The value of last summer’s signings, club by club. You might be surprised at the benefit – and lack of it.

By Tony Attwood You’ll know by now that it’s my view that the notion that you have to buy players to make a success of a club is thoroughly misleading.   But still the bloggettas and their friends in the media love to hype up purchasing as the route to success. How much evidence they …

Arsenal v Manchester City: the most screamingly silly (and wrong) previews of all

By Tony Attwood I know Untold doesn’t normally do pre-match stuff until the day of the game, but these snippets from the media suggest one or two old timers have been having a bit of a jolly before rushing back to the company computer to put up their latest thoughts. And I don’t mean the …

Why is football biased towards the North West of England?

By Tim Charlesworth Proudkev recently wrote an interesting article highlighting that a disproportionate number of referees are from the Manchester area. I think this article touches on a much wider point. It is not just refereeing that is biased, but the whole of football in England. I’m not sure that there is a conspiracy here …