By Tony Attwood

So after our one week off, in which for once Arsenal did not have to play two games in seven days, we are back to the old routine. Having played a league game on Sunday, we are now into a league game on Wednesday.   I’ve not looked up the records to see if there has ever been a season like this with two games a week over so many weeks, and I am not sure there has.   And it certainly feels different.

This forthcoming game is on TNT if you can’t get there, and kick off is at 7.30pm at the Amex Stadium.  Which, in case you are going for the first time, is not actually in Brighton or even Hove, despite the club’s name.   But it is in fact in Falmer, which by chance (and really of no significance) is where I studied for three years after leaving school.  Hence, I have a vague idea of where it is.

So what of Brighton and Hove of late?  Here’s the last six games table that I regularly quote at this point, and I’m going a little bit beyond the positioning of the two clubs playing each...