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PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor wants the FA to prove it can deal with racism following following the incident involving referee Mark Clattenburg and Chelsea players on Sunday.

Both the FA and the Metropolitan Police are investigating allegations that Clattenburg racially abused Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel in the Premier League clash between the Blues and Manchester United on Sunday.

And Taylor wants this case to be treated more efficiently than the one involving John Terry and Anton Ferdinand, but feels the involvement of the police won’t help.

Taylor told Sky Sports: “This time I want football to learn and deal with this issue as quickly, efficiently and as transparently as possible. Football has got to show it can deal with it.

“It’s a reflection of what happens in a higher court and we need to deal with it quickly and efficiently, and then we can move on.

“Involving the police, or being asked to wait for the police, causes a massive festering of the issue within football that has continued to cause problems. That’s not good for the image of our game because we all have to deal with this together and move forward together.”

Taylor went on to explain that the FA has to set a good example when it comes to racism issues so that they can warrant any future complaints made about incidents towards English players, like the recent events in Serbia.

“This is a football issue. We need to set a good example in this country so that we’ve got justifiable complaints about what happened in Serbia or in Spain for example,” he continued.

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“We need to show we are more than capable with dealing with it and I believe that was the mistake in delaying matters with the John Terry and Anton Ferdinand case.”

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In the 2012/2013 Premier League campaign at Newcastle there was a lot of vehement criticism thrown in the direction of the club’s manager Alan Pardew. The former Southampton and West Ham boss has reached his lowest ebb on Tyneside in recent months, as his charges decided to surrender to a 3-0 defeat to deadly rivals Sunderland with barely a whimper, whilst the 51 year old still insisted his side were the best team outside of the top six.

The pressure has been mounting for a significant period of time at Newcastle United as the once named ‘Pardiola’ appears to have believed his own hype amongst making a heap of costly errors both on and off the pitch within the last season. The one consistent excuse which appears to have bought the Premier League second longest serving manager a reprieve though appears to be the belief that the business model installed at Newcastle United is failing to provide Pardew with the tools to succeed. Is this a legitimate reason for the club’s drastic fall from grace as they plummeted from 5th place in May 2012 to 16th in May 2013?

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This argument is one which several have used to justify the failure of Newcastle United, myself included, but it is one which is falling upon extremely weak foundations. The only way that Alan Pardew can in the short term quell the unrest at St James’s Park is by signing strength in depth in all areas of the side. Even if Pardew fulfils this objective, is this even enough? Or has the tide already turned?

It is clear that several supporters see their manager as a puppet to the club’s owner Mike Ashley. They see the mediation and motivational skills as irrelevant if Pardew can’t ultimately ensure that his playing staff deliver on matchdays. What appears to be far more important is the style of play which the Magpies are offering. The direct style of play was miserable for the fans to endure when Sam Allardyce was the at the helm, let alone when it has been ineffective under Pardew. The use of Papiss Cisse as a target man is a tactic which immediately needs to be disregarded.

The personnel Pardew already has at his disposal have superb potential. Hatem Ben Arfa is a talent that can capture the imagination of all his supporters at any given moment, whilst the ability of players such as Debuchy, Cabaye and Sissoko offer reason to be optimistic that the Magpies can succeed next term. They need to be given direction and licence to develop within the system that suits their playing style.

If Pardew is to have a chance of winning the supporters back around, he needs to silence his pleas for help from Mike Ashley channeled through the media. It is extremely naive for the Magpies boss to think that the fans believe they can influence their owner. There is an acceptance on Tyneside that the Sports Direct Owner has own agenda which he will carry out regardless of whether they approve or disapprove of his actions. Alan Pardew needs to realise that he must handle what is within his control if he is to succeed. That is ensuring that the club play attractive football, which will give the fans a chance to warm to their boss again like they once had.

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It may seem highly unlikely to many in the North East that Pardew can restore his ailing reputation, but it is not impossible. He survived in his first season in charge with Peter Lovenkrands, Nile Ranger and Shefki Kuqi, struggling to as the man at the helm would say “get him over the line”, and the squad has certainly improved since then.

The current business model at Newcastle United may be a discussion relevant to the future of the club in years to come. The brutal honest truth now though is the supporters are far more worried about the desperation on the field of play that they witnessed at the end of this season, than the financial solvency of the club in three or four years time.

Tottenham Hotspur are leading the race to snap up Crystal Palace wonderkid Wilfried Zaha as their scouting team step up their assignments on the player, according to the Daily Mirror.

Zaha has been in sublime form for the Eagles so far this season and it appears that despite Spurs being the main contenders for the England under-21’s signature, rivals Arsenal and Chelsea are also in the hunt for the pacey winger.

Palace set their asking price at a whopping £20million for their prized asset last week but it appears Spurs would be happy to pay an original £10million plus add ons for the hottest youngsters around.

The Daily Mirror also report that former Arsenal assistant manager, Pat Rice, has been to watch Zaha twice in recent weeks along with representatives from Chelsea, Spurs and Manchester City amongst others.

It seems Palace will struggle to receive their £20million target, however with the amount of competition for Zaha’s signature; they may not fall too far short. I know that every Eagles fan will simply say ‘He’s just too good for you!’

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There is a stability at Arsenal that Jose Mourinho claims he is envious of. Clubs around Europe perhaps should look at Arsenal with equal levels of envy because of their apparent financial safety. But as has always been the case, football is won on the pitch, not on how attractive the bank balance looks.

Arsene Wenger spoke out about a topic that most were already well aware of. This is his club and the board wouldn’t make a strong move against his position. The manager offers the guidelines for wages, as well as advocating a socialist structure that looks to keep everyone well within reach of each other.

Like most of Wenger’s ideals, it’s a romantic approach to the game. Unfortunately, it’s also one that doesn’t really work in the modern climate of football. I’ve always maintained that being smart in one field doesn’t always mean it can be a success when transferring it to sport. This socialist structure may have worked elsewhere or at various points in history, but it simply won’t work in sports.

And that’s not to say the Arsenal manager isn’t free to go about the running of the club in a manner which he sees as ideal, it just means it won’t always be the best for both him and the club. His star players don’t want to be within touching distance of players who accumulate barely a handful of games over a season. Why should a top scorer or a captain be on almost similar pay to a veteran whose job is simply to fill a gap and come in when the situation calls for it?

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There’s being smart with a wage budget and living within your means, but this approach is something completely different. I struggle to see a way which the manager can defend his socialist ideal, and looking to the need for a stringent wage structure as a way to defend it is wrong. Quite plainly, they are two separate issues which don’t need to be married.

It almost certainly falls in line with the manager’s desire to create a young squad and have them grow up together and form a title-winning side. In that case again, Wenger would have wanted very little between each of his players, no matter their status.

But where is the problem in paying established players like Lukas Podolski, Santi Cazorla and Thomas Vermaelen the highest wages in the squad, all the while keeping the Johan Djourous, Aaron Ramseys, Carl Jenkinsons at the other end of the scale and with obvious daylight between both groups of players?

The manager seems to live by the idea that if he pays one player a high salary then everyone else will subsequently ask for a pay rise. Well why are a big club like Arsenal unable to say no? Why is a manager who holds so much power at the club unable to say no? Moreover, I doubt these players are stupid. How likely is it that a poor performer will ask to be paid in equal to that of one of the club’s star players?

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It has always seemed that Wenger looks at the value of players on the pitch and what the effects are in the dressing room when offering contracts or even looking to new recruits. Do factors such as the morale of supporters ever come into play? What about the image the club creates for itself that is then spread around Europe? How many clubs are genuinely fearful of playing Arsenal anymore? It stems from the idea that the club are happy to let go of their best players for one reason or another. It stems from the idea that the club are unable to go after the finest players in the transfer market because they refuse to shell out on wages that befit the player’s quality.

The manager admits that the club are vulnerable to outsiders because of their wage structure. But as I’ve said, it’s not something that needs to be adhered to. There’s being smart and playing it safe with wages, breaking away from the norm for one or two outstanding individuals, but then there’s believing that something works when it clearly doesn’t and refusing to alter it’s makeup.

It’s very difficult to defend clubs who hand out contracts which reach close to £200,00 a week: not everyone can be or is Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. But it’s also difficult to defend a club who don’t want to properly stand by their most valuable assets by offering them increased wages and a contract that sets them well apart from the rest. It’s not that there are rules in football or sports as a whole on how to spend your wage budget, but there are quite obvious lines of thinking that stretches to all clubs and franchises. There isn’t a cloud protecting Arsenal’s players from what goes on elsewhere.

Tottenham Hotspur will provide stiff reading for Arsenal when they release their financial figures for last season, The Sun reports.

Spurs are set to reveal a wage budget of £91.1m ‘or below,’ leaving the White Hart Lane outfit to financially mirror their payroll of 2010/11.

Over the last five years the Gunners have posted wages of £89.7m (2007), £101.3m (2008), £104m (2009), £110.7m (2010), £124.4m (2011), and £143.4 (2012). The most recent differential between last year and the 2011/12 season has seen an exponential increase of 15%.

Compared to the balance sheet on the other side of the Seven Sisters Road, this substantial rise in payroll might be cause for concern for Arsenal fans. For £1m extra a week in wages – £52m a year – a mere one league position above your local rivals can be achieved.

Contrary to growing angst at Arsenal leading chief executive Ivan Gazidis to counter any suggestion that he was ‘ruining the club’ by keeping the purse strings tight during October’s AGM, these figures seem to suggest that the red side of North London are beginning to punch their weight.

In today’s global economic climate – and amidst a milieu of rival Premier League teams spending each other out of silverware – the wage rise at the Emirates might not be such a cause for concern, as Arsenal step up to the financial environment set by the Premier League’s big spenders.

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A lawyer who helped create the Bosman ruling in 1995 is to challenge UEFA’s new Financial Fair Play regulations in court.

French lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont has lodged an official complaint with the European Commission in opposition to UEFA’s new rules, due to come into play next season.

He is representing football agent Daniel Striani, who represents a number of high-profile players across Europe, including those in the Premier League.

Europe’s governing body hope the new regulations, which sets limits on the amount of losses a club can make, will ensure all sides will eventually break even.

They also hope it will keep wages under control and prevent clubs from falling into administration or even liquidation under the weight of heavy debts. Clubs who fail to comply could ultimately face expulsion from European competitions such as the Champions League.

However, Dupont believes the regulations will hamper the growth and development of smaller clubs and maintain the status quo, playing into the hands of teams such of Manchester United, who already have large stadiums and substantial commercial income.

It would also prevent the rise of a club like Manchester City, whose owner Sheikh Mansour bankrolled an almost unprecedented spending spree on players that ultimately delivered them the 2012 Premier League title.

“A club owner is prohibited from overspending even if such overspending aims at growing the club,” he said in a statement.

Dupont was part of the legal team that defeated UEFA and the European Commission in 1995 over Belgian midfielder Jean-Marc Bosman’s desire to move clubs at the end of his contract.

They challenged football’s transfer rules at the European Court, citing restraint of trade, and helped create the Bosman ruling which allows players to move clubs freely at the end of their contract.

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The European Commission confirmed it had received a complaint but would make no further comment on the case.

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Swansea will be looking to halt a run of three consecutive Premier League defeats when Reading arrive at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday.

Brian McDermott’s men are also in desperate need of points, after they were denied their first Premier League win of the season last weekend by Demba Ba’s hand.

The worry for Swansea boss Micheal Laudrup will be where the goals are going to come from, having seen his side fail to find the net in their last three.

There are no new suspension worries for the Swans, while midfielder Kemy Agustien is expected to make his comeback from a leg injury.

Defenders Kyle Bartley and Neil Taylor are long-term injury concerns for Laudrup’s men, with a thigh strain and a fractured ankle respectively.

Goalkeeper Adam Federici remains sidelined with a knee problem for Reading, while midfielder Mikele Leigertwood is expected to recover from a dead leg in time to feature in some part.

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Striker Jason Roberts has fully recovered from a calf problem and could make his first start of the season at the Liberty Stadium.

Prediction: Swansea 1-0 Reading 

Mega rich French club Paris St Germain are set to make a summer bid for Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri according to the Daily Mail.

Nasri has fallen out of favour at the Etihad this season and boss Roberto Mancini publically slammed the Frenchman for his work ethic in training.

The former Arsenal midfielder was a key player in City’s title winning team last season but the harmony amongst the City side has not followed through for more success in this campaign.

PSG are looking to add more French players to their Champions elect squad in the summer as their mega rich owners want to dominate European football within three years.

David Beckham has already stated that he wants to stay on in the French capital next season and more big names will no doubt be joining him in the summer with Nasri amongst the names if they can agree a fee with City.

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Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert has hit back at speculation that Christian Benteke wants to sign for Arsenal, claiming the Belgian international was misquoted and misreported.

Benteke signed for the Villans in the summer, moving from Genk for £7million, and has impressed with four goals in ten appearances for the Birmingham-based relegation candidates.

But reports released this morning suggested the Belgium striker, capped nine times for his country, had a pragmatic view of his career at Villa Park, not hiding his intentions to move to Arsenal. Many people believe that the reports also made Benteke appear disrespectful and ignorant towards his new club’s fans and heritage.

“I am not afraid of making enemies at Aston Villa by saying I love Arsenal. There are worse things one can say,” Benteke told the Daily Express.

“I am a Villa player for now. They are the right club at the right time for me. I have fulfilled a dream by playing in the Premier League.

“Villa are the beginning of my career in England. Although I didn’t know their full history, I knew they’d played in the Champions League and won plenty of titles and cups.

“At the time I signed I didn’t know where they played. I thought they were a London club.

“Arsenal are the club I love. I like their philosophy of selecting young players and, besides, they had Thierry Henry in their team.”

In his Friday press conference, that was later replayed on Sky Sports News, Lambert told reporters that his striker had fallen victim to the press and his comments had been taken out of context.

“The big guy doesn’t say two words let alone give a full story,” said the Scottish boss.

“I think that’s naughty journalism what they’ve tried to do.

“Every young footballer has a team or player they follow, if Christian has a team thats no great danger to anybody.

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“I think what it says about Benteke doesn’t really care if upsets Aston Villa fans, I think that’s really naughty, I don’t think he said that in any stretch of the imagination whatsoever,” he added.

Benteke is expected to take part in Aston Villa’s Premier League clash away to Manchester City on Saturday.

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We celebrated 20 years of the Premier League last season and what a pair of decades they’ve been. There’s been incredible goals, saves and celebrations year after year produced by a number of incredible players. England’s top flight has seen some truly remarkable talent during that time, with some of the greatest players to ever play the beautiful game lighting up the league. Much was expected of stars like Thierry Henry or Patrick Vieira when they first arrived, but others, like Cristiano Ronaldo or Cesc Fabregas, shot to stardom out of nowhere.

However, there’s been scores of players who simply haven’t delivered the goods at the highest level unfortunately. Countless times, an individual has broken through the ranks or signed from abroad with much expected from him, only to disappoint everyone when he fails to make the cut. It’s inevitable given the turnover of players these days among the top clubs that some of the replacements aren’t going to be up to scratch, but there have been some miserable flops over the years. We check out the top 15 Premier League players that offered so much, but delivered so little.

Click on Mario Jardel to unveil the 15 that offered much and delivered little

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