Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the Barcelona/PSG was the moment football finally changed.

By Tony Attwood Of course having a bent foreign referee overseeing a match full of foreigners in a foreign place with a crowd made up of foreigners isn’t exactly big time news in England.  Rather the scenes of BT Sprout commentators being ordered by the producer to get up and leap about, (instead of wonder …

Is it really so hard to ask “why?” in football, rather than always jump in with the answer?

By Tony Attwood Just a couple of days back I raised the notion that maybe, just maybe, the football media was taking the first tiny, tiny steps towards recognising one of the the core problems in football: that they not only have viewpoints they also set the agenda.  They decide what is an “issue” in …

Right now, who would you kick out of the club?

by Tony Attwood Imagine you are paid to report football stories and likely rumours.  Not weird made up tales but stuff that could well be true. Now imagine that you were doing this job 18 months ago and your boss said, “I want you to write a piece about who will win the domestic trophies …