Taylor seems to be the go-to referee for Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea, and one referee seeing the same clubs over and over must cause some pause for thought. There is no need for this – or at least ...

So if we look at the overall pattern of results, Arsenal have won 43 games, 13 have been drawn, and nine have been lost. That makes 14% won by Fulham over the centuries.

On 23 September, Fulham were 8th in the league but have since slumped to two consecutive 3-1 away defeats to Aston Villa and Bournemouth, and they may well be feeling they have a greater chance of ...

The worry has been that because of the ManC case, a small club could be bought by an overseas investor, do “impossible” deals with another club the owners also control, and with no controls over the ...

Making enquiries, I was told that in football clubs, the club’s Chief Welfare Officer is the primary person who deals with bullying. Other people who might be interested to hearing about bullying of ...

Meanwhile, you may have noticed that our old pal Jack Wilshere is now manager of Luton. His only previous managerial experience has been at Plymouth, where he stood in after the manager was sacked at ...

So for Arsenal, it is not actual money in past seasons that is the problem – it is meeting football’s financial regulations. And here those who seem to know about such things suggest that Arsenal ...

Thomas Tuchel has been criticising football fans who have been supportive enough to spend a fair amount of money and go to England matches, for being what he calls “silent”.

So there are 15 things wrong with football, all in the same newspaper’s website. It is a story of catastrophic failure in the sport, which implies things are being handled very poorly by those running ...

Now this latest development began in 2024 at the European Court of Justice, where the court was requested to rule on the claim by Uefa that it had the sole rights to set up any internal football ...

As you have probably seen reported, Arsenal are about to be fined for not selling 1000 upper-tier tickets to Manchester United supporters for the FA Cup match last January. The reason was that it is ...

Since then, they have stayed in Ligue 1 (as it is properly known) and have meandered between 6th and 15th in subsequent seasons. Last season it was 7th and the ground has been improved quite a bit.