What wins you titles is the team. The amount you concede as well as the amount you score. Often as not the most influential factor in winning a title is actually Goal Difference. It’s no good having a ...

OK Arsenal are not very good in January. But the fact is there really doesn’t need to be quite so much doom and gloom, although I know that is what the media always wants to spread. Yes we are six ...

For those of you who read my ramblings you may of noticed I have taken great interest in the disparity between the quality of opponent both Liverpool and Arsenal have had to face away from home, and ...

So can we take any positives out of that game? One is that Arsenal are now unbeaten in 13 consecutive games in all competitions, with four of those games draws and nine of them wins. The downside is ...

Beyond any doubt the Brighton problem is goal scoring at home. They scored 21 goals at home in 2024, compared with 49 in 2023. And that suggests Arsenal should see this game through ok.

On the other hand, Brighton’s difference is so big that it looks as if either they have a deliberate policy of laying off the fouls that will bring a card, when playing at home, or else referees are ...

Much is being made of Arsenal’s high number of injuries, although in pure number terms, Arsenal are not that far away from most clubs. Arsenal are listed by the Premier League injury site has having ...

Put these figures together and we find that Mr Coote gives out 37% more cards than Mr Taylor which means how many cards a club gets depends on which referees that club sees. It also makes it worth ...

This is where the phrase “thick and fast” comes to be used pretty much everywhere in terms of Arsenal games. But part of the number of games is of course, Arsenal’s fault, for getting through previous ...

Is Brentford’s tiny stadium a benefit to them? Probably yes when we have, as we do on this occasion, a home-biased referee who has seen 80% of his matches end as home wins. As a result Arenal are ...

Arsenal are now back to within a point of where we were last season after 19 games, although still a considerable way off where the club was two seasons ago at the 19 game point. But then we haven’t ...