Anyway, onto the match. After a run of one win and 15 defeats in 16 games in the League and the domestic cup matches against ManC, the last four games have given us two wins (one in the Community ...

There is an article from Rory Smith of The New York Times on the BBC web site, which contains the phrase, “you could interpret the last 24 years as a success for Tottenham,” adding that Tottenham are ...

So with fouls, Referee England sees 21% more fouls than Referee Banks. With penalties Taylor award over four times as many penalties as England, and as for yellow cards Bankes waves 20% more than ...

The big improvers over this period last season are Newcastle (up five points) along with Nottingham Forest and Brentford (each up eight points).

And of course, the attempts to disrupt Arsenal have gone on and on, although on the red card issue, the club is at last fighting back (even though the referees never get sent for a period of ...

But as we have learned this season perhaps more than any other, it is necessary to have a look at just who clubs have been playing in their last six games to make real sense of this… In ManC’s case ...

First an advert. I recorded a radio programme a few days ago with a couple of the guys from BBC Radio 5 Live and it is being broadcast on that channel on Sunday 2 February at 10.30am. The subject is ...

The clubs in “dire need” of course include Arsenal – it would not be a newspaper story otherwise. And we are told “Arsenal cannot take a player on loan from another Premier League club” as they ...

So 12 of the clubs (ie 33%) don’t actually change position. Nothing very exciting there. Nine clubs move by one place and seven by two places. Pull that lot together and you have fractionally under 78 ...