It is interesting that a number of fairly important statistics relating to Premier League football are either never looked at by the media or are presented in a way that does not allow for immediate ...

So to come back to Arsenal and the ManC, this ref calls out fractionally more fouls for Arsenal per game, but waves the yellow card at Manchester C players two and a half times as often per match as ...

That game against the Mancs is remembered by many as the time Arsenal were granted a goal after a couple of minutes by a Manc cock up from which they never recovered. ManC equalised just before the ...

There is something particular about Arsenal that some football supporters really don’t like at the moment.  While most clubs have adopted a process which basically can be described as a “rush to the ...

And the four year old legal case; Manchester City and their problem with “dips” By Tony Attwood. There can be little doubt t ...

This is, of course, a football website, but it is also a website that follows issues related to football, and as we have seen in all the years since the blog started, politics can play a part too.

Nothing has happened in the case for over a year.   The last we heard was that ManC said that if found guilty of anything, they would sue the Premier League out of existence.   Our thought was that ...

There is a fascinating headline in the Guardian which, when combined with the opening to the following paragraph, really made me think that someone at the Guardian is getting the hang of the way ...

Go back to the early days of this decade, and you would be excused for saying that, unlike other clubs, Manchester City didn’t have “dips.” Now, if you are a regular reader here, you may well have ...

Comparing last season after 31 games with this season, we find that Arsenal have won four more games and drawn four fewer – and of course, last season it was the decline into draws rather than wins ...

Arteta said, “It’s very inspiring when you see someone almost naive making decisions…”   He also spoke of the young man’s “flowing and careless playing in that manner”.  And I think of course that’s ...

But with this Arsenal team, everything becomes even more compact. It’s incredibly hard if you fall behind against them.” This of course, is different from the recent (now retracted) rant from the ...