This is a massive escalation in cards – two seasons ago three clubs reached the top of the yellow chart by getting 84 cards. Go back to 2020/21 and the total for the most carded team was 73. Thus in ...

On the other hand, Arsenal are committing 3% more fouls than Leicester and both are getting the same number of yellow cards. This suggests for all their top-quality players who are used to PGMO ...

This really is the media at its worst, suggesting Arsenal are a particularly dirty team – on whichever measure you take the club is pretty much mid-table or a little above mid-table. That’s all. There ...

“Top to Bottom Anchoring” is a system which links the amount of money that a top club can spend on players with the end-of-season prize money of the bottom side. Meanwhile, a rebellion against the ...

As noted in the last article the referee for this game is Josh Smith. He is a referee who is tentatively being given a chance to move from the rough and tumble of the Championship into the Premier ...

In its normal style Uefa claimed that such local rules (local meaning Swiss law) did not apply to itself and refused to budge after which Uefa lost the certification showing that they treated men and ...

“Arteta rejects talk of Arsenal dark arts” is a rather grand statement in the Guardian; grand in the sense that no one really ever defines what the “dark arts” are. I suppose it is the notion that ...

And of course there is a downside to this which is that although we can argue against the PGMOL we have no real means to fight them. They are as absolute as they are silent, which in turn means we can ...

24 September 1904: Arsenal 2 Wolverhampton 0. Charlie Satterthwaite scored Arsenal’s first ever goal in the first division, after three goalless games.

And the link with ootball. In football in England, there is no regulator that can look into things going wrong. So when as is happening now, a complainant is making a huge fuss on social media about ...

As the headline suggests, I believe it is that manipulative and malevolent interview that has triggered off yet another wave of media criticism and hatred of Arsenal. If any other team had performed ...