Bernstein on the governance of football; it doesn’t quite ring true

By Tony Attwood This season the Premier League has ventured into new territory by exploring the notion of having a significant growth in the number of players in squads who are deliberately left out of their clubs’ 25 player list.  We are all familiar with Ozil and Sokratis, but there have been others: Phil Jones, …

Bloated or shrunken? How many of the top six clubs have used all 25 places??

By Tony Attwood It struck me, while we were having our bit of fun concerning how often people call a team’s squad “bloated”, that  I had never seen a comparison chart of the number of players that there are in each squad. Indeed even the full official list published by the Premier League doesn’t actually …