As you will of course know, in the next round of the Champions League Arsenal will play PSV home and away. PSV are currently second in the Dutch league having scored 71 goals in 23 games, conceding 26 ...

Meanwhile we heard that legal papers have been served in the $70m legal claim against Newcastle Untied’s chairman. He is being sued for “having allegedly conspired with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince ...

Arteta as we know failed to bring in the new player/s he wanted in the winter transfer window, and obviously saw it as being more productive not to buy anyone now and wait for the summer. But a summer ...

With five injuries at present Arsenal have slipped down the injury league table with only Palace, Fulhm Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Forest having fewer players out. Top of the injury tree are ...

My thesis is simple: virtually all football journalists have a three-step approach to their work, and tragically, most fans and commentators buy into this. As a result most people interested in ...

Their last away win was 0-1 away to the mighty Southampton on Boxing Day although on 25 November they did beat Newcastle away, so such things are possible. Arsenal’s last home win you might remember ...

Arsenal is a club with a turnover of around half a billion pounds: the second highest for a football club in England. Only Manchester United gets more – and of course this is one reason why the media ...

Craig Pawson has been confirmed as the referee. He is at the high end for seeing fouls (22.73 per game compared to 19.13 for Peter Bankes, meaning Pawson sees 19% more fouls in a game than Bankes). So ...

Arsenal v West Ham: What do the stats show that the referee likely to do? Arsenal v West Ham: recent games, performanecs and a naff away record By Bulldog Drummond In a very nice symmetry, Arsenal ...

The average position of West Ham since they returned to the Premier League in 2005 having come sixth that season in the Championship (and thus winning through via the playoffs) is 10.7 in the Premier ...

There are of course traditions in football, as much as there are rules. Some are subtle, some are obvious – the obvious including the way the teams line up at kick-off, and generally keep to their ...

If there are two concepts that define the current state of English football they are surely the eternal statements of excellence and the eternal special pleading. As an example of the second, consider ...