This can be a problem because it is possible for a welfare officer to be more interested in protecting the good name of the club rather than the welfare of the children. After all, once the story gets ...

There is something of a confusing piece in the Guardian about the actual football used in the League Cup, in that they say, “all clubs play with the same ball,” to which I suppose one can only reply ...

The campaign for Arsenal to tear up the current approach and buy a new striker is basically one aiming to take Arsenal back down to lower levels of scoring. The tragedy is that many supporters feel ...

Overall in this fixture, Arsenal have 85 victories, Newcastle 70 and just 39 games have been drawn. Newcastle are, as we know, doing well of late being second in the last six games table . But what is ...

Arsenal find themselves playing Newcastle with inevitably another bit of bad injury news: Ethan Nwaneri who came off at half-time in the Brighton game after scoring, will be out for a few weeks.

OK Arsenal are not very good in January. But the fact is there really doesn’t need to be quite so much doom and gloom, although I know that is what the media always wants to spread. Yes we are six ...

So can we take any positives out of that game? One is that Arsenal are now unbeaten in 13 consecutive games in all competitions, with four of those games draws and nine of them wins. The downside is ...

Beyond any doubt the Brighton problem is goal scoring at home. They scored 21 goals at home in 2024, compared with 49 in 2023. And that suggests Arsenal should see this game through ok. But if you ...

Much is being made of Arsenal’s high number of injuries, although in pure number terms, Arsenal are not that far away from most clubs. Arsenal are listed by the Premier League injury site has having ...

When we look at the number of tackles Brighton and Arsenal each put in per game, the numbers are remarkably similar: 17.5 for Brighton, 16,6 for Arsenal. The number of fouls given is similar also: ...

There are three ways of looking at the issue of refereeing in the Premier League. One is to say by and large it is ok, and yes the referee might make occasional mistakes, but even if that is so they ...