Aston Villa v Arsenal 20 Sep 2014 – The Match Officials. “A home ref”

Aston Villa v Arsenal 20 September 2014 – The Match Officials   by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the wrong Important Decisions Table updated following Walter’s reviews of the Leicester City and Manchester City games so the numbers are for all four games played so far. In the Leicester game there were three wrong Important decisions; …

Stadium issues, FFP… for QPR it has all gone wrong at once.

By Tony Attwood Every now and then, football rules change.  If you are of a certain vintage you might remember the introduction of the “no back pass” rule to stop defenders wasting time by passing back to the keeper. Indeed over time the offside rule has had a lot of tinkering, with the biggest recent …

FA caught breaking rules as they plot a reduction in number of overseas players in England

The Football Association currently revealed as breaking even the ludicrously lax Fifa rules about accepting gifts, has sought to deflect attention by pushing through the idea of reducing  the number of non-EU players who can play in England. The new idea is that Football League clubs would not be allowed to sign non-EU players at …