Ellis Short

Ellis Short is the American owner of Sunderland football club, and an utter bell-end.
Short sacked one of the finest managers in the game yesterday when he dismissed Martin O'Neill following a 1-0 loss to Manchester United.
This is just another example of stupid owners who know nothing about the game and are way out of their depth wanting results immediately rather than to give a manager time to bring stability to a club; to build up a team and then start looking for results. It's time the FA introduced safeguards for managers to ensure that this chopping and changing of managers stops. It harms the game, and will deter talented managers taking on roles in the English game.
There are too many foreign owners nowadays who just see football teams as a plaything. Their own real-world version of Football Manager, with their own little six-figure cheat codes. These people know nothing of the working-class roots of football teams. These people have never stood on a terrace in the middle of winter, with a pie in one hand and a Bovril in the other, and watched as 22 men played on a pitch as muddy as a bog and gave every ounce of themselves to the game, and if you wanted one of them to go down you had to take a baseball bat to their kneecaps.
I don't blame foreign owners entirely for the decline of the modern game. But they have played their part. And Ellis Short is one of them.

Imogen Thomas

Okay, so she shagged Ryan Giggs, and he wasted a lot of money trying to make sure nobody else found out. So, what else does she do...? As far as I can see - nothing, except do everything she can to attract attention so she can get in the papers day after day and get up my tits. What is it with these women who think that just because they shag a bloke who kicks a ball around for a living, that we're the slightest bit interested in them? They shag a football player so that makes them a fashion icon; it means they know how to run a shop, how to put make-up on, or it means people are going to buy their biography despite the fact that they are too young to have lived properly yet. How does it work with these women anyway? Is it the same as footballers? When they're in their prime, they get the Premiership and world-class players, but as they get older and a bit more wrinkly and saggy they have to drop down the divisions, and by the time they reach middle age they're shagging players from Scunthorpe United.