3pm Saturday is exactly the wrong time to have football kick offs.

By Tony Attwood 3pm saturday kick offs are sacrosanct.  You can’t show a live football match between 3 and 5pm in the major heartlands of football.  That is England, Scotland and er… Montenegro. And why? Ah well that is where it gets tricky.   There is the suggestion that 3pm was the historic time to kick …

Matchweek 9 – The Officials

by Andrew Crawshaw As usual here are all of the Match Officials for this weekend’s PL matches courtesy of premierleague.com Saturday 20 October 12:30 Chelsea v Man Utd Referee: Mike Dean (pictured) Assistants: Ian Hussin, Darren Cann Fourth official: Craig Pawson 15:00 AFC Bournemouth v Southampton Referee: Lee Probert Assistants: Simon Beck, Andy Garratt Fourth official: Stuart Attwell Cardiff City v Fulham Referee: Kevin Friend …

Nelson, Smith Rowe, Maitland Niles, Eddie: slowly the world is awkening

By Tony Attwood “Golden Generation” is one of those phrases that is generally either used far too early, or way to late (as in the all too common phrase “whatever happened to…” after the players en masse have failed to live up to the hype I am sure I can be proven wrong, but I …