Hypocrisy: The English Disease

Author’s note: This is not about Luis Suarez, or Liverpool, or the Football Association, or the rights and wrongs of the case which led to the striker being suspended for eight games and fined £40,000. Enough has been written on that subject by my peers and superiors...
LIES, DAMNED LIES & RAUL MEIRELES

LIES, DAMNED LIES & RAUL MEIRELES

By Phil Blundell STATISTICS. They’re a recent phenomenon in the game of football, and I’ll be honest, they drive me up the wall. Football is not a game suited, in general, by statistical analysis, and the new craze of associating any little statistic to back up some...