Barcelona teeters on the edge of financial collapse. How? Why? What? Err?

By Tony Attwood, king of the predictive arts, emperor of the future, master of the middle-distance, irony champion 2010, and knower of all sorts of stuff. No one likes a smart-arse.  So I am preparing to be disliked. FC Barcelona, who have just signed David Villa, is attempting to negotiate a  150 million- euro bank …

Supposing we didn’t have Wenger, but had someone far more frightening

The players are doing a bit of pre-season limbering up, our new man from the Orient is already here, there’s Chamakh too, Henri Lansbury looked last season like someone we ought to sign (and hey! we have him anyway), Jack Wilshire is back, Theo hasn’t been injured in the world cup, Djourou is fit, and …

All is perfect in fifa’s world

By Walter Broeckx Another lovely page seems to be written in the lovely way of perfect live as it is according to Fifa. A few days ago claims have been made about Australia’s team bidding to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. They seem to have been given some gifts to try and influence votes. …