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The season is reaching it's climax. Managers, fans and players are all getting very excited. In this video, we take a look at how Managers on the touchline get their message across on the tactical ramifications of playing their preferred playing system. Watch out Mr  Louis van Gaal, they are after your job!!

Corners have become chaos. The rules of the game have gone out of the window, with players very often turning their back on the ball and wrestling each other. Referees wag their fingers, the players blame each other and then continue where they left off.

In a past blog I argued that using technology in football - such as the TV official would be wrong. That  football in this country sells and is successful around the World because it is a fast moving, dynamic, exciting game. That using technology would slow the game down and take away a huge amount of this controversy. I also argued that football relies on this controversy, in the vast majority of cases created by the officials, to sell the game.

The Premier League has sold television rights to its games for a record £5.136bn, 71% above the previous deal. Sky paid £4.2bn for five of the seven TV packages while rival BT paid £960m for the other two in the record TV rights auction. The deal will run for three years from 2016.

Part 5 and the final episode of the football documentary "Sold for a Fiver" The writing is on the wall. Leyton Orient are relegated with 5 games left and the managerial duo have the unenviable and difficult task of trying to lift and motivate the players before the upcoming home game against Brentford.

In part 4 of 5 of this Football Documentary "Sold for a Fiver, Leyton Orient play a vital game against Blackpool at home. John Sitton is in charge of the dressing room row with the players, where he unceremoniously sacks one of his players after what John considers a gutless performance.

Part 3 of the "fly on the wall" Football Documentary about Leyton Orient in the 1994 - 95 season

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