Players don’t often write interesting articles about football, but…

by Tony Attwood It is possible, although perhaps rather unlikely, that you know of Tim Sparv, the Finnish midfielder.  He spent three years in the youth academy of Southampton and was a member of Southampton’s youth team that reached the final of the FA Youth Cup in 2005, playing in a team that also included …

The seven reasons why professional refereeing in England should be investigated now

By Tony Attwood It is not surprising that we have started to get a few comments made attempting to denounce or undermine the thesis developed on these pages that there is something amiss with the refereeing of Premier League games. The tactic normally used is one in which just one element of our argument about …

On the basis of the Norwich game Arsenal stadium should be closed as unsafe

By Tony Attwood I’ve been going to Arsenal since the 1960s but I have never experienced events as worrying and dangerous as I experienced while trying to gain access to the stadium yesterday for the game against Norwich. In essence, one entrance to the environs of the ground up a slope with the underground car …