Arsenal only won two of their first 12 games against Leicester in the League. But then after a couple of years of to-and-fro Arsenal settled down and went 14 games against the clu ...
More than ever before, which referee the club gets affects the result. If Arsenal had Robert Jones for example the club would be helped along no end. The chances are however that for the rest of the ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...