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How Arsenal evolved an approach to challenge ManC’s eternal stay at the top. Has football got a little too serious? Or are our players not focused enough? By Tony Attwood There really is something extraordinary about Arsenal’s production line of young players. Obviously it has something to do with the scouting department, but …
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Has football got a little too serious? Or are our players not focused enough? Today’s suggestion for the Arsenal team tonight By Tony Attwood It would seem as if my daily ravings on this site about Arsenal having developed a method of progression up the league, while spending only a fraction of the …
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What is wrong with the media coverage of ManU and what Arsenal are doing now Beware the quotes of what players said, they may well never have said them By Tony Attwood The headline shouts “Fantastic Fleetwood seal shootout success in Carabao Cup shock against Arsenal,” and of course the journos and supporters …
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Previous notes: Fleetwood v Arsenal: the line up and a choice of goalkeepers Arsenal win, statistics look promising and it looks like a league of two teams By Tony Attwood There’s no real late news before the game tonight that I can see, but I have seen another go at choosing a team …
Beware the quotes of what players said, they may well never have said them Fleetwood v Arsenal: the line up and a choice of goalkeepers By Tony Attwood Now here is a headline which up to a year or so ago I never thought I would read: “Manchester United can end doom spiral …
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Arsenal win, statistics look promising and it looks like a league of two teamsa How much would you pay Arsenal to train your teenage son or daughter? By Tony Attwood As a regular blogger on football part of my work in this regard involves reading other commentaries and reviews in newspapers, sometimes pointing out …
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By Tony Attwood In all walks of life there are people who love to say things like “the rules are the rules”. It seems to be a deep psychological need within these people – a need to be told what can and what can’t be done. A sort of opposite of creativity, in which …
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Arsenal win, statistics look promising and it looks like a league of two teams On the passing of Ken Friar By Tony Attwood The media have found a new stick to bash Arsenal with – and they are using it to have give Chelsea a bit of a bashing as well. Here’s the Telegraph’s …
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On the passing of Ken Friar By Tony Attwood There were some interesting statistics in yesterday’s game. Obviously Arsenal won, as we all expected them to do, but they did so not just by dominating possession (60% to Arsenal) but also by taking control of other events, such as goal attempts (20 to …
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By Tony Attwood “While questions have been asked of Arsenal’s attacking intent, there can be no complaints about their home form so far this season.” So says one of the Arsenal knocking papers as it launches its start of today’s game’s preview. But really that is a bit misleading, since after all Arsenal’s record …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal have played Everton 227 times – which I think is more than anyone else but I’ve not gone back to check. Of these Arsenal have won 114, 48 have been drawn and 65 lost. So obviously we play them a lot and get the better of them a lot. …
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By Tony Attwood Everton managed to play just two games in October so far, a 0-2 defeat at home to Chelsea and a 2-2 away draw to Hull City. In fact they only won two games out of four in September, beating Ipswich and Wolverhampton, each at home, each by 1-0. The Wolverhampton game …
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Ken Friar, who was appointed president-for-life of the club in September 2020, passed away 10 days ago on Tuesday 13 October. Flowers and wreaths were laid in commemoration, and Richard Garlick and Lord Harris made a short speech about all that Ken Friar had done for the club. Players wore armbands for the …
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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