Not very charitable Shield preview part 1: the context

Pre-match preview by Bulldog Drummond. The 93rd Community Shield fixture.  It used to be called the Charity Shield until the Charities Commission realised that the FA were keeping no proper records, were not giving enough money to charities, and generally making fast and loose.   The Charity Commission could have sued the FA and closed them …

Criminal goings on in and around the Emirates…

By ‘DI’ Blacksheep The confirmation that the police inquiry into the mysterious death of Alexander Litvinenko included a visit to the Emirates Stadium (where they found traces of the radioactive plutonium that killed him) got me thinking about football-related crime scenarios. I am a historian that specializes in the history of crime and punishment (although …