This is a rather belated review of John Cross’s biography of Arsène Wenger, entitled “Arsène Wenger: The Inside Story of Arsenal Under Wenger”. The book has been out since last year, but I’ve only recently got round to reading it. It’s probably a bit late for a review, but I felt like writing this as…

The story so far: I saw a tweet from Ted Knutson (@mixedknuts) saying Leicester were lucky in 2015-16 – specifically he believed they were lucky to concede fewer goals than his ‘expected goals against’ stats suggested they should. I wrote a blog post saying I didn’t see any evidence of luck in that stat, and…

A guest post today from DogFace, who explains all: Hello all, you may or may not remember me from times past – I used to write for a rival blog a few years ago and got good numbers too. I was the chap who started RefWatch, a statistical exploration into referee bias – crazy days…

I was trying to explain this on twitter, but Uefa don’t really do things in a way that facilitates explanation in 140 characters. WARNING: YOU MAY FIND THE FOLLOWING VERY BORING.  The Champions League prize money is not straightforward, as amounts are awarded based on several different factors: how far teams get in the competition…

Progress is a big thing in football these days. You can’t be seen to stand still, and heaven forbid you should get worse. Have Arsenal made progress this season? Let’s consult the handy Progressometer that I invented last year. The criteria are simple: Has league position gone up? Has the points tally gone up? If…

In the last 24 hours at least three national newspapers wrote about a report on Arsenal’s finances that’s just been published by an investment house called CSS. This report claimed that Arsenal would have only around £4m to spend in the summer transfer window, unless they took advantage of a £50m overdraft facility that, as…

I love stats that tell a story, but I hate it when people claim a real story is wrong because the stats say it should be. I saw a tweet from a Spurs fan, who I won’t name, that said his team have been unlucky this season. His reasoning was this: “Spurs are top for…

Apparently, according to ‘sources’ (probably his agent) Man City want to buy Theo Walcott this summer. Man City – which means Pep Guardiola wants to buy him! I consider this unlikely. For one thing they have Sterling already, who is of similar development as a player but far younger, and secondly Theo just isn’t good…