Has football replaced Catholicism in Spain?

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This article by Canada’s leading news magazine on the state of Spanish football perhaps goes too readily down ‘the football bubble has burst’ route which is the increasing first resort of journalists everywhere.   Undeniably, Spanish football faces big challenges which are in part related to the country’s economic, financial and political problems.   It could suffer the kind of decline experienced by Italy’s Serie A.

Sleeping giant or dysfunctional club?

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Port Vale fans deserve some luck and they may have got it in the shape of Alchemy Investment Group, named today as the preferred bidder to take the Burslem club out of adminstration

The latest issue of Four Four Two has a feature article on Port Vale headlined ‘Britain’s most dysfunctional club.’   There are a few others that might deserve that title, but Vale fans have certainly been to hell in a handcart and back.

Swans make big profit in Premiership

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The financial benefits of being in the Premiership are demonstrated by the profit after tax of £14.6m on a turnover of £65.2m achieved by Swansea City in their first year in the top flight.   This in spite of the fact that operating costs, particularly wages, doubled following promotion.   However, in their promotion year the Swans made a net loss of £8.3m.