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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Penalties for and against. Are Arsenal being hard done by? Arsenal go through, Chelsea owner caught making money and 7 weird transfers By Tony Attwood There are several ways you can see Arsenal’s achievements this season. One is as an absolute failure: the club has run the eventual champions close for two …
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 some, what shall we call them, ‘Curious’ penalty statistics posted by John L and Mikey I thought I’d take a deeper look into how we have been fairing in the …
What’s wrong with football? Compiling (and hiding) the complaints Arsenal are still losing money, but there are reasons to be cheerful By Ivan Idea I suspect it’s just me getting old but it took me quite a little while to find out how to watch the Arsenal match on DAZN, but I finally …
Thomas Tuchel declares war on Arsenal Arsenal finances are heading toward the edge, but we’re ok for another season of spending By Tony Attwood The chances are that if you ask ten people what’s wrong with football, you will get a dozen different answers. Ask ten people what’s wrong with Arsenal, and …
There’s this internal argument I’ve been having for years. You probably have it too, especially if you’ve spent enough time watching Arsenal – and even more so if you’ve ever placed a bet or two on a match. It’s that constant back-and-forth between what your gut is telling you… and what the numbers say. Whether …
Thomas Tuchel declares war on Arsenal Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football Are Arsenal the only bottlers or is that just another stick with which to beat us? By Tony Attwood It is interesting that the media day after day after day continue with its key …
From George Graham’s steel-plated defence and Arsène Wenger’s breathtaking attacking revolution to Mikel Arteta’s tactical chess game, Arsenal has evolved exponentially over the years. This isn’t just a polite stroll through Arsenal’s history. This is an autopsy of Arsenal’s tactical evolution, slicing open the past to see what made our beloved club thrive – and …
Arsenal finances are heading toward the edge, but we’re ok for another season of spending Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football By Tony Attwood An article in the Telegraph asks us to consider the “Ten most irritating things about modern football” and very clever it is too, …
Arsenal finances are heading toward the edge, but we’re ok for another season of spending Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football By Tony Attwood At least with the Tuchel fellow we know where we stand for as he recently said, “I will not rest England players …
By Tony Attwood How Arsenal moved from 20th to 2nd in one season Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football Are Arsenal the only bottlers or is that just another stick with which to beat us? It is of course commonplace to talk about Arsenal being in …
Are Arsenal the only bottlers or is that just another stick with which to beat us? The kindness of footballers, and the appalling behaviour of the media By Tony Attwood As I have mentioned before we don’t have a women’s football correspondent to pick out the nuances of life in the women’s game …
On the Arsenal History website today: How Arsenal moved from 20th to 2nd in one season under Chapman ———— By Nitram Why are Arsenal always accused of being ‘bottlers’, when in fact they are nothing of the sort? Or at least if Arsenal are, then so is everyone else. The reason I ask …
Just published: How Arsenal moved from 20th to 2nd in one season under Chapman By Tony Attwood We have had so many Arsenal players have their confidence destroyed playing out of position in a national team that it was rather a surprise to hear that one Arsenal youngster got through an international without being crocked. …
The fanatical secrecy of the Premier League’s refs put to shame by the Swiss Does fouling a lot and scoring a lot always take a club up the league? By Tony Attwood Following on from my last piece about the exploitative nature of the media and the way in which young men are …