Money monster ruining footballs competitive edge

We’re often told “anything can happen in football – it’s the beautiful game, blink and you’ll miss something”. Well! Perhaps everything...

Football hit hard by the Global Recession – Never!

As Manchester City fork out a suspected 25 million pounds to buy Emanuel Adebayor after spending £25 million on Carlos Tevez,...

Italy Left Short

Throughout the late eighties and nineties, Italy had undoubtedly the most competitive football league in the world. Alongside the status came...

“He’s in the box”; but the penalty or the witness box?

In essence, the game of football is a splendidly simple prospect. Tracing its roots back to China, England and even Greenland,...

Ronaldo’s transfer heralds in the dawn of a new era

And so it’s happened. Cristiano Ronaldo has finally flown off into the Madrid sunset, his departure leaving Manchester United fans, North...

A Criminals’ dream, A bookies’ nightmare

It has now become a current occurrence, every week almost, that matches are investigated thoroughly. Match reports are assessed, eagle-eyed bookmaking...

Will the 2009 transfer window change the face of football?

Thirty years ago, Trevor Francis became the first player in England to be sold for one million pounds. Back in 1979, this...

Following the money

According to a recent BBC article, football is being used as “a vehicle for laundering money”. Yet the notion that what...