Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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When a club wins the first 3 games of the season, does it win the league? By Tony Attwood During the summer we undertook a review of the various blogs and newspaper websites that were making predictions for the top four places in the league by the end of the season. To a …
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REPORTS OF ARSENAL BEING IN BREACH OF FFP TURN OUT TO BE MEDIA MAKE-BELIEVE! By Tony Attwood It is an issue we have raised before, but it comes back season after season. The teams that tackle the most, get away with more tackles for each foul given against them, than the teams that tackle least. …
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Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? How the media created the myth of the gap between Arsenal and the top four By Bulldog Drummond “Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta to make surprise Europa League team selections” according to the Express. But the surprise they claim, however, is not that …
Read More “A team of youngsters or an experienced team against Zurich?”
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years:100 Years in the First Division By Sir Hardly Anyone Folarin Balogun is 21. He was born in New York and has represented England …
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day Today is the anniversary of the first ever game at Highbury By Bulldog Drummond FC Zürich is one of two professional teams from the …
By Tony Attwood My seven-point plan to fix Premier League’s failing Var That is the bold headline over an article in the Telegraph in which the ex-head of PGMO sets out the changes he considers necessary to make refereeing better. And it looks on the face of it interesting since Hacket was for many years …
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By Tony Attwood From the moment of the takeover of Newcastle United by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia there’s been a feeling that matters are different. And so it turns out now that Newcastle United are putting in a complaint about VAR. Suddenly there seems to be an admission that referees are not …
Read More “If Arsenal complain about refs, then nothing. But if Newcastle complain…”
By Bulldog Drummond With the disappointment of the game and the result, it is easy to forget that we’re still top of the league. Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 6 5 0 1 14 7 7 15 2 Manchester City 6 4 2 0 20 6 14 14 …
Read More “We lost but we’re still top of the league. Reasons to be cheerful part 99.”
Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year By Sir Hardly Anyone With the Daily Mirror, all one can do is laugh at their crass idiocy and …
Read More “Man U v Arsenal: the team, and the last time we won the first six league games”
Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year (this series is still under construction – stories are listed from 1 December onward). by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal and the return …
Read More “Does the league table after six games tell us who will win the league?”
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division by Tony Attwood UEFA has now released the list of clubs that have breached the Financial Fair Play regulations, and …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Bulldog Drummond We have been doing quite well on the injury front until recently but now the number of …
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood Paul Tierney is the referee for the Manchester United v Arsenal game. He is from Salford …
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Arsenal’s new tactics explored in detail and what it means for the season ahead By Tony Attwood Chapters I and II of the Competition Act 1998 prohibit anti-competitive agreements between businesses and the abuse of a dominant position in a market. That might not sound like anything remotely relevant to football, but suddenly it becomes …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day by Tony Attwood In terms of the amount of money spent on players this window Arsenal came 7th, spending £118.86m and gaining an income of £21.42m. Top spenders were …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Sir Hardly Anyone Of course by the time you read this one of the players may have been …
Read More “Who are Arsenal signing on deadline day? The ten most likely moves.”
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood So, you’ll know what the match looked like and what the league table looks like, and you …
by Bulldog Drummond Football London suggest that Zinchenko will be back in the squad although may not start. They also note that it may now be time for Tomiyasu to start a game rather than coming on as a substitute. Their other thought is that Despite producing arguably his best performance of the season against Fulham, …
Read More “Arsenal v Villa: the Arsenal team and the last long run of wins”
by Bulldog Drummond According to the Premier League injuries table Arsenal are now sitting on four injuries exactly the same number as Villa. Reiss Nelson is still out with a muscular injury and no return date is set Oleksandr Zinchenko is rated 50% for the match after suffering a knee injury Mo Elneny has a …
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division So off we go again on Wednesday with another match. This time at home to Villa. And indeed as we noted recently …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood In January 2011,Sky Sports commentators Richard Keys and Andy Gray, who had both been in charge of commenting …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division This article continues our “Arsenal developing” series… Media completely misses Arsenal’s astounding tactical change Why is the media so certain Arsenal will …
Read More “All the pundits had Arsenal finishing outside the top four. Why was that?”
By Tony Attwood On 7 April 2004 the headline in the Daily Mirror was “Arsenal’s season in ruins”. Arsenal had just lost at home to Chelsea in the champions league but were about to go on to be the only team since the 19th century to go through a season undefeated. Ruins? Well, with a …
Read More “When we win the first four league games of the season, what happens next?”
By Tony Attwood Yesterday, 28 August 2022, members of Arsenal Independent Supporters Association (AISA) made the pilgrimage along the Thames from Embankment Pier to Dial Square, to see the origins of Arsenal FC. Although of course the original grounds on which Royal Arsenal FC and Woolwich Arsenal FC played are no longer football grounds, Dial …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division Arsenal’s new tactics explored in detail and what it means for the season ahead By Tony Attwood Somewhere, someone worked it out. …
Read More “How us fans took back control of the games and made football glorious fun”
