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Swansea v Arsenal 31 October 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw The updated ‘Table of Shame’ following Usama and Walter’s Ref Review : Watford – Arsenal Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 11 Red Cards 0 7 Penalties 0 8 Goals 0 3 Total 0 29 Possible …
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by Tony Attwood It’s hard to remember, after all the hullabaloo of the league cup, but we are second in the league. That is both the Premier League by results and the Premier League by injuries (well, ok, equal 1st/2nd with Liverpool in terms of injuries). But this is Arsenal we are talking about so …
2015-16 Season – First quarter review by Andrew Crawshaw Following on from Fishpie – After a very good start, we need to do even better here are a few more thoughts about our first quarter of the season Referees – a bit of a rant I’m afraid but not only from my Arsenal viewpoint …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone. Well my dears, while Untold is speaking about reality, evidence based football reporting, and general whatnot, what is the rest of the football world discussing? Wild ravings and unsupported rants by and large. So what have we been fed of late? Well, the usual load of drivel. But the number of …
Read More “DEAL AGREED– £165,000-A-Week Arsenal target agrees to sign spoof and other stories”
by Tony Attwood The Serious Fraud Office is an independent UK Government department that investigates and prosecutes serious or complex fraud, and corruption. And at long, long, long last it has announced that it is investigating money-laundering offences involving the bidding for the 2018 (Russia) and 2022 (Qatar) World Cups. It has announced this …
By Tony Attwood Last night was a pretty horrible occasion with injuries some very nasty tackles, and the infinitely more important issues like the Premier League and the possibility of a 3rd consecutive FA Cup on everyone’s mind. Clubs are not allowed to opt out of the League Cup, and the option of putting out …
. By Tony Attwood . Ah, the Wednesday. The team we beat twice in 1993 at Wembley to win the Cup, and then the Cup. The first ever team to do the Cup Double.As I recall it was a dire year of league football – we were the lowest scoring team in the Premier …
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Need for a Striker By Mashwar I have read so many articles this year but none of them ever mentioned or even came close to mentioning the fact that how fatal the combination of Arsenal can be with Sanchez and Walcott both in front and Ozil coming behind them. Well that’s one pacey and talented …
Read More “Does Arsenal need another striker? Not on these figures.”
Why are so many referees from Manchester? By Proudkev Having studied the Premier league Select group of referees, I decided to conduct some research. Not something the media are strong on but I wanted to show them how to write articles based on fact. At this point I want to make it clear that I …
Hold the front page, Wenger is talking about tactics By Tim Charlesworth Amidst all the joy and celebration following the Bayern result, you may be forgiven for missing something unusual: Wenger made a comment about tactics. This is remarkable because of its rarity. For some reason, Arsene doesn’t like to talk about tactics. Perhaps he …
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By Fishpie With this weekend’s 2-1 victory over Everton, we have officially completed the first quarter of the league season and entered into the second. Those long, hard, dark, cold Autumn and Winter months lie ahead. So I think its a good moment to pause, take stock of how its gone so far and …
Read More “After a very good start, we need to do even better”
By Tony Attwood My intention having got home in time to make a bacon sandwich and watch Match of the Day was to then write a report on the game highlighting the total ineptitude and lunacy of the referee. But then the best laid plans… the computer went onto another planet and short …
Read More “It was fun, it was nervy, and even the bloody computer got over excited. But we made it.”
By Bulldog Drummond Continuing from the earlier piece, previewing today’s game, the biggest threat we can see is that Everton are unbeaten away this season. Against that we have won five of the last six in all competitions, scoring 17 goals along the way. Not bad considering that the last six included Man U and …
By Bulldog Drummond As I suspect everyone has worked out, we’ll be top if we win, although quite possibly only for a day. But even so it’s not a bad feeling. Indeed looking at the table built just from the last six league games we are indeed top: Pos Team P W D L F …
Arsenal v Everton Saturday 24 October – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw No new Referee Reviews from Usama and Walter so no update to this season’s table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 11 Red Cards 0 6 Penalties 0 7 Goals 0 3 Total 0 27 …
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By Tony Attwood That heading may have taken you a bit by surprise but it is true in terms of the parallel trophy that is played alongside the Champions League – the under 19s competition, once upon a time called Next Gen, but now taken over by the all-encompassing Uefa. The games are played in …
By Tony Attwood Being away on holiday while the season runs along its merry course is always an interesting experience. A chance to do the usual recharging of the batteries in the sunshine, and in this case, the opportunity to watch Watford v Arsenal in a bar on the island of Crete, with the landlord …
Read More “In 8 days Wenger retired and signed six players while Shearer ate his own tongue.”
By Metalhead Recently Arsene Wenger called for the media to be held accountable for what they say on television and write up in newspapers/articles. One can imagine his frustration, considering how some of them get away with saying pretty much anything they like with no logic or evidence to back their claims. Prior to the …
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By Proud Kev Walters great articles on some of our unsung and ‘cheap’ young talent, should make people think. Why do we have this obsession on transfer values and spending money? Do you really have to spend big money every transfer window to have success? Now the FFM’s would state categorically that the answer to …
Read More “The Wenger narrative, defending, and the funny Kolo Toure trial.”
By Tony Attwood Owen Gibson in the Observer has reported that the Football Association will save £12m a year after refinancing its Wembley debt. Another £18m is being saved by making about a third of the FA’s staff redundant as the FA tries to do something, aything, to redeem itself in terms of the world …
Read More “Will Tottenham and Chelsea bail out bankrupt FA by moving to Wembley?”
By Don McMahon Well the house of cards that was FIFA, EUFA and perhaps, soon the English FA seems to be finally tumbling down around their corrupt ears. Let us NOT forget that this is a tragedy for the Beautiful Game and we are the victims of this perennial fraud! The tragedy lies in the …
The wheel’s still in spin… By Tony Attwood Very, very slowly there is a movement away from the reform of Fifa to a total revolutionary overthrow of the old regime. It is of course something that is not at all welcomed by the entrenched powers – Fifa and Uefa, the FA and all the other …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone It is a curious fact of life that you can wait all summer long for a defensive midfielder without one appearing and then two appear all at once. Even more curious is that Arsenal don’t need one since we currently have one of the very best DM’s in Europe. But …
Read More “Deal Agreed with Brazilian Striker, and perfect DM replacement found”
By Tony Attwood The other day, having torn what remains of my hair out and eaten half the furniture in my humble abode I finally got to express my frustration and anger over the way the press continue to talk up international football while talking down Arsenal. In particular my annoyance was raised to unbearable …
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By Tony Attwood It has, both for those people who play fantasy football and for the journalists who base their regular commentaries around fantasy football, while nicking their news stories without checking from wholly unreliable news stories, been a bit of a topsy turvy season so far. One minute Arsenal is in total meltdown and …
