Arsenal v Everton, 21 May 2017 – The Match Officials. This man’s bias against Arsenal in would make Mr Riley proud.

29 Replies to “Arsenal v Everton, 21 May 2017 – The Match Officials. This man’s bias against Arsenal in would make Mr Riley proud.”

1. OT (sorry Andrew)
   Financial Times reporting that Usmanov has made a $1.3 million bid for control of Arsenal.
   Bit opportunistic I’d say, but unlikely to succeed.

2. That’s $1.3 billion not million

3. Only God the Ominisence knows what’s the future has in store. But nevertheless, that Usmanov’s $1.3b purported bid to take control of Arsenal FC if true, should be given a genuine thought to materialize to hand over the control of the club to him to be controlling it. Hopeful, titles winning wise, Arsenal will be far better of than it’s presently is under majorly share holder Stan Kroenke. But $1.3 billion and not $1.3 million baffled me. How much did Kroenke paid to acquire the majorlty shares he has acquired at Arsenal? And how much did Usmanov too paid for the minority shares he bought at Arsenal? If the purchased price of both the Kroenke’s and Usmanov’s share holding are added together, is the combine price that big now to have hit billions of dollars at current market stoke price value? I wouldn’t know because I am not a stoke marketer.

4. Leon, the bid reportedly failed
   also copying this from another post
   take a look at abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/correction-russia-navalny-story-47512126 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8c1hR54RyI

5. It’s for controlling interest, and isn’t it £ not $?

6. Usmanov values Arsenal FC at £1.6 billion.

7. I think for being young, the younger referee Michael Oliver 31, is physically fit and faster than some older referees in the PL to cope with the pacey demands our home match against Everton will pose to him in the game. So, let’s give him a chance and believing he will not exceed the minimal of error of judgements in his decision making in the game.

   Needless for me to say Le Prof’s Arsenal team will for the first time beat a Ronald Koeman’s team in this match. Of course we all know that Arsenal will unfailingly beat Koeman’s Everton side at the Ems on Sunday and they’ll beat them heavily by 6 goals to nil with Sanchez scoring 4 times in the match to increase his PL goals tally this season to 27, hoping Hull will stop Harry Kane’s goalscoring excesses going beyond his current tally of 26 goals forcing him to concede the PL golden boot of this season to Sanchez on the final day of the PL matches this season. And of course Lukaku effort to score at the Emirates will be frustrated by the Gunners.

   The Gunners have to beat the Toffees and I believe they will beat them resoundingly as the stake is still very high for Arsenal to miss staking their money on the bet for one out of the two ucl places remaining for grab this season. And I believe Arsenal will grab one out of these two places remaining for grabbing between Man City, Liverpool and themselves when the die is cast for the final battle on Sunday.

8. Apologies Leon..

   Just hit me how much the pound has crashed against the dollar since the Brexit vote.

   It was £1 billion and values the club at £1.6 billion

9. Norman14
   Almost as wealthy as Beckham

10. The bid is likely been rebuffed by Kroenke as he’s yet to respond to Usmanov’s offer of £1bn to buy his controlling share stocks at Arsenal from him according to the BBC sports news I’ve just read. But I think Kroenke should respond to Usmanov’s offer positively to sell his majority shares stocks in the club to Usmanov who has appeared to be passionate like Abram Abromovich of Chelsea is to move Arsenal forward considerably in titles winning. Unlike Kroenke who has appeared to be comfortable in making profit at the club at the expense of seeing Arsenal win titles.

11. So Beckham is that very rich?

12. So all we can do for Sunday is hope we end the season with a great performance and cross our fingers about the rest. I hope there aren’t any empty seats because the match is sold out and the ticket exchange has closed!

13. Samuel, i urge you to read this abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/correction-russia-navalny-story-47512126

14. Thanks Andrew…..the final pgmol nail in arsenals champions league coffin?

15. I would rather Stan not sell to Usmanov. I think he just wants a toy to play with. Let him go buy Derby or something. Maybe Leeds.

16. Samuel
    Beckham’s rich, but not that rich. And he is buying football club.

17. Andrew, would you like some statistics?

    Look for 1920

    http://untold-arsenal.com/archives/61681#comment-917761

    That was 100 million trials. The minimum to guess at how rare that event was, I think would be 1 billion trials (1E9). Which would take about a day (non-threaded).

    But, nobody seems interested, so why bother running it?

    🙂

18. Usmanov is a dangerous guy, I would imagine there may be some implicit threat over the price he would demand from Stan for AUs shares…..maybe with the hint that Usmanov could use his money to turn Everton….or worse into another city making things very difficult for arsenal. Especially post,Wenger.
    I doubt if Stan will sell, but think there is more to come on this

19. OT – I detest monopolies. All these football clubs owned by individuals should be outlawed & forced into UK shareholder ownership. In fact all sporting clubs should be forced into UK shareholder ownership. The FA should also be nationalised. It seems wrong that another countries nationals own the FA.

    Time for the truth to be vented by the club. Open up about the corrupt PGMOL.

20. It doesn’t matter how good the stats are for these PGMOL cheats. They still rob us of titles & trophies that some crave. I don’t care too much because I know how good Arsenal are despite these manipulative bastards. I just hope Alexis gets pissed off with their cheating & scores 6 or more so that he can get that golden boot.

21. @Menace. Agreed

22. Ian Wright has been extremely vocal about Arsenal recently, I wonder if there are any link with the Usamov bid? Anybody know why he hate Dick Law?

23. I watched the Dick Law link provided by Arseblog the other week where he was speaking at a conference in Brazil and describing the different operating models used by English and done European clubs. The man is clearly far from the idiot the likes of Wright and certain others seem to portray.

24. @ClockEnd, I saw that video too, the man seem intelligent to me, but maybe he has a bad personality or something hence why some don’t like him

25. So oliver is riley’s protege.

26. Don’t know Dick Law, but if he’s intelligent, then many of the unintelligent will dislike him.

27. I like Mr Oliver and fully expect a balanced performance from him tomorrow.

    I wish it where he we had for the Cup final as opposed to you know who.

28. Number Games

    As mentioned earlier, I had seen a single hit of the Leicester results in a Monte Carlo run of 100 million trials. Basically, this means:

    _ 1 +/- 1

    or rather, what is better is:

    _ 1 +/- n * sqrt(1)

    where we expect ‘n’ to be about 1 and the square root of 1 is 1.

    If you then arrange a longer run, one sort of hopes that you will see more hits.

    If you have 2 hits, you really have:

    _ 2 +/- n * sqrt(2)

    If you have 4 hits, it would be:

    _ 4 +/- n * sqrt(4)

    which if n is less than 2, says that we expect that much of the time it is significantly different from 0.

    If we do another run, with say 10 times as many trials, we expect 10 times as many hits. If for the smaller run we observed 4 hits, to run 10 times as many trials we are hoping for about 40. And often we will find that what the 10 times long run produces, is something between 35 and 45. Less often, it may produce something between 30 and 50 (but outside of 35-45).

    In some respects, to say something is 1, means it is between 0.5 and 1.5. This is similar to the 4th official holding up a sign with ‘N’ minutes of extra time called for. It means more than ‘N-1’ and less than ‘N+1’ (most of the time).

    So, we had Leicester with a single hit. If that hit was ‘real’ and not a fluke, we expected a 10 times longer run to produce something like 10 hits. Which would go a little ways towards confirming that this result might happen once in something like 2000 years. As I was comparing other observed rare results to this one to derive this ratio, the counts observed for that/those results would also go into the calculation. So, instead of 1920 a person might get 1985.

    The original guess at likelihood was once in 1920 years, but that 1920 was not very firm. It was sort of like more than 192 and less than 19280.

    This longer run produced no hits for the Leicester result. While it is still possible that this repeat time span is still less than 1920 years, it is more likely it is longer than 1920 years. How much longer, we don’t know.

    If we repeat this 10 times longer run (which basically takes my computer an entire day to work on, single threaded), if we do get any hits, we are sort of expecting the number of hits to be less than 6. If we don’t see any hits and have to do a third run, we would sort of be expecting less than 3 for that run. But until we get more hits, we really can’t say anything positive.

    Not that there is anything positive to say about 😈 Mike Riley and his PGMOL gang. And their bosses, the EPL and The FA.

    —

    Even if I get hits, the calculations may be “in error”. For instance, I am generating random numbers. There has to be a source for the “entropy” I am drawing from. What happens if I run out of entropy? That could cause odd results.

    I have a couple of different mechanisms “filling” the entropy tank on my computer. One of them, gets timing information from music, like listening to an Internet radio station. So, just in case I will have my computer playing music at the same time. This will slow the calculations down (some unknown amount more than 1 day), but it should help keep the level of entropy higher.

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    On another note, I will miss following the game in real time. Radiostations here, never even talk about EPL, so no hope there.

    I’m hoping that Middlesbrough get at 1 point (or more), giving us a chance at 4th.

    Come On You Gunners!

29. F me this ref is such a cheat. I mean i knew he was before the game but it is just so blatant I don’t know why any of us bother watching this anymore.