The Referees’ accuracy 2014-15. When it’s important you might as well toss a coin.

The Referees 2014-15 A quick summary   by Andrew Crawshaw   First breaking news from the referees announced for this coming weekend – the PGMO have introduced an additional referee who is not on their Elite List.  Simon Hooper is to take charge of the Norwich v Crystal Palace game.  It will be interesting to …

Does TV revenue make a club well run? Or is it just taking clubs to the edge of a cliff?

By Tony Attwood This is the third and final part of the little series of articles answering the question “What determines if a club is well run or not?” The series began with my own personal view of how I feel about the club I’ve supported from childhood with 10 ways measure Arsenal. Then I took …

Measuring Arsenal’s success: asking silly questions, manipulating the figures.

by Tony Attwood I wrote in the last article about the issue of measuring club success.  It strikes me that this is important because it gives an ideal of a feel supporters have for their club.  It is perhaps hard to remember or recognise that before the Emirates and before Wenger, Arsenal was not always …