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.

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 ...

Of course, this is trivia, and of course Tottenham’s ranking is greatly reduced by last season’s utter disaster, but still – over ten years Tottenham have come above Arsenal six seasons running from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...