How Arsenal learned from PGMO and so climbed the table after Christmas

By Tony Attwood In my reviews of this last season, I have made much of the fact that Arsenal cut their yellow card rate by almost half compared with the previous season, while cutting their tackling rate considerably. But I wanted to go further and see how Arsenal’s figures compared both to Arsenal’s past record …

Shocking new referee statistics suggest outright bias against Arsenal

By Tony Attwood It was 31 December 2018 that we published Andrew Crawshaw’s groundbreaking article “How four clubs commit fouls with impunity, while others constantly get punished” Since then we’ve been looking constantly at the issue of fouls and the way referees treat Arsenal, and so it was probably inevitable that we’d be the people …