Arsenal v Aston Villa: how this referee sees each team: injuries, fouls, tackles, cards

By Bulldog Drummond On the injury front nothing has changed from what we knew after the last match – Saka was violently assaulted and the referee issued merely a yellow card.  Villa, whose style of play may be seen as somewhat more rumbustious than Arsenal’s have five men out.  Xhaka of course remains out as …

Arsenal v Villa. Comparing this season with the opening 8 games in previous years

By Bulldog Drummond Last season it was the superb form of our defence (third best in the league across the whole season, and second best if measured during the last two-thirds of the season) that helped us out.   This season so far the defence, now of course completely reconstructed, has been much poorer, being the …