Was football better in the old days? Yes, the upward curve of money in the game follows a parallel downward curve of satisfaction or entertainment.

Those Arsenal v Chelsea goals. It's not cheating but it feels adjacent to cheating but worse than that, my God it’s boring.

If Arsenal win and become the poster boys for the success of this negative mindset, it will seal it as the best way to make the most money.

The whole huddle shebang at Chelsea was just really odd and somehow embodies the state of the club today as a comic, pretentious, over-serious but incoherent mess.

Michael Carrick has made it to easy for Manchester United but still they prevaricate. What more evidence do they want?