Driftwood

Either this blog is dead like on loan Chucho Benitez and his Birmingham Blues relations or we have entered the silly season of transfer rumor incantations. Since the wilderness has lacked seasonal renewal this tandem's intent is questioned. Query World Cup rosters and the managers who have posted them. Artificial inflation of transfer prices leaves most scrambling to do business, are your purse strings willing?

Willing to plunge a community based football-club, not sports franchise, into the depths of debit for spending 90% of turnover? Clubs will wink out of existence, wound-up by the tax-man, drained of jobs, grounds empty of opportunity and life-blood stand decaying, reminders of disasters off the spreadsheet such as Hillsborough, the great Bradford Fire, Ivory Coast stadium stampede....

With all hope the World Cup fever revives this footy blog and the tournament remains a benchmark for integrity. If the games, athletes, officials or national federations fall under corruption or are tempted to steal or match-fix as curtain-call there will be no hot-line to phone. There will be no EU sanctioned integrity hot-line, or a team handling long ignored, deep seeded fixing happening at a showcase of the beautiful game. Knowledge enough to make one mad, at least enough for a blog post.