It’s judgement day (part 1). The result of the first case involving Fifa is due shortly

By Tony Attwood The British media, alone in most of Europe, have studiously ignored the dramatic series of court cases that have been engulfing world football – probably because they are having difficulty reconciling what we have discovered with all that they have said before in supporting Fifa, and English bids to host the world …

Arsenal win again; the village fails to stir itself

By Tony Attwood It is not exactly my first choice for watching Arsenal, nor indeed my second, but as an option it will do.  A ten minute drive from my village to the neighbouring (and at night, sleepy) settlement of Rothwell – a place where during the Bronze Age mourners buried their dead alongside offerings …