In short, having taken over world football by running the World Cup, Qatar has now achieved its second aim of running European football, by running PSG and being able to outbid anyone for any player ...

Out of the three of us, Arsenal were the only team to get a higher Xg than PSG, out performing them by 4.53 to 2.9. That is quite significant. Villa’s negative 2.79 to 3.64 isn’t too bad, but ...

To see how this works we then looked back after the last three seasons. In these tables we have the usual end-of-season table, followed by the column showing where these clubs were after seven games, ...

But there is a second point: we have most of these players in my list already on the boos. And that is a benefit because many newly transferred players take a while to settle in, (one might recall ...

Yes up to a point, but there is a key element missing, for although they own, or can buy, the big clubs, fans still have an attachment to their own clubs, and a league made up of clubs that are not ...

On one occasion he took this further specifying that he wanted three goal-keeprs and 22 players he could choose from to play in front of one of them. Later he revised this upwards to 23 or 24 ...

As I am sure you are aware, the 130 or so cases brought against Manchester City FC are still outstanding. Dates have been whispered for when a conclusion might come, and they have all gone by without ...

Thierry Henry remains of course one of my all-time favourite players (the other, equally of course, was Dennis Bergkamp). And after a spell in international management it seems he is now back working ...

Now from Arsenal’s point of view that doesn’t look too bad given that the club has come second three years running following three finishes of 8th, 8th and 5th, but we might wonder about Chelsea who ...