Some players 1st game after the world cup will be… an international match

By Tony Attwood For some players, the first game they will play after the world cup is going to be… an international for their country.   This insanity comes about because of the scheduling dominance of Fifa over all else. Assuming that players do get a month’s holiday in the summer as they are supposed to …

Arsenal secure 7th biggest transfer of the window in “£50m swoop”

By Sir Hardly Anyone Figures compiled by the Guardian newspaper show that thus far the Premier League is outspending its four main rivals in terms of new players, but not but quite as much as has happened in the past. Here are the figures in pounds… Premier League: £286.4m Bundesliga: £232.50m Serie A: £228.5m La …

FFP is still out there but just dozing in the corner while football deals with anyone with money.

by Tony Attwood A totally corrupt organisation holds a big event in a country that has been cited repeatedly for interfering in elections elsewhere, killing people on foreign soil, and other dubious stuff.   Meanwhile a taxpayer funded body in England prepares to throw money at the whole thing by pitching to run the event itself …