Barcelona to be excluded from Spanish League; Neymar assets frozen, Messi injured

By Tony Attwood Catalonia didn’t actually hold a referendum on independence recently; it held elections to the regional assembly.  As a result the main separatist alliance and a smaller nationalist party won 72 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament.   So they won most of the seats, although they didn’t get half the vote. Such …

Leicester – Arsenal: 2-5, this is what you get when two teams want to play the beautiful game

With most of us being out and about over the weekend we didn’t publish our normal post-match summary of the game.  But it was such a fine and exciting match it would be a great shame for it not to be recorded on Untold.  So here it is… just to remind you how breathless it …

If a game that involves men sticking their heads up each other’s bottoms can have open refereeing why can’t football?

What can football learn from rugby? * By Blacksheep I watched the second half of the England/Wales rugby match on Saturday and apart from wondering at the Welsh comeback and the high attrition rate in terms of injury, I was mainly struck by the marked difference in officiating. This weekend we have again seen some …