The issue is of course, injuries, as for example expressed in the Guardian with the note that “Arteta fears Arsenal trophy hunt could be hindered by ‘dangerous circle’ of injuries.” This is ...

Injuries continued to be the key issue in discussions about Arsenal in the build up to tonight’s game, and journalists have at last started to ask why Arsenal get so many injuries.    One suggestion ...

There is something wonderful about the history of Jan Breydel, who lived in the late 13th and early 14th century and whose name is given to the stadium in which Arsenal play this week against Club ...

Sunderland are known for scoring in injury time, and Aston Villa have clearly very much pinched the idea. So it must also be time for Arsenal to react, perhaps by bringing in several defenders and ...

Arsenal’s away record has slumped a little bit, leaving them the fourth best away team in the Premier League with four wins, two draws and two defeats and a goal difference of just +3. Club Brugge at ...

Of course, one of the big problems is that this constant attack on Arsenal is a bit like a leaking gutter dripping on a walkway below. Each drop does nothing much, but if the drips keep going for long ...

So yes, quite clearly Arsenal are progressing on all fronts except in attack, where things are much the same as before. But since that has been achieved without last season’s top scorer, even on that ...

What isn’t mentioned but in such an article would surely seem relevant, is that Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 18 matches in all competitions, drawing three, winning the rest. In their last 18 ...

In 2023/24 the problems came a bit later – in December and January, where in the space of seven league and cup games, Arsenal lost four, drew two and won one. In 2022/23 we had several such dips, ...

Thus in terms of yellow cards, Barrott gives out 4.75 cards a game on average, while Oliver gives out 2.36 cards per game on average. So we can see that Barrott gives out just about twice as many ...

The arguments about something being very seriously wrong with refereeing in the Premier League have been going on virtually since the league started, with fans of many PL clubs putting forward the ...

In the last article, we looked at the fouls per game and fouls per tackle. Now we take a look at the extraordinary differences between referees in terms of home wins, away wins and draws. Figures ...