Morning all. I think this weeks European matches have highlighted just how poorly VAR has been used. It started on Tuesday when PSG played Bayern Munich when a Ousmane Dembélé’ cross struck the arm of Alphonso Davies, who had previously had his hands behind his back. Kompany didn’t like the decision but thems the rules. […]

A Raucous crowd greeted both teams onto a pitch which had come under some scrutiny before the game. During the opening few minutes, a couple of players slipped over and Raya made one scooped clearance which had me wondering about the surface but afterwards the game settled down and there was no real problems. In […]

Morning all. The Riyadh Air Metropolitano Stadium, a pitch which will be watered all day and mowed to a level which does not always assist a team who likes to pass the ball around a lot. A pitch on which the poor of Totts goalkeeper Kinsky lost his footing on just a month or so […]

  The Arsenal played Newcastle Utd yesterday evening in what was the first of five Premier League play-off/shoot-out fixtures left this season. It was not an exciting jamboree of expansive football but more an exercise in the team playing their game whilst the Emirates faithful were probably as close to a mental health issue, as […]