Arsenal’s upcoming fixtures are with Liverpool (tomorrow), Nottingham Forest, Manchester City and Newcastle United. These terms finished 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th in the league last season, so quite a ...

Anyway, in case you missed it, on Tuesday night, the two bottom teams in the Premier League (Wolverhampton Wanderers and the World Class Team, played each other and the World Class Team lost 3-2.

What we can do at first is remove the under-21s from the count, since they can stay and play without being counted in the 25-man squad. That I think takes out Myles Lewis-Skelly, Ethan Nwaneri, and ...

So on 19 August we had 61 players Arsenal were about to sign, and now on 27 August we have 72 – which is a nice balance of numbers. OK we are still not gonig to reach the normal 120+ by the end of the ...

It can be said there are three stories in football. One of course is the clubs and their performance on the pitch, how they are doing in the league, which players they are using, which ones they ...

But although London clubs do have an advantage in terms of fewer long journeys, there is still no excuse for the fixture-setting agency bunching the London derbies together in this way. To do it once ...

That one very annoying London defeat for Arsenal was in February at home to West Ham 0-1, and it brings me back to one of my regular topics – that Arsenal do not lose the odd match occasionally, but ...

Leeds have not won two opening games in a row since just after the turn of the century, and they generally seem to lose in London – I suppose the cleaner air quality takes the players a bit by ...

If referees are picked without reference to the sides they are overseeing, we would expect the percentage of home wins, away wins and draws to be roughly similar between referees.

Moving on to more recent days in the last 14 games between the two clubs, starting on 1 November 2003, Leeds have not won a single match. Indeed twice in the last four meetings we have beaten them 4-1 ...

One of the issuse for me is that the same group of people (mates) who referee games are the same group of people (mates) who operate VAR. There’s more to it than that but we’ve already had an ...