Day: 7 June 2019

  “Arsène Wenger” (CC BY 2.0) by Ronnie Macdonald Arsene Wenger is the measuring stick by which all subsequent Arsenal managers will be judged. Now that successor Unai Emery has completed his first season at the helm of the Gunners, how do their debut campaigns compare? Turning the clock back to September 1996 when Wenger’s appointment at Highbury …

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Making fun of people who suggest there might be something amiss with football is a common substitute for proper debate.  The very notion that it could happen in English football is thus considered laughable and not worthy of investigation.  Those suggesting something is amiss are themselves held to be worthy of derision. Such was the …

Read More “When dismissing the notion of match fixing seriously backfired on the League”