Is Manchester City’s Suarez contract is hindering the player’s development?

By Tony Attwood The Daily Mirror is today publishing a story about Denis Suarez which makes particularly interesting reading.  I am most grateful to my pal Steve who sits next to me at Arsenal Stadium for picking up on this story and alerting me to it today. The story attempts to get to grips with …

We get every statistic imaginable about players, but why no stats about referees?

By Tony Attwood There is an interesting paragraph in a report on the Tottenham v Arsenal match in the Daily Telegraph website that says “There were a number of contentious incidents with replays showing Harry Kane was offside in the moments before Skhodran Mustafi barged him over for Spurs’ second half penalty. The referee Taylor …

Final score and live match report Tottenham – Arsenal : 1-1 Poor PGMO… poor PGMO

By Walter Broeckx A few changes compared to our last midweek match. No Özil but in his place Ramsey at the start. Mustafi starting at right back with Monreal at his normal left back position. One could say we still have a few options on the bench if things wouldn’t go according to plan. Arsenal …

Tottenham v Arsenal; the injuries, the media picks the team and recent runs.

By Bulldog Drummond On 8 February Arsenal were ten points behind Tottenham.  A win in this game would leave us just one point behind them. In terms of injuries both Koscielny and Lichsteiner are thought to have a chance of being available for selection for the Tottenham match.  Otherwise it is just our three long …

Tottenham Nomads v Arsenal; what the statistics tell us.

By Bulldog Drummond The key issue we have been debating of late, of course, is the home / away difference, and it is particularly interesting in relation to this game.   Here’s the home league table… Home games only Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester City 15 14 0 1 50 …

Matchweek 29 – the games, officials, and the ref who never books a Spurs player

by Andrew Crawshaw Here, Courtesy of premierleague.com are this weekend’s matches and officials.  NB kickoff times 15:00 unless stated. Saturday 2 March 12:30 Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal Referee: Anthony Taylor Assistants: Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn Fourth official: Jonathan Moss AFC Bournemouth v Man City Referee: Kevin Friend Assistants: Matthew Wilkes, Adrian Holmes Fourth official: David Coote Brighton v Huddersfield …

The dramatic decline in Arsenal’s away form and what we can do about it

By Tony Attwood The fact that there is nothing wrong with Arsenal as a team is not something that you will read in many publications.  What you will see over and over again is that there is something wrong with Arsenal as the main theme, and things need to be changed. But, let me take …