why there has been such an interest in the last few years from Billionaires and consortiums in purchasing notoriously bad businesses (Football Clubs) and have compiled a Top 7 reasons list to buy a Club.

Top 7 Reasons to buy a Football Club :

1. Free Ticket to Home Games and go where you like in the stadium


2. Entrance to away team Boardrooms


3. Get to meet the players


4. Get to buy the players


5. Bragging Rights


6. Sit in on Premier League meetings with the high flying big wigs of football


7. Great Pre-season Holidays with the team

If you have any suggestions leave them in the comments below...

and the Top 7 reasons not to buy the club?

As for the Champions League final. Liverpool got hit with the classic sucker punch. After playing the better football and wasting numerous great attacking positions (how they missed someone like Robbie Fowler), Pippo Inzaghi popped up to show them how to do it with 2 predatory goals, although the first does nothing to prove his goalscoring skills other than his willingness to follow up the free kick and get into dangerous goalscoring areas. Something Liverpool obviously missed.

I rate Dirk Kuyt but so much of his work is done in front of the opposition back 4, contributing much to the teams build up, whereas Inzaghi is constantly looking to get in behind defences, contributing less to the team over 90 minutes, but how much value do you place on 2 Champions League final goals?