Red Star Belgrade v Arsenal: the team and early prognostications and whatnot

by Bulldog Drummond   And so off we go again into foreign parts, primarily with a different team from that which played at the weekend in the League. Just so you know what to expect here is a picture of the stadium. It is a 2 hours 40 minutes flight, and there is also a …

Fifa and Uefa: the corruption continues. Is it really just limited to the world game?

By Tony Attwood Ever since the organising countries for the world cups in 2018 and 2022 were announced questions have been asked.  Russia, because (to give just one tiny example) it undertook all of its application work and correspondence on computers that it hired, and then gave back to the company it borrowed them from.  …

How do we know if match fixing is taking place or not?

By Tony Attwood The little piece yesterday afternoon giving the reasons why it is logical to expect there to be corruption in Premier League football, brought a larger than normal amount of vitriol and a larger than normal number of commentaries that had little if anything to do with the post, or contained no evidence …