After that the subsequent defeats to Club Brugge and Liverpool away, and the home draws with Palace and Juventus were all likewise excused and it was only after a 3-0 thumping by Chelsea on 1 December ...

Villa were being talked up by the basically bonkers media as serious challengers to Liverpool, the media having noticed that on 21 October Villa were fourth in the league on the same points as Arsenal ...

Arsenal, fortunately, are not so stupid, and are keen to keep within existing and new rules, which means that whereas in the past, 97% of transfer rumours have been mindless gibberish, the remaining 3 ...

Maybe, except somehow we really did manage to celebrate. And how we celebrated. We won, even though “this referee doesn’t do home wins”.

Indeed as a result of all this hassle, the League has voted for new spending rules from next season, which will of course affect Arsenal as everyone else. And because Arsenal are close to the limit on ...

Elsewhere in the media, ranting is still what they do, while accusing everyone else of doing it except themselves This time it was Guardiola in an extraordinary rant according to the Telegraph. They ...

Interestingly when Arsenal were making headlines for three red cards early on, all the media covered it, but now that Chelsea are way out in front with 41% more yellow cards than either Liverpool or ...

That was the comment in a recent post to this site. It’s not one I agree with but of course, as long as the comment is not abusive or simply repeating past comments, up it goes. But is this true? Have ...

Referee: Simon Hooper is supposedly one of the top ten referees for PGMO – the referees that have each covered over ten Premier League games this season. And in three simple columns, we can see just ...

This will be game number 211 between Arsenal and Tottenham. Of the 210 already played 42% have gone Arsenal’s way 32% have gone Tottenham’s and 26% have been draws. Of the last eight games – all of ...