Football in England is broken beyond repair. We need a new controlling agency

By Tony Attwood On Radio 4 in the UK today there was a discussion of the events at Wembley for the Euro 2020 final.  And yet despite a fulsome piece on the subject, the interviewer completely failed to ask a representative of the FA, “Why did you not realise this could happen?” The reason that …

Of course football needs oversight because no one is protecting the youngsters

by Tony Attwood Untold recently ran the series: The biggest scandal in football – the first part of the three part review is here  with links to the other two parts at the end. The scandal is that there is no one single body looking after the well-being of children who are taken on by …

At least with Arsenal we can see we certainly are improving

By Tony Attwood In its ratings of Arsenal players last night the Daily Telegraph generally gave Arsenal players ratings of six out of ten apart from Ramsdale, Gabriel and Martinelli who all got seven.  Which is another way of saying that we didn’t have a standout player who could turn the match and remotivate the …