In fact tonight’s Europa final involves the club with the 12th worst defence in the league against the club with the 16th worst defence in the league (that’s Tottenham). But no one has yet called it ...

As you might recall we have often looked at the issue of the Profit and Sustainability Rules and in particular Leicester City’s response to the rules, which they have challenged in recent years. And ...

So one might conclude that the only reason for constantly changing managers is that by pure chance the club might eventually get it right. And in thinking about this it is worth remembering that ...

Let me admit by way of an intro, what is already obvious: I’m an Arsenal supporter so of course I am biased. But it does seem to me important that the 115 (or thereabouts) Manchester City cases have ...

Last season Arsenal were seven points clear of the third-placed club. In 2023 Arsenal were nine points clear of third, and as part of the usual anti-Arsenal reportage the notion that Arsenal could ...

The BBC open their build-up report with the news that “Newcastle have beaten Arsenal three times this season – once in the league and in both legs of the EFL Cup semi-finals. No side has ever defeated ...

On 23 November – a 3-0 home win for Arsenal over Nottingham Forest in which Arsenal were given three yellow and Forest two. On 21 December a 5-0 win for Arsenal over Palace in which each side got two ...

Now of course to be fair, and we do like to be fair here, those lost two are not in danger of going down, because these days the Premier League relies pretty much on the three that come up to go down ...

Although Arsenal are only the sixth best-performing team at home, and Newcastle are the fifth best-performing team away, there is still a significant difference between what the clubs have achieved ...