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by Andrew Crawshaw An Arsenal U17 team took part in an international club competition in Holland this past week playing against the likes of Anderlecht and Barcelona to win the ABN AMRO Future Cup in dramatic fashion via two penalty shootouts. The squad was a mixture of players from the U18, U16 and U15 teams. …
Read More “ABN AMRO Future Cup Report and FA Cup Semi-Final preview”
by Andrew Crawshaw One item of Ladies News, England international forward Jodie Taylor has joined the club from American side Portland Thorns. She played a major part in the England World Cup success in 2015 scoring the opening goal against Canada which ensured our first ever semi-final appearance. The Ladies season continues apace this coming …
Read More “Women’s FA Cup Quarter Final Arsenal v Notts County Sunday 3 May 2016 – Preview”
By Andrew Crawshaw We currently have published the Referee Reviews for the first 28 games of the season and our record is Won 15, Drawn 6 and Lost 7 so we have dropped points in 13 games. Here are three tables highlighting our games to date with some pertinent facts extracted from our referee reviews. …
Read More “Referees’ three-quarter Season Review: referee performance compared to results.”
by Andrew Crawshaw I know its an Interlul for the Men’s Teams but there is Arsenal Football this evening at Meadow Park when our Ladies take on Reading in their first game of the Women’s Super League (WSL). I’m heading to the game and will welcome a chat with any Untolder’s who will be there. …
by Andrew Crawshaw Ladies News On Friday Arsenal Ladies announced the signing of 21 year old Nigerian International Asisat Oshoala from Liverpool Ladies FC. This was a deal that had been done much earlier, but (as often seems the case with Arsenal) the paperwork and International clearance took its time. Oshoala won the BBC Women’s …
Read More “Birmingham City Ladies v Arsenal Ladies FA Cup Fifth Round – Match Report”
by Andrew Crawshaw This wasn’t a game I was able to get to so this report is second-hand, thanks to Arsenal.com and Jeorge Bird The Teams Arsenal playing a 4-2-3-1 formation GK Keto Defence Johnson – Bielik – M Bola – Robinson Midfield Base Sheaf – Bennacer Advanced Midfield – Reine-Adelaide – Hinds – C …
Read More “Man City U18 v Arsenal U18 FA Cup Semi-final First Leg Match Report”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following our Referee reviews of the United and Swansea games, here is an updated Wall of Shame and we see an entry in third place for Robert Madley. In his previous game this year he scored 90% and made only two mistakes in the whole game. Clearly he had been given a …
by Andrew Crawshaw This semi-final is to be played over two legs, home and away. The first leg is at the Manchester City Academy Arena on Friday evening with a 19:00 kick off. The second leg is set for Monday 4 April 19:45 probably at the Emirates (this will be confirmed once it is determined …
Read More “2015-16 FA Youth Cup Semi-Final Preview Arsenal v Man City”
by Andrew Crawshaw As this is a cup weekend, I’m not going to update the Table of Shame or Hall of Shame till League games resume on 19 March. The Match Officials are :- Referee – Andre Marriner Assistants – Simon Long, Matthew Wilkes Fourth Official – Stuart Attwell In order to prepare this preview …
Read More “FA Cup Quarter Final 2015-16 Arsenal v Watford – The Match Officials. He’s ok-ish.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Unlike the men, the Ladies season starts on Sunday 20 March and runs through summer to early November. There are thee competitions, the WSL (Womens Super League), the FA Women’s Cup,and the FA WSL Continental Cup. Our first game of the season is in the FA Women’s Cup where we are away …
by the Untold Team Before we start picking up again on all the crazy transfer rumours that the newspapers and bloggettas are starting to invent, in order to save them doing any reporting, here is our first stab (created by Andrew, who writes the ref previews and reports on under 21s and under 18s) at “what …
Read More “Arsenal Squad – 2016/17 and Chelsea’s youth problems”
by Andrew Crawshaw No referee reviews so an unchanged Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 33 Red Cards 1 11 Penalties 3 26 Goals 0 9 Total 5 79 Possible Cost in Points 0 17 Wall of Shame (also unchanged) Ref Game Weighted Score Bias against (h/a) …
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the Table of shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 33 Red Cards 1 11 Penalties 3 26 Goals 0 9 Total 5 79 Possible Cost in Points 0 17 Here is the current Wall of Shame (unchanged since the Leicester Referee Review) Ref Game …
Read More “Arsenal v Swansea 2 Mar 2016 – The Match Officials. Into the unknown.”
by Andrew Crawshaw At the end of January, the U18s needed six points from nine to ensure that they featured in the top division for the second half of the season, four points or fewer would see them in the second division – still an improvement on last season but disappointing. Sat 6 Feb saw …
Read More “The February Under 18 Report plus a Youth Cup update.”
by Andrew Crawshaw First the up to date Table of Shame following the Leicester review Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 33 Red Cards 1 11 Penalties 3 26 Goals 0 9 Total 5 79 Possible Cost in Points 0 17 To be honest the final performance figure from Mr …
Read More “Welcome to the Pawson-Dean Disaster. Man U v Arsenal, 28 Feb 2016 – The Match Officials.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Before I move on to the main event here are The Table of Shame and the Wall of Shame both updated to matchweek 25. Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 32 Red Cards 1 10 Penalties 3 22 Goals 0 8 Total 5 72 …
by Andrew Crawshaw So far this year these are the referees that we have had Week Date Opponents h/a Referee Score Weighted score Bias against h/a 1 9 Aug 2015 West Ham H Martin Atkinson 0 – 2 54 100/0 2 16 Aug 2015 C Palace A Lee Mason 1 – 2 66 10/90 3 …
Read More “Does a Referee’s performance at Arsenal affect the chances of him returning?”
by Andrew Crawshaw I have had a request from one of our readers to add a ‘WALL OF SHAME’ to my referee previews showing exactly how bad it gets sometimes. The referee reviews analyse all of the decisions made (or not made) by the referee and his team of assistants during the course of the …
By Andrew Crawshaw Travel was by Eurostar which was trouble free. I had booked about three weeks in advance via the Eurostar website and got my tickets for £29.00 each way. Walter was impressed as he said he could never get them for anything like that. The only delay I had was on my local …
Read More “Anderlecht – The Travel and Catering Report; and all you need to know about Brussels”
by Andrew Crawshaw After a great start in the UEFA Youth League, a stuttering end to the group phase saw us in second place in our group and with an extra game to play to try and gain a place in the last 16. The Youth League started with two entry streams, the first of …
Read More “UEFA Youth League – Anderlecht v Arsenal U19s – Tuesday 9 Feb 2016 Match Preview”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the review of Mr Clattenberg in the Chelsea game here is the updated Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 30 Red Cards 1 10 Penalties 3 18 Goals 0 8 Total 5 66 Possible Cost in Points 0 15 Referee Review: Arsenal – …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal Sunday 7 February – The Match Officials. Time to start worrying.”
by Andrew Crawshaw The Ladies have just had their pre-season photo shoot here is the main picture courtesy of Arsenal.com Back row Natalia Pablos Sanchon (7), Katie McCabe (15), Leah Williamson (14), Emma Mitchell (3), Marta Corredera (17), Danielle Van de Donk (21) Middle row Farah Williams (4), Jemma Rose (19), Dominique Janssen (20), Sari van …
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the current League Table for the U21s Team Pld W D L G.D. Pts 1 Derby County 14 9 1 4 13 28 2 Aston Villa 16 8 4 4 -1 28 3 Arsenal 13 8 3 2 11 27 4 West Bromwich Albion 14 6 6 2 6 24 …
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the current League Table for the U18s Team P W D L +/- Pts 1 Chelsea 20 13 5 2 35 44 2 Reading 20 13 2 5 21 41 3 Fulham 19 11 2 6 15 35 4 West Ham 21 10 4 7 -1 34 5 Aston Villa …
Read More “Arsenal progress in the FA Youth Cup. The U18 Team January Report”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the Table of Shame updated following the Stoke referee review Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 30 Red Cards 1 10 Penalties 2 18 Goals 0 8 Total 4 66 Possible Cost in Points 0 15 The lowest weighted score ever recorded by our reviewers …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton Tuesday 2 February 2016 – The Match Officials. Beware!”
