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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Making money is generally either about one of three things: doing something new, doing something better, or making something cheaper. But when you work in a restricted market, such as a football ...

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 ...

Indeed by and large, even the journalists have worked out that Arsenal have three league games left: West Ham away on 10 May, Burnley at home on 18 May and Crystal Palace away on 24 May.

Everton have won one third of their home matches and Manchester City half of their away matches.   And even now, that was only the third home win for Everton in the last ten games while Manchester ...