Its Özil to Özil who passes to Özil, out to Özil and now its Özil – and yes Özil scores.

Sunderland v Arsenal; the Media Preview By Özil McÖzil – of the Scottish clan McÖzil Poor sad TV execs.  They had a look at the fixtures, saw when the transfer window ended, and then had to pick what they thought would be the most exciting matches revealing the new mega talent and unknown arrivals. And what …

Sunderland v Arsenal 14 September 2013 – the Officials

Sunderland v Arsenal 14 September 2013 – the Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Referee Martin Atkinson Assistant referees R West & H Lennard Fourth official K Friend Martin Atkinson has been a Premier League Referee since 2005 when he started with the Manchester City v Birmingham City game, and has been an ever present since then. …

Ref review 2012/13: Lee Mason. The ref with penalty area fever and Arsenal phobia

By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article.  __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Lee Mason. Ref Mason has been in the PL for a few years now (since 2006 …

Untold gains 800,000 visits in a month.

13 September 2013 I’m running really late this morning, what with having been out dancing late last night, and with the anniversary section of the blog taking longer than normal (its the anniversary of Ian Wright breaking of Cliff Bastin’s record). So this is a quickie, before the posting of the first proper story of  …