Arsenal

How long can Dele Ali and Harry Kane sustain their unbelievable form? Just when will Louis Van Gaal finally be shown the door? And do Arsenal really have the ability to clinch the title for the first time in 12 years? These are just a handful of questions that...

With the transfer window closed until January, Impact Sport looks at their top transfer signings of the summer. Andre Ayew – Marseille to Swansea City (Free) Who would have thought that Swansea City would have been able to replace Wilfried Bony less than six months after losing him to...

This is an obituary that has been a few weeks in the making. With Manchester City’s departure last night, it was finally confirmed that there will be no English clubs in the quarter finals of this year’s Champions League. It’s the second time in three years this has occurred...

Ockham’s razor dictates that the simplest explanation is generally the correct one. That could well be true regarding Arsenal’s poor start to the season. They moved on three defenders during the summer (Sagna, Vermaelen, Jenkinson) and only signed two (Debuchy and Chambers). This has left them extremely light on...

If one wished to lampoon one of the many foreign owners in the football league, then one could have had a fair old romp this week. Massimo Cellino’s trigger happy regime at Leeds United continued as he sacked Darko Milanic after just 32 days at the club. Even Brian...

A friend of mine once commented, ‘I just love watching goals being scored’. A simple pleasure, it has to be said. Though in his way he was right; football would be a pretty joyless vocation if we didn’t see the ball disturb the net with at least a degree...

Dan Zeqiri returns for the second of his weekly Wednesday columns. This week: how narratives come to be established in football… Applying crude reductionism and offering simplistic reasons to explain the results of football matches is nothing new, I’m sure. However, in the social media age, this habit seems...