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These opinion pieces express only the views of the author of the particular piece.  Despite their occasional use of the editorial "we," they do not necessarily represent the views of the other authors of this website.

10 October 2004

Reviving the Home International Championship
England Cannot Afford Nostalgia-Driven Sentiment

24 September 2004

Match Notes
Occasional Comments on the Game

22 September 2004

Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs
FIFA and the F.A. Excel at Alienating Fans

20 September 2004

Brian Clough
A Short Tribute

19 March 2004

A Revealing Chronology
Hypocrisy and Red Faces at the Football Association

18/19 November 2003

Banning the Uncharged
The F.A. Went Too Far in Sending Home Alan Smith
with Addendum

16 November 2003

Palios’s Bureaucratic Bungling Must Stop
The Palios-Led  Football Association is Unfit to Run the National Team

14 October 2003

The Rio Ferdinand Affair:  An Exchange with a Reader

14 October 2003

The Rio Ferdinand Affair:  Time to Move On?
Yes, but the Football Association and Mark Palios Must Take Some Lessons With Them

9 October 2003

 

The Aftermath of the Rio Ferdinand Affair
The Football Community’s Response is Not Promising

 

8 October 2003

 

Rush to Judgment:  The Rio Ferdinand Affair
The Football Association’s Shoddy Conduct Shows It at Its Bumbling Worst

 

Continuous

Match Notes
A Running Commentary on the Game

27 December 2002

 A New Low for the F.A.
Its Charges  Against  Mark Bosnich  Bring It Disrepute

9 August 2002


English Football's Losing Mentality

Acceptance of second-rate status prevents England
from achieving their full potential

26 January 2002

Winnow the Minnows
UEFA must improve the football on display in qualifying competitions

18 January 2002


Football Shirked its Responsibility in the Bowyer/Woodgate Affair
The F.A. must make its own determinations
when footballers are charged with crime

3 December 2001

Ranking the Groups - Why the Final Draw Was Unfair
FIFA fumbles in Busan

21 November 2001

Support Your England Stars as They Fight to Achieve
Security for All Professional Footballers
Remembering Wilf Mannion's fate

5 July 2001

Confession is Good for the Game
Well done to the Football Association for getting it right on racism

14 May 2001

The Foreign Player Deserved Credit, Too
England's Football Media Miss the Ball in Reporting the Cup Final

29 April 2001

Media Hall of Shame Award No. 1
The News of the World via Graeme Souness advises
Kevin Keegan on what to expect from Portugal

25 April 2001

The Self-Imposed Burden
England's continuing failure to learn from past experience

13/15 March 2001

The Old Dispute
Cultural conflict in the game and UEFA's descent into absurdity

7 February 2001

Downgrading Billy Wright
Does FIFA or the F.A. decide how many caps England's old captain earned?