R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Find out what it means to me! Clichéd, yes but who could resist a bit of Aretha! Its two weeks into the new season thus two weeks into the FA’s Respect Campaign and the future looks as bright as it can be. At the end of the day the essence of the Respect Campaign is asking the players and the manager to show restraint and there are always going to be times when they lose it. It’s called passion and the game would be dead without it.

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The 2008/09 Season is literally two weekends away and already excitement is growing up and down the country as the anticipation for another Premier League campaign kicks in. Once again, big money signings have arrived, new managers installed and new teams are about to experience what competing in the best League in the world is all about. Here’s part one of our preview to what is exciting us in the run up to the 2008/09 campaign:

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Some may say £6.6m for an English international is too much after the national team’s absence in the ongoing European 2008 Championships. However, these days £6.6m is a pretty nondescript amount for any player but for one of England’s so-called finest footballers, surely it is little more like an insult. I can’t help wonder what’s going on behind the scenes at Stamford Bridge.

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Jose Mourinho has only just been installed as Internazionale’s Head Coach and already a number of Premier League clubs are bracing themselves from raids on their star names from the Italian champions.

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Rumours are once again flying left, right and centre about Frank Lampard’s future at Chelsea with Inter Milan claiming the player is set to join them after Chelsea’s Champions League clash with Manchester United on Wednesday.

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Chelsea were written off as silverware contenders by many of the so-called ‘experts’ of the game when Roman Abramovich replaced the enigmatic Portuguese man of war Jose Mourinho with the dour Israeli Avram Grant back in September, but 5 months later on the Blues are back in the Premier League title race and still in contention for all the cup competitions. So was Avram’s appointment a masterstroke by Roman or has Grant just carried on where the ‘special one’ left off?

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Managerial Heavyweights Clash for the Vacant English Title

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