Doubts are also raised by Kevin McCarra who wonders how Allardyce can “fend off the fear that he has already enjoyed the best days of his career?,” a sentiment echoed by James Ducker who argues “it hard to see what he has to gain. He certainly has much more to lose, for Blackburn are far worse off than the Bolton team he left behind.”
Trying to be more positive, Sam Wallace claims “the challenge for Allardyce at Ewood Park is to demonstrate that he still has the qualities that made him so successful in eight years at Bolton.”
It is proving to be a difficult day for Arsenal. William Gallas’ future is up in the air with Kaveh Solhekol writing “Juventus, AC Milan, and Paris Saint-Germain are prepared to offer the 31-year-old defender an escape route out of London, but none of them can afford to match his Arsenal wages of £90,000 a week.”
But perhaps more damaging is the news from the boardroom, Gary Jacob and Kaveh Solhekol reporting “severe rifts resurfaced in Arsenal’s boardroom last night as two directors left, the third and fourth to move on in less than two years.” The fear, as explained by Martin Lipman, will be that Alisher Usmanov will look “to mount the takeover threatened for 18 months—and could take the country’s most traditional club into foreign hands.”
Jonathan Wilson tries to explain the point of the Club World Cup, suggesting “this competition is not about determining the best team in the world. By inviting the other confederational champions, Fifa gives itself a tournament that allows it to share in the wealth of the club game and exert some control over it.”
And keeping with the tournament, Martin Samuel
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