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The 102 players the media say are joining Arsenal this summer By Sir Hardly Anyone According to data supplied by the Guardian, Arsenal are the top spenders so far in the Premier League having a net spend on £68.7m. The figures take into account the sale of Mattéo Guendouzi to Marseille, Dinos Mavropanos to Suttgard …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone As the number of players said to be heading Arsenal’s way now passes the 100 mark the Telegraph suggests that “phone calls stop immediately when interested clubs learn that a potential new signing is not vaccinated.” It’s the first time we’ve seen that published in one of the more serious newspapers, …
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Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? By Tony Attwood Looking at Arsenal’s development last season, we have focussed on two particular sets of statistics, generally not used by other commentators. One is what happened to Arsenal after the disastrous first three matches, and the other what happened in the second …
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Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? By Tony Attwood Most commentators on next season, speak of Newcastle United’s rise, but because they refuse to use any statistics to analyse the position, feel that Newcastle are not going to rise that far. Mind you they also don’t comment on the issue …
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By Andrew Crawshaw Last night’s match between France and Italy was the last of the first round of group matches. This afternoon the focus switches to the second round with Austria v Northern Ireland at St Mary’s kicking off at 17:00 and England v Norway at Brighton’s Falmer Stadium at 20:00. Both matches are …
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By Tony Attwood As we know Arsenal lost the first three games of last season, and the media made a huge fuss about that. Then amazingly Arsenal made a significant recovery, and became the third-best club in the league over the remaining 35 games. Only Untold Arsenal covered that. Only one other team had a …
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By Tony Attwood What if Arsenal hadn’t had that awful start to the season… In recent articles we have looked at how the alleged “supercomputers” have predicted how the 2022/23 season will work out, and looked at how the teams around Arsenal at the end of last season were doing, and compared this with Arsenal. …
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Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: West Ham Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Manchester United Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Chelsea and the notion of progress. Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Tottenham Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City By Tony Attwood Last season, It wasn’t just a bad start to …
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Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Chelsea and the notion of progress. Arsenal’s opposition in 2022/3: Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Manchester United Last summer the Guardian’s football writers suggested West Ham would finish 10th in the league. Sports Mole went for the same. …
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Arsenal to finish sixth? Not likely! Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Chelsea and the notion of progress. Arsenal’s opposition in 2022/3: Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City By Tony Attwood And now of course the Sun has discovered a supercomputer which can be taken away from its day job or …
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By Tony Attwood Platini and Blatter innocent. So there is only one person left to find… We have for many years been showing that clubs are each treated very differently when it comes to the relationship between tackles and fouls. But it also turns out that the number of fouls called varies from one referee …
Read More “The more clubs tackle, the more they get away with it. The stats.”
By Tony Attwood The two mountains Arsenal have to climb Sadly I don’t have time this evening to write a complete review of the game, as I’m off to Derbyshire for a dance, but I would like to note just how fantastic I thought that game this afternoon was. Of course, I know we went …
Read More “A pre-season game where we score five; this season could be rather jolly…”
By Tony Attwood As you may have heard, the case we have been following in Switzerland involving Michael Platini and Sepp Blatter ended with both being found not guilty of fraud and other offences over a lack of evidence of ill-intent relating to the £1.3million payment made for consultancy work. Following the result, and not surprisingly, Platini …
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Arsenal’s opposition in 2022/3: Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City By Sir Hardly Anyone In this series we are looking at a few of Arsenal’s rivals, to see how the media predicted their progress last season and how they are seeing it for 2022/3. We have mentioned GiveMeSport already and they …
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Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City By Sir Hardly Anyone If you read our recent pieces about predicting results you will know we have been raging against the concept of Super Computers giving a prediction for their results. Super computers are never used in this way. See Supercomputer vs human predicting Arsenal next …
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US authorities give extra money to Fifa: the most bizarre timing ever! By Sir Hardly Anyone In 2019/20 it was shown that the number of Premier League clubs that exceeded UEFA’s 70% wage control guideline had risen to 13 out of 20. Even more bizarre two of the Premier League clubs at the time were …
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By Tony Attwood What’s so wrong with both football, and with the reporting of football Since the Premier League was reduced to its current size of 20 clubs playing 38 games, in 1995/6, there have been 26 seasons. In ten of those seasons (so that is just over one third) the top club has got …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Is Fifa about to follow Infantino and move to the Persian Gulf? This is a list of players who the media are touting this summer as coming to Arsenal: 97 in all. We’ve got five completely new stories today, along with a further 11 which have updated information about bids etc. …
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Is Fifa about to follow Infantino and move to the Persian Gulf? By Tony Attwood There is a screamingly funny piece in the Sussex Express which really does need to be contemplated. The headline is… Predicted Premier League table 2022-23: Supercomputer forecasts Brighton, West Ham, Tottenham, Fulham, Arsenal finish – after latest transfer activity. Now …
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In Switzerland Fifa is on the edge of being blown up. In England….? By Tony Attwood When it comes to goals and assists per 90 minutes, only two players (Sergio Aguero and Mohamed Salah) have been more effective than Jesus since he joined Manchester City in January 2017. In other words, he has contributed goals …
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by Tony Attwood In Switzerland Fifa is on the edge of being blown up. In England….? In what must be one of the most bizarre coincidences of all time in football, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it is awarding Fifa and the Football Confederation of the United States an additional $92 million …
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By Tony Attwood I have been suggesting of late that for Arsenal in the coming season the issue is not just to get better, but rather to get better enough to overtake at least one of the four clubs that ended last season above Arsenal. But of course, last season’s top four also have the …
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The statistical evidence that shows PGMO are biased against Arsenal By Tony Attwood There is an article in The Atlantic.com which includes the statement “Trump’s supporters have been in denial about Trump’s emotional instability, his malignant narcissism, his fascination with violent rhetoric, and his hostility to the American constitutional order.” And yes that seems to …
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By the Untold Team Huge Fifa Corruption Story breaks – no report in English media. “Fifa will not exist in ten years time.” Or maybe even less! Switzerland take a greater interest in Fifa – at last As you may recall from earlier articles, on June 3rd 2015 Blatter, then head of Fifa announced his …
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By Tony Attwood Fabio Vieira responds to injury concerns as new Arsenal signing pictured in moon boot So shouts the Mirror, raising the issue once again that Arsenal are being somewhat careless or incompetent about player injuries – not just getting more players injured than other teams, but even being so stupid as to purchase …
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