In short, the rule has to be, if the club starts well, it needs to make damn sure it can keep up the pace, otherwise the criticism can remove the manager and result in major disruption to the club’s ...

Further, Tottenham have bought players who were expected to take them up the league, and are paying good salaries to these men whose value has now shrunk. With relegation, their value shrinks even ...

Some clubs change managers as often as others change the towels in the changing room. Tottenham do the manager changing lark and so are four points above WHAM.

The FA Cup final is on 16 May. The World Cup runs from 11 June to 19 July. The Community Shield is on 9 August, which suggests that clubs playing in the Community Shield match will need to be in ...

So two equal top scoring teams at the top of the league, with Arsenal having the best defence, best goal difference and being five points clear. And before the game there was all that talk about how ...

As you may have noticed yesterday, the one significant contribution made by the new Tottenham manager was that he shouted a lot. And when that didn’t work, he shouted some more. That was an ...

Of course, the main consideration today is this afternoon’s match and the team we might put out. And I will deal with that below, but before I do I wanted to look at a headline I saw today which seems ...

Which is why I have added the headline that Arsenal are playing 12 men. 11 from Tottenham obviously, and a referee who ensures that over three quarters of his games end as home wins.

Throughout history the clubs have played each other 212 times in competitive games starting in 1896. 90 of the games have been won by Arsenal, 67 by Tottenham and 55 have been drawn. Put another way ...