There is of course much more and I will try to cover this in coming articles, but here’s the very basic point: A set of rules exists within the Premier League about income and expenditure. Manchester ...

So where do we start with the Manc case? We have been dipping into it off and on since it started, forever watching out for legal restrictions, watching the Athle ...

It is not just that, as we have said since the whole fiasco started, that ManC cheated, cheated, cheated and cheated, and went on cheating without a single media outlet standing up to them, it is that ...

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 ...

And that second point is needed by journalists because no, the media hasn’t figured Arsenal out, because quite simply Arsenal bought a sufficient variety of players in recent windows that means that ...

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 ...

It is not a football club, it is a machine that wins sthe German league year after year and makes vast amounts of money.  They called the 2024/25 season “turbulent times” with “a transfer market that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...