Analysis Archive

The Europa League starts on Thursday and I think the team that the manager picks will be quite instructive regarding where his head is at. On the one hand, we’ve got a good enough squad this season, at least in midfield and attack, to ...Read More

In many ways, the idea that football as a sport has an issue around morals won’t come as a shock to many people. At the top level, players and managers are paid millions of pounds a year in order to play a game that ...Read More

There is a crisis of refereeing in England right now. It might well be that this crisis is worldwide, but I don’t watch enough of other leagues to comment on it. It could be that those who love the Bundesliga think that officiating over ...Read More

It strikes me from the outside looking in that there is a determination from the PGMOL for referees to appear as argumentative as possible. When the Video Assistant Referee system was first mooted, it was reported that Michael Oliver, one of the most respected ...Read More

The big news in the football world this weekend is that referees are adding long periods of added time to the end of each half in a big to combat time-wasting. It means we’ve seen the likes of seven, eight and nine minutes of ...Read More

I sometimes watch a pre-season match. Usually, I only do so if I have nothing else on in my life and can’t find anything more interesting to watch on tele. I approach it with the same sense of interest that I do a football ...Read More

Jordan Henderson is rumoured to be on £200,000 per week as the captain of Liverpool Football Club. The idea that he needs to move to Saudi Arabia in order make ‘life-changing money’ is laughable. The former Sunderland man is on the amount of money ...Read More