Jun 4, 2020
Curtailment scenarios This is the big one, the likely source of most friction. There is a strong will among the clubs to complete the season but what if factors beyond anybody’s control make that impossible? How to determine the final standings and, most...
Jun 1, 2020
Few teams have been grateful for the eerily empty stands synonymous with the Bundesliga’s restart and Schalke, used to the heaving bearpit of the Veltins Arena that has over 60,000 fans hemming them in every fortnight, are certainly not one. What is true is that the...
May 28, 2020
David Luiz’s future at Arsenal is in serious doubt, with the club yet to extend his contract beyond the end of next month and financial restrictions likely to mean his spell with Mikel Arteta’s side is curtailed after a year. Arsenal have the option to extend the...
May 25, 2020
Even before football was plunged into crisis by the Covid-19 pandemic, influential people in the game were discussing the need for the Premier League’s improbable fortunes to be shared more equally. As historic, stalwart lower-division and semi-professional clubs...
May 20, 2020
According to the American psychologist Gary Klein, desperation is a driver of creativity, a means to unlock insight or solutions that might otherwise have been untried or not even considered. Right now, English football is in a precarious place, particularly lower...
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