Landon Donovan scored his 34th career goal, tying Eric Wynalda atop the career list, and Benny Feilhaber connected with a gorgeous volley to rally the United States to a 2-1 victory over Mexico on Sunday in the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean.

It’s the first time in 53 meetings dating to 1934 that the Americans fell behind Mexico, then came back to win.

Though having said that a lot do get riches beyond the amount their ability deserves. A few examples spring to mind immediately: Robbie Savage, Ok a good player but is he really that good, that he is able to afford to drive a Ferrari? Not in my eyes he’s not. He is far too busy play acting for my liking. Then there is Tim Sherwood, Ok he may of won a League Championship medal while at Blackburn but was he really anything other than a good player?

Again I would say no, he was just lucky to be playing in the EPL before the big star influx raised the level of ability needed to make it. but at a time when the big money had entered the game. But in my view the biggest example of an overpaid footballer is Ian Walker, surely the worst ‘keeper the EPL has seen, even when he dropped down a flight with Leicester he was no better than average.

However, when you see the likes of Gianfranco Zola, Thierry Henry, Ronaldinho and Pavel Nedved. These are players that make a match worth watching just to see them, it doesn’t matter what team they play for it’s all about them and their ability to produce magical skills that make your jaw drop in admiration.

Maybe a better answer to the question would be yes some are, but no others are not. Though of course that doesn’t make for good headlines when a player signs a new contract.

Lets be honest how many Manchester United fans begrudge Roy Keane a single penny he made from the club? But that didn’t stop the newspapers whining about the massive sums he was making, well so what? It is nothing compared to the sums that the likes of Martin Edwards made from Manchester United yet Edwards was not the one out on the pitch knowing that his career could be over tomorrow if he receives a bad challenge.

Sometimes I think its just jealousy that creates these headlines about overpaid players, or maybe its just a complete lack of anything interesting to write that leads to it? Either way I would rather they gave both sides of the story before whinging about it. I mean how about a list of the directors and shareholders of a club and how much they took in wages, bonuses and dividends? So that we can have a reference point to compare player’s wages to. I would especially like to know how much the likes of Peter Ridsdale made from Leeds.

To my mind the only way forward is to take clubs back into the hands of the fans, like Wimbledon AFC and FC United. Let’s have all their finances completely transparent, and get rid of agent’s involvement in transfers. Surely the PFA could offer that as one of their services to their union members, after all they certainly have the money. Surely all clubs need to do transfers between themselves is a solicitor, a representative and an FA, UEFA or FIFA or whoever representative to make sure it is all legal and above board.

I know this will never happen as too many people are busy creaming off money from the game to line their own pockets. But at the end of the day it should be about the fans – the players should all be on performance based contracts so they can earn massive amounts but only if the club does well and the ticket prices should be as low as possible so that as many fans as possible can afford to go.

Still this will never happen because too many people would lose out and at the end of the day football is no longer a sport it is a business and that will unfortunately never change.

They both are real contrast to each other. One is an unbelievably skillful maybe a once in a generation player, but the other one is very talented, hardworking and unselfish player. When Messi was brought into 1st Team everything was on his side - the Media, Management, Fans and Players. If you remember the players all of them used to protect him like anything. The best example was the CL 1st leg in Chelsea. Whenever Messi was fouled there was kind of scuffle between players. In contrast when Tevez came to WestHam along with Mascherano, he was welcomed by a contrasting feeling - Distrust by Fans, media and players. The one which mattered the most was the players were not ready to accept him as one of them. And things predictably should have gone worse with Javier Mascherano’s loan to Liverpool.

I believed he would have been a lone figure in the dressing room. But when you have Carlos Tevez in your hand predictions have no value. Now at the end of the season the fans have declared him a “Hammer legend 4 Life”(It just took one season). How can he do that? The answer is you have to be “Carlos Tevez” for doing that. He never gave hope and with his performance he started inspiring the players to believe in him(I think one man who believed in him more than everyone was Anton Ferdinand). The key was he didn’t try to impress media or his coach but his fellow colleagues. The WestHam’s Great escape is not a one man story, it is a story of a bunch of people(Noble,Zamora, Benyayoun,…..) led and believing in their Hero and trying to do something impossible. At last they did it in style by beating the Champions at their den.

One attribute which makes Tevez differ from other strikers of his age is his “Unselfish character”. Always we have seen that young strikers tend to be more selfish than everyone. Till last season Ronaldo was one of that category, this season he reinvented himself and look at the result. This makes Tevez doubly dangerous as he is a striker who is made of a fatal combination of Latin American flair, Hardwork and unselfishness. Let’s hope he stays in WestHam for next season(i.e they are not relegated).

There is soccer players of different kind - One with flair, One with Grit, One who struggles and then there is the Tevez type.

The two clubs had featured in a thrilling three-way fight for the Eredivisie crown which was won on the last day by PSV.

AZ and Ajax have already contested the KNVB-Beker final, won on penalties by the Amsterdammers, but now arguably an even more important prize will be at stake.

With last-place Watford and Charlton already relegated to the Football League Championship, three more teams were in danger of going down in the final round of games.

Wigan needed a victory over the Sheffield United at Bramall Lane, and Paul Scharner scored in the 14th minute and David Unsworth added a penalty kick in the 45th. Sheffield United got its goal from Jonathan Stead’s 38th-minute diving header.

However, the club controversially avoided a points deduction and subsequently has climbed above the three relegation places.

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United, which beat Manchester City 1-0 Saturday, has 88 points. Chelsea is second with 81 points with two games left. The two play each other at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday.

United has won the English title nine times since the Premier League was formed in 1992 — all under manager Alex Ferguson, who took over the club in 1986. United also has won seven other English titles.

The match ended 1-1 after extra time, with Alkmaar taking an early lead through Moussa Dembele before Klaas Jan Huntelaar equalised early in the second half.

Edgar Davids scored the 16th penalty to seal victory for the holders after Maarten Stekelenburg saved the attempt from Ryan Donk.

The cup was a consolation prize for Ajax, who lost out on the Dutch league title on goal difference last week. Alkmaar remain empty-handed after squandering three chances for a trophy in 17 days.