Day: 26 June 2014

By Tony Attwood Most of the publicity about Suarez’ biting has been about punishing him.  But there is another dimension – a much more important dimension.  That is the issue of protecting players from being bitten by him. As I said last time around, I felt there was evidence that Suárez was not getting psychological help. …

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By Tony Attwood The Balotelli transfer has seemed very odd from the off.  Hardly likely to be true, and yet not your typical vapour transfer.  So what’s been going on? A vapour transfer is one that is invented by a club in order to throw other clubs off the track, allowing the first club to …

Read More “Arsenal’s summer transfers: how Puma got involved and other moves.”