Chelsea deserve the slap
Yes, you can point to the hundreds of similar cases, and yes, it’s harsh to fine a player who was 15 at the time of the offence, but just as with Eduardo’s post-match conviction for diving, Chelsea deserve their two-year transfer ban for tapping up Gael Kakuta.
Why? Because Fifa, like Uefa, have to start somewhere [...]
Leap of faith for UEFA
A total of ‘1,108 related articles’ on Google News shows just how much this one has bubbled over in recent days.
When Arsenal’s Eduardo took a tumble in the area in his side’s Champions League qualifier with Celtic, a chain of events began which has lead to one of the most bizarre passages in the history [...]
The war on dope…
…or banned substances, as the official line goes, is still going on underneath the skin of football even though it hasn’t been in the media spotlight much recently.
Is there still a problem? Undoubtedly – but the size of it is almost impossible to work out. The mere fact UEFA are ploughing time and money into [...]