A quick look at the league table in case you missed it.

 

 

• Where are they now? The team in game 14, three years ago.

By Tony Attwood

As you may know I’m a season ticket holder at Arsenal, but live in the Midlands, so each home game is about a 175 miles round trip, so in later life the temptation to go to away games is not there.  

But home games I enjoy, and the rest I watch on TV, and although it would be going too far to say I was actually supporting Tottenham against Manchester United, my companions did suggest that a slight chuckle emerged from my throat when their final goal went in.

Of course no matter what the result was Arsenal were going to stay top, but that draw, so vibrantly celebrated by Radio 5 and Tottenham supporters generally, means Arsenal are in a better position, without Tottenham climbing back into those pesky Champions League places.

And of course again if you built a league table based on goals scored Arsenal would be a lowly sixth in the league, but then again if the table was based on goals conceded we’d be top.  On goals difference we’d be second just two behind Manchester City.

We are in fact two points above Liverpool, three above Manchester City, six above the mighty Tottenham Hotspur who the media have be raving about (no mention of the fact that Arsenal beat them) and looking down a way we are 14 points above Chelsea.  It is all rather fun.

And yes of course we must congratulate Tottenham at having got themselves into the position of being just six points behind Arsenal.   A Europa place beckons.

But what of the other tables, like for example those pesky yellow cards that ultimately mean suspensions?   Here’s the WhoScored latest

 

Team	Fouls	Yellow Cards	Percentage of arsenal cards	Red Cards
1. Chelsea	176	47	261%	3
5. Newcastle United	155	38	211%	0
6. Tottenham Hots	165	38	211%	3
7. Aston Villa	153	35	194%	0
12. Manchester United	148	28	155%	0
14. Manchester City	130	27	150%	2
18. Liverpool	162	23	127%	4
20. Arsenal	133	18	100%	2

 

Those cards are starting to come home to roost for some of these teams as players are starting to miss games.  and indeed in all those figures the only challengers for Arsenal is Manchester city on the single issue of fouls – they have 130 against them to Arsenal 133.

But even so (and this is the extraordinary thing for a Manchester City side), they have 55% more yellow cards than Arsenal!!!

So anyway, here’s the league table which we don’t normally publish on a Sunday evening, but I thought maybe just for a change we should…. at least just for the top half.  Of course it is ludicrously too early to talk about winning the league, but I think it is helpful to have the league table on line, just for statistical purposes, you understand.  And to make sure none of those pesky journalists nip in try and change it. 

Or indeed in case any of those pesky clubs start trying to nick any of our points….   I wouldn’t put it past them.

 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Arsenal	14	10	3	1	29	11	18	33
2	Liverpool	14	9	4	1	32	14	18	31
3	Manchester City	14	9	3	2	36	16	20	30
4	Aston Villa	14	9	2	3	33	20	13	29
5	Tottenham Hotspur	14	8	3	3	28	20	8	27
6	Newcastle United	14	8	2	4	32	14	18	26
7	Manchester United	14	8	0	6	16	17	-1	24
8	Brighton and Hove Albion	14	6	4	4	30	26	4	22
9	West Ham United	14	6	3	5	24	24	0	21
10	Chelsea	14	5	4	5	25	22	3	19

 

Hope you had a good weekend.