The worry has been that because of the ManC case, a small club could be bought by an overseas investor, do “impossible” deals with another club the owners also control, and with no controls over the ...

Meanwhile, you may have noticed that our old pal Jack Wilshere is now manager of Luton. His only previous managerial experience has been at Plymouth, where he stood in after the manager was sacked at ...

So for Arsenal, it is not actual money in past seasons that is the problem – it is meeting football’s financial regulations. And here those who seem to know about such things suggest that Arsenal ...

Now this latest development began in 2024 at the European Court of Justice, where the court was requested to rule on the claim by Uefa that it had the sole rights to set up any internal football ...

Since then, they have stayed in Ligue 1 (as it is properly known) and have meandered between 6th and 15th in subsequent seasons. Last season it was 7th and the ground has been improved quite a bit.

As you have probably seen reported, Arsenal are about to be fined for not selling 1000 upper-tier tickets to Manchester United supporters for the FA Cup match last January. The reason was that it is ...

With the Arsenal board further strengthening manager Mikel Arteta’s first team options this summer in an effort to help us get over the line in our long chase for our next Premier League title, it is ...

So there are 15 things wrong with football, all in the same newspaper’s website. It is a story of catastrophic failure in the sport, which implies things are being handled very poorly by those running ...

Thomas Tuchel has been criticising football fans who have been supportive enough to spend a fair amount of money and go to England matches, for being what he calls “silent”.

And managers who never make it at all and don’t even bother to come up with excuses. For managers, there are at least three big problems which are outside of their control.   First, they generally ...

Now obviously one can’t predict this season based on the six previous campaigns, but it is interesting that there is a near universal view that Tottenham have now turned a corner and will be ...

In a recent piece, I wrote about the three worlds of football, and how the third of these is centred on the issue of bullying, which I suggest is much more widespread within football than is ...