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 ...

The Leeds turnaround does look rather strange but in fact their great start to the season did only last three games with wins against Chelsea and Wolverhampton and a draw with Southampton. After that, ...

Certainly the money the PL clubs earn has gone up year after year after year. As the BBC put it “The Premier League has been spectacularly successful since it started in 1992. Since that time consumer ...

Obviously research in this area is hindered by the fact that researchers cannot go around asking under 16 year olds if they have been abused, so instead research focuses on those aged over 18 who ...