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Posh stadium but not the results to go with it By Tony Attwood Yes indeed, Arsenal are top of two leagues – the Premier League table and the Champions League table. Not that anyone following the match yesterday on the media would have known, because such details are a bit too much for …
By Tony Attwood Which club has the most yellows the season, and which the least. Arsenal v Palace Arsenal advance…. but it is never likely to be enough Arsenal v Palace: injury latest and Palace’s performance Arsenal v Crystal Palace – It’s the League Cup on tuesday Everything says this is a game …
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Arsenal v Palace – the team and thoughts on the game Arsenal advance…. but it is never likely to be enough Arsenal v Palace: injury latest and Palace’s performance Arsenal v Palace – the team and thoughts on the game By Tony Attwood There is a bit of a fuss being made about the …
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Arsenal v Palace: injury latest and Palace’s performance Arsenal v Crystal Palace – It’s the League Cup on Tuesday By Tony Attwood The media seem to have gone quiet about Arsenal, with barely a mention of January transfers and nothing about tomorrow’s game. It is as if the club doesn’t exist, although of …
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Arsenal v Crystal Palace – It’s the League Cup on Tuesday Poor Tottenham: posh stadium, but not the results to go with it Most wins, fewest defeats, lowest goals against, top of the league… By Tony Attwood Definitely missing for the Palace league cup match to be played tomorrow are Cristhian Mosquera Ibarguen, Ben …
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Poor Tottenham: posh stadium, but not the results to go with it Most wins, fewest defeats, lowest goals against, top of the league… by Tony Attwood What makes the media so negative about Arsenal when we have a league table for Christmas that shows Arsenal top? Actually, there is no particular reason except that …
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Most wins, fewest defeats, lowest goals against, top of the league… Arsenal, the team, and some rather strange team predictions By Tony Attwood “Spurs might not have the trophies, but they do have the nicest stadium in the country” That was on the “Unbelievable Jeff” Facebook page. And it is an interesting thought. …
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by Tony Attwood How top clubs have at least 6+ of the top players in the world in their squads So yes, we made it. Top of the League at Christmas. Of course, we still have a game against Palace before Xmas in the League Cup, but as far as the league itself …
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By Tony Attwood Everton v Arsenal this evening: clubs almost equal in recent performances How top clubs have at least 6+ of the top players in the world in their squads Below is the top four of the league table as of lunchtime on 20th December. You might wonder why I am publishing it …
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How top clubs have at least 6+ of the top players in the world in their squads Arsenal one of the sensible six, so we can watch our full squad By Tony Attwood The Arsenal problem, in the eyes of the media, is well defined today as the Guardian runs the statement, “Mikel Arteta …
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by Tony Attwood Sam Barrott will referee tomorrow’s game, with Tim Wood and Wade Smith assisting him. Oliver Langford will be the fourth official, with Michael Salisbury on VAR and Peter Wright as the assistant VAR. So let us compare Sam Barrott, who has overseen ten games this season in the PL, with …
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Arsenal v Everton this weekend: early thoughts and a concern How top clubs have at least 6+ of the top players in the world in their squads By Tony Attwood Arsenal games against Everton are usually jolly nice affairs since, at least for us, Arsenal win them. There have been 225 competitive games across …
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Arsenal one of the sensible six, so we can watch our full squad Journalists turn on Arsenal as a way of avoiding considering the neighbours By Tony Attwood On Saturday at 8pm, Arsenal play Everton. I’ll do the usual Untold preview of the game of course, but I thought it was worth also reflect …
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Arsenal one of the sensible six, so we can watch our full squad Journalists turn on Arsenal as a way of avoiding considering the neighbours By Tony Attwood The Guardian is running a series of articles on “The best 100 male footballers in the world.” Each day they release another group, and so far …
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Journalists turn on Arsenal as a way of avoiding considering the neighbours How Fifa is wrecking club squads and forcing clubs to buy more players By Tony Attwood Every two years, clubs lose players, not because they are transferred or injured or out of form, nor indeed because the player is overtaken in the …
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How FIFA is wrecking club squads and forcing clubs to buy more players Reffymandering.net: at last we can see where refereeing is going wrong 100 years in the top division: Arsenal 1951/2; losing the cup final By Tony Attwood As you may have noticed, Arsenal’s record since the last game in November …
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Reffymandering.net: at last we can see where refereeing is going wrong From 16 December 2020 to now: just how far have Arsenal come? By Tony Attwood In a report published by Associated Press and taken up by the insurance company Howden and other outlets, it has been revealed that Chelsea had nearly half as …
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From 16 December 2020 to now: just how far have Arsenal come? When being in a league means lots of travel and endless defeats By Tony Attwood Why does it matter if one referee oversees multiple Arsenal matches in a season? Actually, it doesn’t, unless that referee is biased in any way. Not …
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Being in a league means lots of travel and endless defeats Another staggering win, as Arsenal players take another kicking By Tony Attwood You know pretty much how the league looks today, but with a handful of minutess to spare I thought it might be interesting to know a little bit about how the …
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By Tony Attwood One of the themes that we have developed on Untold Arsenal is that even the most successful clubs in the Premier League get occasional “blips” – which is to say runs of anything between two and five games in which they draw or even lose games that we would have expected them …
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton. What Arsenal need to be wary of. Are Wolverhampton the worst team ever in the Premier League? Another staggering win, as Arsenal players take another kicking By Tony Attwood And so we are getting closer to kick off, which means it is time to contemplate any last-minute news and, indeed, the …
Are Wolverhampton the worst team ever in the Premier League? Another staggering win, as Arsenal players take another kicking And on the Arsenal History website: 100 years in the top division: Arsenal. 1950/51 – a roof for the north bank, but no trophy By Tony Attwood Now I come to think of it, …
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And on the Arsenal History website: 100 years in the top division: Arsenal. 1950/51 – a roof for the north bank, but no trophy The game this weekend of course is against Wolverhampton Wanderers, so that question in the headline pops up. It is generally reported that Derby County suffered relegation from the English …
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Arsenal have so many injuries it’s impossible to say what the team will be The one gigantic benefit that Arsenal have that everyone has forgotten By Tony Attwood Well, forgive me if I start with a league table, because a) it looks wonderful and b) I can’t think of many or indeed any of …
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Club Brugge v Arsenal: all the things you don’t need to know but are quite interesting Club Brugge against Arsenal: how are the oppositin doing of late? By Tony Attwood Something very odd is happening in the media today, as journalists and publishers who normally fall over themselves to predict who will be selected …
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