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by Andrew Crawshaw Here courtesy of premierleague.com are the matches and officials for this weekend’s games. Please note that kickoffs are at 15:00 unless otherwise stated. Where no Predictions article is listed, it will be added in the course of the next day or so on the Predictions website. Saturday 12 January 12:30 West Ham United …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women hosted Birmingham in the quarter-final of the Continental Tyres Cup last night at a very cold Meadow Park. Joe Montemurro rotated his squad to a degree with the Club having three important games in a week. Our starting 11 was Sari van Veenendaal Katie McCabe, Jannni Arnth, Louise Quinn, Dominique …
Read More “Late ‘Smash and Grab’ sees our Women reach the semi-final of the Continental Tyres Cup”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the Christmas break the Women’s league games restarted on Sunday. We started the WSL matches with a 12:30 kickoff away at West Ham. The match was shown by the BBC on their red button and on-line services in the UK so a decent picture, even if accompanied by annoying commentators. Team …
by Andrew Crawshaw Here courtesy of thefa.com are all of the games and officials including those on VAR duty. Kickoffs are at 15:00 unless noted:- Friday 4 January 19.45pm Tranmere Rovers FC v Tottenham Hotspur, Referee Andre Marriner Assistant Referees Edward Smart & Marc Perry Fourth Official Paul Tierney. The result was 0-7. Saturday 5 …
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by Andrew Crawshaw OK I know that they are both for the Women’s team, but nevertheless they are welcome additions to our wonderful group of players who are currently short in numbers following a real injury crisis. The Club have announced today that they have signed Katrine Veje a 27 year old left footed winger …
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Below is the data analysing the fouls and cards awarded by referees. The key findings are Manchester City commit over three times the number of fouls as Arsenal for each yellow card they get. Arsenal at home have had 22 yellow cards this season whilst Manchester City have just five and Tottenham and Liverpool have seven …
Read More “How four clubs commit fouls with impunity, while others constantly get punished”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here courtesy of premierleague.com are the New Year games. Please note that kickoffs are at 15:00 London time unless noted otherwise:- Tuesday 1 January 12:30 Everton v Leicester City Referee: Martin Atkinson Assistants: Stephen Child, Lee Betts Fourth official: Anthony Taylor Everton v Leicester: the predictions 15:00 Arsenal v Fulham Referee: Graham Scott Assistants: Richard West, Neil Davies Fourth official: …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Here, courtesy of premierleague.com, are this weekend’s matches:- NB All matches start at 15:00 UK time unless otherwise noted Previews will appear shortly in https://Predictions.org.uk – links are added below as the previews are published. Saturday 29 December Brighton v Everton Referee: Andy Madley Assistants: Simon Long, Mick McDonough Fourth official: Andre Marriner …
by Andrew Crawshaw Covering the first half of the season here is a list of the games done by each referee and the top of the table for the Assistant Referees. A total of 18 different referees have been used so far but with vastly different workloads. Referee Games Assistants Games Anthony Taylor 17 Simon …
Read More “First Half of the Season – Referee Analysis – who’s been where and how often”
by Andrew Crawshaw This week marks the halfway point of the season. Maybe we aren’t quite where we would have liked to be but, in all honesty, I don’t think that many of us could reasonably have expected us to be any higher than fifth, given our form from last year. Here, courtesy of premierleague.com …
by Andrew Crawshaw Here are the PL Fixtures and the appointed officials courtesy of premierleague.com :- Kick-offs are 15:00 GMT unless stated otherwise. Friday 21 December 20:00 Wolves v Liverpool Referee: Craig Pawson Assistants: Lee Betts, Richard West Fourth official: Michael Oliver Wolverhampton v Liverpool: the predictions Saturday 22 December 12:30 Arsenal v Burnley Referee: Kevin Friend Assistants: Matthew Wilkes, Derek Eaton …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Additional note: We have now started a new site – Football Predictions – and you will find detailed reviews of and predictions for some of the matches this weekend on that site. Here are the matches and officials courtesy of premierleague.com. Kickoffs are 15:00 unless noted otherwise Saturday 15 December 12:30 Man City …
Read More “Matchweek 17 – All the Games and Officials plus score predictions”
by Andrew Crawshaw This weekend saw the start of the second half of the League Season for most clubs – as you all know by now one team sits out each round of matches as there are 11 teams in the league and this week it was our turn. This was something of a relief …
by Andrew Crawshaw No time to rest on our Laurels this week – Matchweek 14 finished on Sunday, Matchweek15 starts on Tuesday. Courtesy of premierleague.com here are the fixtures:- Kick-offs are 19:45 GMT unless stated otherwise. Tuesday 4 December AFC Bournemouth v Huddersfield Town Referee: Roger East Assistants: Adrian Holmes, Mark Scholes Fourth official: Lee Probert Brighton v Crystal …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Courtesy of premierleague.com here are the match officials for this coming weekend’s fixtures:- Kick-offs are 15:00 GMT unless stated otherwise. Friday 30 November 20:00 Cardiff City v Wolves Referee: Andre Marriner Assistants: Scott Ledger, Simon Long Fourth official: Martin Atkinson Saturday 1 December Crystal Palace v Burnley Referee: Lee Probert Assistants: Andy Garratt, Adrian Holmes Fourth official: Mike Dean Huddersfield Town …
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal started with all of our fit senior outfield players Sari van Veenendaal Lisa Evans, Leah Williamson, Louise Quinn, Emma Mitchell c Leah Walti Dominique Bloodworth, Danielle van de Donk Katie McCabe, Vivianne Miedema, Beth Mead Subs – Pauline Peyraud-Magnin, and three U18s – Ava Kuyken, Ruby Grant and Paige Bailey-Gayle Brighton …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton Women – Match Report, still top of the league”
by Andrew Crawshaw From premierleague.com here are the officials for this coming weekend Saturday 24 November 15:00 Brighton v Leicester Referee: Chris Kavanagh Assistants: Daniel Cook, Sian Massey-Ellis Fourth official: Roger East Everton v Cardiff Referee: Paul Tierney Assistants: Adrian Holmes, Mark Scholes Fourth official: Kevin Friend Fulham v Southampton Referee: Michael Oliver Assistants: Stuart Burt, Steve Bennett Fourth official: Craig Pawson Man Utd …
Read More “Matchweek 13 – All of the games and Officials plus home and away fouls”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is my current list of our injured players Pauline Peyraud-Magnin – Minor hand injury caused her to withdraw from the France squad during the last International break and meant that she could only be on the bench last Sunday – Likely to be on the bench again this week Jessica Samuelsson …
Read More “Arsenal Women – Who might step up to replace our injured players?”
by Andrew Crawshaw This match was broadcast live on the BBC Red Button and kicked off at 12:30 on Sunday 18 November. The match was played at the Select Security Stadium the home of Southport Football Club. Everton had sacked their manager, Andy Spence leaving after 12 years with the club as assistant to Mo …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal Women the Match Report. 8 games, 38 goals!”
by Andrew Crawshaw With no Men’s Club games for a couple of weeks and my back now allowing me to sit down in front of my computer again, I thought I would take a look at some of the data I have been recording and see if there was anything new that jumped out at …
Read More “Why do some home teams commit so many more fouls than away teams?”
by Andrew Crawshaw There are, as usual five Women’s Super League Matches this weekend, all this afternoon. Arsenal begin proceedings at Borehamwood in the early 12:30 match, followed at 14:00 by Liverpool v Man City and Reading v Bristol and at 15:00 there are Yeovil v Everton and West Ham v Chelsea. Brighton sit out …
Read More “Preview of Arsenal v Birmingham and other WSL matches, 4 November”
From premierleague.com here are this weekend’s matches:- Saturday 3 November 12:30 AFC Bournemouth v Man Utd Referee: Paul Tierney Assistants: Constantine Hatzidakis, Darren Cann Fourth official: Kevin Friend 15:00 Cardiff City v Leicester City Referee: Lee Probert Assistants: Simon Beck, Andy Garratt Fourth official: Andy Madley Everton v Brighton Referee: David Coote Assistants: Peter Kirkup, Mick McDonough Fourth official: Martin Atkinson Newcastle United v Watford Referee: …
Read More “Matchweek 11 – All the games, all the Officials, plus time played under caution”
by Andrew Crawshaw The five matches in the WSL this weekend were:- Friday evening – Manchester City v Reading (1 – 1) The weekend started off with a game between Manchester City (second in the league last season) against Reading (beaten by Arsenal 6 – 0 the previous week). From the start there were chances …
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by Andrew Crawshaw So here we are a quarter of the way through the season – or at least we will be once Kevin Friend blows his whistle at the end of the Spurs v Man City game on Monday night. From premierleague.com here are all of the matches:- Saturday 27 October 15:00 Brighton v …
Read More “Farewell balanced playing field. Matchweek 10: all the games, all the officials.”
by Andrew Crawshaw What a difference in weather from Chelsea last Sunday, an almost cloudless sunny day and surprisingly warm for the time of year. Plus a big bonus for me the train system was running normally so I could get to Borehamwood easily from home in Southeast London (only one change). Catering report – …
Read More “Arsenal v Reading 21 October – the view from Meadow Park”
