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 ...
As evidence, I offer Tottenham Ho. So there was a situation last summer in which Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester United were seen as being run by people who simply didn’t know how to build a team, ...
And leading on from this comes the view that in terms of being employees, professional footballers have equal rights in law with all other employees. True, their salaries are often of a magnitude that ...
So here we are approaching the semi-final part 2 of the Champions League with a wub if any shape or form being enough to send Arsenal to the final. Meanwhile the Standard, a daily London newspaper ...
For once, it is not Arsenal and us fans who are to blame, but we probably will be; Arsenal: This is the best it has been for the last 20; By Tony Attwood. There was a line in the ...
But that was the best run of course since Wenger’s incredible launch to his managerial campaign at Arsenal, which from 1997/8 onward saw the club win the double, come second three seasons running, do ...
Generally, ambitious football clubs tend to do the same thing: spend money on better players. And so to stop this getting out of hand, some Leagues have financial rules. And as a result, in February ...
Viktor Gyökeres is now the fourth-highest scorer in the Premier League this season. Arsenal are the top-scoring team in the Premier League this season (although ManC do have two games in hand). I ...
Now there is nothing unusual in someone publishing a preview of a match and getting the outcome completely wrong; indeed, it was one of the reasons Untold was set up – to counter these false ...
In some ways, this is obvious. A journalist actually at a game can see more than a supporter understands from the score alone. The journalist sees that Arsenal beat Fulham 3-0, and can suggest that ...