Borehamwood v Arsenal – Thursday 27 July pre-season friendly preview

by Andrew Crawshaw The annual pre-season friendly match between (non-league) Borehamwood FC and Arsenal takes place on Thursday evening with a 19:30 kick-off. It is expected that the Arsenal team will comprise a mixture of U18 and U23 players, but with the Emirates Cup matches at the weekend, I suspect the team sheet will probably …

Fans are being duped day after day. What they discuss in Europe but never in the UK.

by Tony Attwood OK, if you have been paying attention you’ll know that over the last couple of days we’ve been exploring the British press and the way in which when it comes to football it has embraced fake news as real. Part of my argument is that this effect is achieved in three ways: …

How Uefa is being directly challenged by PSG and Qatar, and what might happen next.

 By Tony Attwood According to the Sun, Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona both call surprise press conference half hour apart as Neymar’s £195m switch to PSG.  Of course the chances are that this is typical Fake News from the Sun, the Express and the other media outlets.   But even so, the huge transfers going through …