By Tai Emeka Obasi Wenger’s Arsenal: The Enemy Within. Arsenal is a global institution that extends far beyond the English horizon. Not just on playing turfs but on the stock market terrains of big business empires. A jigsaw of a dream that took one lanky genius a chunk of his productive years of toil is …
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By Tony Attwood I’ve done several pieces of late which argue against the statement that “you can prove anything with statistics”. But suddenly I find myself doubting my own argument, as the CIES Football Observatory has published its list of the most valuable players in world football. Their statement is that the list takes into account …
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By Tony Attwood It seems such an innocuous question: who runs football in England? And yet the more I think about it, the more confused I get. (OK I know I am often confused, but on this one I am even more confused.) The list below of the institutions, bodies, groups, and collections of organisations, …
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