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What is really wrong with Premier League refereeing? We decided to find out Arsenal win, goals conceded cut in half, ManC vulnerability, and defence is not enough By Tony Attwood The current league table shows Arsenal top, of course, and our next opponents Aston Villa, in third, six points behind, scoring seven fewer and …
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By Tony Attwood, working with Christophe Jost and Untold Referees The arguments about something being very seriously wrong with refereeing in the Premier League have been going on virtually since the league started, with fans of many PL clubs putting forward the point that some referees are at best incompetent, or at worst, biased …
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Why is there home advantage and why does it only apply under some referees? Arsenal learn the lesson about African players By Tony Attwood Of course, you know where Arsenal are in the league, but I thought we might take a peek this morning at the locations of the other clubs that like to …
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By Tony Attwood So we have done our usual run around, looking at the referee and the teams. If you missed anything here are the articles Arsenal v Brentford: history, present form, and a comparison with Tottenham Why is there a home advantage, and why does it only apply for some referees? Arsenal …
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By Tony Attwood Most recent articles Why is there home advantage, and why does it only apply for some referees? Arsenal v Brentford. Do Arsenal need a recharge or is it already full speed ahead? And on the Arsenal History website, 100 seasons in the top league: winning the title in 1948 And …
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Arsenal v Brentford. Do Arsenal need a recharge or is it already full speed ahead? Brentford are slipping although Tottenham are trying to rebuild By Tony Attwood The notion of home advantage in football is extremely well established, and year after year, we note that there are more home wins than away wins in …
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By Tony Attwood Brentford are slipping, although Tottenham are trying to rebuild Arsenal’s success after 13 and why we must change the rule about yellow cards There are two views of Arsenal at the moment. One is that as a club, they are very happy to be top of the league with Tottenham Ho …
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Arsenal’s success after 13 and why we must change the rule about yellow cards While media complain about ref Arsenal learn the lesson about African players By Tony Attwood So it is Brentford at home tomorrow at 7.30pm – it is also (in the UK) on Sky Sports. The two clubs are 11 points …
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While the media complain about ref, Arsenal learn the lesson about African players By Tony Attwood It may not be what we want to know, but Arsenal’s performance this season in being top of the league after 13 games is not exceptional. Over the past six seasons, after 13 games, the top team …
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How the football media is conning us day after day In terms of squads, English clubs have a much tougher time than those in Germany and France By Tony Attwood We have regularly noted the difficulties caused by the African Cup of Nation,s which is played every odd-numbered year (the only exception being …
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By Tony Attwood Chelsea v Arsenal – the past games, selling part of the club, avoiding the rules Chelsea v Arsenal: how some refs are handing out twice as many cards as others. So it is first against third… as portrayed in the last article. And of course we often focus on not …
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Chelsea v Arsenal – the past games, selling part of the club, avoiding the rules Chelsea v Arsenal: how some refs are handing out twice as many cards as others. By Tony Attwood Two goals in the first six minutes against Tottenham at WHL – what a super way to start the weekend! …
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By Tony Attwood Chelsea v Arsenal: how some refs are handing out twice as many cards as others. All that money and nowhere to go: the Chelsea ground and games v Arsenal The Arsenal results against Chelsea really are quite extraordinary. Not just the fact that Arsenal have beaten Chelsea 20 more times than …
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All that money and nowhere to go: the Chelsea ground and games v Arsenal How the football media is conning most of us, day after day after day By Tony Attwood Looking at Anthony Taylor’s record this season through his ten games as a PL referee in terms of the home and away team, …
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By Tony Attwood How the football media is conning most of us, day after day after day In terms of squads, English clubs have a much tougher time than those in Germany or France Poor Chelsea. Hammersmith and Fulham, the local council, has said that they don’t want a football ground at Earls Court, …
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In terms of squads, English clubs have a much tougher time than those in Germany or France In football the old order has changed, and Arsenal are benefitting enormously By Tony Attwood Quite often, when football journalists want a negative story to balance against their normal positivity about their favoured clubs and financiers, they …
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In football the old order has changed, and Arsenal are benefitting enormously Another staggering Arsenal victory, and again no one can get near Arsenal By Tony Attwood At the moment, a lot of thought is going into the notion of whether Arsenal really are stronger than any other team in the Premier League. …
In football the old order has changed, and Arsenal are benefitting enormously Another staggering Arsenal victory, and again no one can get near Arsenal By Tony Attwood Before the Champions League game this week, Mikel Arteta said that he felt that Arsenal are a universe apart from the likes of Real Madrid …
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Arsenal v Bayern. The line up, the Odegaard situation and recent results Playing without the injured – how Arsenal have changed their style By Tony Attwood Liverpool lost 1-4 at home to PSV Eindhoven. That ought not to be a headline story in the media, but as often as not, anything Liverpudlian is headline-making. …
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Arsenal v Bayern: it’s a funny old game How to predict the score of a game between Arsenal and Bayern Munich Arsenal’s record against Bayern is poor, but who wants ceaseless success? By Tony Attwood There is a general bit of chit chat going around in the media that Odegaard will be …
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How to predict the score of a game between Arsenal and Bayern Munich Arsenal’s record against Bayern is poor, but who wants ceaseless success? By Tony Attwood You don’t need me to tell you that this has been a period of enormous injury problems for Arsenal. Even today, with several players now said …
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By Tony Attwood How to predict the score of a game between Arsenal and Bayern Munich Arsenal’s record against Bayern is poor, but who wants ceaseless success? And so today at 8pm Arsenal are at home to Bayern Munich; the club is currently top of the German league after 11 games, as I …
Arsenal’s record against Bayern is poor, but who wants ceaseless success? The Metrics Exposing PGMOL’s Strategy in choosing referees By Tony Attwood Well, asking about predicting scores in any game is always a case of tempting fate somewhat, but here especially so since if any team is going to be able to find and …
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The Metrics Exposing PGMOL’s Strategy in choosing referees How come Arsenal are able to get all these amazing young players? By Tony Attwood I knew the Arsenal record against Bayern was bad before I looked it up, but I didn’t know it was going to be THAT bad: won three, drew three, lost eight. …
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By Christophe Jost and Tony Attwood From www.Untold-Referee.com To cut through the PGMOL’s propaganda about the “random” assignment of referees, we decided to investigate. And we did this through using two simple metrics that expose non-random appearance of referees in particualr games. We have called the first of these the Referee Occurrence Stat …
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