Just published: 100 years since Chapman joined the Arsenal – part 22, success did not come at once. And so we approach the next match which is against…. Real Madrid on Wednesday at 8pm. It’s on TNT.

The other problem is that in the last financial year, Chelsea went on a selling spree, having previously bought player after player and put them on eight-year contracts. They got away with that set of ...

The accolades from the European match were so great, and of course so well deserved, nothing could live up to them and a radically changed team looked like they knew it. But if the stars had been ...

This week’s analysis from Football Observatory offers a view of the “100 best performing goalkeepers in the world over the past year”. The top three are Gianluigi Donnarumma of Paris St-Germain, Inter ...

Still at least everyone is agreed on the forward line, with no Saka and no Martinelli. If you don’t have a ticket, the match today is on Sky TV, while the match on Wednesday (unlike the game past week ...

So Arsenal have scored exactly twice as many points at home as Brentford have away, and have a +17 better goal difference across the whole campaign. This does look rather promising. But there is a ...

As you might recall Brentford lost to Arsenal at Griffin Park on New Year’s Day 1-3. Then in their next home game, they lost to Plymouth Argyle of the Championship at home 0-1 in the FA Cup. At that ...

So in terms of the present situation, Brentford are shown with three players ruled out and two being assessed, against Arsenal’s five ruled out and two being assessed. It’s the sort of numbers we are ...