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Why Arsenal are ready to accept a massive increase in yellow cards this season Arsenal v Leicester and the very curious case of Leicester’s yellow cards By Bulldog Drummond Although only five games have gone and only four referees have overseen four or five games each, we can still see enormous differences …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Leicester and the very curious case of Leicester’s yellow cards Yellow cards are on the rise. But beyond that the figures that we have seen so far this season for tackles, fouls and yellow cards are curious. And as I hope to show by the end of this …
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Are Arsenal turning into a dirty team, or is it the media that’s getting nasty? Highlights: Arsenal – nothing to worry about. Football – everything to worry about. Referee data in this article comes as always from WhoScored. By Tony Attwood Now here’s a novel idea – playing a Premier League match at …
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Highlights: Arsenal – nothing to worry about. Football – everything to worry about. Everyone’s injured and Arsenal using the dark arts. By Tony Attwood There has been a huge amount of chat about the “dark arts” involved in the Manchester City v Arsenal game, although not much about other teams who perhaps foul just …
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Everyone’s injured and Arsenal using the dark arts. Arsenal v Bolton: football (but not as we know it), referees and Nic Anelka By Tony Attwood Of course, moving through a round of the League Cup with ease is nothing to be remembered – at least not normally. No more than the fact that the …
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Arsenal v Bolton: football (but not as we know it), referees and Nic Anelka Sexist Uefa loses its accreditation and Bolton struggle in defence By Bulldog Drummond “Arteta rejects talk of Arsenal dark arts” is a rather grand statement in the Guardian; grand in the sense that no one really ever defines what the …
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PGMOL are not incompetent, so stop saying they are By Bulldog Drummond As noted in the last article the referee for this game is Josh Smith. He is a referee who is tentatively being given a chance to move from the rough and tumble of the Championship into the Premier League. Now as …
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PGMOL are not incompetent, so stop saying they are How Premier League refereeing descended into total chaos By Bulldog Drummond Until 2011/12 we used to write about Bolton a lot (often calling them Notlob to signify their backward view of reality). They were in those days (although you might not remember) a Premier …
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How Premier League refereeing descended into total chaos How football is following the lead of Mohamed Al-Fayed by Nekuhan Tony, and other authors on Untold, will you please stop calling the PGMOb ‘incompetent’, ‘biased’, ‘partisan’, ‘partial’, etc., because they are most certainly NOT! They are only a corrupt, criminal organisation, with no …
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By Tony Attwood How football is following the lead of Mohamed Al-Fayed How one manipulative malevolent interview has re-energised the media hatred of Arsenal On 10 October last year the Mirror ran the bold headling “Howard Webb urged to issue ban on referees after Arsenal vs Man City incident”. On October 11 …
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How one manipulative malevolent interview has re-energised the media hatred of Arsenal By Tony Attwood If you ever listen to the news in the UK you will be aware of Mohamed Al-Fayed, who died in 2023. To quote from Wiki, which is in fact quoting something that is on the news in …
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This is a staggeringly brilliant Arsenal team. ManC 2 Arsenal 2 By Nitram Following on from Tony’s previous article Perfidious media link with ManC to launch attacks on all things Arsenal, I thought I’d have a look SKY Sports post match interview that I feel has fuelled this latest bought of media hatred …
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How referees are manipulating the number of yellow cards this season By Tony Attwood I suppose we’ve been a bit naive to expect that the media would be able to celebrate Arsenal’s way of handling ManC, for instead what we have had is a load of whinging, whining and complaining which combined …
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How referees are manipulating the number of yellow cards this season Manchester C v Arsenal. The teams and the records that suggest anything can happen. By Tony Attwood It took Manchester City 100 minutes and playing half the match against 10 men on their home ground just to get a draw, which tells …
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How referees are manipulating the number of yellow cards this season What more can be said about ManC before the game v Arsenal? Manchester City v Arsenal: the games no one will tell you about Of course there is also another Arsenal vs Manchester City game on today and that kicks off just …
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What more can be said about ManC before the game v Arsenal? Manchester City v Arsenal: the games no one will tell you about By Bulldog Drummond There is an article available today which has the line in it reading Manchester United specialise in not doing as well as might be expected And the question …
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Manchester City v Arsenal: the games no one will tell you about By Bulldog Drummond Is there anything new that can be learned about Manchester City? We know they are being charged with 115 offences by the Premier League, we know they are suing the Premier League, we know they are top of the …
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Atalanta goalless, but it is far from doom and gloom How Arsenal away are so different from Arsenal at home By Tony Attwood According to the record books the first three games between the club that went on to become Arsenal (but at the time were Woolwich Arsenal) and the club that went …
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Why is the trial of Manchester City being held in secret? By Tony Attwood And so after five games of the season Arsenal have won three, drawn two and lost none, scoring six goals and conceding one. We might conclude the defence is ok, but the attack needs to recover last season’s form. Last …
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Atalanta v Arsenal Arsenal is accused of looking like a newly promoted team and the player who fights car jackers How Arsenal away are so different from Arsenal at home Atalanta v Arsenal: player options ahead of the game What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday? By Bulldog Drummond Well, …
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How Arsenal away are so different from Arsenal at home Atalanta v Arsenal: player options ahead of the game What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday? By Bulldog Drummond There is no doubt that the changing tactics that Arsenal have used over the last couple of years have often bemused opposition …
Atalanta v Arsenal: player options ahead of the game What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday? By Tony Attwood Given that the first Arsenal game in this season’s Champions League is away I thought it was worth reflecting on Arsenal’s away record last season. Arsenal won 13, dreew three and lost …
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By Bulldog Drummond What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday? There seemed to be many occasions last season when it was hardly possible to write an injury update for Arsenal because there was just one or maybe two players out and we knew all about them. But now we are in …
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By Tony Attwood What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday? This is how Goal sums up the ongoing legal case: “City’s hearing is completely confidential and their fate will be decided by an unnamed three-person panel. They could be relegated if found guilty. The location of the hearing was even kept …
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By Bulldog Drummond The long, long road toward football’s reform. Could these be the first tiny steps? Since winning Serie B in 2011, Atalanta have been in Serie A and have (as far as I know) reached their highest position of third, three times in recent seasons. There has been a bit of …
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