Brighton are going through an incredibly dodgy patch of late, having won none of their last seven Premier League games. Fives have been draws and two have been defeats. The goal tally is seven for ...

Put these figures together and we find that Mr Coote gives out 37% more cards than Mr Taylor which means how many cards a club gets depends on which referees that club sees. It also makes it worth ...

Arsenal are now back to within a point of where we were last season after 19 games, although still a considerable way off where the club was two seasons ago at the 19 game point. But then we haven’t ...

Is Brentford’s tiny stadium a benefit to them? Probably yes when we have, as we do on this occasion, a home-biased referee who has seen 80% of his matches end as home wins. As a result Arenal are ...

But rather curiously he is a bit of a penalty giver, having awarded four penalties in ten games. But when it comes to giving out yellow cards he is mid-range with four yellow cards per game and just ...

So on to the facts. Brentford are the ultimate Jeykll and Hyde club, as we can see from their home and away results with Arsenal’s away form shown in contrast.

OK if you have stayed with me this far you are possibly thinking, “Tony’s really lost it this time – he’s posted a political commentary on the wrong blog.” But now, if you think of the points raised ...

To be fair to Forest they have won five league games in a row scoring ten and conceding just three. But on the other hand the clubs they have beaten are Manchester United, Aston Villa, Brentford, ...

To psychologists, this phenomenon of drawing conclusions from limited information is well-known and widespread but this fact seems to be persistently ignored by football journalists, who often have ...

This clearly suggests that the fouling system and approach of Ipswich generates many, many more yellow cards than Arsenal, not because they persistently foul but because when they do, the result of ...