What we therefore should be looking for is not a sport in which the referee makes no errors at all, but rather the number of errors made by referees is as now as possible and where there are errors ...
I am not sure whether these arrangements are supposed to make it harder for Arsenal to win the League or the Champions League – probably both.   But still, it does give the media time to get very ...
By Tony Attwood Has there ever been a moment like this? A moment when the whole club and its fans seem to be in total turmoil, not to say actually fighting each other. To see what ...
There once was a time when managers and other officials in football clubs watched what they said, being careful not to blame referees even for mistakes, let alone for being incompetent.    Now it ...
It is indeed interesting to compare this season’s card numbers with those of other seasons. Arsenal had 70 yellow cards last season so an enormous drop for them and six red cards – again a huge change ...
Who exactly runs football is an interesting point, and of course, to answer it, one needs to ask, what do we mean by “runs”? And I pondered that today, on see ...
There are many issues that the media that covers league football choose not to cover, and one of these is the issue of yellow and red cards.  And that is interesting since the media regularly runs ...
The answer is two-fold. First, Arsenal do have a goal scorer: Viktor Gyökeres with 14. But Arsenal also have a range of other goal scorers – far more than other clubs in fact.
I think my heart is still beating twice the speed that it should be, and I am not going to try and write a review of that game yesterday – if you are an Arsenal fan, you’ll have watched it or have got ...
Which itself raises an issue, for journalists across the continent love to blame English fans for anything that they (the media) can witness at no expense, and then pretend to be far worse than it is.
Chris Kavanagh, the referee for Arsenal’s game against West Ham at the taxpayer’s stadium, has overseen 27 games this season – only one referee has overseen more.
If we look through the last 40 games between Arsenal and West Ham we get back to 29 September 2007 and a match for which the result was West Ham 0 Arsenal 1. Put another way, 12.5% of the games have ...