I am not sure that many of even the most rabid football journalists could make much of a case for Mikel Arteta not signing a new long-term contract with the club.  Just as I am not sure that whatever ...

Vitamin X taken before a match in moderation will help – as long as you truly and absolutely believe in it. But if your view is “let’s try this and see what happens,” then quite possiby, the ...

The fact is that as you will probably remember in 2025 we came second with 74 points. In 2023 we came second with 84 points. In 2024 we came second with 89 points When we finally won the league in ...

Worse, the league has chosen to make this change and bow down to the demands of the FA just at the moment when there are more goals being scored in Premier League games than ever before. The games ...

Either way – these reports not only show football in an utterly shocking light, they also show that many people who want to read about football, want to read about ineptitude, scandal, and scurrilous ...

So a player who came up through the youth team would have a value of £0.  And the total valuation of the team might be £250m. The point of this is that the player carries his valuation throughout his ...

Put another way, no one wins everything all the time, and cock-ups happen. They don’t mean that everything that went before was a fluke, or that the team is rubbish, it just means that just like most ...

I haven’t gone back and checked, but I think it was in the first double season that quite early on we had a couple of bad results and people started saying at once that Arsenal had flattered to ...

So Arsenal moved, held on, paid off the debts and finally won the league. Brighton made the move, stayed solid and are now a regular fixture in the Premier League. Meanwhile Chelsea seemed to have got ...

I looked at the finances of the first 10 clubs in the Premier League and pondered how clubs could go on losing money over and over again, year after year.  Now here we can move on to the rest that I ...

These clubs have played each other 22 times, with Arsenal winning 11 to Brighton’s six which leaves five draws.   The goals are 34 to Arsenal and 25 for Brighton and Hove.  Although it does also ...

One factor to note however is that Arsenal are sitting on three injuries and Brighton have nine. Our three out are Saliba, Mosequera and White – the latter two being listed as possibles for this game.