As for saying that “Howard Webb’s [the Chief Refereeing Officer] tenure has been soundtracked by constant calls for more transparency, for a swishing back of the curtain to reveal the bare-forked ...

With several huge events attracting much interest from bookmakers, the UEFA Champions League is getting hot. People are debating one game, Bayern Munich vs Benfica. Bayern has a good defence; hence, a ...

It’s not been a surprise to see that most commentators are taking the view that as Vavel website says, “The outlook is bleak, with Arsenal sat in a modest lowly place in the Premier League, needing to ...

In fact against the clubs that Arsenal have played away from home this season compared with last season’s results are identical – two wins, two draws, two defeats.

John Brooks has only refereed one Arsenal match this season and for that we should give thanks, because in his one match (that being on 2 November 2024, when Arsenal lost to Newcastle) he produced a ...

Although it’s not a journo-originated word for it actually comes from Shakespeare and turns up in “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” So it is a bit dated, but then that’s just like most journalists and ...

So the implication is NOT that the journalists have been taken by surprise, but that Arsenal have been caught out/. But assuming that there was nothing in his contract that stopped Edu from ...

The simple reality is that all teams get blips – runs of unexpected draws and loses, and the media love to focus on them, without much reference to what is going on elsewhere.  It’s a bit like the ...

The fact that the number of yellow cards given because of fouls to each of these two clubs is very similar (21 to Chelsea and 19 to Tottenham) suggests the level of bad tackling is very similar and ...

As you may know, the identity and location of the Sun’s oft quoted supercomputer is totally secret. Week after week, month after month, and indeed year after year, the newspaper tells us that its ...

Prelim: Summer 2025 will be the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Herbert Chapman at Arsenal, and to commemorate this we are publishing a series on Chpaman, and how the most unlikely transfer of a ...

There is a story in the world of newspapers in which the Sports Editor walks into the journalist’s office and demands, “Right what’s today’s Arsenal crisis?” and the journalist turns in bemusement and ...