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Uefa Mafia: supporters win the fight to chant what they like Arsenal v Real Madrid. A TV problem, a possibly faltering Real Mad… maybe this is the moment. At last at last. Uefa defeated, St Tots Day is here By Tony Attwood As we have seen so clearly in recent times it is the …
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Arsenal v Real Madrid. A TV problem, a possibly faltering Real Mad… maybe this is the moment. At last at last. Uefa defeaated, St Tots Day is here By Tony Attwood First off, the great news. Despite all the attempts by Uefa to take supporters to court and get a legal ruling …
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At last at last. Uefa defeated, St Tots Day is here Football supporters are being manipulated by the very people who should be supporting them By Tony Attwood So it is Arsenal v Real Madrid tomorrow – and wouldn’t you know it, it is on Amazon Prime – which is fine if you …
Football supporters are being manipulated by the very people who shold be supporting them Arsenal: more club trained English players than any other Premier League club. By Tony Attwood “Norwegian club Brann win court ruling over fans’ right to sing ‘Uefa mafia’.” Now you might well assume that Scandinavian countries are fairly liberal …
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Arsenal: more club trained English players than any other Premier League club. By Tony Attwood Here are three interesting questions: First, which three teams have the best defences in the Premier League? Second which three teams have the best attacks in the Premier League? Third, which three teams have the best goal differences …
Everton v Arsenal: the troubles in the north west Darren England is the referee for Everton game, and what that means Everton v Arsenal, and why Arsenal should not emulate Mancester C By Tony Attwood I see that the notion that Opta has a supercomputer which spends its time predicting results is …
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Darren England is the referee for Everton game, and what that means Everton v Arsenal, and why Arsenal should not emulate Mancester C By Tony Attwood We have had a look in the recent posts about the last six games and the home and away figures, and indeed the referee’s penchant for certain …
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Everton v Arsenal, and why Arsenal should not copy Manchester C Arsenal: more club trained English players than any other Premier League club. By Tony Attwood Darren England will be the match official for Arsenal v Everton with Scott Ledger and Akil Howson his assistants. Bobby Madley is the fourth official with Stuart …
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Arsenal: more club trained English players than any other Premier League club. Is it time for the media to take a more reasoned approach about Arsenal? At last someone starts the serious fight against VAR By Tony Attwood It’s a 12.30 kick off in Liverpool tomorrow just three days before Arsenal take on …
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Is it time for the media to take a more reasoned approach about Arsenal? At last, someone starts the serious fight against VAR By Tony Attwood The CIES Football Observatory has posted an analysis of over 900 football clubs across the leading leagues in the world looking at the number of players they …
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At last someone starts the serioius fight against VAR Despite all the injuries Arsenal are the 2nd highest scorers in the League By Tony Attwood I am sometimes asked why I spend so much time commenting upon the ravings of journalists on football topics, and the reason is simple. Because journalists conspire …
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By Jack Beam At last, someone has decided to step up to the plate and taken on the multiple issues that are lurking around VAR. It is of course, not PGMO and it is not one of the larger footballing nations either, but even so, it is still a step in the right …
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The 13 players Arsenal are signing this summer Are some clubs still making illegal payments to parents By Tony Attwood So for much of the season, Arsenal have lost their entire forward line with injuries and just as they are coming back to fitness, we lose the back line. And yet Arsenal are …
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Arsenal against Fulham Arsenal v Fulham: the team Arsenal v Fulham: playing the club that just wins by one goal Arsenal v Fulham. The referee is Mr Yellow Card Arsenal v Fulham: how the teams are matched this season By Tony Attwood It was one of our sillier long-running bits of silliness, …
Arsenal v Fulham: playing the club that just wins by one goal Arsenal v Fulham. The referee is Mr Yellow Card Arsenal v Fulham: how the teams are matched this season By Bulldog Drummond “Bukayo is ready to go,” Arteta said. “All the careful things are already done. Now it’s about putting him …
Arsenal v Fulham. The referee is Mr Yellow Card Arsenal v Fulham: how the teams are matched this season By Bulldog Drummond In the Premier League this season Fulham have been something of an up and down team For example from 1 December to 5 January the club played eight league games and …
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Arsenal v Fulham: how the teams are matched this season The 13 players Arsenal are signing this summer By Bulldog Drummond So it appears that Saka will be back for the game tonight (which incidentally is not on TV in the UK) although it is not clear if he starts or comes on …
The 13 players Arsenal are signing this summer Refs give far more penalties against Arsenal than other clubs: but why? By Bulldog Drummond We do like to consider Fulham as a lesser team than Arsenal, and they are in fact lower in the league than Arsenal: 13 points lower in the …
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The players Arsenal are signing this summer By Ivan Idea The media is pumping out names of players that Arsenal are going to sign in the summer but thus far there seems to be an absolute reluctance to charge toward the 100+ players that have been tipped as certainly on their way …
The strange case of Arsenal’s penalty statistics. Why are Arsenal’s penalty stats so different from all the other top clubs? Refs give far more penalties against Arsenal than other clubs: but why? Fouls and cards: are Arsenal being hard done by? Penalties for and against Arsenal. The Mike Riley factor By Tony Attwood In a …
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By Tony Attwood The Great Penalty Scandal: the story so far (if you have not read the series and want to catch up, I’d suggest starting with the top article here and work your way down). Penalties for and against. Are Arsenal being hard done by? Penalties for and against Arsenal. The …
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Fouls and cards: are Arsenal being hard done by? Penalties for and against Arsenal. The Mike Riley factor Penalties for and against. Are Arsenal being hard done by? By Tony Attwood As our recent articles have shown, Arsenal are getting fewer penalties awarded in their favour but more penalties against them than we …
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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 …
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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 …
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By Tony Attwood This summer sees one of the great anniversaries of Arsenal football club – the 100th year since Herbert Chapman joined the club, and as a result changed it from a football club that was about to slip into what was then bottom division of the league, into a club that …
