But what I am saying is that because of the overarching level of mega-secrecy that there is in professional football in England, we run into difficulties. For VAR, like the rest of refereeing in the ...

And as a prime example of this consider this headline from the Guardian today: “No Arsenal player is benefiting more from the captain’s return than his ruthless buddy on the wing, as West Ham found ...

As a result of that, when Untold spends a lot of time analysing referees and reporting on their biases and variations in approach, we can be condemned as “typical Arsenal,” “paranoid”, “always ...

Arsenal have played 20 games in their three competitions this season. Three have been lost, on three occasions Arsenal have scored five. As a result, the team that was portrayed as being in a disaster ...

What we can see here is that West Ham have managed to beat Ipswich Town who have only won one league game at home this season, and Manchester United who away from home have only beaten Southampton and ...

The WHAM site then goes into a lot of depth about the referee including this rather astonishing fact: “Taylor refereed his 37th fixture involving West Ham United against Ipswich in October, when goals ...

But there is one other interesting stat that comes from this area. West Ham pick up more yellow cards at home for fouls than they do away from home. 20% more at home in fact. Arsenal pick up 25% more ...

I’m told that TNT Sport’s commentator got a bit excited watching ManC v Feyenoord shouting out at one stage (just under the hour in fact), “And Feyenoord are well and truly beaten now.” As you may ...

There is a feeling of buoyancy among many of us Arsenal fans as a result of the last two games. Two matches, two wins, eight goals scored, one conceded. But of course that was only two and the two ...

So that is telling it as it is. And what the Athletic did was then assess how Arsenal’s difficult fixtures have affected their start to the season.

… and judging by what happened this week in Europe that attack of Arsenal’s is now ready to make up the deficit in goals compared with the last two campaigns – although we are still way ahead of the ...