People become match officials for many reasons. Illusions of grandeur; forget the fact their spouse abuses them by taking it out on players; uniform fetish; a love of thrusting out arms that came from watching Nurnberg rallies; chances of making more cash on the side; because they weren't good enough to play the game and still wanna be involved.

The murky racism row to engulf the Premier League just got foggier with the uncovering of startling new evidence that points to not just Luis Suarez being racist, but the whole of the red half of Merseyside exhibiting a proclivity towards bigotry. Our BFZ Times' correspondent, under great risk to life and limb organized and executed the perfect undercover operation to unearth this mystery leading to great teeth gnashing at News International's headquarters in Wapping, London.

Serie A Weekly's Michael Moruzzi looks at co-ownership and asks if other countries could benefit from adopting a similar system. Some things in life are so universally derided that only a complete fool would dare to endorse them, like FIFA's code of ethics, Sarah Palin's grasp of geopolitical issues, and the Italian administrative system.

NFL v Premier League: Socialism v Capitalism in sport format is a post from: Just Football

by Roger Domeneghetti

Whisper it (just so you don't upset Sarah Palin and her Tea Party chums) but there's a small corner of good ol' America that's looks a bit, well; socialist and that would be the NFL.

Just Desserts #6 is a post from: Just Football

Here for your reading pleasure, another Just Desserts packed full of links to interesting articles we've spotted elsewhere:

1) First, a highly insightful article on the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia and it's likely effect on Tunisian football, by one of the most prominent voices on the subject on Twitter, Rami.