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 ...
In fact what this “poor all season” means, given that this season is virtually identical to last season, is that coming second is now defined as being “poor”, and of course if that is something you ...
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 ...
Arsenal opened the season like they meant business, trouncing the Wolves 3-0 at the Emirates. The midfield hummed like a well-oiled machine, while the defence refused to budge. Goals came from ...
So after two consecutive defeats to Manchester U everything is now doom and gloom. The fact that before these last two games Arsenal played 12 games, won nine, drew three and lost none, is either ...
The Gunners take on United at the Emirates Stadium in the third round of the oldest cup competition in the world on Sunday afternoon and will be sporting an all-white kit for a fourth year in a row.
As for Mr Madley, he is ver much at the high end of perceiving fouls and fairly close to the high end for yellow cards as well, so the Arsenal approach has to be to let Manchester United tackle away, ...
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 ...
And yet looking back we now find that the last time Manu beat Arsenal away from very old Strafford, was an FA Cup match on 25 January 2019. That was the final game in a run of seven in which the ...
It must be patently obvious if you have ever read more than a couple of sentences of my ramblings, that I argue that football journalism is a malign force which is damaging the game. These journalists ...
Because of health issues I am having to cut back on my visits to Arsenal, so although I still have my season ticket, and attending games covered by that, I am not buying tickets for matches not ...
There is something of a confusing piece in the Guardian about the actual football used in the League Cup, in that they say, “all clubs play with the same ball,” to which I suppose one can only reply ...