Another thing to watch out for is Arsenal buying a player who has not been mentioned in the media, and finishing the deal late in the window. That will be called a “panic buy”. It won’t be, it will ...

That happens for the simple reason that everyone knows that any slip or mishap in the next season is going to be pounced upon with a lot of “I told you so” comments if the club doesn’t do what the ...

In recognition of his breakthrough year and the performances he put in he was also named on the shortlist for the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Young Player of the Year award alongside the ...

Now each of these points challenges the very essence of football, and implies that much of the time we are being lied to. Lied to, for example, in terms of which players a club is going to sign, and ...

Now the first thing to note is that after six games, the top four were the same top four as at the end of the season. The only difference is that Arsenal moved above Manchester C. And that change wasn ...

The ruling seems to mean that players will always have the option to buy themselves out of their contract, rather than being trapped with a club. That in turn would open the door to the club wanting ...

An article in the New York Times website read “Here, we look back on windows-past and Arsenal transfers, good and bad and how they performed.” And once again I was struck by the lack of comparison ...

Slowly little bits of the media are awakening to the fact that the World Cup final is going to be played on July 19, the absolute height of the American summer, at the New Jersey MetLife Stadium.

One of the key issues concerning discipline and punishment is always the question: “Does it work?” As in does it work in stopping the person or organisation who is punished from doing it again, and ...

The lack of journalistic coverage of football in England however means there is every chance that those clubs that have been guilty of the abuse of young players, either by allowing staff to abuse ...