The 114 alleged breaches levelled at the English team risk dragging other clubs down with them, as they are also implicated in alleged inflated transfer deals. And this column, too, is on the brink of collapse because we have to restore Italian football’s reputation

It has come to light with some delay that an Italian national football team has reached the final of the World Cup for humanoid robots, which took place in Beijing last month. Therefore, should interest in Mancini’s squad wane, attention can always turn to the national robot
team.

Two whole weekends without a league match, right at the start of the season, are a real blow. Not least because nobody really cares about the national teams – the players least of all.

Following former referee Mike Dean’s confession, it is now clearer why certain penalties aren’t awarded: they were just joking

The referee who was arrested years ago during a debauchery involving weapons and drugs is the right man for the final act