We are constantly luading the Guardian Football Weekly podcast – and rightly so – but don’t forget about the Times’ one, either. Although Phil Jupitus is an insipid host the excellent Patrick Barclay provides consistently insightful contributions, and although a bit of a nob Gabriel Marcotti also makes the occasional good point. Certainly worth a listen.

The Times’ football luminary Patrick Barclay has a piece in today’s edition (well it’s on the website so I assume it’s in the paper) about outlawing shirt-pulling, or grappling as he calls it – you can read it here.

He makes a point that we have made a couple of times before – that to eradicate the cheats, you need to clamp down on the small offences. He suggests a sanction for shirt-pulling equal to that of a handball – a fine idea.

You can read our view on the issue here – and we also talk about it here and here.

Nice to see our work is being plagiarised by one of the broadsheet dailies…