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 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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Feeble fans fade away as Arsenal saunter on: it’s too easy Arsenal’s “expected points” in the last six. Just how well are we doing? By Tony Attwood In March the Football Facts website ran the article, Arsenal won’t win the Premier League for these five reasons … I won’t bore you with those …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Tottenham. Tottenham’s problem with managers and ex-players Arsenal’s “expected points” in the last six. Just how well are we doing? Frank’s small-club approach set club up for embarrassment, says the Telegraph, and well we might agree – indeed we have been thinking that for some time. Before the game …
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Arsenal v Tottenham. Tottenham’s problem with managers and ex-players Arsenal’s “expected points” in the last six. Just how well are we doing? By Tony Attwood As we have often said, internationals are a menace as they whisk players away from their clubs, injure them and return them with a note saying “make sure he’s …
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Arsenal’s “expected points” in the last six. Just how well are we doing? Suddenly it has become incredibly difficult to predict which team Arteta will put out On the Arsenal History Site: 100 seasons in the top division: Arsenal after the second world war By Tony Attwood Why would anyone want to …
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Suddenly it has become incredibly difficult to predict which team Arteta will put out This could be the tightest north London derby for a while but Tottenham willl be very wary By Tony Attwood Today the Sun (a newspaper, of sorts) runs the headline that “Former Spurs star reveals the simple way Tottenham …
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This could be the tightest north London derby for a while but Tottenham willl be very wary Approaching the derby: injuries and the world of Tottenham Hotspur By Tony Attwood Thomas Frank has said Tottenham are not close to emulating Arsenal by spending £100m on one player, a jibe that comes in relation to …
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This could be the tightest north London derby for a while but Tottenham willl be very wary Why one team has seven times more games missed through injuries than another So as we approach the derby on Sunday we seem to have a contradiction. Tottenham Ho have the best away record the league …
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By Tony Attwood Why one team has seven times more games missed through injuries than another Positive possibilities about Martin Odegaard, although the injury count remains high Approaching the derby: injuries and the world of Tottenham Hotspur The last six games table is probably the best guide to current form we have, especially if …
By Tony Attwood Positive possibilities about Martin Odegaard, although the injury count remains high Approaching the derby: injuries and the world of Tottenham Hotspur The New York Times has published a handy set of lists concerning the number of injuries clubs have had this season and the number of games the injuried players …
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How many matches do Arsenal have left this year, and when’s the FA Cup? Of course it is international week so of course Arsenal are hit with injuries By Tony Attwood The news that the visit Rwanda sponsorship campaign is about to come to an end has been widely splashed by the media, …
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How many matches do Arsenal have left this year, and when’s the FA Cup? Of course it is international week so of courze Arsenal are hit with injuries By Tony Attwood I don’t normally start writing about a forthcoming match more than a couple of days before the game is played, but this …
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Of course it is international week so of coure Arsenal are hit with injuries Now and then: how Arsenal have progressed to where they are now By Tony Attwood Although you might not always know if from the news reports, Arsenal, along with a number of clubs, play in four competitions most seasons …
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Now and then: how Arsenal have progressed to where they are now Club being sued over ‘sexual and physical abuse’ claim as club alleged to have failed victim By Tony Attwood Fewer than 7,000 spectators turned up to watch this week’s women’s fixture of Tottenham Hotspur game against Arsenal. It seems interest in the …
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It’s international weekend, so let’s see which Arsenal players have been hurt Club being sued over a ‘sexual and physical abuse’ claim as club alleged to have failed victims By Tony Attwood In 2019, when Arsenal last sacked their manager, and before Arteta was appointed, the league table read … P Team …
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