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What is to be done about Arsenal’s losses? How the rest of Europe will defeat Man City and finally push them aside. By Tony Attwood So it goes on. All is good at Tottenham (Maddison and Kulusevski apparently can take them up the table so maybe they won’t end up 17th for a …
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What is to be done about Arsenal’s losses? How the rest of Europe will defeat Man City and finally push them aside. By Tony Attwood Few businesses can go on losing money year after year, quite simply because in the end you run out of money and the banks lose faith in your …
By Tony Attwood There are many ways forward for the clubs other than Manchester City to regain control of their own leagues and the international Champions League without having to have Manchester City and their financial manipulations in the competition. And I think that slowly Europe is coming to this conclusion. ManC tend …
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By Tony Attwood Now I want to make it clear that this article, which deals with regulating football club auditors and the like, takes me beyond my normal field of writing, so if I have got some detail wrong in what follows, I apologise and would be glad if you could correct my error …
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How close is the relationship between ManC and the media? “Arsenal dont look like champions” as we reveal the line up tonight. Maybe. By Tony Attwood If you have a spare moment, just compare these headlines which appear in the last few days on the websites of two English newspapers. First headline: Tottenham …
By Tony Attwood How close is the relationship between ManC and the media? “Arsenal dont look like champions” as we reveal the line up tonight. Maybe. The Arsenal team…. Raya, Timber, Konsa, Gabriel, Calafiori, Guimaraes, Rice, Odegaard, Madueke, Saka, Havertz. As we are being brutally reminded every few minutes, we usually have games …
“Arsenal dont look like champions” as we reveal the line up tonight. Maybe. Regulator has power to force ManC owners to sell up if they lose appeal By Tony Attwood We tend to consider the print and broadcast media in the UK as independent – and even if they are not totally independent, then …
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Regulator has power to force ManC owners to sell up if they lose appeal Are Arsenal doing better than last year (or the year before that?) By Tony Attwood “Arsenal are brutally mocked across Europe: ‘Boring’ Gunners dismissed as ‘harmless’ by rivals” announced the Daily Tosspot, sorry Daily Mail, in mid-April this year, …
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By Tony Attwood Are Arsenal doing better than last year (or the year before that?) Totties get a win and race up to 16th, but are still a very long way behind Arsenal There is an interesting comment of a type I’ve not seen before, being made in the ManC case (a case in …
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Bayern v Arsenal: Arsenal continue to out perform Munich in domestic league games Totties get a win and race up to 16th, but are still a very long way behind Arsenal By Tony Attwood When I came to think about it, it seemed rather strange that the question wasn’t regularly posed, and answered. …
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Totties get a win and race up to 16th, but are still a very long way behind Arsenal Arsenal continue to develop their own secret code By Tony Attwood And so we approach just about the biggest game of them all – Bayern Munich away tomorrow at 8pm. A win would stop even …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal continue to develop their own secret code Somehow the English media is playing down ManC’s situation. But in Europe…. If it is had been Arsenal, they would have “finally” and “at long last” managed a win in the Premier League” but no, this is a time of celebration:”Davies ensures …
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By Tony Attwood Somehow the English media is playing down ManC’s situation. But in Europe…. Some clubs just threaten others; Arsenal find new brilliance within The media love to portray football as a fixed game with clear rules while the variation between clubs is in fact the variation between the quality of players rather than …
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Some clubs just threaten others; Arsenal find new brilliance within A move toward a new style of club financing and a fair approach to football By Tony Attwood In England there tends to be a view that suggests that football happens in England, and we sort out the rules. Other countries play the …
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Forest v Arsenal: the line up and the various score predictions for today’s game Arsenal injuries and today, the dodgiest of dodgy referees By Tony Attwood Below is the full league table, and it is a result that will give Arsenal ever more belief that given the way things are going, Arsenal are …
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Arsenal injuries and today, the dodgiest of dodgy referees Each ref has his own favoured results – including our ref this weekend! By Tony Attwood According to the Standard Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta revealed after the match that Saka had been dealing with a minor illness issue, but he is expected to be …
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Why are these journalists so often, so anti-Arsenal? Recovering Arsenal’s lost past Nottingham Forest v Arseanal By Tony Attwood According to the Premier League Injuries website, Arsenal currently have four players injured and we have been sitting at that number for several days Top of the injury table are Hull City with nine …
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By Tony Attwood What happens if Manchester City win its appeal against the guilty verdict? Why are these journalists so often, so anti-Arsenal? Now Michael Oliver is a curious referee. He oversaw the second highest number of PL games of any PGMO referee last season, and managed to see more fouls per game (22.93) …
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Why are these journalists so often, so anti-Arsenal? Recovering Arsenal’s lost past By Tony Attwood Manchester City’s appeal against their being found guilty of over 100 financial offences comes down to its view that the testimonies of a couple of dozen witnesses, which they think were dismissed in the previous examination of their …
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Recovering Arsenal’s lost past Nottingham Forest v Arseanl 18 October and then it is Bayern By Tony Attwood One of the issues that led to the start of Untold Arsenal as a daily blog, getting on for 20 years ago, was an observation I made as to the way in which some journalists …
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By Tony Attwood Since 2009 we have been trying to build a complete history of Arsenal FC. And of course it inevitably has turned out to be more complicated than that sounds. Not least because some bits of information are hard to find, some have been wrongly reported over the years, and no one …
Why can’t Arsenal make a profit? (part 1). Why can’t Arsenal make a profit? Part 2 By Tony Attwood So looking forward for a moment we have two games of what might be differing difficulty and differing proportions coming up – Nottingham Forest in the League of course, and then Bayern Munich. Forest …
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By Tony Attwood This article continues from Why can’t Arsenal make a profit? (part 1). These are actual figures as reported in Arsenal’s report and accounts posted at Companies House…. (Last season’s figures are not published yet). Figures are in millions of pounds. Year to May ’23 Year to May ’24 Year …
Arsenal, the table, and the results the headlines forget to mention The Regulator speaks out on ManC, but what happens to clubs that go bust? By Tony Attwood That is a very good question in the headline, (and I say that even though I wrote it myself), and like so many good questions …
There is a particular kind of Saturday that every Arsenal supporter knows. Arsenal have played early, won, and for the next two or three hours the afternoon belongs not to what Arsenal did but to what everyone else does next. The title race, the top four, the mood of the week ahead – all …
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