Last month the BBC did a “days lost through injury table” for the season thus far and found Brighton at the top with 638 days lost through injury, Ipswich with 530, Tottenham on 408, and Arsenal on ...

And let us not forget of course that Tottenham have scored two more goalsls in the league this season than Arsenal have. This by itself shows that the number of goals scored doesn’t really count for ...

In short which referee a club gets, has a major effect on the result.

Inj fact in the last four league games Villa have lost one, drawn won and won two. That might seem like good form to a Villa fan, but those two wins have been against Leicester City who are 19th in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...