DAN HOLMES says that all the talk about luck in football is a red herring that deflects away from deficiencies and makes us feel better when we lose...

Messi and Xavi -extremely lucky?

IN ANY game of football anywhere in the world there are a certain amount of guarantees.
You can be sure, for instance, that at some point in the match a chance will be missed and a commentator will declare that the offending player will be ‘disappointed with that’.
Something else of which to be certain is that every corner will be greeted with cries of ‘away!’ from fans of the ...