I should probably start by stating that, yes, I am an Arsenal fan and, yes, I’m bitter than Leicester City won the league whilst we found a way to throw it away again. Now, the narrative that I’ve seen is that Arsenal…

On Wednesday evening the Capital One Cup fourth round tie between Manchester United and Middlesborough went to penalties following a (surprisingly) exciting 0–0 draw. I was watching online, and after extra time had finished the presenter exclaimed

The Premier League transfer window has now closed (until January), which provides me some time to start looking in to a few generalisations that are persistently made by the media, fans and even managers to try and test the validity. The first one that I want to look into…