Villa were being talked up by the basically bonkers media as serious challengers to Liverpool, the media having noticed that on 21 October Villa were fourth in the league on the same points as Arsenal ...

After that the subsequent defeats to Club Brugge and Liverpool away, and the home draws with Palace and Juventus were all likewise excused and it was only after a 3-0 thumping by Chelsea on 1 December ...

Arsenal, fortunately, are not so stupid, and are keen to keep within existing and new rules, which means that whereas in the past, 97% of transfer rumours have been mindless gibberish, the remaining 3 ...

Maybe, except somehow we really did manage to celebrate. And how we celebrated. We won, even though “this referee doesn’t do home wins”.

Indeed as a result of all this hassle, the League has voted for new spending rules from next season, which will of course affect Arsenal as everyone else. And because Arsenal are close to the limit on ...

What we can see here is the one thing that Tottenham are getting completely wrong, and that is that they by playing the same way in every game, home and away, they are not taking into account the ...

Interestingly when Arsenal were making headlines for three red cards early on, all the media covered it, but now that Chelsea are way out in front with 41% more yellow cards than either Liverpool or ...

This will be game number 211 between Arsenal and Tottenham. Of the 210 already played 42% have gone Arsenal’s way 32% have gone Tottenham’s and 26% have been draws. Of the last eight games – all of ...

In fact what this “poor all season” means, given that this season is virtually identical to last season, is that coming second is now defined as being “poor”, and of course if that is something you ...

In short the PGMO could have given us a referee who persistently sees home wins, but no, this is Arsenal so we get a referee who hardly ever sees home wins – in fact he sees more away wins than home ...

As for Mr Madley, he is ver much at the high end of perceiving fouls and fairly close to the high end for yellow cards as well, so the Arsenal approach has to be to let Manchester United tackle away, ...