Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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Bias in the refereeing approach to cards, and the problem of shooing on sight 115 charges still outstanding as Arsenal prepare for Man United Man U v Arsenal. I hope the Arsenal players have all been warned By Tony Attwood Here’s an interesting media statement ahead of the season’s start for Arsenal If Man Utd …
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115 charges still outstanding as Arsenal prepare for Man United Man U v Arsenal. I hope the Arsenal players have all been warned Is there a regional bias over the way referees hand out cards? By Tony Attwood We have discovered over the years that there is a regional bias in the way referees …
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Man U v Arsenal. I hope the Arsenal players have all been warned Is there a regional bias over the way referees hand out cards? On the Arsenal History Society website: 100 Seasons in the top division part 5: slippling down the league 1921/2 By Tony Attwood And so the impossible has happened. …
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Pulibhed today by the Arsenal History Society 100 Seasons in the top division part 5: slipping down the league 1921/2 And on Untold Is there a regional bias over the way referees hand out cards? Six seasons of fouls and cards…. and possible referee bias These last two articles on Untold, noted above, gave …
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Details of the current and recent series are on the home page Six seasons of fouls and cards…. and possible referee bias By Mike Fowler So, in the previous article, we saw an apparent bias against Arsenal, where even in the season where they committed the fewest fouls they still picked up the second-highest …
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By Mike Fowler We all know that Arsenal get a lot of red cards. After all, the media do like to remind us on a regular basis and the taunts from other fans seem to reinforce this theory. Last season was a tad contentious with regards to some of those reds and started quite …
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Why do Arsenal get so many yellow cards for unspecified reasons? How Arsenal have solved the problem of coming second Tony Attwood It’s understandable that 10 per cent of Arsenal fans are more pessimistic heading into this season than last. Three successive second-place finishes can be draining, That was a comment made in …
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How Arsenal have solved the problem of coming second Voting on who will win the league: we can already guess the top three By Tony Attwood Last summer the Daily Telegraph did a set of projections for the forthcoming season, asking their football reporters (these days they call them their “football experts”) to predict …
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Voting on who will win the league: we can already guess the top three Arsenal start season at ManU where things look a bit strange By Tony Attwood “Creativity was a problem for Arsenal last season when their hopes of keeping up with Liverpool foundered on a chronic lack of ruthlessness, causing them to …
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Arsenal start season at ManU where things look a bit strange How Arsenal’s spending compares to some other teams this summer By Tony Attwood There have been a number of pre-season newspaper stories just recently in which supporters from the 20 Premier League clubs are invited to name the top four, for …
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The Arsenal team and the responsibility of supporters After the first six games, we can be fairly sure what the final table will look like By Tony Attwood Manchester United’s story is a little bit confusing, which is why I am starting to look at it a week before our match with them …
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New on the Arsenal History Site 100 seasons in the top division. 1: The Election 100 Seasons in the top Division. Part 2: The opening season And on Untold… The Arsenal team and the responsibility of supporters After the first six games, we can be fairly sure what the final table will look like …
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After the first six games, we can be fairly sure what the final table will look like Arsenal v Athletic Bilbao: two sides with very similar league form By Tony Attwood Just in case you missed it, here is the lineup from Arsenal Raya Timber Saliba Gabriel Calafiori Zubimendia Rice Odegaard Saka Gyokeres …
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By Tony Attwood The Sun says Arsenal fans are revolting, but actually the prospects are wonderful This is not the pre-season we wanted, but there is one great shining light There’s no doubt that in terms of results, the pre-season hasn’t been as sparkling as we may have hoped, and so with another …
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The Sun says Arsenal fans are revolting, but actually the prospects are wonderful This is not the pre-season we wanted: but there is one great shining light By Tony Attwood The next match in the ongoing round of pre-season games is against Athletic Bilbao, the game being tomorrow (as I write this) on …
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The Sun says Arsenal fans are revolting, but actually the prospects are wonderful This is not the pre-season we wanted: but there is one great shining light By Tony Attwood Untold Arsenal has gathered together the transfer rumours published in the media during each transfer window for the last eight or nine years, and …
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This is not the pre-season we wanted: but there is one great shining light Fifa, Uefa and FA are not above the law after all. By Tony Attwood In fact virtually everything and everyone is revolting for the Sun, but in this case they have run the headline, “ARSENAL fans demanded that Gabriel …
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Fifa, Uefa and FA are not above the law after all. Pre-season is about tactics, and liaison with foreign fans, not about winning By Tony Attwood Clearly, the first part of the headline is true, since Arsenal have been losing games, and have not shown us the stunning football that we had hoped …
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By Tony Attwood From the Arsenal History Society – just published, the first part in our series celebrating 100 consecutive season in the top diviison…. 100 seasons in the top division. 1: The Election And from Untold Arsenal Arsenal v the Yellow Submarine tonight: how have the opposition been doing. Arsenal v the chaos …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal v the chaos club. Hello Villareal Fifa, Uefa and FA are not above the law after all. Given Villareal’s record in recent years, it may come as a surprise to realise that Arsenal have only beaten Villareal twice in six competitive matches. However, if we just look at the Champions …
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Fifa, Uefa and FA are not above the law after all. Pre-season is about tactics, and liaison with foreign fans, not about winning By Tony Attwood Villareal ended last season in fifth place in the Spanish League, 18 points behind Barcelona who were of course, followed by Real Madrid, and Atletico Madrid, …
Pre-season is about tactics, and liaison with foreign fans, not about winning How the media create fantasy stories in order to talk down Arsenal By Tony Attwood As we have often noted in the past, it is a fundamental of the Football Association that football is above the law. It makes its own …
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How the media create fantasy stories in order to talk down Arsenal Why some people just can’t understand what pre-season games are all about= As I have already pointed out, pre-season matches are not about winning, but about bedding new players in and making sure that the new players start to get used …
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Why some people just can’t understand what pre-season games are all about Premier League introduces Extra Access to players. But will we even notice? By Tony Attwood There is a line in the Guardian’s preview of Arsenal for the season that says that “there remain concerns about a lack of creativity in the …
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Premier League introduces Extra Access to players. But will we even notice? When they are talking about you in Europe, you know you have arrived by Tony Attwood There is a growing anger in the Arsenal fan base. It is not shared among those who gather data and ideas for Untold Arsenal, nor …
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