Does the first eight league games of a season tell us how it will end?

By Tony Attwood The last time we had a great start to the league, in terms of the first eight games, was in 2016 when on 18 October the league table looked like this… Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester City 8 6 1 1 19 8 11 19 …

England’s woes are all the fault of selfish clubs, at least according to the car thieves

By Tony Attwood Sometimes one is forced to stop and think, “Who pays the players?”  and “Who has to keep paying players even when they are injured in an international match?” Come to that, “Who takes the players on at a very early age, builds and runs the training facilities, develops their skills, advises them …

Chelsea 0 Arsenal 5. The view from behind one goal

by Andrew Crawshaw What a difference a day makes to the weather in South London.  Saturday was gloriously sunny, shirt sleeves and beautifully outdoorsy.  Sunday was wet, windy and far cooler a real autumn day.  The match was at Chelsea’s Kingsmeadow ground, near Kingston-upon-Thames, just about an hour and a half from home – ten …