Jamaican Till I Die!

......By Agent86 Let’s be clear on three things first. I've only refereed one match. It was an U-12 game in 1990-something  I only saw the last 15 minutes of the Liverpool vs. Manchester United match yesterday  Players win or lose games but referee decisions matter Broadcasters should put up some indication of when a team is playing a man short because of a red card. With modern graphics/technology, how difficult would that be? Mind, just from the flow of the match at the point I started watching, it was a little hard to tell that the teams were not even numbers-wise. That is typical of a match where the home team is down, attacking, and playing with more urgency than the team that is trying to “kill off” the game. Very late into added time, Luis Suarez was fouled near the United penalty area, maybe five meters wide of the box and certainly not close enough to pose a significant threat to the United goal. Nevertheless, he was fouled. Liverpool kept possessio...

Well if it walks like a duck, quack like duck then it must be duck! The behavior of Arsenal over the past couple years will suggest that we are very much a selling club. The club is behaving like a stock broker, buy low, sell high and players are the commodity.   For the past several years Arsenal have been buying cheap, young unknown talented players then invest very heavily into their development, turning them into world class play makers, in demand football stars, then selling them to the highest bidder. Because of this Arsenal is in a state of perpetual rebuilding simply because we continue to sell players that make up the core of the squad, players we should build the squad around. The problem is, "if a player wants to leave, there is very little the club can do to stop that player" and in this world of crazy money players are going to come up with rubbish every reason under the sun to justify them leaving instead of admitting they are leaving for more money. A...