CL Arsenal – Basel 2-0

By Walter Broeckx Two changes in the team with Ospina coming the place of Cech and Xhaka taking up the place of the injured Coquelin. On the bench we had Reine-Adelaide and Gabriel. A rather unexpected name the first. Arsenal team: Ospina, Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Cazorla, Xhaka, Walcott, Ozil, Iwobi, Alexis On the beach: …

How much longer must English tax payers fund the criminal idiocy of the FA?

By Tony Attwood In the end the FA couldn’t even sack him.  Instead we find that the appalling Allardyce left his job as England manager “by mutual agreement”. As various newspapers have pointed out, Allardyce has been known for many, many years to be a man who regards the basic rules of football as an …