What we might also do is remember where Real Mad ended up in the group table that preceeded this season’s knock-out rounds. They came 11th in the league in which each club played eight games and had a ...

In the build-up to the first match, Derby beat Ipswich Town, and Wolverhampton Wands, while drawing with Norwich City and losing to Middlesbrough. They then beat Real Mad 4-1. After that victory Derby ...

But, well, yes, there are always tensions, always clashes, and they don’t necessarily mean very much. But it is fun to read about clashes within the opposition, rather than tales of turmoil and chaos ...

If you’ve been a long-term reader of Untold you may recall that we have often covered the issue of the lack of protection of young players at top clubs. In the past when issues of wrong-doing have ...

The other problem is that in the last financial year, Chelsea went on a selling spree, having previously bought player after player and put them on eight-year contracts. They got away with that set of ...

Just published: 100 years since Chapman joined the Arsenal – part 22, success did not come at once. And so we approach the next match which is against…. Real Madrid on Wednesday at 8pm. It’s on TNT.

This week’s analysis from Football Observatory offers a view of the “100 best performing goalkeepers in the world over the past year”. The top three are Gianluigi Donnarumma of Paris St-Germain, Inter ...

The accolades from the European match were so great, and of course so well deserved, nothing could live up to them and a radically changed team looked like they knew it. But if the stars had been ...

So Arsenal have scored exactly twice as many points at home as Brentford have away, and have a +17 better goal difference across the whole campaign. This does look rather promising. But there is a ...

These days everyone can be an instant “expert commentator” and since what is in the media most of the time is nonsense, the fact that the pretend expert is also writing nonsense means it fits ...

Still at least everyone is agreed on the forward line, with no Saka and no Martinelli. If you don’t have a ticket, the match today is on Sky TV, while the match on Wednesday (unlike the game past week ...