Many of you reading this will be in the same position as me. You sit at your desk doing your work, and this work is subject to a degree of quality control. You may have a review team monitoring your output, you may have auditors doing their thing, but however we are judged, we can all agree that if we slack off, we may find ourselves in a position which makes paying the mortgage tricky. …

Who cares how many assists? For a dream fantasy football team, let’s have some true characters that make the beautiful game a little more special.

A look at what those of you who have tickets can look forward to at Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, exactly a year before it all kicks off.

Last week the world seemingly shrugged their collective shoulders over a press release in the Italian media. The news, which perhaps should have been greeted with far greater fanfare, is that the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) is to put forward the idea of entering the National Under-21 team into Serie B.