A preliminary notice. I’ve just recorded a piece for BBC Radio 5 on the subject of “North London Forever” and why it is unique in the world of football. I am told it is being broadcast on Sunday 2 ...

So although it is never over until it’s over (etc etc), it is pretty much clear that Arsenal will qualify for the Champions League knockout stages without having to play in the extra special added-on ...

Here’s the Champions League table after last night’s results – you will recall that the aim is to be in the top eight in order to go straight through to the knockout stage without going through the ...

So far in the Champions League Arsenal have drawn away to Atalanta, beaten PSG 2-0 at home and then Shakhtar Donetsk at home, lost to InterMilan away (conceding their first goal of the competition), ...

Football is obviously a game of conflict. For unlike some games such as a running race where basically each person does her/his best and doesn’t or at least shouldn’t do anything to make the other ...

But really it is the bottom of the table that is of particular interest. We would expect the clubs that are likely to be going down at the end of the season to be lurking around those bottom places in ...

And it is worth remembering that on 1 December Tottenham were 7th and Man U were 9th. and both were still, (just six weeks ago) being talked up as top six finishers – something that seems a little ...

The corruption reported in that audio has led them into a world of chaos and missing senior management, born out of the post-war Croatian corruption with gangsters running much of its business and ...

Dinamo Zagreb whom we play on Wednesday are 24th having won two, drawn two and lost two, and with a goal difference of -5, compared with Arsenal’s of +9. They had a goalless draw with Celtic, a 0-3 ...

The data used throughout this article is drawn from WhoScored’s referees statistics which you can find here. In yesterday’s pre-match post we highlighted the fact that this referee was ...