Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Bulldog Drummond It is seemingly impossible to find any commentator who is not expecting an Arsenal win, although the BBC tries to find some Watfordian hope by noting that Watford “have only lost one of their last three home matches versus the Gunners.” But they do also admit that “have scored in all 15 …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have played Watford just 33 times in competitive league and cup matches, winning 19, drawing two and losing 12. It was in the 1980s that Watford left their mark on Arsenal, the two sides playing 13 games against each other (12 in the league, one in the FA Cup). Quite amazingly …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal. The history, and the way the media is changing its view of Arsenal”
By Bulldog Drummond Previously: Watford v Arsenal: Are Arsenal up for sale as well? Watford v Arsenal: we could be back in fourth at the end of the weekend The tackles and yellow card data that we use throughout the season come from the Premier League’s website. The Premier League website does actually have an …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: Tackles, fouls and yellows, and the strange way referees react”
By Bulldog Drummond There’s a very interesting little note in the “Reading the game” Newsletter from the Independent. On the subject of takeovers, Arsenal are seen as the only club in the Premier League who are absolutely not for sale. The article claims that the Kroenkes see the whole project as too valuable to their …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: Are Arsenal up for sale as well?”
By Bulldog Drummond It seems centuries since we last had a game, but here we are again playing Watford – the team with the worst home record in the league. Arsenal have an average away record, but as you would expect (if you have been paying attention) Arsenal now have two away games in hand …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: we could be back in fourth at the end of the weekend”
By Tony Attwood Last November, Football.london, told us that Chelsea could spend £241m in the winter transfer window while remaining inside the financial fair play restrictions. It seemed a huge amount of money, but of course I always have complete confidence in Football London as a source and the ability of FFP to keep matters …
Read More “How might the sale of Chelsea proceed? An Untold perspective.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the more bonkers approaches by the trash-media these days is that the transfer is the thing. The transfer in short is far more important than the performance of the football club on the pitch in terms of team selection, how well a club is doing in the league overall, …
Read More “That one Arsenal transfer tale the media refuse to let go of”
By Tony Attwood The Premier League official referees index does not indicate which FA Association the referees on the Premier League’s books are associated with. Indeed in the officially published logs there is no record of where the referee has come from at all. Which is an interesting oversight, because I am sure many fans …
Read More “Why do the refs come from the north when the clubs come from the south?”
By Tony Attwood Infantino is using Fifa for his own global policy with a sense of impunity; Russia is declaring war on the rest of the world with a sense of impunity. The PGMO runs the refereeing system with its multiple mistakes with the media refusing to take a look. The Daily Mirror misdirects fans …
Read More “Does publishing totally false information to knock Arsenal, actually matter?”
By Tony Attwood I have long complained about how the incompetent FA has endlessly supported the appalling Fifa in the desperate hope of getting Fifa to ignore the disaster of the Euros Cup final at Wembley, and think that the FA could be a possible host for a big show once again. And being …
Read More “Now is the time to break up Fifa and reconsider the whole of international football”
By Tony Attwood In one sense it is all rather droll. On the one hand Arsenal’s current form is enough to take them to third in the league by the end of the season, and on the other hand the Guardian reports that, “Fifa has decided that Russia can continue their bid to qualify for …
Read More “This is football’s greatest chance to get rid of Fifa and Infantino”
By Tony Attwood Now there’s a headline I am pretty sure you won’t see written anywhere else. But let’s see just how possible it is for Arsenal to finish above Chelsea, based on the games to come and recent results. Here is the league table H O M E A W A Y Pos Team …
Read More “Why Arsenal will finish above Chelsea in third place this season.”
By Tony Attwood Chelsea’s market value is currently being quoted at over two billion dollars, on the basis that an offer has apparently been made to buy the club for this amount. If that deal were to go through then the owner, would make a profit of around 500 million dollars, given that he has …
Read More “Why is the Chelsea owner being treated differently from other Russian oligarchs?”
By Tony Attwood Journalists don’t do statistics, as we know, so they make up stories to knock us with, but they are slowly running out of options. And stats are available – those used here come from the Premier League’s own data. We are the sixth highest-scoring team in the league, and have the fifth-best …
Read More “Revealed: the next tactical change Arsenal will make”
by Tony Attwood This really is the moment that the world of football, and indeed the world of the Olympics, has to choose. Either each rises up and kicks out its leaders who kowtow with the most appalling despots (Fifa with Russia, and the Committee for Arbitration in Sports, and the Olympics movement with China), …
Read More “Gianni Infantino and President Putin: football must decide whose side it is on.”
By Tony Attwood On 3 September Talk Sport ran the headline “Really?” Beneath that they said… Arsene Wenger claims bottom of the table Arsenal are in ‘good shape’ and rules out any potential return to the Emirates The sneering, jeering piece was written by Connor Andrews, a writer on multiple subjects for the Sprout, .and …
Read More “Talk Sport: isn’t it time for an abject apology over your Arsenal prediction?”
by Tony Attwood There is a growing proposition in newspapers and elsewhere that Arsenal don’t really have any advantage over Manchester United because their two “games in hand” are rather difficult – Tottenham and Chelsea away. In fact that suggestion is that Manchester United have the advantage, although quite how that is the case is …
Read More “The idea that Man U have the advantage over Arsenal in the run in, is twaddle”
By Tony Attwood I have had the good fortune to go to Cup Finals Arsenal have won, and indeed to watch games in which Arsenal won the league, and of course each was a great joyous and memorable occasion. But really that game last night was up there with those matches for the intensity of …
Read More “Arsenal v Wolverhamtpon: I will remember that night for a long time”
By Bulldog Drummond Previously Checking the pundit’s accuracy: How Lawrenson gets Arsenal oh so wrong. Arsenal v Wolverhampton: who is injured and who is going to score the goals? Arsenal v Wolverhampton the history in videos, and the stats When the two clubs met recently they had each played 21 games which made life easier …
Read More “Arsenal v Wolverhampton: the tackling, the team predictions, the result”
By Bulldog Drummond Prelude: The Arsenal History Society has published collections of historic videos for matches against many of our regular rivals. Below Here are the Wolverhampton Wanderers videos. 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 …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone As you will recall, I’m sure, we recently played Wolverhampton and so went through all the regular analyses that we do prior to each game, for that first round. So there is only a minimal about to say now. Indeed we seemingly don’t even have any injuries – the only person …
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By Tony Attwood Just how easy is it to be a pundit? Mark Lawrenson has, for many years, earned to corn by punditing (or would that be punditting with the double t – I’m not too sure) on the BBC each week, predicting the scores. You can see one of his recent efforts here. What …
Read More “Checking the pundit’s accuracy: How Lawrenson gets Arsenal oh so wrong.”
By Tony Attwood Much of the chatter about Arsenal has settled down a bit, perhaps with the media realising that in the light of the reality of league tables taken over time, the media has been looking rather stupid. But still, there is the relentless push to say that Arsenal must have a new …
Read More “Do Arsenal need a new striker? Do Uefa need a new Gazprom?”
By Tony Attwood Many of us have for many years been worried about CAS (the Court of Arbitration for Sport), the Supreme Court of all the sports, because of its bizarre history of rulings. There has been a feeling for a long time that CAS is remote, and of course, as the final arbiter, it …
Read More “The movement to overthrow the Court of Arbitration for Sport is growing”
By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a growing concern among our friends in the Toppled Bollard public house – favoured watering hole of the journalistic elite, that there is not enough antagonism and divisiveness in football at the moment. Indeed, ever anxious to stoke up more nastiness, aggression, and ultimately violence Football.London, the website of …
Read More “How the media promotes violence among football supporters”
