It seems to be difficult to get involved in football without paying helpers and, yet again, our old friends would seem to be generously remunerated by the new football fund being backed by Terry Venables (former Tottenham manager). “Introducers”, as the people who bring investors to the fund are called, will be paid a stonking 6% commission. The […]

At last, with thanks to the Guardian, we have the definitive wage bills of the 2012/13 Premier League season. This, of course, means that we can calculate the real winners and losers of last season. By winners here I mean the clubs that finished higher than their annual wage bills should have reasonably entitled them to and the losers are those who finished […]

Trying to determine which Premier League managers are doing well and which are not is an on-going debate that has kept publicans in business for generations. I have always admired the unfashionable managers like Big Sam (of the baggy suits), Tony Pulis (of the club shop), and David Moyes (in his steely Everton incarnation), because they consistently seem to get disparate groups of players […]