How football could be part of the solution of a nation’s ills.

By Tony Attwood Investors are being urged to put money into building networks of football coaching academies across the country. That opening sentence may have taken you by surprise.   Unfortunately this is not in England, where investment in grassroots football is now in total terminal decline due to FA bankruptcy and government starvation of …

Why are Arsenal such a dirty team, and Has the curtain on refereeing been pulled back a little?

By Tony Attwood At 1653 GMT yesterday Jason Burt, the Deputy Football Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (an English newspaper) published a story on the paper’s web site with the headline How did Arsenal escape with a draw at Tottenham and does Arsene Wenger have a discipline problem? It was a totally pro-Tottenham piece of …