The final ball has been kicked but the transfer mill keeps football going all year round

The football season ended in dramatic fashion with the play-offs and champions league final. We saw the worlds best team in Barcelona out-play Manchester United like a training match with Messi and co pulling the strings in the middle. And to top it off the Premier League is welcoming its first Welsh side into the top flight. A glorious end to a truly magnificent season of football across the globe.

But us football fans know that isn't the end of football for the season as because of the mass media football now gets its almost a yearly round thing on the back page of newspapers even in the off-season because of the countless transfer rumours. Players' agents are called in left, right and centre for statements on their players future giving away small hints. Papers somehow make up farce accusations such as Ronaldinho being linked with a move to... Blackburn Rovers? Bizarre is not the word. But it is these rumours that keeps football alive all year round and its what football fans love.

Whether your teams manager is going to pull a bunny out of the hat like Fergie did with Hernandez for a cut-price £6 million or your team is going to flop on players like Chelsea did with Andriy Shevchenko for £30 million. It gets the fans pumping and if the January transfer window is anything to go by, August 31st is going to be a stonker of a deadline day too.

But to sum-up the season of football with a football team as an example would have to be Blackpool. Not Barcelona. Not Manchester United. Not even Spain's dominance in international football. Blackpool because of the sheer passion and pride they brought back into just playing in the Premier League. Barcelona we know are the best team in the world that have probably graced a football field, and Blackpool would hardly stand a chance against them. But the tangerines stood out this season not only with their fluorescent orange kit, but with their tenacity and pride of being in English Footballs top tier, and led by one of footballs most fun-loving sons Ian Holloway. The misfortune of being relegated on the last day of the season can not take away the enjoyment they brought back to the Premier League and no doubt will follow into the Championship under Ian Holloway's guidance.

Lets just hope Premier League new-boys QPR and Swansea City can off that same exuberance that is still beaming over football fans' faces after a terrific season of football.