Here are several interesting articles I came across during the past few days which may be of interest to many of you passionate fans:

• “Soccer’s Billion-Dollar Players” — What Credit Crunch? The biggest soccer players and clubs are drowning in money, much of it borrowed (Time Magazine)
• “Premier League Plan To Take English Football To The World” — Here at EPL Talk, we’ve been writing in support of the 39th Game concept ad nauseum, and now the idea is back with a different concept. Problem is will managers let their top teams play and risk the chance of injuries? (The Daily Telegraph)
• “Premier League Plan Five Four-Team Global Tournaments In New Winter Break” — More details about Richard Scudamore’s plan to bring the Premier League to the world (The Daily Mirror)
• “The Beautiful Gane: PFA’s Art Exhibition” — Now we know who bought the LS Lowry football masterpiece we featured a few months ago (Football Shirt Culture)
• “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea” — Well-written article about the birth and history of the Football League (Two Hundred Percent)
• “Fulham Plans Johnny Haynes Memorial Statue” — Johnny Haynes, the footballer that is synonymous with Fulham, is to be remembered with a memorial statue to stand outside Craven Cottage (Fulham FC)
• “Kenyon Urges Chasing Pack To ‘Get Their Houses In Order’” — Peter Kenyon has advice for Everton, Spurs, Villa and the other teams trying to break into the Big Four. Must be easy to give advice when you work for a club that practically has an unlimited amount of money to spend (The Guardian)
• “Most Of Premier League Web Visits Sourced Abroad” — This comes as little surprise to us readers, but it’s still fascinating to read: Most of the traffic to PremierLeague.com and the official club websites for the Big Four come from users outside the UK (euFootball Biz)