Chelsea's Transfer Ban- What is football coming to?

Three weeks ago, we were all looking forward to the start of the new season and seeing how our respective clubs played on the opening Saturday.
Since then, the football has brought about a few shocks; most notably Burnley beating Manchester United at Turf Moor.
Now, we're all discussing exactly why Eduardo received a two match ban for 'deceiving the referee' and Chelsea were banned from signing players til January 2011!
Starting with the Eduardo incident, UEFA have punished Arsenal directly for an error in refereeing, yet somehow they refute calls for video technology. If every diving incident went punished, there wouldn't be such uproar! Surely there are worse happenings that go unpunished including Messi's head-but in the Super Cup. They all go unpunished, even after the Argentine set up the winning goal for Barca in the above game. UEFA have been concentrating so hard on setting consistency in the refereeing department, maybe they need to take a page out of their own book.
Then, we move on to yesterdays news about Chelsea. In case you haven't heard, the Blues have been handed a ridiculous (depite contrary suggestions from Lens) ban after they 'stole' Gael Kakuta from his contract with the French club two years ago.
To be honest, before this week, I had never heard of the French winger and now he's making the back pages nationwide! Think back to 2004 and it was Mutu this time who brought Chelsea into the news for the wrong reasons; failing a drugs test and getting banned from playing for 7 months. You have to wonder whether the European organisations, UEFA and FIFA who have imposed these respective bans, are purposefully trying to lower the stature of the Premier League because it is easily surpassing the rest of the world!
Now, time to compare Chelsea's approach with a few other prime examples. How different is this case to Manchester City's continuous approach of Roque Santa Cruz and Jolean Lescott; approaches criticised by managers Sam Allardyce and David Moyes? Ok then, these players chose to move but the principle behind them is the same; the buying club persuaded the players to leave their respective clubs in search of better things.
With Manchester United's signing of Paul Pogba now in the spotlight as well, the situation is getting out of hand and I, for one, feel as though the governing bodies of football are taking every opportunity to punish English clubs and it is this, as well as the bans, that we should be appealing about.

Light up Youth Football in the Media

With the Premier League season up and running, it will yet again be the Premier League that takes people's attention.
Youth football is something that somehow passes the media by, yet you rarely see a game that isn't entertaining or eventful.
What people don't realise is how hard youth footballers have to work to earn a chance on the big stage.
But you have to remember that the likes of Wayne Rooney, Michael Owen and Aston Villa's new signing Fabian Delph have all come through respective Youth team set-ups.
One of the most well known set-ups is at Manchester City although it was Arsenal who conquered in the FA Youth Cup last season, beating Liverpool 6-2 on aggregate in the final.
Could you spare a few hours each week and give some young players the support they need to raise their game and help them to become the stars we all want to see shine in the Premier League in up-and-coming seasons? Check out your club's websites for more details on fixture times or you could always visit www.proyouthfootball.co.uk for the latest news and results.