And leading on from this comes the view that in terms of being employees, professional footballers have equal rights in law with all other employees. True, their salaries are often of a magnitude that ...

For once, it is not Arsenal and us fans who are to blame, but we probably will be; Arsenal: This is the best it has been for the last 20; By Tony Attwood. There was a line in the ...

But that was the best run of course since Wenger’s incredible launch to his managerial campaign at Arsenal, which from 1997/8 onward saw the club win the double, come second three seasons running, do ...

Generally, ambitious football clubs tend to do the same thing: spend money on better players. And so to stop this getting out of hand, some Leagues have financial rules. And as a result, in February ...

In some ways, this is obvious. A journalist actually at a game can see more than a supporter understands from the score alone. The journalist sees that Arsenal beat Fulham 3-0, and can suggest that ...

Everton deliver an unexpected gift as Arsenal prepare for Atlético tales and taunts; Could it really be that there is something going wrong with football in England? By Tony Attw ...

Everton have won one third of their home matches and Manchester City half of their away matches.   And even now, that was only the third home win for Everton in the last ten games while Manchester ...

So nothing written here means that just because Manchester City won the league six times in seven seasons they were breaking either football or national laws in some way, but given the fact that ...

Indeed, we can add this to the issue of predictions of the outcomes of matches, both in terms of the results and in terms of the style of the game, and here again, we find journalists getting ...

Arsenal’s recruitment staff and the managerial team were told that they were idiots and had bought the wrong player.  Arsenal needed a 20-goal-a-year player, not a dilettante who drifted around the ...

Arsenal are the top-scoring team in the Premier League this season (although ManC do have two games in hand).  I thought anyone who said Gyökeres was rubbish, and exactly the wrong man to be bought by ...