How the fearless “Said & Done” in the Observer censors the news that just don’t fit

By Tony Attwood I am not at all sure how long the Said & Done column in the Sunday newspaper the Observer has been running – although our logs show I did a piece critical of the column back in 2009, so at least nine years. And in one sense it is quite jolly fun.  …

Xhaka sublime. But by anyone’s standards, Arsenal have had a poor season.

By Tony Attwood The first two words of that headline, “Xhaka sublime”, came from a blog, The Hard Tackle, which is not a source that I normally associate with such praise.   The piece was a review of a Swiss interlull game and read, “The creative powerhouse for Switzerland, Xhaka ran the show from midfield, opening …