By Nitram

This is a follow-up to my article on the 7th of January: The last three and a half years and the very remarkable statistic, which delved into, amongst other things, the extraordinary penalty statistics that Arsenal have been up against these past 10 years.

To start with, I have to say, it does rankle with me a bit when people say we ‘shouldn’t need to rely on penalties’, because nobody has said we should. All I, and I assume every other right-thinking Arsenal fan wants is a fair crack of the whip. We clearly do not get that as I demonstrated in my previous article, and as was clearly demonstrated again this past weekend.

As a brief recap, these are the penalty stats involving our 3 closest rivals over the past 10 years, showing the TEAM, penalties FOR and penalties AGAINST

As you can see, Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea all get at least double the number of penalties for’ as ‘against’ that we get....