And yet there is still the same oddity here. For how come Cheslea know all about their punishments for financial wrongdoing, while Manchester City have none, and sail on regardless, while the media ...

The current financial year ends on 30 June, and if Chelsea are found to have done anything wrong, that will affect the club next season. They can still lose up to €60m this time around, but after that ...

The fact is that nothing has been done about developing or improving referees across the years, despite our providing statistics which show that some referees do have a propensity to oversee many more ...

That they are severely punished in the summer is the best-case scenario. The worst case is that they suffer no punishment at all, and the guilty charges against ManC are never dealt with. Increasingly ...

It is a detail, I know, and not that important really, but it is when details like that spring up all the time, one begins to appreciate the extraordinary pressure Arsenal, the players and management ...

How the media are setting Arsenal up for a disaster? ManC v Arsenal: The referee and his percentage of home wins, and the sadness of losing a player; There is a s ...

But what on earth will the media do if Arsenal do actually win the league?  Well, that is easy, because we will be back to the unproven and basically spineless commentaries about how Arsenal have ...

This latest run has done a little to re-establish what had, before the 16-game run, been the natural order of things between the clubs. For the current overall total of results, now tells us that ...

And we know that the number of away wins that PL referees have ranges from 52.6% to 18.2%.

Apparently, Declan Rice was asked if he found the game frustrating yesterday, and he replied, “Frustrating? Nah, we just got to a semi-final.   Positivity all the way, who cares what people think? ...

I know, Arsenal didn’t win the Champions League, but I seem to recall they only lost something like three games in 14 in that competition (I haven’t checked), which isn’t that bad. Plus, what is ...

Which is dangerous because, as we have often seen (and Tottenham are a perfect example), changing the team around can cause more harm than good.   And making negative pronouncements about who should ...