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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first game with both clubs settled in north London was a friendly in August 1914 at White Hart Lane. Arsenal of Division Two, beat Tottenham of Division One, 5-1 and that sort of set things up for ...

The big difference in the clubs’ last season was in defence, in which Arsenal conceded 34 in the league to Tottenham’s 65 – and it looked toward the end as if they were going for the double (double ...

And indeed, this coming season, this is not the only important anniversary that the club seems to be unaware or, at the very least, disinterested in: the 100th consecutive season in the top division.

Now the answer to that of course is that this is still a democracy in which we can by and large, speak our minds, but that argument ignores the fact that as supporters, part of our role is not just to ...

Of course clubs know the referees that oversee their games, and they know how likely each referee is to call a foul or even a penalty for each perceived offence. Which is why the referees’ figures ...

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 ...

Arsenal have now signed Viktor Gyökeres, Martín Zubimendi, Noni Madueke, Cristhian Mosquera, Christian Nørgaard, Kepa Arrizabalaga, and Marcell Washington. That is seven players totalling £195m.

And now Uefa are making it clear that they demand that at least four of the eight association-trained players on the club’s list of players who are registered for Uefa games must have spent at least ...

And indeed across the last nine games, Arsenal have won just twice – both in the Premier League. Newcastle have won five, including those two League Cup wins and there has been just one draw.