Peter Bankes continues his historic anomaly: the only referee in 2025-26 to reach 4× with two different clubs. Leeds United at 4×. Newcastle United at 4×. Eight encounters split between two clubs, ...

Jonathan Wilson suggests it’s hard to see a way back.” But I must divert for a second to bring you this one from Leeds Live “Ruben Amorim has become the 19th manager in the past 34 seasons to be ...

The lesson? PGMOL’s failure to track referee-club encounter frequency and referee outcome patterns means they assign officials blindly—based on availability, geography, and rotation—without any ...

It really doesn’t do to make predictions too early.

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

Although when we come to look at shots on target, Bournemouth are in front of Arsenal just – with 98 to 97. Now that might make Arsenal seem wasteful, but in fact shooting more often does make the ...

In fact, Premier Injuries, the site I turn to for the data prior to each game, does not put clubs in order of the number of players injured, but if they did, it would read… ...

Chelsea’s problem is thus the opposite of Bournemouth’s – one has a surfeit of money, one doesn’t, but the difficulty is the same for both of them. How to convince players to come to a club and ...

He is one of just three referees who have been given 15 games in the Premier League so far this season. Last season he was the third most used referee in the league, overseeing 25 games. Anthony ...

One of the interesting things that has emerged in the last month is a small number of articles on social media focusing on Arteta’s “illegal” tactics and referees’ errors that favour Arsenal. One of ...

“A blip. A wobble. A mini-crisis. Call it what you want, Arsenal went into Tuesday night’s top-of-the-table battle with Aston Villa after a shaky few weeks.” ...

It is generally thought that Havertz will be in the squad and could come on as a sub.