When you’re sitting in the pub with your mates, picking your favourites of the Premier League, the one position that has to be the hardest to choose a winner for is the right-back. It is not in any way as easy as left-back, with Ashley Cole usually taking that spot, and Leighton Baines coming through [...]

As the 2012/13 Premier League season draws to a close Martin Lewis looks at Newcastle in his final Scouting Report for 2012/13. Not only will Newcastle supporters find this interesting but Arsenal supporters will want to know about their opponents tomorrow as they fight for that final fourth spot. Initial information: Newcastle are currently on [...]

From Steve Bould, Nigel Winterburn and Tony Adams to Kolu Toure, Sol Campbell and William Gallas, Arsenal have never had the shortage of quality defenders in their team. When Arsenal went an entire season unbeaten in 2003-04, the Gunners’ strike force was hailed as one of the best in Europe. With the team scoring 73 goals, Arsenal finished the season [...]

As the 2012/13 Premier League season draws to a close Martin Lewis looks at Arsenal this week in his Scouting Report. Not only will Arsenal supporters find this interesting but Newcastle and maybe even Spurs supporters will want to know more about their rivals for that fourth place spot. Initial information: Arsenal are currently on [...]

Ok, so Landry was talking about the ‘other’ type of football, however the sentiment remains true for ‘real’ football.  One of the most beautiful things about the beautiful game is the potential for a freak, unexpected result.  An incredible, unbelievable result. There’s nothing that neutral football fans enjoy more than seeing an underdog grabbing a [...]

With the end of the season around the corner, both the Arsenal and Wigan managers kept largely the same XIs as in the past few weeks. For Arsenal the only change was Gibbs coming in to play at left back as Monreal played there in the previous game against QPR. Martinez named the very same [...]

The Spanish wizards have taken the Premier League by storm in the 2012-13 season. Not only are they compatriots but they have a similar build and stature and thanks to Cazorla’s man of the match performance that relegated Wigan Athletic, they are also performing very similarly in the Premier League this season. They represent the [...]

There’s only one week left for this Premier League season and we wanted to share some statistics using our Stats Centre to show you which players have been the most creative this season. Below you’ll see graphics from our stats centre to show which players are topping the creativity charts for chances created, clear-cut chances [...]

Arsenal are a side that traditionally have always played very attractive football and as such they have a habit of producing some fantastic midfield players who are very good with the ball at their feet. The likes of Robert Pires, Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri all epitomise the playmakers that Arsenal have produced and in [...]

Michael Carrick has without a doubt been one of the most influential Manchester United players this season. He has been one of the best Defensive mid-fielders in the league. Also been deployed as a central defender on 4 occasions and as a central mid-fielder on 9 occasions, he proved that he can play in those [...]

The Belgians are coming, you have been warned. If we didn’t already know about the remarkable number of talented players coming out of Belgium in recent years we do now. Many people have already earmarked them as dark horses for next year’s World Cup with a view to them becoming genuine contenders for the European [...]

Arsenal fulfilled their side of the bargain but late winning goals for both Chelsea and Spurs may have shifted the momentum away from the Emirates in the race to secure a Champions League qualification spot. The win against an already relegated QPR side should have been substantially easier than it turned out to be with [...]