Tackles, fouls and yellows: why are Man City and Arsenal being punished so much?

By Tony Attwood A tackle from a Manchester City player is 83% more likely to get called as a yellow card offence than a tackle by a Chelsea player. While most of us will, I suspect, be quite happy with the way things are going for Arsenal, and certainly relieved that the maniac journalists and …

Mikel Arteta, Arsene Wenger and George Graham: the first 100 games compared.

By Tony Attwood Last weekend the Arsenal programme for the match against Watford contained a chart of how various Arsenal managers had done in their first 100 games as a manager.  The chart was not complete but nevertheless saved me a fair amount of time in calculating the figures.   I’ve completed it, including adding in …

Why do clubs sack managers when it normally does no good?

By Tony Attwood Sacking a Premier League club manager is expensive, and dangerous, and doesn’t always work.  In fact it doesn’t normally work.  In fact, it rarely works.  But is generally expensive Fortunately for Arsenal, the board are now made of sterner stuff than before, and there was never any real chance that Arteta would …