It has been a funny few days in the world of football. So for this blog, I will be calling it “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.”

The Good

After an absolutely horrendous performance on Saturday at Southampton, the Sunderland players will cough up some of their own cash to pay for travel and tickets for anyone who had the misfortune of travelling all that distance.

This is a very nice gesture and also one that shows some footballers do actually care.

The Bad

Mario Balotelli deciding that he was a bit hot going off at half time so decided to take his shirt off and swap it with a Real Madrid player.

What gets me about shirt swapping is that you are swapping one sweaty shirt for another.

Referees yet again want to be the centre of attention with some very strange decisions in the Manchester City match vs CSKA.

Also in that match how can a closed doors game have a couple of hundred supporters in the ground? Surely behind closed doors means behind closed doors.

World rankings. Does anyone know how they work? Well as a solution orientated person I have an idea.

Here we go. This system would work for whatever ranking you are and would be re-started after every World-Cup. The only games which would not count would be friendlies. If you played a team in the top ten and won you get 20 points, a draw is 10 a loss is 0. From there the points just get less. So if you play a team ranked 11 to 50 and win you get 15 points, 7.5 for a draw and 0 for a loss. 51-100 gets you 10 points for a win, 5 for a draw and yes you guessed it 0 for a loss. Any game played against a team ranked higher than 100 gets you only 5 points and 2.5 for a draw.

The Ugly

Racism again is back in the news, with a Leeds United player supposedly saying racist remarks to a Norwich player. Me personally thinks if players are found guilty FIFA should ban them for life, this would soon stop it.

Finally 2 Everton fans had a bit of a shock when they were attacked by a group of Lille fans in a bar. There has also been trouble between the police and fans just to put the icing on the cake.

It’s a sport at the end of the day, why do fans and police have to treat it like a war?

Andrew Huddlestone

@ahuddlestone77