FA Youth Cup Fourth Round: the match report

FA Youth Cup Fourth Round  Arsenal v Royston Town (2 – 1) Wednesday 21 January   Match Report by Andrew Crawshaw   Royston is a small town bordering Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire population 16,000 approx.  Their Football team are known as the Crows and play non-league football in the Southern League Division One Central.  The club …

Switzerland take a greater interest in Fifa – at last

By Tony Attwood As you may have seen, I’ve taken quite an interest in the Barcelona child trafficking case since Fifa first ruled on it. In one of my comments however I suggested that although Fifa had very much done the right thing in the cases against Barcelona and the Spanish FA, we couldn’t be …

For once, an Untold prediction is right: 6.5 years of Francis Coquelin

By Tony Attwood Francis Coquelin’s agent is now negotiating a new deal for the player at Arsenal, what with his contract running out at the end of the season. Meanwhile the story of Coquelin runs in two different ways depending on whose version you read.  Either Arsenal stumbled from crisis to crisis plucking players here …