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By Sir Hardly Anyone Recently… The window is almost shut but some still keep buying. Villa v Arsenal Aston Villa v Arsenal – how’s the season been going so far for Villa? Arsenal are reported to have three injury problems at present William Saliba – Back Injury Jurrien Timber – Groin Injury …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone For today’s Arsenal game, 31 August 2026 the officials are Referee: Jarred Gillett Assistants: Neil Davies, Steve Meredith Fourth official: Sam Barrott VAR: James Bell Assistant VAR: Nick Hopton Jarred Gillet made 22 appearances in the PL last season making him the seventh most experienced referee in the least last season. However he saw …
The window is almost shut but some still keep buying. Villa v Arsenal Aston Villa v Arsenal – how’s the season been going so far for Villa? By Tony Attwood If you stay in touch with our companion site, The History of Arsenal, you will know that we are currently running a series …
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Aston Villa v Arsenal – how’s the season been going so far for Villa? As we approach the game against Aston Villa, what has changed in football? By Tony Attwood Well by “some” in the headline above I mean of course Tottenham, who never seem to give up on the notion that if one buys …
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As we approach the game against Aston Villa, what has changed in football? It’s the “lavish spending” problem all over again. By Tony Attwood Our next game is away to Aston Villa on Monday 31st at 8pm. This is last of the second round of league matches. Villa like Arsenal have played …
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As we approach the game against Aston Villa, what has changed in football? It’s the “lavish spending” problem all over again. By Tony Attwood The current situation in the Premier League is not, as some would have it, that clubs are now simply “using more data.” Rather they are using the data …
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Transfer madness – where does Arsenal stand on overpriced transfers? Are Asenal “Bottle Jobs” or is that just another stuck with which to beat us? By Tony Attwood So maybe we were right. As the Guardian says in its headline: “Lavish spending fails to fix Tottenham’s big issue – the lack of a …
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By Tony Attwood How can Premier League clubs keep going if they keep losing money? How many years since they won the league? An article popped up today in my inbox labelled Transfer madness: The nine most overpriced deals so far this summer. Now quite often I don’t take much notice of such articles, but I …
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How can Premier League clubs keep going if they keep losing money? How many years since they won the league? by Nitram What follows started out as a comment to the How many years since they won the league? article. But it got too big to be a comment, so here it is …
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How many years since they won the league? Arsenal’s champions league draw for this season By Tony Attwood Gone is the 3pm saturday kickoff. These days kick off times spread all over the place – in order to accommodate TV. We have kick offs as 12.30, 3.00, and 5.30 and then tomorrow at 2.00 and …
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Arsenal’s Champions League draw for this season What is the secret for making a poor club better? By Tony Attwo When Arsenal won the league at the end of last season, much of the media was full of counts of how many years it was since the club had last won the league. …
What is the secret for making a poor club better? Is anything going right with football? Or are the journalists right to criticise everything? By Tony Attwood Last season, as you will probably remember, Arsenal won all eight of their opening ties in the Champions League, and so gently sailed into the knock-out …
By Tony Attwood Is anything going right with football? Or are the journalists right to criticise everything? Still plenty of time for journalists to make up false tales about who is going where… What is it that makes a poor club better? Obviously most club owners think they have the answer: change the …
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Still plenty of time for journalists to make up false tales about who is going where… There is no safe and sure way of making money by owning a football club By Tony Attwood So we have a bit of news: Ipswich v Arsenal in the next round of the League Cup with …
There is no safe and sure way of making money by owning a football club Have Arsenal only got one world class player as Carragher suggests or is he talking nonsense as usual? By Tony Attwood The transfer window closes at 11pm at 1st September so there is still plenty of time for …
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Have Arsenal only got one world class player as Carragher suggests or is he talking nonsense as usual? Both the Media and the refs can make reputations and destroy them By Tony Attwood One reason why football is such a dodgy industry to be involved in comes from the fact that certain aspects …
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Both the Media and the refs can make reputations and destroy them It’s too late to cap spending power: clubs can spend what they want By Nitram A recent comment from Jamie Carragher on Sky Sports has understandably caused a bit of a stir. By all accounts even his co-presenters can’t get their …
It’s too late to cap spending power: clubs can spend what they want The fraud allegation that is being made against clubs in the Premier League By Tony Attwood “Manchester City fan criticizes referee’s performance” is hardly a novelty headline, but it is of interest becaquse go back a while to the days …
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By Tony Attwood Around a week ago the BBC published an article on the internet headlined, “Everyone wants clarity over Man City charges” which probably sums up the current situation. Indeed the question of why the enquiry has taken so long now seems to be asked just as often as what punishment (if any!) …
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Sometimes the headlines are not enough – and come to that nor is moving to a new ground “Goal” demands Arteta be sacked for his tactics, after 3-0 victory and league title By Tony Attwood The story goes like this. Premier Club wants a player who we are going to call Smithy, …
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“Goal” demands Arteta be sacked for his tactics, after 3-0 victory and league title Why don’t clubs give managers more time? (Sometimes one season is too long!) By Tony Attwood I was thinking of the headline “Same old Spurs given reality check of epic proportions” – a headline that really did leave me …
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Why don’t clubs give managers more time? (Sometimes one season is too long!) Fines and suspensions don’t stop unwanted behaviour. Why not try something else? By Tony Attwood I opened my first article today with the thought that in May 2025 the headline appeared in www.goal.com saying ‘Sorry but SACK ARTETA!’ – Arsenal fans call for manager’s …
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Fines and suspensions don’t stop unwanted behaviour. Why not try something else? By Tony Attwood In May 2025 the headline appeared in www.goal.com saying ‘Sorry but SACK ARTETA!’ – Arsenal fans call for manager’s head & rivals take aim at ‘full Stoke’ tactics as another trophyless season beckons after Champions League semi-final heartbreak …
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Arsenal v Coventry: I’m already looking forward to the next match By Tony Attwood Argentina midfielder Leandro Paredes has been given a 10-match ban for being part of some clashes he was involved in after the 2026 World Cup final. Such bans are becoming more common, and indeed recently Fifa also gave Nahuel Molina …
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Season 2026/27 – we can already start predicting who’s in the top 5 and who is going down By Tony Attwood That was, I think, how I prefer opening games to go. A clear and obvious win, with seemingly plenty left in each player’s locker to use if the going gets rough, as …
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