Why football fans believe the opposition cheats.

      The dark arts: how football is not quite what we think Why do two sets of fans see a match in such a different way? Part 2. The essence of the cheating hypothesis the Newcastle fans put forward recently is that not only does Arsenal cheat but that the referees are not …

Why do two sets of fans see a match in such a different way? Part 2.

  By Nitram This article continues from Why do two sets of fans see a match in such different ways?   I wasn’t going to do the second half but having read Tony’s article (The Sins of Omission) about how the media, as well as fans, pick and chose what they see and don’t see, it …

The dark arts: how football is not quite what we think

More goals are being scored, but are all clubs treated equally by refs? The sin of ommission: the bits of the football story that are missing By Tony Attwood Arsenal master the dark arts: How Arteta’s side wasted almost 17 minutes at Newcastle That is the headline in the Daily Telegraph, and it seems to …