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, I thought I’d have a look back and see why they may have come to that conclusion. To make some sort of informed judgement I thought I’d look at a few parameters, going back over the last year. The ...

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.

In a previous article I wrote How football journalists draw conclusions without information and why football loves it this way My point following on from that article note above is that it is not just ...

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 ...

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, ...