Arshavin signs and I am a total genius

In my story on January 26 I said that we were definitely signing Arshavin.  I said this not because I thought the Lord Wenger was desperate, and not because I had deep insight into the workings of the KGB, but rather because of the array of people who had far too much invested in the …

The beginning of the end

The return of Keane from a championship chasing club to a relegation flirting club just six months after he went the other way for more money, is proof if it were needed of the financial disaster facing Liverpool Weetabix. Liverpool were, let us not forget, held up as a model of how football could move …

The morality of football…

These days, when a ref makes a dubious decision, the inclination of most people is to blame the ref’s ability.  The suggestion is that referees today are simply not able to keep up with the speed of the game. What most commentators don’t suggest is that the ref might have been bought. In Italy of …