How the media missed Arsenal’s big story but now can’t even apologise

By Tony Attwood It’s the old media game – if the result goes the way that suits your narrative, you big it up like mad, calling the match the turning point, or the dire warning.  Suggesting the club is on its way or that collapse is imminent. Of course the real world isn’t like this …

Do Man U know how to attack? Or is it just journalists making it all up?

By Sir Hardly Anyone There is an article in the Athletic, (Daily Football Briefing 15 November), that suggests that most people believed that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would be a success as Manchester United manager, for the simple reason that, as a former player, he understood the tradition of attacking football at the club. It is …

The one simple factor that Arsenal need to sort out to be in the top four

Here’s the worrying figure (so you don’t have to read the whole article to get to the central fact – although it would be nice if you did). Only four Premier League teams require more shots to get a goal than Arsenal: Norwich, Leeds, Southampton and Tottenham.  The good news is that if we could …