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By Bulldog Drummond We have a certain lack of certainty today over such issues as a) will the game be played at all b) who will play in the Arsenal team. Yesterday we had a brief look at the regulations that Uefa were using to impose a move of the match from the normal venue …
Read More “Arsenal: If there is a game in the Ukraine who will play? And if not, why not?”
by Bulldog Drummond So the latest is that Uefa have told Vorskla to use their backup stadium, but Vorskla say they might not be able to get things ready as this short notice. So what happens? Untold, always handy with a rule book brings you the bits others don’t have. There was less than 18 …
Read More “Vorskla say the game v Arsenal might not happen. So what then?”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw Having a spot of spare time while sitting in a traffic jam I thought I would take a look at the biggest stories around and give you a quick translation into English from the journaleese nonsense language that they are normally written in. It is, as they say, all …
Read More “Arsenal to refuse to go to Ukraine? Translating today’s Arsenal stories into English”
by Bulldog Drummond PLEASE NOTE that since this article was written the match has been moved. There is a note in the comments and we’ll have more on this in the next article. According to the almighty Uefa there is nothing to worry about. Martial law, temperatures of below minus 10 – these are of …
Read More “Vorskla Poltava v Arsenal: ice, martial law, moved venue and team news”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal, as we know, have just gone 17 games unbeaten – not just the longest in the Premier League at the moment but the longest in Europe’s main leagues. If things work out ok in the Ukraine – assuming we can fly in and out ok, that could well be increased before …
Read More “Unbeaten runs, goal scorers and how Tottenham are three quarters of an hour behind”
By Tony Attwood As you may have noticed from passing comments I am now in Canary Islands, on a dance holiday, and reminding myself what it is like for many Arsenal supporters being outside England. In this case I am dependent on TV from the truly awful BeinSports which has the disagraced Richard Keys (now …
Read More “Arsenal’s away form, Keys and Gray, child abuse in football, and the case of Man City.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is commonplace for the blogs to “rate” this, that, something else, and then something other. So with Tony off sunning himself on an island off the coast of somewhere watching the game in a bar with a bunchette of Bournemouth supporters I thought we’d have a look at what the …
Read More “Rating the headlines after Arsenal’s win over Bournemouth. Reality loses.”
by Bulldog Drummond. So here we are approaching the game while by now Tony should be somewhere in the Atlantic. Or to be more precise on an island somewhere in the Atlantic. The media appear to be certain Arsenal have blown it simply because of the less than exciting game against Wolverhampton who looked like …
By Bulldog Drummond The good news is that for Koscielny everything is going to plan. The manager recently confirmed this saying, “First, the idea is to play with the Under 23s, but also I am looking at him and with his good performances and good feelings, he is close. Maybe Monday he can play with …
By Bulldog Drummond Because for most of their life Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic (now renamed AFC Bournemouth even though they still play in Boscombe) has played in the Third Division (south) and the Division III, the number of games between Arsenal and Bournemouth is small. They joined the Football from the Southern League in 1923, …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal: FFP, scorpions and recent results”
by Bulldog Drummond It seems forever since we had a real match to look forward to, but now we do, and we can return to the issue of home and away form. This is not an absolute way of predicting results but it certainly can work – and seems to work as well as, if …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal, predictions based on the home and away form.”
By Bulldog Drummond. So what’s new? Arsenal do not have the worst starts of any team in Premier League games this season, contrary to some suggestions. In fact if we take the first 30 minutes as the “start” there are three teams who do worse than us: Man U, Wolverhampton and Leicester. In the middle …
Read More “Are Arsenal the worst openers this season, the foreigners and the injuries”
by Tony Attwood The problem with accepting sponsorship from a state sponsored entity, when the state is a dictatorship and human rights denier are obvious, and we have touched on them many times before. Untold tended to call the stadium the Ems (which was the name of a sandwich bar on East Midlands Trains) and …
Read More “Arsenal’s sponsorship deal with the Emirates was bound to explode one day”
By Tony Attwood Jordi Osei-Tutu, our 20 year old defender, who first grabbed attention in the pre-season games this past summer but who then got an injury, is back playing, and has been training with the first team. Other youngsters who have been signed up include Charlie Gilmour who has been playing with the under …
Read More “Arsenal youngsters join three old timers in training but one absentee is noticeable”
By Tony Attwood It is quite hard to remember an interlull that had so much happening on the football front. We have had the new president of Uefa and some clubs unhappy with Manchester City over the way they were able to spend the money they did, Fifa unhappy with Chelsea and Manchester City and …
Read More “The FA is trying to impose a major shift in the Home Grown regulations”
By Tony Attwood Well actually I don’t know what the headline proves, other than the fact that even with my devotion to statistics, I too can find stats that don’t actually tell me much. The same set of figures (from the Guardian) tell us that it is the centre backs who do the least running …
Read More “Arsenal have run further than any other PL team this season. And this proves that…”
by Tony Attwood It is certainly not the most well-followed trophy among those that Arsenal are engaged in, but it is there, the fifth competition on the agenda, and having seen one of our games thus far I can confirm for those who do go, it is good fun. For below the Permier League, FA …
Read More “Zelalem returns as Arsenal progress and the Man U game that never was (but was paid for)”
By Tony Attwood There is a strange stat that truly is worth of Ron Manager doing the rounds to the effect that Arsenal hasn’t been ahead at half time this season in the League. In a Sky Sport piece that is titled “Your PL season in a stat” that is the headline story. And yet …
Read More “Crazy stats, junk headlines, upcoming youngsters and the return of Ron Manager.”
By Tony Attwood Many objections have been raised, mostly but not exclusively by supporters of Manchester City, to our coverage of Financial Fair Play, which has been our main topic of conversation during this period without any men’s football (although it has been wonderful to see how great the women’s team has become – boosted …
Read More “Is FFP legal or could it be challenged in the European courts?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It seems we live in interesting times, and as the Chinese saying would have i,t that is not always a good thing. For we are told by those who claim to be in the know that Manchester City are getting close to being given a one-year transfer ban from Fifa. This …
Read More “The unsavoury face of youth transfers raises its head. Enquiries are being made.”
by Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychologist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. As regular readers will know I am usually called in when we have a spate of mind readers writing to the site telling anyone who cares to read just what someone else is thinking. Checking with the …
Read More “Tottenham advertising stopped, new delays, Arsenal bribery allegations”
by Tony Attwood Breakaways, breakaways, everywhere we look are breakaways. But not it seems involving Arsenal. Arsenal has become the first (or if I missed it while arguing with Man City fans, one of the first) clubs to put out a statement saying that they are not interested in the notion of the European Super …
Read More “Arsenal not interested in Euro league but there is a breakaway brewing”
by Tony Attwood A while back I saw a survey on why some people in the UK voted to leave the EU. As we all know, fewer than half the electorate voted to leave the EU, although just over half of all those voting did vote Leave and that is taken as the definitive statement. …
Read More “Football after the UK leaves the EU. The FA remains in total denial of the research.”
by Sir Hardly Anyone These days, even when the news report seems to have some semblance of reality within it, and comes from a decent enough source, the headline invariably has to be written to give a different impression. Take for example this headline from This is Futbol: “BBC expert: Arsenal have tabled loan-to-buy offer …
Read More “Football headlines and the strange stories that follow them. (The two are not connected)”
By Tony Attwood The Manchester Evening News has evolved a staunch defence of Manchester City in an article under the headline “Man City Football Leaks revelations are missing a key piece of information” The article is by Stuart Brennan who is best known to many of us who watch the ducking and diving of journalists …
Read More “A defence of Manchester City appears in the press, and it is very worrying”
