Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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by Andrew Crawshaw What? – The Premier League 2 will replace the Under 21 Premier League from the start of the 2016/17 season. According to the ‘powers that be’ the competition will have “a greater focus on a level of play in terms of technicality, physicality and intensity to bring players as close to first-team …
Read More “Coming soon to a ground near you – Premier League 2”
by Andrew Crawshaw It’s not just the senior team that are on a pre-season tour. A group of our U19 players are in Durban, South Africa trying to retain the Durban International Tournament Cup that the club won last year. The main web site for the tournament seems to be http://durbanu19.co.za/league/durbanu19-2016/ The Arsenal group comprises …
Read More “Arsenal Youngsters in South Africa for the under 19 International Tournament”
by Andrew Crawshaw Since my last Arsenal Ladies piece we have played two games against Chelsea and Sunderland (both away) and have gained the maximum of six points. The league Table now looks like this :- Pos Team P W D L +/- Points 1 Man City 9 7 2 0 19 23 2 Chelsea …
Read More “Arsenal Ladies – Update and preview of Liverpool”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Back Row – Sari Van Veenendaal GK, Josephine Henning (CB), Farah Williams (MF), Dominique Janssen (MF), Jemma Rose (CB) (bending forward) , Kelly Smith (Forward) 83, Casey Stoney (LB) Front Row – Danielle Van de Donk (Attacker), Alex Scott (C) (RB) 78, Jordan Nobbs (MF) 72, Vicky Losada (MF) Subs …
Read More “Arsenal Ladies v Notts County Sun 10 July – The Match Report”
by Andrew Crawshaw Before we get carried away with the thought of buying a stack of new players, I thought it would be a good time to have a look at the players we currently have on our books. As we all know the Premier league has a squad limit of 25 players over the …
Read More “Arsenal Squad 2016-17. We urgently need to loan or sell eight players”
by Andrew Crawshaw My prediction for the starting line-up of the team wasn’t right. The actual line-up was GK – Sari Van Veenendaal Right Back and Captain Alex Scott Centre Backs – Emma Mitchell and Farah Williams Left Back Casey Stoney Midfield – Vicky Losada, Natalia Pablos Sanchon and Marta Corredera Attack – Gemma Rose, …
by Andrew Crawshaw After an Interlul Ladies Womens Super League matches re-start this weekend with a home game at Meadow Park Borehamwood against Sunderland Ladies. Kick-off is 14:00 on Saturday 25 June. Here is the current League Table Pos Team P W D L +/- Pts 1 Man City 7 6 1 0 15 19 …
Read More “Arsenal football resumes on Saturday – Arsenal Ladies v Sunderland Ladies”
by Andrew Crawshaw This is the third (of four) parts where I am reviewing the 2015-16 season from the U18, U19 and U21 team perspective. Part 1 and Part 2 can be found by following the links. For reasons that will not become completely apparent at this point but have a lot to do with …
Read More “The Junior Teams – Season End Review part 3 Midfielders”
By Andrew Crawshaw This is the final part of my review of the 2015-16 season from the perspective of the U18, U19 and U21 teams. Part 1, and Part 2 can be found by following the given links. Chris Willock – English. Normally used as either a winger or Attacking Midfielder had 26 starts in all …
Read More “The Arsenal Junior Teams – Season End Review part 4 Attackers”
by Andrew Crawshaw With all of the referee reviews for the season now published (and my broadband re-connected by BT) here is the final Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 49 Red Cards 2 17 Penalties 3 33 Goals 2 11 Total 8 110 Possible Cost in …
Read More “The season end Table of Shame & Best and Worst Referee of the Season”
by Andrew Crawshaw This is the second part of my impressions of the 2015-16 season as regards the U21, U19 and U18 competitions. Part 1 Overview and Summary can be found here With so many players having featured for the Youth Teams this season, it is almost impossible to list everyone, but I will try …
Read More “The Junior Teams Season End Review – Part 2 Goalkeepers and Defenders”
by Andrew Crawshaw The Arsenal Junior Teams cover ages 8 to U21. For the purpose of this review I am ignoring all age group matches below U18 level. I am therefore looking at four separate competitions :- U18 League FA Youth Cup (open to players U18 at 01 Jan 2015) UEFA Youth League (open to …
Read More “The Junior Teams Season End review – Part 1 Overview and Summary”
by Andrew Crawshaw Last game for the first team this year and the last referee preview. Usama and Walter haven’t published any more referee reviews for Arsenal games so I have an unaltered Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 16 Penalties 3 30 …
Read More “Arsenal v Aston Villa 2015-16 Season Finale – The Match Officials”
by Andrew Crawshaw Last year for the first time the Ladies FA Cup final was held at Wembley, the only trouble was that Arsenal weren’t there; Chelsea beat Notts County scoring the only goal to lift the trophy. This year the Cup is again being contested at Wembley kick-off 14:00 on Saturday 14 May and …
by Andrew Crawshaw A year of measurable progress from our U21 team as they gained promotion back to the top tier of football at this level after a couple of years in the second division. It would be churlish to belittle this achievement as being due to the presence of some of the first team …
by Andrew Crawshaw This evening at the Emirates Arsenal take on Aston Villa at U21 level to decide who joins Derby County in gaining promotion to the first division of U21 Football. On Sunday afternoon the Senior teams meet with Villa already relegated to the Championship for next year. Last Tuesday Arsenal U21s boosted by Thomas …
Read More “Arsenal U21s v Aston Villa U21s – Division 2 Play-off Final Preview”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the review of Roger East in the Palace game Here is the updated Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 16 Penalties 3 30 Goals 1 11 Total 7 101 Possible Cost in Points 0 29 Only one wrong Important …
Read More “Manchester City v Arsenal Sunday 8 May – The Match Officials”
by Andrew Crawshaw On Tuesday evening at 19:00 the Arsenal U21 team who promised so much at the beginning of the season have a final chance to secure promotion to the first division of football for that age level. A month ago we were looking good for winning the second division outright and gaining automatic …
Read More “Arsenal U21s v Blackburn U21s – The Last Chance Saloon”
by Andrew Crawshaw As I write this on Wednesday there are no new published Referee reviews so both the Table of Shame and the Wall of Shame are unchanged from last week Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 16 Penalties 3 29 Goals …
Read More “Arsenal v Norwich Saturday 30 April 2016 – The Match Officials”
Sunderland v Arsenal Sunday 24 April 2016 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw No new referee reviews since the last preview so Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 16 Penalties 3 29 Goals 1 11 Total 7 100 Possible Cost in Points …
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the review of the West Ham Game here is the updated Table of Shame and yes the wrong Important Decisions against Arsenal have now reached 100 and the cost in points is 27 Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 …
Read More “Arsenal v West Brom Thursday 21 April 2016 – The Match Officials”
by Andrew Crawshaw WEMBERLEE, WEMBERLEE – WE’RE THE FAMOUS ARSENAL AND WE’RE GOING TO WEMBERLEE was the cry ringing out at Borehamwood just a few minutes before the men kicked off at the Emirates. It hadn’t looked that way an hour and a quarter earlier when Arsenal had Emma Byrne sent off for a second …
Read More “FA Ladies Cup Semi-final report Arsenal v Sunderland”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the Referee review of Anthony Taylor’s performance in the Watford game – here is the updated Table of Shame. The performance had only one wrong Important Decision when in Min17 Prodl clearly pushed Welbeck in the Watford penalty area with Taylor seeing it quite clearly and deciding not to give a …
by Andrew Crawshaw Thanks to the requirements of Sky Sports, this coming Sunday I have to make a difficult choice. Our Mens first team game against Crystal Palace has been moved from Saturday 15:00 to Sunday 16:00 at the Emirates. Our Ladies first team FA Cup Semi-final against Sunderland is at Meadow Park Borehamwood on …
Read More “How the match fixing will pan out this weekend and then stop, leaving me with a choice”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the review of Mr Clattenberg in the Everton v Arsenal game here is a revised Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 41 Red Cards 1 12 Penalties 3 28 Goals 0 11 Total 5 92 Possible Cost in Points 0 25 No further cost …
Read More “West Ham v Arsenal Sat 9 April – The Match Officials. Has the ref learned his script?”
