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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. (Getty Images)
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All the players that sit in Pep Guardiola’s circular dressing room enjoy equal status. Photograph: Victoria Haydn/Manchester City FC via Getty Images
Pep Guardiola’s Circular Dressing Room Offers One Way to Split Up Team Cliques
London- The butt of much public mockery when Sky’s cameras captured assorted well-heeled corporate clients peering through its walls of two‑way glass last Monday night, Manchester City’s Tunnel Club is the most amusing but not necessarily most interesting renovation...Caption:
The referee Keith Stroud, with ball in hand, has a lot of explaining to do to Newcastle’s captain Jamaal Lascelles over the penalty fiasco. Photograph: Ed Sykes/Reuters
Referees are Damned by their Errors, Ignorance of the Laws is No Defence
The fact that the referee Martin Atkinson sounds even more like the comedian Bob Mortimer than he looks was not the most interesting revelation to emerge from Sky’s recent effort to show the human side of match officials on The Referees – Onside with Carragher and...Caption:
Clockwise from top left: former Liverpool owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks, Ken Bates on the balcony at his Monaco home, Blackburn Rovers owners Balaji and Venkatesh Rao from poultry giant Venky’s, and former Portsmouth chairman Vladimir Antonov. Photograph: PA, David Levene for the Guardian and Getty Images
Rogues’ Gallery: English Football’s Worst Owners, from Becchetti to Bates
Francesco Becchetti, Leyton Orient 2014- In just two and a half seasons as owner, the waste-management magnate has taken Leyton Orient from the verge of the Championship to the brink of relegation from the Football League and possibly even extinction. Since buying the...Caption:
During his time as manager of QPR Harry Redknapp claimed not to enjoy the mayhem of the transfer window. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA