Arsenal v Leicester and the very curious case of Leicester’s yellow cards

    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 …

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. 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 …

Highlights: Arsenal – nothing to worry about. Football – everything to worry about.

  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 …

Everyone’s injured and Arsenal using the dark arts. The team for tonight

  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 …

Arsenal v Bolton: football (but not as we know it), referees and Nic Anelka

    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 …

Sexist Uefa loses its accreditation and Bolton struggle in defence

    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 …

PGMOL are not incompetent, so stop saying they are

    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 …

How Premier League refereeing descended into total chaos

      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 …

How football is following the lead of Mohamed Al-Fayed

      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 …

How one manipulative malevolent interview has re-energised the media hatred of Arsenal

      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 …

Perfidious media link with ManC to launch attacks on all things Arsenal

      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 …

This is a staggeringly brilliant Arsenal team. ManC 2 Arsenal 2

    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 …

Manchester C v Arsenal. The teams and the records that suggest anything can happen.

    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 …

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 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 …

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 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 …

Manchester City v Arsenal: the games no one will tell you about

    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 …

Atalanta goalless, but it is far from doom and gloom

  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 …

Atalanta v Arsenal, latest news, recent comparisons, the team, the result

      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, …

Arsenal 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 There is no doubt that the changing tactics that Arsenal have used over the last couple of years have often bemused opposition …

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 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 …

Atalanta v Arsenal: player options ahead of the game

    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 …

Why is the trial of Manchester City being held in secret?

      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 …

What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday?

    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 …

The long, long road toward football’s reform. Could these be the first tiny steps?

    “England ‘could face Euros ban’ over regulator plan”. Arsenal win, while Tottenham manager ignores evidence to put faith in the old ways So if it is Tuesday that means its …. err…. Champions League, on Thursday.  But that is ok because Uefa has said so.  Just as the idea of UK having a …

The ManC legal case gets under way as yellow cards escalate to ludicrous levels

  Arsenal win, while Tottenham manager ignores evidence to put faith in the old ways By Tony Attwood Arsenal remain in the top eight group of clubs for yellow cards this season, with 11 cards.  If they carry on at this rate the club will end up with 104 cards.   Mind you that would also …