(selon certains y’a pas penalty mdr) pic.twitter.com/Kx83gyp7ws — Arsenal FR (@Arsenal_FRA) March 6, 2021 Is it really that easy to influence a referee? That is the headline over an article in the Athletic. I’ve reprinted the opening below, but in essence it leads with the referee showing how he stops himself being influenced by players, …
By Bulldog Drummond Let’s have a peek at who we have used the most this season listed by the minutes played, which is usually a fair indication as to which players the manager likes, when all are fit… Below is our top 20 appearances listed in minutes (substitute appearances listed under games in brackets). This …
Text By Bulldog Drummond Photo by Trappedinburnley Well, yes my headline is wrong. Not “injuries” but “injury”. It is Emile Smith Rowe. He has an injury which is either groin, or hip or pelvic depending on who is talking. The official line on 3 March was that “Emile had a scan yesterday, it doesn’t look …
By Bulldog Drummond Prior to, and after the Leicester game the figures for Arsenal in relation to tackles, fouls and yellow cards looked very promising as it showed that Arsenal were following a key strategy. The management have now fully realised that Arsenal winning is not primarily about how Arsenal play, but about how Arsenal …
By Bulldog Drummond As we have noted a number of times, getting into the Europa League next season isn’t just about Arsenal winning games, it is about the clutch of teams above us doing less well than they have been. So I thought I’d have a little look at just how this is going, in …
By Tony Attwood On 6 June 2019 we did quite a bit of boasting. Indeed the headline of the day said it all. “We predicted six champions before the season started” we crowed. “We got all six right,” we concluded. And in fact that was the second year running we got six out of six. …
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is being reported that Jürgen Klopp has told Uefa and Fifa that Liverpool will not allow its players to go and play (or indeed sit on the bench) for their countries if they are having to travel to a location which will mean that upon their return to England there …
by Sir Hardly Anyone Traditionally, Untold has taken more note of the 25 player rule and the notion that only 17 players can be foreign grown, than the inventors of transfer rumours. Our view has been that people who run newspaper columns and blogs propagating the rumours of transfers (97% of which are always wrong) …
By Tony Attwood There is an article on the Football.London site which runs with the headline “Stan Kroenke could force Mikel Arteta into transfer rethink at Arsenal as £182m mistake revealed” It is, I think, one of the most misleading articles I have seen in the last couple of hours, and I thought it was …
By Tony Attwood Every year around this time, websites start to tell us that they have had access to the results produced by a super computer to tell us who is going to win the league. They don’t actually tell us what a super computer is, nor indeed why for something as simple as predicting …
Written by Darryl Rigby, Immigration Advice Service The United Kingdom formally exited the European Union on January 1st 2021, ending a near-50-year alliance that had previously made trading goods with the rest of the continent much more straight-forward Throughout the ‘Leave’ vs ‘Remain’ debate, much of the arguments centred around the economy, and in particular …
By Tony Attwood Sky Sports have presented a list of “days lost” to clubs by players being injured or ill. It is an interesting list and is combined with a note from Sky that notes that this is fractionally under 10% higher than for the first 26 games last season. Then they suggest that “the …
By Tony Attwood This is a very curious and odd league table at the moment. The almighty glorious wonderful Liverpool of yesteryear have slipped down to sixth and are hobnobbing it with their neighbours (three points below and two games in hand). Arsenal and Tottenham (the latter being regularly tipped for great things, largely on …
By Tony Attwood There is a little piece about the weekend’s Arsenal match in the Guardian which reads… “Brendan Rodgers looked glum at full time. He looked even glummer as the man from Radio Leicester informed him the airwaves were already alive with callers asking if Leicester City were about to repeat the collapsing act …
By Tony Attwood That game today was so much better, it was one of those matches that made me wonder why we couldn’t run the game in this way all the way through every match. We are still a long way down in the league on where we should be, of course, but it was …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal still have the third-best defence in the league – just one goal more than Chelsea conceded this season. We have conceded one fewer goal than Leicester. However, in terms of attack, we are 11th in the League, having scored 13 fewer goals than Leicester. Leicester have scored 19 and conceded 16 …
By Bulldog Drummond Yes a shock announcement and the horror only comes because it is unbelievable. It really is because seemingly Arsenal have only one injury: Rob Holding. Arsenal have issued a statement which says, “”Holding had a concussion but now we need to follow the protocols and he won’t be able to travel.” Several …
by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal are slowly getting to grips with the way referees treat them this season. As a result they are getting slightly more tackles in per foul given against them (1.25 against 1.15 in December), they can commit slightly more fouls before getting a yellow (6.47 against 6.31 in December). Leicester however are …
By Tony Attwood Football London has a headline today saying “AS Monaco are eyeing a summer move for striker Alexandre Lacazette. “That is according to the Mirror as Arsenal may be prepared to cash in on the Frenchman this summer if he shows no signs of signing a new deal, meaning they will not wish to …
By Tony Attwood Could it be that our constant campaign to embarrass the PGMO (and the mass media that supports it), by pointing out referee errors, their refusal to give any public statements or to bring themselves in line with the rest of Europe, is having an effect? And could the media’s abject failure to …
By Tony Attwood When there is mention the unbeaten season and my thoughts immediately turn to the last match of the season, going one down, the rescue and victory, staying for an hour in the ground, and then driving through London and finding that everywhere there seemed to be people out and about waving scarves …
Previously: Arsenal v Benfica; where it’s at, what’s the co-efficient, what happened, who’s injured? Arsenal players forced to isolate after home game! AFC news ahead of Benfica game The Standard confirms that Thomas Partey traveled to foreign parts where we play the club of one country in the country of another. They add that “If …
Darryl Rigby – Immigration Advice Service Last month was undoubtedly the slowest January transfer window on record. With clubs still reeling from the ongoing economic impact of COVID-19, many simply cannot afford to recruit new players in these dark and uncertain times. The Gunners were actually one of the Premier League’s busiest clubs in January, …
By Bulldog Drumond Previously: Arsenal v Benfica; where it’s at, what’s the co-efficient, what happened, who’s injured? It appears that English clubs that travel overseas, and players who leave England to play for their country anywhere in the world (presumably including Scotland) during the next international break will have to self-isolate for 10 days on …
by Bulldog Drummond The main question is where on earth is this game being played? Well, of course, as you probably knew the answer is Στάδιο Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης, which for those who studied ancient Greek at school rather than the up to date version is the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, a port city in Greater …
