Robert Pirès speaks; I always listen

  By Tony Attwood When Robert Pirès speaks I do pay attention, just as I do when Thierry Henry says something, or indeed Dennis Bergkamp.  They have played elsewhere and indeed two continue to play elsewhere, but their hearts are always at Arsenal.  Wonderful players with extraordinary insights into the game, in my view, and always …

Champions League seeding changes and discussions being on FFP Part 2

By Tony Attwood When the concept of Financial Fair Play was laid out it was self-evident that the issue of finance in football had a central core (self-sustainability) and two issues – debt and loss making. Uefa chose to look at loss making first, because it was the more insidious of the two issues standing …