Typical, isn't it? Just when you are bidding to bring the 2018 World Cup to your green and pleasant shores, outbreaks of 70s?style hooliganism keep getting in the way, cropping up noxiously to remind the world that football in England is nowhere near as safe and sanitised as the image the Premier League portrays.

[readon1 url="https://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/nov/01/carling-cup-fans-violence"]Source: Guardian.co.uk[/readon1]

Revelations of the extent of Rangers' financial troubles will have come as a surprise only to victims of an incurable gullibility. To anyone capable of taking a detached view of the reckless spending – as opposed to falling for the bluster – of the owner and former chairman, Sir David Murray, over the past 15 years, the present day of reckoning would have seemed an inevitability as much as a decade ago.

[readon1 url="https://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/nov/01/rangers-david-murray-administration-lloyds"]Source: Guardian.co.uk[/readon1]

Brighton & Hove Albion have sacked manager Russell Slade after eight months in charge following their 3-3 draw with Hartlepool on Saturday.

Source: BBC

Joost van der Westhuizen, South Africa's record-breaking former rugby star, has been dropped by the country's biggest television sports station after admitting he was filmed in a sex video snorting drugs.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk