It was Paul Gascoigne who once said “I don’t make predictions and I never will.” But I’m bolder than Gazza – or not, depending on whether you see through his unintentional bluff. Either way, I am prepared to predict this season’s top four in the Premier League. This is nothing new, but what is new…
Apropos of nothing, here’s a piece from The Times recently on former Leeds player Albert Johanneson, the first black player to appear in an FA Cup final. Johanneson played in the Final for Leeds against Liverpool. His career is a rather sad tale of a quiet and introverted man unable to fulfill his potential through…
Arsenal have signed a new goalkeeper. I don’t know if you’d noticed. The Times celebrated this by giving us last season’s stats for the new chap and the two current custodians of the onion bag. Here they are: If reaching conclusions based on a single season of evidence when players were at different clubs is…
This is a much debated topic on twitter. I don’t have time to go through the whole thing, but here is a handy Progressometer chart so we can tell at a glance whether progress in the League has been made or not. There was one dubious year where the position stayed the same but the…
Obviously with hindsight predictions are easy. And to be fair, 25% getting all the top 4 in the correct order is actually pretty good. I collected all these predictions from journalists and assorted media types and pundits at the start of the season, and if it shows anything it’s that these days the top of…
Chelsea lost just 4 competitive matches in 2014-15, which puts them joint fifth in the all-time English football record table for fewest defeats in a season. Chelsea lost three in the League and once in the FA Cup. They picked up the League Cup without a loss and didn’t lose in the Champions League either,…
You know the way everyone listens to Arsenal fans now and values our opinion, and when we say something the media really treat it seriously and use it as a subject for debate for at least a week? Well, they did when some Arsenal fans chanted ‘Boring boring Chelsea’ in a slightly ironic way. Here’s…
You’ll recall the £3m that Stan Kroenke awarded himself last year from Arsenal profits. You may recall I submitted a question about it at the AGM last October, and was fobbed off with a prepared answer read by Sir Chips. My question read: It’s reported that Arsenal paid KSE £3m for advisory services. Was a…
Hull City v Arsenal has been moved from Saturday afternoon, May 2nd, to Monday evening, May 4th. As a result of this, each of the two clubs gets an extra £750k from the TV companies. Hull are charging Arsenal fans £50 a ticket. That’s the amount they thought the match was worth when it was…
It’s about this time of year that journalists and pundits start to look at the remaining fixtures and predict what’s going to happen: who will win the league and who will be in those coveted top 4 positions. On the face of it this is not the trickiest of tasks. Three quarters of the season…
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