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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger ...

I imagine that a lot of very rich people have the idea that running a Premier League club is fun (what with hobnobbing with the rich and famous and being worshipped by the fans for doing such a great ...