By Tony Attwood

It seems that the notion that this, that and everything else is fixed is spreading rather rapidly, as today we hear that just as with the draw for the last round of the FA Cup, so today’s draw has again been fixed.

There are several points that emerge from this.  Now that the media is regularly giving publicity to claims of fixing in every part of the game, does this help convince the average fan that everything IS fixed, or does it make those fans and newspapers who report such things seem ever more idiotic?

It seems to me an important issue because there is something singularly wrong with Premier League football and the way it is refereed as we keep reporting, but the focus on wild claims about fixing the draw in the FA Cup with absolutely no evidence obviously reduces the impact of more serious reports of soemthing be wrong with such issues as the delay in handling the Manchester City charges, and the way the same referees seee the same clubs over and over again during the season.

But we have a game coming up, so I must move on, not least as...