Day: 24 March 2021

By Tony Attwood There is an article in the Guardian about the return of crowds to football grounds.  The essence of it is that clubs can’t take the season ticket income for next season for granted, and that is fair enough. But the article includes the line, “Typically reserved pensioners bawl from main stands, be …

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By Sir Hardly Anyone Looking at the avalanche of transfer news each day it is easy to miss the fact that the reporters of Arsenal’s transfer tales work to a set pattern of activity, known in the trade as the “Eight Point Plan.” This plan was invented both to help journalists and bloggers keep track …

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