As I have already pointed out, pre-season matches are not about winning, but about bedding new players in and making sure that the new players start to get used to the tactics that the team employs, ...

There is a line in the Guardian’s preview of Arsenal for the season that says that “there remain concerns about a lack of creativity in the squad.” ...

Now the first thing to note is that it is going to happen very rarely – each of the 20 Premier League clubs will be involved with “extra access” twice in the entire season, and on each occasion it ...

The keyword in all this is “frustration”. It has nothing to do with all the players Arsenal are buying. It is that we should beat the Tots and nothing else matters.

One of the great points about Arsenal giving Max Dowman outings with the first team in the pre-season tour, is often overlooked in commentaries, but it is real all the same. And it is the impact this ...

The point was put to me yesterday that “in recent years” Tottenham have done better in the league than Arsenal. That didn’t feel right to me so I went and looked, and being an honest chap, I then had ...

In terms of chances created, Arsenal were pretty close to the average: historically in the League, the percentage converted is 12%. Last season for Arsenal it was 11%. Not bad given the injuries to ...

UEFA and FA will finance women’s football, especially the youth movements, and qualification for the Champions League will be reached by the combination of the men’s team and women’s teams – via an ...

There is also the fact that Arsenal need to keep some way within FFP rules so that if players are urgently needed to cover for a couple of long-term injuries, there is room within the rules (as well ...

This shows that the problem in Saudi Arabia with its football league is not the goal-scoring and thus presumably not the excitement; it is the crowds. The average attendance for Al-Hilal was 21.824 ...