Football is obviously a game of conflict. For unlike some games such as a running race where basically each person does her/his best and doesn’t or at least shouldn’t do anything to make the other ...

Dinamo Zagreb whom we play on Wednesday are 24th having won two, drawn two and lost two, and with a goal difference of -5, compared with Arsenal’s of +9. They had a goalless draw with Celtic, a 0-3 ...

Last month the BBC did a “days lost through injury table” for the season thus far and found Brighton at the top with 638 days lost through injury, Ipswich with 530, Tottenham on 408, and Arsenal on ...

And let us not forget of course that Tottenham have scored two more goalsls in the league this season than Arsenal have. This by itself shows that the number of goals scored doesn’t really count for ...

In short which referee a club gets, has a major effect on the result.

Inj fact in the last four league games Villa have lost one, drawn won and won two. That might seem like good form to a Villa fan, but those two wins have been against Leicester City who are 19th in ...

That Villa only drew at home to Bournemouth in October was put down to the exertions of a home win over Bologna in the Champions League four days before. The subsequent home defeat in the League Cup ...

The mighty Totts currently 14th in the league shoot up to second on this basis, which gives you quite an idea of the vision of journalists and bloggers who go on and on about Arsenal needing to score ...

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 ...