Everyone’s injured and Arsenal using the dark arts. The team for tonight

  Arsenal v Bolton: football (but not as we know it), referees and Nic Anelka Sexist Uefa loses its accreditation and Bolton struggle in defence By Bulldog Drummond “Arteta rejects talk of Arsenal dark arts” is a rather grand statement in the Guardian; grand in the sense that no one really ever defines what the …

Arsenal v Bolton: football (but not as we know it), referees and Nic Anelka

    PGMOL are not incompetent, so stop saying they are By Bulldog Drummond As noted in the last article the referee for this game is Josh Smith.  He is a referee who is tentatively being given a chance to move from the rough and tumble of the Championship into the Premier League. Now as …

Sexist Uefa loses its accreditation and Bolton struggle in defence

    PGMOL are not incompetent, so stop saying they are How Premier League refereeing descended into total chaos By Bulldog Drummond Until 2011/12 we used to write about Bolton a lot (often calling them Notlob to signify their backward view of reality).  They were in those days (although you might not remember) a Premier …