This is of course, a very rough and ready calculation – really a bit of fun for the start of the season. But it does suggest that the biggest change we are likely to see is a rise or fall of nine or ...

There is an article on FFC that has the headline, “Arsenal can help Gyokeres hit Haaland levels by signing £78m “superstar”. I meantion this as this is a story the webiste has previously covered as a ...

We learned for one thing that Max Dowman is not yet ready for the first team squad, but nonetheless is being told in no uncertain terms that he is vital to Arsenal’s future, for apparently, he ...

Anyway, Arsenal won, just as Arsenal won the opening game last season, and in the season before (2023/24) and the season before (2022/23). In fact, we have to go back to 2021/22 to find a defeat – and ...

Man U’s excuse is that they need to cut hundreds of jobs and restructure, but that is their fault for allowing the club to wander into its current state. Indeed, it is not just why they allowed this ...

Put another way, the immediate expectation upon Arteta, generated by the media and supported by some pack-following supporters, is to prove he can be a Premier League winner. The immediate expectation ...

Overall, the figures above suggest that Manchester U were following a tactic at home of shooting whenever the chance arose, irrespective of the chance of that shot getting a goal. They were in fact ...

In the pre-season warm-up games, Manchester United won two (beating West Ham United 2-1 and Bournemouth 4-1, and drew three (with Leeds 0-0, Everton 2-2 and Fiorentina 1-1) Arsenal, however, only won ...

These last two articles on Untold, noted above, gave detailed statistical evidence showing that the way referees hand out cards is influenced not just by the action of the players but by which teams ...

One thing that stood out was that the NW clubs could, on average, commit 219 fouls before receiving a red card whilst the London clubs could only commit an average of 160. So NW clubs are allowed to ...

Well in each of the four seasons they committed the fewest fouls, they also received the fewest yellow cards and a below average number of red cards. In their one season committing the fewest fouls, ...