OK if you have stayed with me this far you are possibly thinking, “Tony’s really lost it this time – he’s posted a political commentary on the wrong blog.” But now, if you think of the points raised ...

To psychologists, this phenomenon of drawing conclusions from limited information is well-known and widespread but this fact seems to be persistently ignored by football journalists, who often have ...

For the fact is that even when he is not touching the ball, if Saka is playing that means he is distracting the opposition who are always looking to see what he is up to, and wondering what he will do ...

A win to take us second is an obvious fact – the ten point marker is just a game a few of us play in watching how far ahead of Tottenham Hots, Arseal can get. Today Arsenal are 10 points above ...

This clearly suggests that the fouling system and approach of Ipswich generates many, many more yellow cards than Arsenal, not because they persistently foul but because when they do, the result of ...

Take shots per game. Arsenal at home put in twice as many as Ipswich away. Take yellow cards: Ipswich get almost twice as many away as Arsenal at home. Or possession: Arsenal at home get over 46% more ...

Interestingly Ispwich’s away form contains the club’s only two wins of the season and the gap between Arsenal and Ipswich when taking into account the home and away situation, shows that although ...

The media tend to make very little (if anything at all) of the Last Six Games table, instead just occasionally quoting an individual club’s recent rise or decline, without reference to what the rest ...

In conclusion, no Saka isn’t over-played. Nor is Salah and nor is Rodri. They are just indispensable. None of this changes the fact that coping without Saka is certainly going to be a challenge. Let’s ...

It is not too often noted but Arsenal have the best defence in the league – and that despite the injuries that the club has faced this season.

Even more amusingly, ITV who were televising the game, turned down the crowd noise as befits a library, and the delicate nature of evening viewers of ITV, and the commentator said, “and you can hear ...

Over the past 5 years Man City have, relatively speaking, stopped spending. They are the 11th biggest net spenders in the Premier League behind the likes of West Ham, Crystal Palace and even ...