How a club can commit the most fouls, but get the fewest yellow cards

By Tony Attwood   How do farcical transfer rumours start? – the video First a health warning.  If you believe that one can prove anything with statistics, and that the money spent by clubs buying in data from Opta is a pathetic waste of cash which could be spent on buying more players, then this is …

The openness of German referees raises the question, what have PGMO got to hide?

by Tony Attwood In Germany, the public service broadcaster, ARD has just brought out a documentary and it is causing a spot of interest, because it is a piece all about the referee Deniz Aytekin, looking at this job in detail. Now I know you are going to find this hard to believe, because in …