By Tony Attwood In February 2002, my colleague Anne, made reference to one Julio Grondana in an article in Untold in which note Julio Grondona as the head of the Argentine FA since 1979 and who is FIFA’s senior vice-president and head of its finance committee. As Anne said, “here is the man who has …
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By Tony Attwood As you may know, if you are a regular reader of Untold, there are certain themes within football that we particularly like to cover: the quality and bias of refereeing, the way the media both define what is important and what is not and then comment upon it as if they were …
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By Tony Attwood As others have pointed out, the forthcoming season’s league fixture list has not been kind to us. First off there is the issue of what happens after the Europa League matches on Thursdays, with us playing on a Sunday. After the first Europa match we have Chelsea away After the second we …
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