The grassroots of football needs supporting. Is the minister waking up?

By Tony Attwood In the past week we have learned that the FA, when running England’s bid for the world cup, laid on a banquet.  The cost of the dinner was around £35,000.   This was part of the £25m that the FA spent on the bid, which ultimately got two votes – one of …

The Season’s impressions: attacking the left flank 3

By Walter Broeckx Next in our series about last season we move on to the left flank. A bit of a difficult flank last season. At the start of the season one would have thought that this was the spot of Podolski.  But in the first match of the season Wenger started with Oxlade-Chamberlain on …

All the transfers (PS some of these may even be true… or not)

By Tony Attwood The transfer window isn’t actually open yet, but of course you wouldn’t know it as everyone publishes all their transfer rumours, all day, every day. If even half of them are true we’d have a complete new team – which of course is what we need because everyone signed for us is …