But here is the main point – the punishment should in these cases exceed the crime. If the punishment fits the crime, then it suggests to criminal clubs like ManC that it is always worth having a bash ...

It wouldn’t have seemed such big news a couple of years ago, or however long it has been, but the fact that “Manchester City have been found guilty of breaking the majority of the 115 financial rules ...

Even even the media that did looke a a little beyond the result of the last Arsenal game admitted that there were games last season where Arsenal were outplayed, they still reacted with shock that it ...

I am not sure that many of even the most rabid football journalists could make much of a case for Mikel Arteta not signing a new long-term contract with the club.  Just as I am not sure that whatever ...

Vitamin X taken before a match in moderation will help – as long as you truly and absolutely believe in it. But if your view is “let’s try this and see what happens,” then quite possiby, the ...

Now of course that is not too surprising since these top players also want to play in the Champions League so they are not going to be attracted simply by a big stadium and a 17th place finish. Aston ...

Worse, the league has chosen to make this change and bow down to the demands of the FA just at the moment when there are more goals being scored in Premier League games than ever before. The games ...

The fact is that as you will probably remember in 2025 we came second with 74 points. In 2023 we came second with 84 points. In 2024 we came second with 89 points When we finally won the league in ...

So a player who came up through the youth team would have a value of £0.  And the total valuation of the team might be £250m. The point of this is that the player carries his valuation throughout his ...

Either way – these reports not only show football in an utterly shocking light, they also show that many people who want to read about football, want to read about ineptitude, scandal, and scurrilous ...

Meanwhile PGMOL has just rebranded itself Pro Ref, and it is owned by the Premier League, the English Football League and the FA.   But if these Pro Ref referees get things wrong who deals with that?

I haven’t gone back and checked, but I think it was in the first double season that quite early on we had a couple of bad results and people started saying at once that Arsenal had flattered to ...