Is time really up for the good old-fashioned English referee? According to Keith Hackett, the former chief of English referees, the Premier League currently only has three world class referees. He identifies these as Mark Clattenburg, Michael Oliver and Mike Dean. Prior to the recent Chelsea v AFC encounter, Hackett had previously included Martin Atkinson […]

A guest post from  @Georgakos     “It’s business as usual for Cellino at Leeds” wrote David Conn in the Guardian on 8th October. “His ownership of the club continues despite the ‘owners and directors test’, operated by the Premier and Football Leagues, stating that people cannot own or run a football club if they […]

The debate rages on. Seven games into the league season, having suffered one defeat away to the title favorites. Is it time for Arsene to go? It’s a fair question, asked by people who love the club and just want what is best for them.  Sorry, I meant “best for the club”. The usual suspects, […]

Its easy. What we need is a manager than can overcome the financial disadvantage we are at compared to City, Chelsea and United buy buying the right players( you know the ones that cost less than theirs ) and getting them playing with a better spirit. Teams like Atlético Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Montpellier have done it ! […]

A guest post from @anicoll5   Good morning from a sunny and mild Norfolk morning. Very pleasant. A fixture we had all marked in our diary has finally arrived, and for that I am thankful. Reading the media this week, and dipping into the frantic noise that makes up the sporting social media, I was […]

So that’s it, we’ve lost him. The best of the best, ZimPaul has passed, aged just 56. I honestly don’t know what to say or how to say it. Paul was so great with words it seems to me that the least he deserve is someone better than me to pay tribute to him. He […]

How hard can it be? Come on Arsene, just spend the money! You’d think from the views of some that this should be the easiest thing in football.  But interesting recent remarks from ‘Swing’ in the PA comments section regarding Chelsea’s former defender David Luiz made me think further on the subject. Swing eloquently highlighted […]

A guest post by Double Canister (stolen from the comments section)   All I heard last night from leaving the stadium to the pubs was whispers and guesses slowly becoming cast iron established facts as the pints went down and the tweets and blogs self referenced each other. ‘ 1-4,1-4 formation ain’t work in’ ‘Alexis […]

Football has always been about opinions. In the olden days we would sit around in small groups and moan about certain players. We might also blame the manager for poor form. It was always thus. Now though we have taken moaning to new levels. There are those who have taken to attacking everything at the […]