Must we make Kieran Gibbs suffer like this?

Kieran Gibbs suffered the ignominy of having to play with a bunch of players of clearly lower levels of ability as England under 18s were slaughtered by the Czech Republic, who managed to stroll to a 2-0 victory despite have only 9 men for the last 10 minutes. Gibbs must have wondered what was going …

Could fan power break the grip of the Slaves?

There is a story doing the rounds today that at the weekend’s friendly match between Manchester Bankrupt and Burscough the Londoners who support Manchester were demonstrating against Cristiano Ronaldodo. They have clearly had enough of a player (or “Slave” as they now like to be called) who just wants to leave. I have no desire …

Arsenal will be safe when the football bubble bursts

All business life has bubbles.  If you paid attention at school you might have heard of the South Sea Bubble – when the South Sea company bought the national debt from the government and paid insane interest rates, based entirely on the fact that more and more people were signing up for the scam.   Then …