Sepp Blatter accuses Fifa critics of “discrimination and racism”

By Sir Hardly Anyone Our Man On The Spot. If you ask me this Fufa sponsorship lark is a bit of a pesky business, not least when you simply start asking the question: who the fifa sponsors the fufa WC? Read the press, and you will be told that “Sony, Adidas, Coca-Cola, Visa and Hyundai/Kia” …

The season’s impressions: the non-existent defensive midfielder

By Walter Broeckx I think it was in the days of Song that I wrote an article about that illustrious position: the defensive midfielder. I then wrote that well Arsenal don’t really play with a defensive midfielder. Certainly not Song. Song was more a box to box midfielder. He might have been destined to become …