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Arsenal glide through despite the warnings and demands An interview on Radio 5 about “North London Forever” By Tony Attwood The Telegraph called it “The most controversial red card of the season,” and the Guardian noted that “it seems inevitable Arsenal will dispute PGMOL’s definition of ‘serious foul play’ in the coming days, …
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2pm: team announcement Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Rice, Nwaneri, Trossard, Martinelli, Havertz. Subs: Neto, Porter, Tierney, Zinchenko, Calafiori, Kiwior, Jorginho, Sterling, Butler-Oyedeji. By Bulldog Drummond Wolverhampton v Arsenal: Can we again predict the result by knowing who is the referee? Wolverhamton v Arsenal; and the team that gives Southampton hope An interview …
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Wolverhampton v Arsenal; and the team that gives Southampton hope An interview on Radio 5 about “North London Forever” By Bulldog Drummond You may recall that in the last league match we were able to predict the result of a draw simply by noting the fact that the referee on that day did not …
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Arsenal glide through despite the warnings and demands An interview on Radio 5 about “North London Forever” So we are playing at 3pm on a Saturday – which seems a very curious time, and I’m pretty sure that won’t catch on. But still let;s do the usual comparison. Team P W …
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An interview on Radio 5 about “North London Forever” Arsenal glide through to the next round of the Champs League. By Tony Attwood So as we know, Arsenal need just one point in their final game in the stage of the European games to utterly guarantee a place in the Champions League going …
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By Tony Attwood A preliminary notice. I’ve just recorded a piece for BBC Radio 5 on the subject of “North London Forever” and why it is unique in the world of football. I am told it is being broadcast on Sunday 2 February at 10.30am. Of course I have no idea how …
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On 2 February Arsenal play Manchester City in a game that is of course on TV, with kick-off time moved to 4.30 pm to accommodate their needs. It’s a game that we know could turn the general statistics of each side upside down. And indeed that is exactly what happened with the game against …
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How the media pick their favourite teams and stand by them no matter what To be exact, it is not all done and dusted, but for Arsenal not to qualify automatically for the knockout stages of the Champions League, and instead fall into the intermediate knockout round for teams ending up between ninth …
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Arsenal stand on the edge of qualification for the next round in the Champs League Arsenal v Dinamo. The allegations are utterly mind-boggling Arsenal v Dinamo Zagreb – the team with 19 consecutive titles Arsenal will of course not have William Saliba for the match tonight against Dinamo Zagreb tonight along with Saka, White, …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Dinamo. The allegations are utterly mind-boggling Arsenal v Dinamo Zagreb – the team with 19 consecutive titles Here’s the Champions League table after last night’s results – you will recall that the aim is to be in the top eight in order to go straight through to the …
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How the media pick their favourite teams and stand by them no matter what Arsenal v Dinamo Zagreb – the team with 19 recent titles By Bulldog Drummond. Now we have spent some time talking about how Dinamo Zagreb are eternal league champions of Croatia, here’s the funny thing. It is the current …
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Arsenal v Dinamo Zagreb – the team with 19 consecutive titles The worst teams, the most injured teams, and the decline of highly tipped clubs By Tony Attwood Football is obviously a game of conflict. For unlike some games such as a running race where basically each person does her/his best and doesn’t …
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By Bulldog Drummond As one might expect with anything run by Uefa, the 36-team Champions league has proven to be pretty farcical with one team winning all their games and three teams losing all their games. We started to see who was not going anywhere a couple of rounds back, so clubs are …
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Tottenham still above Arsenal in the league (if you count it this way) Referee bias is absolutely proven, but no one wants to investigate By Tony Attwood There is a bit of chatter at the moment about this being the worst Tottenham team or the worst ManU side in the club’s history, along …
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By Iver Wayov Countin The last six games table brings a little relief from the game yesterday. This is how it looks after Tottenham’s result today but before the 4pm kick offs. Which shows us the rather interesting news is that Liverpool and Arsenal are on the same run of form in the last …
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Arsenal v Aston Villa: Kavanagh favours away teams, and the bias of the media against Arsenal How the transfer regulations have changed and Arsenal’s response to the changes By Tony Attwood The data used throughout this article is drawn from WhoScored’s referees statistics which you can find here. In yesterday’s pre-match post we …
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Arsenal against Villa. An unbalanced club in an unbalanced season Arsenal v Villa. Are Villa really the challengers the media thought they might be By Bulldog Drummond The referee today is Chris Kavanagh, and as we often do, we take a look at the variation between referees, showing that to some degree which …
Arsenal v Villa. Are Villa really the challengers the media thought they might be How the transfer regulations have changed and Arsenal’s response to the changes By Bulldog Drummond That Villa only drew at home to Bournemouth in October was put down to the exertions of a home win over Bologna in the …
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How the transfer regulations have changed and Arsenal’s response to the changes By Bulldog Drummond The media, having now been tipped off that Arsenal are unlikely to buy anyone in January because of the Financial Fair Play regulations, has now started talking about summer transfers instead. And of course once again the media’s …
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By Tony Attwood Yes we managed to celebrate last night. And oh how we celebrated! Arsenal have been poor all season. When a club looks to buy a new player there are a number of issues that the club considers – issues that the simplistic “Arsenal need a new centre forward” type comments …
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Tonight’s game: Why Tottenham’s manager’s “my way” approach doesn’t work Two defeats in two games: what can Arsenal learn from this? by Tony Attwood And so if we had to have a run of results as we have had, and it had to end at a particular match, I’d say, let it be …
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Tonight’s game: Why Tottenham’s manager’s “my way” approach doesn’t work Warning for the Arsenal/Tottenham game. When it comes to Arsenal v Tottenham, it really is all going Arsenal’s way By Bulldog Drummond Day after day we see articles in the media saying Arsenal are looking for player x, y or z, and rarely …
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Warning for the Arsenal/Tottenham game. This referee doesn’t do home wins When it comes to Arsenal v Tottenham, it really is all going Arsenal’s way By Bulldog Drummond Certainly the results last night were encouraging for Arsenal with Liverpool, ManC and NottF all drawing, giving Arsenal a chance to edge closer to Liverpool …
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Arsenal have been poor all season. When it comes to Arsenal v Tottenham, it really is all going Arsenal’s way By Tony Attwood Referee: Simon Hooper is supposedly one of the top ten referees for PGMO – the referees that have each covered over ten Premier League games this season. And in three …
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When it comes to Arsenal v Tottenham, it really is all going Arsenal’s way Two defeats in two games: what can Arsenal learn from this? By Tony Attwood “Arsenal have been poor all season.” That was the comment in a recent post to this site. It’s not one I agree with but …
