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By Tony Attwood Most recent articles Why is there home advantage, and why does it only apply for some referees? Arsenal v Brentford. Do Arsenal need a recharge or is it already full speed ahead? And on the Arsenal History website, 100 seasons in the top league: winning the title in 1948 And …
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Arsenal v Brentford. Do Arsenal need a recharge or is it already full speed ahead? Brentford are slipping although Tottenham are trying to rebuild By Tony Attwood The notion of home advantage in football is extremely well established, and year after year, we note that there are more home wins than away wins in …
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By Tony Attwood Brentford are slipping, although Tottenham are trying to rebuild Arsenal’s success after 13 and why we must change the rule about yellow cards There are two views of Arsenal at the moment. One is that as a club, they are very happy to be top of the league with Tottenham Ho …
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Arsenal’s success after 13 and why we must change the rule about yellow cards While media complain about ref Arsenal learn the lesson about African players By Tony Attwood So it is Brentford at home tomorrow at 7.30pm – it is also (in the UK) on Sky Sports. The two clubs are 11 points …
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While the media complain about ref, Arsenal learn the lesson about African players By Tony Attwood It may not be what we want to know, but Arsenal’s performance this season in being top of the league after 13 games is not exceptional. Over the past six seasons, after 13 games, the top team …
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How the football media is conning us day after day In terms of squads, English clubs have a much tougher time than those in Germany and France By Tony Attwood We have regularly noted the difficulties caused by the African Cup of Nation,s which is played every odd-numbered year (the only exception being …
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By Tony Attwood Chelsea v Arsenal – the past games, selling part of the club, avoiding the rules Chelsea v Arsenal: how some refs are handing out twice as many cards as others. So it is first against third… as portrayed in the last article. And of course we often focus on not …
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Chelsea v Arsenal – the past games, selling part of the club, avoiding the rules Chelsea v Arsenal: how some refs are handing out twice as many cards as others. By Tony Attwood Two goals in the first six minutes against Tottenham at WHL – what a super way to start the weekend! …
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By Tony Attwood Chelsea v Arsenal: how some refs are handing out twice as many cards as others. All that money and nowhere to go: the Chelsea ground and games v Arsenal The Arsenal results against Chelsea really are quite extraordinary. Not just the fact that Arsenal have beaten Chelsea 20 more times than …
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All that money and nowhere to go: the Chelsea ground and games v Arsenal How the football media is conning most of us, day after day after day By Tony Attwood Looking at Anthony Taylor’s record this season through his ten games as a PL referee in terms of the home and away team, …
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By Tony Attwood How the football media is conning most of us, day after day after day In terms of squads, English clubs have a much tougher time than those in Germany or France Poor Chelsea. Hammersmith and Fulham, the local council, has said that they don’t want a football ground at Earls Court, …
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In terms of squads, English clubs have a much tougher time than those in Germany or France In football the old order has changed, and Arsenal are benefitting enormously By Tony Attwood Quite often, when football journalists want a negative story to balance against their normal positivity about their favoured clubs and financiers, they …
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In football the old order has changed, and Arsenal are benefitting enormously Another staggering Arsenal victory, and again no one can get near Arsenal By Tony Attwood At the moment, a lot of thought is going into the notion of whether Arsenal really are stronger than any other team in the Premier League. …
In football the old order has changed, and Arsenal are benefitting enormously Another staggering Arsenal victory, and again no one can get near Arsenal By Tony Attwood Before the Champions League game this week, Mikel Arteta said that he felt that Arsenal are a universe apart from the likes of Real Madrid …
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Arsenal v Bayern. The line up, the Odegaard situation and recent results Playing without the injured – how Arsenal have changed their style By Tony Attwood Liverpool lost 1-4 at home to PSV Eindhoven. That ought not to be a headline story in the media, but as often as not, anything Liverpudlian is headline-making. …
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Arsenal v Bayern: it’s a funny old game How to predict the score of a game between Arsenal and Bayern Munich Arsenal’s record against Bayern is poor, but who wants ceaseless success? By Tony Attwood There is a general bit of chit chat going around in the media that Odegaard will be …
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How to predict the score of a game between Arsenal and Bayern Munich Arsenal’s record against Bayern is poor, but who wants ceaseless success? By Tony Attwood You don’t need me to tell you that this has been a period of enormous injury problems for Arsenal. Even today, with several players now said …
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By Tony Attwood How to predict the score of a game between Arsenal and Bayern Munich Arsenal’s record against Bayern is poor, but who wants ceaseless success? And so today at 8pm Arsenal are at home to Bayern Munich; the club is currently top of the German league after 11 games, as I …
Arsenal’s record against Bayern is poor, but who wants ceaseless success? The Metrics Exposing PGMOL’s Strategy in choosing referees By Tony Attwood Well, asking about predicting scores in any game is always a case of tempting fate somewhat, but here especially so since if any team is going to be able to find and …
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The Metrics Exposing PGMOL’s Strategy in choosing referees How come Arsenal are able to get all these amazing young players? By Tony Attwood I knew the Arsenal record against Bayern was bad before I looked it up, but I didn’t know it was going to be THAT bad: won three, drew three, lost eight. …
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By Christophe Jost and Tony Attwood From www.Untold-Referee.com To cut through the PGMOL’s propaganda about the “random” assignment of referees, we decided to investigate. And we did this through using two simple metrics that expose non-random appearance of referees in particualr games. We have called the first of these the Referee Occurrence Stat …
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Feeble fans fade away as Arsenal saunter on: it’s too easy Arsenal’s “expected points” in the last six. Just how well are we doing? By Tony Attwood In March the Football Facts website ran the article, Arsenal won’t win the Premier League for these five reasons … I won’t bore you with those …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Tottenham. Tottenham’s problem with managers and ex-players Arsenal’s “expected points” in the last six. Just how well are we doing? Frank’s small-club approach set club up for embarrassment, says the Telegraph, and well we might agree – indeed we have been thinking that for some time. Before the game …
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Arsenal v Tottenham. Tottenham’s problem with managers and ex-players Arsenal’s “expected points” in the last six. Just how well are we doing? By Tony Attwood As we have often said, internationals are a menace as they whisk players away from their clubs, injure them and return them with a note saying “make sure he’s …
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Arsenal’s “expected points” in the last six. Just how well are we doing? Suddenly it has become incredibly difficult to predict which team Arteta will put out On the Arsenal History Site: 100 seasons in the top division: Arsenal after the second world war By Tony Attwood Why would anyone want to …
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