The recent book on judgment and decision-making, Thinking, Fast and Slow, by the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, should be required reading for the people who run football clubs.

Roberto Mancini spent most of last week in a foul mood and Mario Balotelli took the brunt of it.

We know Trapattoni believes that class is permanent and form has nothing to do with it, but it must be hard for Noel Hunt to think that he is probably the most in-form Irish striker at the moment and yet has no chance of going to the Euros.

It is getting to the time of the year when some people like to talk about Alex Ferguson’s mind games, and he obliged them before the weekend with some mildly provocative comments about Manchester City’s recall of Carlos Tevez.

The shortage of Premier League fixtures on Saturday meant Swansea’s flattening of Fulham took centre stage on Match of the Day, with their manager Brendan Rodgers interviewed by Gary Lineker via video link.

Liverpool’s six-year wait for a trophy is over, and their laboured victory over Cardiff City summed up where they are at as a team.

Anyone interested in the collapse of Rangers will by now have come across the blog at rangerstaxcase.com, where an anonymous Celtic supporter has spent nearly two years explaining why the financial problems facing Rangers were much more serious than you might think had you been following the story through the mainstream media.

The multiple apologies issued by Liverpool FC employees on Sunday must have come as a relief to the majority of the club’s fans.

John Terry has suffered the humiliation of being stripped of the England captaincy for a second time, and he may yet be forced by circumstances to rule himself out of representing his country at Euro 2012.

There is a lot to admire about Tony Pulis, a serious guy who is focused on his work, who is not interested in being a star, who only changes into a suit for his post-match press conference and then does that conference standing up, the better to make a quick exit.