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by Andrew Crawshaw This is a WSL match being held at Borehamwood with a 14:00 kickoff. Tickets will be available on the gate at £10 adults and £5 concessions (U16 and O65s). We, as you should all be aware, are sitting proudly on the top of the table with four wins out of four. Reading …
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by Andrew Crawshaw As usual here are all of the Match Officials for this weekend’s PL matches courtesy of premierleague.com Saturday 20 October 12:30 Chelsea v Man Utd Referee: Mike Dean (pictured) Assistants: Ian Hussin, Darren Cann Fourth official: Craig Pawson 15:00 AFC Bournemouth v Southampton Referee: Lee Probert Assistants: Simon Beck, Andy Garratt Fourth official: Stuart Attwell Cardiff City v Fulham Referee: Kevin Friend …
by Andrew Crawshaw What a difference a day makes to the weather in South London. Saturday was gloriously sunny, shirt sleeves and beautifully outdoorsy. Sunday was wet, windy and far cooler a real autumn day. The match was at Chelsea’s Kingsmeadow ground, near Kingston-upon-Thames, just about an hour and a half from home – ten …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the full list of officials for this coming weekend from premierleague.com:- Last night: Friday 5 October 20:00 Brighton v West Ham United Referee: Kevin Friend Assistants: Matthew Wilkes, Simon Beck Fourth official: Simon Hooper Today: Saturday 6 October 15:00 Burnley v Huddersfield Town Referee: Chris Kavanagh Assistants: Daniel Cook, Sian Massey-Ellis Fourth official: Martin Atkinson …
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by Andrew Crawshaw As ever here is the official list courtesy of premierleague.com Saturday 29 September 12:30 West Ham United v Man Utd Referee: Michael Oliver Assistants: Stuart Burt, Simon Bennett Fourth official: Paul Tierney 15:00 Arsenal v Watford Referee: Anthony Taylor Assistants: Gary Beswick, Neil Davies Fourth official: Martin Atkinson Everton v Fulham Referee: Roger East Assistants: Simon Beck, Andy Garratt …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal played their second WSL League match of the season on Wednesday Evening against Yeovil Town at Dorchester Town FC in front of a decent crowd of 1101. Our trip to Yeovil last season was frustrating with the Yeovil keeper in outstanding form to deny our strikers again and again… and again. …
Read More “A review of Yeovil v Arsenal Women and preview of Arsenal v West Ham on Sunday”
by Andrew Crawshaw The following information is from premierleague.com the official Premier League website. Paul Tierney and Chris Kavanagh are the first referees this season to whistle for a team twice. Not the obvious choices for this honour I think you will agree. Both have been in charge of just four games in six weeks. …
Read More “Matchweek 6 – All the games, All the officials. We have our first Repeat Referees.”
by Andrew Crawshaw The Continental Tyres Cup is the Women’s equivalent of the Carabao Cup. It is a competition open to the 22 teams in the top two echelons of Women’s football, the WSL and the Championship. Unlike the men’s competition this one sees there being a group stage prior to a knockout between the …
Read More “Continental Tyres Cup – Matchday 3 of 5 all the results, tables and gossip”
by Andrew Crawshaw A Continental Tyres Cup match between Championship team Lewes and Arsenal. On paper a mismatch but Lewes qualified into the knockout stage of this competition last year against all expectations, and they were also ahead of us in the group table courtesy of a better first match goal difference, so not a …
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by Andrew Crawshaw August 11 Arsenal v Aston Villa (4 – 2) Team Mitchell Daley Campbell, Spencer Adams, Ogungbo, Swanson M Smith, McEneff Dennis (39), Musah, Cottrell (80) Balogun Subs Oyegoke (39), Taylor-Hart (80), Virginia (gk), Matthews, Patino An excellent start from Arsenal with Balogun scoring in th e4th minute following an assist by Musah. …
Read More “Ahead of the U18s live on TV here’s the initial Progress Report”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the full list of match officials as listed in the official PL website:- Saturday 15 September 12:30 Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool Referee: Michael Oliver Assistants: Stuart Burt, Simon Bennett Fourth official: Kevin Friend 15:00 AFC Bournemouth v Leicester City Referee: Craig Pawson Assistants: Lee Betts, Ian Hussin Fourth official: Simon Hooper Chelsea v Cardiff City …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Following the publication of the Pl Squads I thought you might be interested in a quick Summary. The smallest squads Wolves have the smallest senior squad with just 19 players (7 homegrown, 12 not). Bournemouth (16 homegrown and 5 not) and Manchester City (4 homegrown and 17 not) have 21 senior players. …
by Andrew Crawshaw Starting with the U23 team who played four games in August in defence of the League title they won last season. August 11 – Man City v Arsenal (6 – 5) Team Iliev Osei-Tutu, Bielik, Pleguezuelo, Bola Gilmour, Willock, Smith Rowe Amaechi, Nketiah, Mavididi Subs Okonkwo (gk), Olayinka, Medley, Olowu, Saka We …
Read More “The Arsenal Junior teams an August Progress Report: the U23s vs the Clone.”
By Andrew Crawshaw and Bulldog Drummond Continuing our preview of tonight’s game in the Checkatrade, with a look at the competition and the teams, we find that some League One and League Two club supporters have boycotted matches in the past because of the inclusion of Premier League academy sides – the logic of which …
Read More “Coventry v Arsenal Wednesday 12 September – Who is eligible and the possible line up.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women return to League action today in an early kick-off at Meadow Park Borehamwood against Liverpool. Kick-off was at 12:30 and the game is live on UK television so no excuses not to watch it. It is on the BBC Sport Online or on television via the Red Button or alternatively …
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by Andrew Crawshaw One of the big cries last season was for Arsenal to “get rid of the deadwood”. The club certainly seem to have addressed the number of players within the club and one way or another have moved on no fewer than 25 players. Some were well known and high ranking, others barely …
Read More “The 25 players who have left Arsenal this summer”
by Andrew Crawshaw and Tony Attwood We have now found out a little more about PGMO referee Bobby Madley who has the Premier League after it was suggested he had sent an offensive social media message which allegedly mocked a disabled man. It appears that Mr Madley has a lady friend in Norway and has now …
by Andrew Crawshaw As Arsenal didn’t have a match this weekend you may chose to stop reading now, but I hope not. Information about the men’s game is everywhere – searching for information about the women’s game can take a while. The group phase of the competition has the 22 competing teams – 11 each …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the full list of Match Officials for this weekend’s PL games courtesy of premierleague.com :- Saturday 25 August 12:30 Wolves v Man City Referee: Martin Atkinson Assistants: Stephen Child, Constantine Hatzidakis Fourth official: Stuart Attwell 15:00 Arsenal v West Ham Referee: Graham Scott Assistants: Scott Ledger, Mick McDonough Fourth official: Kevin Friend …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Following a good pre-season this match was serious and potentially a decider for first and second places in our mini-league group between the two Premiership clubs. Our team was :- Back row – Sari Van Veenendaal (GK), Louise Quinn, Leah Williamson, Lisa Evans, Dominique Bloodworth (nee Janssen), Katie McCabe Front row – …
Read More “Arsenal begin their defence of the Continental Tyres Cup with a 3 – 1 win”
by Andrew Crawshaw We didn’t undertake any detailed analysis of referee performances last season so I am not going to try and replicate the referee previews this season. Instead I am going to restrict myself to an informative (I hope) post of who is allocated to which match. The data is liftd straight from the …
by Andrew Crawshaw The Arsenal Women’s senior squad was ‘compact’ to begin with, our injuries have reduced the available players to an alarming level. For the last match against Juventus we only had four substitute players of whom one was a senior squad member. Goalkeepers Sari Van Veenendaal – available for selection Pauline Peyraud-Magnin – …
By Andrew Crawshaw Less frantic activity generally yesterday than on many previous transfer deadline days with not as many players moving. Having said that Everton signed three in the last 10 minutes and Fulham added another keeper. Tottenham added no-one as has become a well-established fact. The first PL club ever to sign no one …
Read More “After Deadline Day August 2018 – The full Arsenal Squad that remains”
Arsenal Squad as at 16:00 on Wednesday 8/8/18 by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly here is my list of the players who I believe are still with the club and count as over 21 as at January 01 this year, the qualifying date for this coming season. These players are those that will form our maximum list …
by Andrew Crawshaw Monday before the season gets underway this coming Friday (Man United v Leicester). No news yet on the PL website about which referees have been appointed to blow the whistles but there are some other snippets of news. STOP PRESS (or perhaps I should say STOP BLOG) – it is being reported …
Read More “Early Season Preview: The nine (yes 9) innovations we’ll have to get used to.”
