ARSENALISM©

  Football is a simple game really. All you need is a pitch, 22 players and a referee. But of course that is simplistic as football, particularly in the Premier League is a multi million pound industry where fortunes are made and reputations built, however, the game is in the hands of incompetents at best and corrupt individuals at worst. I prefer to view it as incompetence personally. Yes the referees and match officials of the PGMOL, having been given the power of life or death, much like the Roman Emperors in the gladiatorial stadiums, are holding sway. The upwards or downwards thumb has been replaced by VAR and the vagaries of interpretation.  Apologies have been given for incorrect decisions, cards have been brandished and rescinded and Refs have been banned from officiating against certain teams but it's not good enough.  When, pre VAR, a Ref made an error it was just that; human error and that, to me is acceptable, but when mistakes are still being made despite of ...

Football is barricaded inside a shopping centre with dwindling supplies but lots of product, and is surrounded by zombies hammering at the shuttered shop fronts with malicious intent. The zombies are intent on feeding on the vertebrate organs that have developed axially from the midline dorsal nerve cord as a vesicular enlargement at the rostral end of the neural tube, with centralised control over all body segments. Yes, they want to eat football's brains! The Zombies are sub divided. There are the VAR zombies, shambling with inevitability towards their intended target, then there are the media content creators looking for perceived structural weaknesses to exploit. The Sky/TNT/Amazon zombies fight amongst themselves for supremacy, to see who will get the first juicy mouthful, while the Oil money zombies have gained the upper hand over the oligarch zombies. The FA zombies are reliant on the Premier League zombies for their leftovers but all of these parts of a whole bow to the alp...