In media football terms, that means Arsenal are either in crisis or the great team of the century. Ordinary mid-table is most certainly not news. Which is why it is interesting to give a rundown, as ...

Thomas Bramall is the referee for the Arsenal game today. It is his first Arsenal match. Also having a first, but only a first of the season, is Chris Kavanagh on VAR. In the table below we can see ...

Meanwhile, Arsenal’s top scorer is still sitting eighth in the top scorers league, which shows the great value of having a multiplicity of scorers – the opposition never have a clue where the next one ...

The problem for Arsenal is that there is now so much talk about how wonderful the team is that anything less than a thumping win is going to look like a major defeat. Not least because Arsenal do ...

Liverpool player purchases ended up with no goals scored and many goals conceded from set pieces…. In fact, a defence that has lost it. Then again, a politician across the pond has shown the example: ...

The player can sign a full contract with Arsenal when he is 17, which is on New Year’s Eve – although not the one in six weeks time, but the one after tha. If he plays against Palace, it will be his ...

Top of the Premier League clubs in the lists in this regard is Manchester City who have been buying up young players as they wish, to secure their position should the rest of the league ever stop ...

So why does it all go so wrong? It could of course be that the club has promised the manager “free rein”, only to find the club in turmoil, players in revolt and league form declining. But it can also ...

So far this season, with 21% of the games in the season played, 15% of the Premier League managers have been dismissed: Postecoglou, Potter and Espirito Santo. This compares with one so far in La Liga ...

But not everyone is looking for the negatives, as the Independent tells us there was “something seismic, something spectacular” about last night. Of course, a lot of the media are fairly reluctant to ...

Arsenal v Atletico Madrid and the need to win every game; Arsenal prepare for the Champions League: is the club improving? Arsenal in the Champions League tomorro ...

As for Atletico Madrid in the past 15 days they have only played one competitive match – a league game in which they drew aaway to Celta Vigo on 5 October, with their schedule being affected by ...