Penalties for and against Arsenal. The Mike Riley factor Penalties for and against. Are Arsenal being hard done by? By Mike Fowler Firstly, I give no apologies for plagiarising the title in Nitram’s recent article! We have independently, and by complete coincidence, both looked at different aspects of the game and having read …
Arsenal go through, Chelsea owner caught making money and 7 weird transfers What’s wrong with football? Compiling (and hiding) the complaints By Nitram Following on from my article ‘Penalties for and against. Are Arsenal being hard done by?’ I thought I’d look back a little further to see just how long this extreme …
Penalties for and against. Are Arsenal being hard done by? Arsenal go through, Chelsea owner caught making money and 7 weird transfers By Tony Attwood There are several ways you can see Arsenal’s achievements this season. One is as an absolute failure: the club has run the eventual champions close for two …
Arsenal go through, Chelsea owner caught making money and 7 weird transfers What’s wrong with football? Compiling (and hiding) the complaints By Nitram Following some, what shall we call them, ‘Curious’ penalty statistics posted by John L and Mikey I thought I’d take a deeper look into how we have been fairing in the …
What’s wrong with football? Compiling (and hiding) the complaints Arsenal are still losing money, but there are reasons to be cheerful By Ivan Idea I suspect it’s just me getting old but it took me quite a little while to find out how to watch the Arsenal match on DAZN, but I finally …
Thomas Tuchel declares war on Arsenal Arsenal finances are heading toward the edge, but we’re ok for another season of spending By Tony Attwood The chances are that if you ask ten people what’s wrong with football, you will get a dozen different answers. Ask ten people what’s wrong with Arsenal, and …
There’s this internal argument I’ve been having for years. You probably have it too, especially if you’ve spent enough time watching Arsenal – and even more so if you’ve ever placed a bet or two on a match. It’s that constant back-and-forth between what your gut is telling you… and what the numbers say. Whether …
Thomas Tuchel declares war on Arsenal Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football Are Arsenal the only bottlers or is that just another stick with which to beat us? By Tony Attwood It is interesting that the media day after day after day continue with its key …
From George Graham’s steel-plated defence and Arsène Wenger’s breathtaking attacking revolution to Mikel Arteta’s tactical chess game, Arsenal has evolved exponentially over the years. This isn’t just a polite stroll through Arsenal’s history. This is an autopsy of Arsenal’s tactical evolution, slicing open the past to see what made our beloved club thrive – and …
Arsenal finances are heading toward the edge, but we’re ok for another season of spending Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football By Tony Attwood An article in the Telegraph asks us to consider the “Ten most irritating things about modern football” and very clever it is too, …
Arsenal finances are heading toward the edge, but we’re ok for another season of spending Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football By Tony Attwood At least with the Tuchel fellow we know where we stand for as he recently said, “I will not rest England players …
By Tony Attwood How Arsenal moved from 20th to 2nd in one season Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football Are Arsenal the only bottlers or is that just another stick with which to beat us? It is of course commonplace to talk about Arsenal being in …
Are Arsenal the only bottlers or is that just another stick with which to beat us? The kindness of footballers, and the appalling behaviour of the media By Tony Attwood As I have mentioned before we don’t have a women’s football correspondent to pick out the nuances of life in the women’s game …
On the Arsenal History website today: How Arsenal moved from 20th to 2nd in one season under Chapman ———— By Nitram Why are Arsenal always accused of being ‘bottlers’, when in fact they are nothing of the sort? Or at least if Arsenal are, then so is everyone else. The reason I ask …
Just published: How Arsenal moved from 20th to 2nd in one season under Chapman By Tony Attwood We have had so many Arsenal players have their confidence destroyed playing out of position in a national team that it was rather a surprise to hear that one Arsenal youngster got through an international without being crocked. …
The fanatical secrecy of the Premier League’s refs put to shame by the Swiss Does fouling a lot and scoring a lot always take a club up the league? By Tony Attwood Following on from my last piece about the exploitative nature of the media and the way in which young men are …
An evening with Arsenal Legends and that missing London League Table By Tony Attwood And so a new “football” is added. No longer an11 a-side or even a 5-a-side game, but rather a seven a side women’s game. The games will be 30 minutes long, played across two halves of, hang on a …
Does fouling a lot and scoring a lot always take a club up the league? Why do people keep making up transfer stories when 97% of them are wrong An evening with Arsenal Legends and that missing London League Table A recent development in Switzerland reported in LeMatin should be of major …
Why Arsenal’s Performance Is So Hard to Predict (and How to Crack the Code) An evening with Arsenal Legends and that missing London League Table By Tony Attwood Recently we had a look at whether a club’s league position directly relates to having a top goal scorer. The answer seemed to be, “sometimes,” …
An evening with Arsenal Legends and that missing London League Table The personality of referees, and why PGMO is so determined to stay secret By Tony Attwood Many football journalists and bloggers whose prime area of writing is transfer rumours – have something rather nasty in common. For it seems that most of them …
Arsenal are in the midst of a big injury crisis with Saka, Jesus, Tomiyasu and Havertz out. It’s testing their squad depth. As of March 2025 they are 2nd in the league with 55 points from 28 games, but slipping further behind Liverpool who have 70 points from 29 games. A 1-0 win over …
. You’ve seen it before. Arsenal steps onto the pitch for a massive game, and suddenly, they look like title contenders – fast, aggressive, playing with purpose. Then, the next week, they lose focus against a mid-table side, and we’re all left scratching our heads. If you’ve ever placed a sports bet, you know …
Recently… The personality of referees, and why PGMO is so determined to stay secret How have the London clubs been doing this season? And forthcoming… As you can see above, there is a special event on 25 March run by the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association. LIVE CONVERSATION WITH: Lee Dixon, Paul Davis, Alan …
How have the London clubs been doing this season? Arsenal are only six goals away from being top of the league By Tony Attwood Here’s an interesting question: which organisation manages to govern and control WITHOUT being in the news at all? Put another way, which organisation has no megaphone and indeed no website …
Arsenal are only six goals away from being top of the league Two Arsenal players in danger of serious injury as prices rise and rise By Tony Attwood In the old days, some websites published a London League table based on the results of London clubs playing each other in the Premier League. It …