Great start to the English Premier League Season! Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1 in the Charity Shield...which is a curtain raiser for the start of the season! Proof that teamwork and chemistry is more than a match for the seemingly limitless funds that Chelsea have! I'd love to see some sort of a salary cap enforced for European football....that way, those clubs with millionaire owners will not be able to simply buy success. Case in point: Chelsea spent 30 million pounds....I think that's roughly US$46 million to bring Andrei Shevchenko over from AC Milan....that's just ridiculous!!! Very very very few teams would be able to shell out that kind of money....and slowly but surely, the gap between the mega-rich teams and those that are struggling financially will only widen.
Most smaller teams in Europe only have a transfer budget of around US$2-3 million every year! Crazy!!!