By Brian Sears 26 October 2012 Arsenal have endured a turbulent week as their absentee American owner’s visit to London coincided with the club’s AGM and back-to-back defeats, first against Norwich in the Premier League and then against Schalke in Europe. And now they face two Premier League matches versus the two current top-flight clubs […]

By Brian Sears 14 September 2012 Arsenal have started the 2012-13 Premier League season with three games in which they haven’t conceded a goal: against Sunderland,  Stoke and Liverpool. This means they are already inside the top 20 best defensive starts in the Premier League’s history. To be precise (and see table below for details), […]

By Brian Sears 14 September 2012 Arsenal have the youngest set of players in the Premier League in the 2012-13 season when considering the ages of those starting league games so far. Arsene Wenger has used 14 different starters in the three PL games of the campaign – and their average age is 25.6 years, […]

By Brian Sears 16 August 2012 In the 20 years of the Premier League, Arsenal have played 386 home league games and lost just 48 of them. Seven clubs in the current Premier League have never won in the PL era at Arsenal, and the first visitors of this season, Sunderland, are among them. They […]

By Brian Sears 15 August 2012 So the Olympic Games are over and football is facing the inevitable brickbats that will come its way ahead of the new season, which begins in England on Saturday. Of course the beautiful game can learn things from London 2012 and the Olympics as a whole, but let’s not […]

By Brian Sears 20 April 2012 Chelsea thrashed Tottenham in the FA Cup last Sunday and showed no ill effects of that 6pm kick-off when they subsequently shocked Barcelona 1-0 in midweek – but they have yet to win a single Premier League game this season against another London team. As our inter-London tables (below) show, Chelsea […]

By Brian Sears 6 April 2012 At the start of this Easter weekend, Manchester City trail Manchester United by five points in the Premier League title race. By the time they kick-off at Arsenal on Sunday afternoon that gap could be eight points. What greater motivation can Roberto Mancini’s men have, then – aside from […]

Brian Sears 16 March 2012 The Premier League’s 20 clubs have won 772 points between them so far this season, and more than three-quarters of all the points – 588 points, or 76.1 per cent – have been won by the teams scoring the first goal. Some clubs are better than others at capitalising on […]

. By Sportingintelligence 24 February 2012 . The graphic below depicts the cumulative growth in combined net transfer spend and first-team wages at Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal since 2002. This graphic is a companion item to the news feature LINKED HERE. In essence: Chelsea have spent loads on transfer fees and huge amounts on wages […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 February 2012 When Tottenham play Arsenal on Sunday, they’ll kick off with a 10-point advantage over their North London rivals in the Premier League, and with realistic hopes of finishing this season as London’s highest placed club. The last time they […]