Arsenal Under 23s win and make the season’s team options a little clearer

By Tony Attwood Arsenal under 23s went two down to Derby County, and then came back to win 3-2.   That’s rather gratifying but the basic fact hides a few other interesting details. For a start, Nelson scored two – carrying on where he left off last season when he scored in the home draw …

Football’s biggest drugs related case explodes but of course, it couldn’t happen here, because…

By Tony Attwood FC Barcelona’s former defender, Rafael Márquez – the man known as “Emperor of Michoacán” is a national hero in Mexico. And a pretty big hero to Barcelona.   But now the US authorities are investigating him. And they are doing this for one simple reason: Márquez is said to have been involved …

Footballers are taking performance enhancing drugs. So why are the FAs, Uefa and Fifa are covering it up.

By Tony Attwood Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe’s largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of 840,000. And on March 18 this year they wrote: It is often said that taking performance enhancing drugs makes no sense for soccer players. Then why …