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In light of yesterday’s sensational arrests for fraud and corruption in football (scene: Police officers in riot gear swarm through the door of […]
The Guardian reports that five men have been arrested in the Premier League corruption investigation.
Five men have been arrested in connection with allegations of corruption in football, City of London police said today. Officers said the men were being held on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.
The suspects - aged 69, 60, 55, […]
Here at Pitch Invasion, we think limiting the number of foreigners on Premiership teams would do nothing to help England, and quite possibly would make us even worse (if that’s possible). But the debate over quotas rumbles on. One of the arguments against it comes from those who simply laugh it off as absurd due […]
Steve Coppell said today that “We must protect our identity by having a limited number of English players [in the Premier League].” Steve, my friend, there already is a very limited number! Of course, he means minimum quota. Steve’s a smart man yet I can’t argue with Gramsci’s Kingdom when he brutally points out […]
Reading are firmly ensconced in the middle of the Premier League table, but apparently their recent inconsistent form has prompted enough guilt for the players to decide to pay 75% of the coach fare for 350 of their fans to travel to the next away game.
Reading captain Graeme Murty told BBC Sport: “We know […]
The various takeovers at Premiership clubs have ellicited vastly differing responses from fans over the years, for factors too diverse to go into here.
Tomorrow, Arsenal take on Manchester United in the match of the season so far. United fans famously stood up to the takeover by Malcolm Glazer, and the big fixture is being […]
I’m pretty partial to Tottenham Hotspur, but I have to say — thinking of my own health — I’m glad I’m not a regular at White Hart Lane. There’s a big difference between following a team on television several thousand miles and marching to the ground week after week, and apparently, if you want […]
