An early challenge to utter secrecy and no commentary, came from George Eastham when he refused a new contract offer from Newcastle but Newcastle refused to transfer him. Ultimately Newcastle did ...

Hermansen made 13 saves in the game against Leicester, – the most in a Premier League game since David de Gea for Manchester United against Arsenal in 2017.

Arsenal v Leicester and the very curious case of Leicester’s yellow cards Are Arsenal turning into a dirty team, or is it the media that’s getting nasty? By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal only won two of ...

Arsenal only won two of their first 12 games against Leicester in the League. But then after a couple of years of to-and-fro Arsenal settled down and went 14 games against the clu ...

More than ever before, which referee the club gets affects the result. If Arsenal had Robert Jones for example the club would be helped along no end. The chances are however that for the rest of the ...

This is a massive escalation in cards – two seasons ago three clubs reached the top of the yellow chart by getting 84 cards. Go back to 2020/21 and the total for the most carded team was 73. Thus in ...

On the other hand, Arsenal are committing 3% more fouls than Leicester and both are getting the same number of yellow cards. This suggests for all their top-quality players who are used to PGMO ...

Of course, moving through a round of the League Cup with ease is nothing to be remembered – at least not normally. No more than the fact that the next round is Preston v Arsenal. But the ease with ...

There has been a huge amount of chat about the “dark arts” involved in the Manchester City v Arsenal game, although not much about other teams who perhaps foul just as much or (although you will ...

“Arteta rejects talk of Arsenal dark arts” is a rather grand statement in the Guardian; grand in the sense that no one really ever defines what the “dark arts” are. I suppose it is the notion that ...