Refereeing

As is often said, there are fine margins between success and failure in the Premier League. In the world of multi-billion pound television deals, survival carries a huge financial weight. With more teams than ever before fighting for Champions League football, those lines are becoming all the more important....

A friend of mine once commented, ‘I just love watching goals being scored’. A simple pleasure, it has to be said. Though in his way he was right; football would be a pretty joyless vocation if we didn’t see the ball disturb the net with at least a degree...