Fifa are considering banning loans as they target Chelsea and Juventus

By Tony Attwood It is something that is peculiar to football.  Loan out a player who isn’t getting much game time with you, in order to relaunch his career.   And why not?  Arsenal do it, both with youngsters that they nurture and with players that are unable to get a work permit.  And that latter …

Atlético ain’t that good, treating the Tots like Arsenal, and the Europa ain’t that bad

by Tony Attwood As I was bemoaning the fact that we will play Atlético Madrid in the semi-finals of the Europa League Blacksheep (whose birthday it is today, and since he splashed my last birthday all over Untold, I shall say happy birthday here although without mentioning his age – a privilege he singularly faileed …

It’s Marseille, Leipzig or Red Bull Salzburg, and Mo Elneny is nowhere near good enough

By Tony Attwood According to a number of reports on last night’s game Arsenal were out and just sneaked back in. It is quite hard to collate that with winning 6-3 overall, but that is the way it was presented on Radio 5.  It was a curious point: somehow Arsenal were out, and only by …