Analyzing Arsenal’s Injury Crisis and the Impact on Performance

  Arsenal are in the midst of a big injury crisis with Saka, Jesus, Tomiyasu and Havertz out. It’s testing their squad depth. As of March 2025 they are 2nd in the league with 55 points from 28 games, but slipping further behind Liverpool who have 70 points from 29 games. A 1-0 win over …

Why Arsenal’s Performance Is So Hard to Predict (and How to Crack the Code)

.   You’ve seen it before. Arsenal steps onto the pitch for a massive game, and suddenly, they look like title contenders – fast, aggressive, playing with purpose. Then, the next week, they lose focus against a mid-table side, and we’re all left scratching our heads. If you’ve ever placed a sports bet, you know …

An evening with Arsenal Legends and that missing London League Table

    Recently… The personality of referees, and why PGMO is so determined to stay secret How have the London clubs been doing this season? And forthcoming… As you can see above, there is a special event on 25 March run by the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association. LIVE CONVERSATION WITH: Lee Dixon, Paul Davis, Alan …

The personality of referees, and why PGMO is so determined to stay secret

  How have the London clubs been doing this season? Arsenal are only six goals away from being top of the league By Tony Attwood Here’s an interesting question: which organisation manages to govern and control WITHOUT being in the news at all? Put another way, which organisation has no megaphone and indeed no website …

How have the London clubs been doing this season?

  Arsenal are only six goals away from being top of the league Two Arsenal players in danger of serious injury as prices rise and rise By Tony Attwood In the old days, some websites published a London League table based on the results of London clubs playing each other in the Premier League.   It …

Arsenal are only six goals away from being top of the league

  Two Arsenal players in danger of serious injury as prices rise and rise By Tony Attwood Imagine 70 years of pretending to be a big club but not winning anything, and then selling the club to Saudi Arabia and going bonkers over winning a trophy that Arsenal use to give run outs to their …

Arsenal v Chelsea: predictions of the lineup and criticism of Guardiola

    Arsenal v Chelsea: This referee has only seen 3 home wins all season! Arsenal v Chelsea: the referee, recent comparisons and where is Abramovich? Two Arsenal players in danger of serious injury as prices rise and rise Arsenal v Chelsea: a visit from little Stamford Creek   By Bulldog Drummond According to Blick …

Arsenal v Chelsea: This referee has only seen 3 home wins all season!

  Arsenal v Chelsea: the referee, recent comparisons and where is Abramovich? Arsenal v Chelsea: a visit from little Stamford Creek By Bulldog Drummond What I think most of us want most of the time is for referees to adopt the same view of the game as each other, so clubs and players and us …

Arsenal v Chelsea: the referee, recent comparisons and where is Abramovich?

    Two Arsenal players in danger of serious injury as prices rise and rise Arsenal v Chelsea: a visit from little Stamford Creek By Bulldog Drummond Last summer Arsenal spent Sum: €108.90m on transfers  Chelsea spent Sum: €276.00m  (Figures from https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/) In the league the clubs’ positions are   Pos Team Pld W D …

Two Arsenal players in danger of serious injury as prices rise and rise

      By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Chelsea: a visit from little Stamford Creek Why the negative tendencies of commentators discussing Arsenal always end badly If the nutters are not stopped, Arsenal will lose their chance of trophies Only two Arsenal players have been put in danger of getting unnecessary and pointless injuries through …

Arsenal v Chelsea: a visit from little Stamford Creek

  Why the negative tendencies of commentators discussing Arsenal always end badly If the nutters are not stopped, Arsenal will lose their chance of trophies By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal play Chelsea on Sunday at 1.30pm which at least gives me a chance to get home in the light for a change, and it is interesting …

Why the negative tendencies of commentators discussing Arsenal always end badly

  If the nutters are not stopped, Arsenal will lose their chance of trophies Is it really true that one more player is all Arsenal now need? By Tony Attwood It has been a thought of mine for some time that journalists who keep on pushing their own point of view, rather than reporting the …

If the nutters are not stopped, Arsenal will lose their chance of trophies

  By Tony Attwood Last night will, I imagine, be remembered as the game when we finished with four left backs on the pitch, but it was also the game when Sterling came back to life, creating goals for  Zinchenko and Rice. and when PSV changed into a reliable solid and useful player.  Sadly he …

Arsenal v PSV. Suggestions as to the team, goal difference records and other stuff

      Arsenal v PSV: media sows fear and anxiety, and a chance for some rested players PSV v Arsenal: could PSV possibly recover – even a bit?   By Bulldog Drummond One factor we must bear in mind is that the next game for Arsenal after tonight’s match is on Sunday against Chelsea …

Arsenal v PSV: media sows fear and anxiety, and a chance for some rested players

      PSV v Arsenal: could PSV possibly recover – even a bit? Is it really true that one more player is all Arsenal now need? By Bulldog Drummond Suggestions are being made that Sterling should be given a chance to play as a centre forward tonight as TBR announce that Reece Clairmont has been spotted …

PSV v Arsenal: could PSV possibly recover – even a bit?

  Is it really true that one more player is all Arsenal now need? Officials and FA up their attacks on football clubs By Bulldog Drummond This is Arsenal and even given one or two disasters in the past, it is impossible to imagine the club not going through to the next round.  Yet even …

Officials and FA up their attacks on football clubs

  Prices at Arsenal: going up, but in the end old age starts to catch up too. The gap is fairly ludicrous but second place looks on for the third time By Tony Attwood Football is, in one very real sense, about the efforts to bring order to chaos both on and off the pitch.  …

Arsenal Must Reassess As 2024/25 Set For Deja Vu Ending

      As we find ourselves motoring through the month of March, the business end of the 2024/25 Premier League campaign is now more than with us and as all Gunners fans know, sadly Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal first team squad have again come up short. It has not been a disastrous campaign for our …

Prices at Arsenal: going up, but in the end old age starts to catch up too.

  The gap is fairly ludicrous but second place looks on for the third time Ruminations by Tony Attwood Last season Liverpool finished third in the league and won the League Cup, being knocked out of the FA Cup by Machester Un.  And they made a loss of £57m, which was about five times more …

The gap is fairly ludicrous but second place looks on for the third time

  By Tony Attwood Apologies for the late appearance of Untold today, we seem to be having major technical problems not just in my house but in the whole area around where I live.   I’ll do my best to keep the show on the screen, but when the power or the internet goes, I regret, …

Man U V Arsenal – the team, and the question of Arsenal’s failings

    Man U v Arsenal: would we really be better off with the new number 9? ManU v Arsenal, how one referee gives 5 times as many penalties as another Manchester U v Arsenal: the mighty haven’t just fallen, they’ve disintegrated By Bulldog Drummond My point in the last article is that the argument …

Man U v Arsenal: would we really be better off with the new number 9?

    ManU v Arsenal, how one referee gives 5 times as many penalties as another Manchester U v Arsenal: the mighty haven’t just fallen, they’ve disintegrated By Bulldog Drummond I was struck this morning by an article in the Guardian which tackled the question of “what is wrong with Arsenal?”  They put forward the …

Arsenal and the secret of the yellow cards given for “other” reasons

    Mancheter United v Arsenal ManU v Arsenal, how one referee gives 5 times as many penalties as another Manchester U v Arsenal: the mighty haven’t just fallen, they’ve disintegrated There’s an interesting defensive comment from Ruben Amorim in the Telegraph today: “Mikel Arteta had time at Arsenal – I will not get the …

ManU v Arsenal, how one referee gives 5 times as many penalties as another

  ManU v Arsenal, how one referee gives 5 times as many penalties as another Manchester U v Arsenal: the mighty haven’t just fallen, they’ve disintegrated By Bulldog Drummond The referee for the game away to Manchester United is Anthony Taylor.   So far he has overseen 24 games this season – more than any other …