Stadium reforms: away fan positioning to change and safe standing proposed

By Tony Attwood Richard Scudamore chair of the Premier League has issued a diktat to the effect that at least one block of away supporters must be in a lower tier section approaching the pitch (or in the case of the Tax Payers Stadium, within a few hundred yards of the pitch). This announcement was …

Referees – First quarter Report. This isn’t healthy.

by Andrew Crawshaw With 9 games gone in the Pl we are now effectively a quarter of the way through the season and this is a good time to see how the referees have been doing. Here are links to the nine weekly reports we have published Matchweek 1 ; Matchweek 2 ; Matchweek 3 ; Matchweek 4 ; Matchweek 5 ; Matchweek 6 ; Matchweek 7 ; Matchweek …

10 reasons why England fail and will always fail in international football

by Tony Attwood We all know all about the FA incompetence, its wastage of money, its willingness to take on people known to have been involved in murky deals, and its utter unwillingness to deal with employees who are shown to have lied in court. Untold also led the way with the original research which …