How the media use fake evidence to attack clubs over crowd figures

By Tony Attwood I know I know.  I have bored you stupid with talk about evidence.  The huge amount of evidence we have gathered year after year to show that the level of errors made by PL referees is so ludicrously high that at times the PGMO might as well employ a computer to give …

From humiliation at Sheff Wed to the Magnificent 7 youngsters in the space of 2 years.

by Tony Attwood October 2015.  Expected to do their usual demolition job on a lower league team Arsenal lost to Sheffield Wednesday in the league cup 3-0.  True the Ox and Theo were injured early on, but even so it was a shock.  As were Mr Wenger’s statements afterwards, in which he said none of …

The Europa League: are the clubs performing as we might expect so far?

by Andrew Crawshaw Following my look at the Squad values of all of the clubs in the Europa League, the question arises: do the results of the first two games show any deviations from where one might expect them to be based on squad values (expressed in millions of pounds). To clarify, where the league …

A radically different approach to reviewing the Arsenal v Brighton game

By Stevie Bee A game of one half if ever there was one. Izqueiŕdo how it actually wasn’t settled until midway through the second half, the Knockaert blow ultimately being landed Bruno-style by AFC’s Iwobi. In the first half, it was all Arsenal apart from one moment when B&HA stole a March on the sleepy …

Arsenal – Brighton HA : 2-0

By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team at the start: Cech, Holding, Mustafi, Monreal, Bellerin, Kolisanac, Ramsey, Xhaka, Iwobi, Alexis and Lacazette. On the beach: Ospina, Mertesacker, Wilshere, Maitland-Niles, Elneny, Giroud, Walcott. So no Özil as was said but Iwobi was fit again. At the back Koscielny didn’t pass his late fitness test and Holding took his …