This is, of course, a football website, but it is also a website that follows issues related to football, and as we have seen in all the years since the blog started, politics can play a part too.

And the four year old legal case; Manchester City and their problem with “dips” By Tony Attwood. There can be little doubt t ...

Nothing has happened in the case for over a year.   The last we heard was that ManC said that if found guilty of anything, they would sue the Premier League out of existence.   Our thought was that ...

Go back to the early days of this decade, and you would be excused for saying that, unlike other clubs, Manchester City didn’t have “dips.” Now, if you are a regular reader here, you may well have ...

There is a fascinating headline in the Guardian which, when combined with the opening to the following paragraph, really made me think that someone at the Guardian is getting the hang of the way ...

Comparing last season after 31 games with this season, we find that Arsenal have won four more games and drawn four fewer – and of course, last season it was the decline into draws rather than wins ...

Manchester City and their problem with “dips” With football, we are being misled: but by whom, and why? By Tony Attwood As you will know if you have been paying attention, Manchester City face 115 ...

By Tony Attwood “The suffocating tension at Arsenal” was recently pronounced by a number of websites, but I have to say most of my pals and I are not suffering but actually en ...

Arteta said, “It’s very inspiring when you see someone almost naive making decisions…”   He also spoke of the young man’s “flowing and careless playing in that manner”.  And I think of course that’s ...

Arsenal have played Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League on three occasions – twice in 2002 and once just recently on 11 March.   The first and last of these were 1-1 draws, but the game in ...

Arsenal v Everton: the referee, fouls and the king of the yellow cards; Arsenal v Everton. Saturday at 5.30. Everton’s problems explored. So now, for all the ta ...

But with this Arsenal team, everything becomes even more compact. It’s incredibly hard if you fall behind against them.” This of course, is different from the recent (now retracted) rant from the ...