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Liverpool v Arsenal: how one referee sees so many more penalties than another Just how many more injuries has Arsenal had than any other team this season? Between 24 August 2015 (almost ten years ago indeed) and 27 October 2024 Arsenal played Liverpool no fewer than 25 times. Arsenal won not one …
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Just how many more injuries has Arsenal had than any other team this season? Super computer predicts end of football (and the end of the world) (Only seven teams that have won the Premier League – can you name them?) Anthony Taylor is the referee. He will referee Liverpool for the 66th time …
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Carragher needs a gap year as excuses are running out for endless anti-Arsenal rhetoric Where now for Arsenal: the problem won’t go away and Arsenal need to win despite it By Tony Attwood Have Arsenal seriously been hindered by injuries this season, when compared with other clubs? I have tried to get a …
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Carragher nees a gap year as excuses are running out for endless anti-Arsenal rhetoric Where now for Arsenal: the problem won’t go away and Arsenal need to win despite it By Tony Attwood It seems a supercomputer has predicted the results of some forthcoming football matches, and thus tells us which team ends up …
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Where now for Arsenal: the problem won’t go away and Arsenal need to win despite it by Tony Attwood . “Mikel Arteta must deliver next season or his Arsenal reign will end” proclaims Jamie Carragher, a man who has never in his life managed a football club. He continues, “time and excuses are …
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PGMOL is about to go bust. And whose fault is that? by Tony Attwood So now we know that Arsenal will not be winning anything this season – the fifth year running this has happened. This of course is not the first time we have had a lean spell in terms of trophies …
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By Tony Attwood PSG v Arsenal: the prime reason why it is not yet all over for Arsenal PSG v Arsenal: Reasons to be cheerful (part 1) As we have noted, the Arsenal that played in the last two-thirds of the PSG game was different from the Arsenal that played in the …
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By Tony Attwood PSG v Arsenal: Reasons to be cheerful (part 1) PGMOL is about to go bust. And whose fault is that? If there is one thing that can stop journalists moaning about Arsenal, it is fans moaning about Arsenal. It doesn’t always work of course, because sometimes the media tell Arsenal …
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PGMOL is about to go bust. And whose fault is that? At last the proof: it is Arsenal that is constantly hit by bad VAR decisions By Tony Attwood Of course there is negativity around: William Saliba is said to be off, Mikel Arteta is fighting for his job, and the season will …
The problem with referees is not the refs: it is PGMOL At last the proof: it is Arsenal that is constantly hit by bad VAR decisions By Tony Attwood Yesterday we opened with the headline “PGMOL is bleeding money”. And we went on to point out that the referees’ association now has massive debts …
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At last the proof: it is Arsenal that is constantly hit by bad VAR decisions What changes are needed for Arsenal in the future? By Tony Attwood “PGMOL is bleeding money”. That is the official story of Professional Game Match Officials Ltd and it is dutifully reproduced in the Daily Telegraph today. …
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What changes are needed for Arsenal in the future? You know something’s wrong when pundit quotes pundit. By Tony Attwood There are times when the statements of players and managers – (or is it the alleged statements of players and managers?) are so blindingly obvious that one can’t actually believe they have …
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A bland banner: Arsenal’s PR reaches a new low Why are Tottenham so much better at home than away? By Tony Attwood We are told that Mikel Arteta was frustrated and angry. Pretty much at one with the crowd then, although he called it “a bad feeling in the tummy”. Although …
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by Tony Attwood You know something’s wrong when pundit quotes pundit. AFC v Bournemouth Arsenal v Bournemouth: the utterly shocking reality of refereeing in the PL this season Arsenal v Bournemouth: the old Arsenal problem – where will the goals come from? Arsenal v Bournemouth: commands from the people who say they know …
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Arsenal v Bournemouth: the utterly shocking reality of refereeing in the PL this season Arsenal v Bournemouth: the old Arsenal problem – where will the goals come from? Arsenal v Bournemouth: commands from the people who say they know By Tony Attwood I’m not even going to start quoting a pundit quoting a …
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Arsenal v Bournemouth: the old Arsenal problem – where will the goals come from? Arsenal v Bournemouth: commands from the people who say they know By Tony Attwood This article contains a shocking fact. It is in the final paragraph. But I know you might find my style of writing tedious and/or …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Bournemouth: commands from the people who say they know A bland banner erected because of time shortage… Arsenal’s PR reaches a new low So Arsenal v Bournemouth comes at a time when Bournemouth are in a bad run. What’s more they are also not so good away …
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A bland banner erected because of time shortage… Arsenal’s PR reaches a new low Why are Tottenham so much better at home than away? By Tony Attwood For years, for decades even, football journalists have told managers how to do their job. By and large the managers have put up with such nonsense, …
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Why are Tottenham so much better at home than away? Arsenal’s defeat, the calls for new players and the PSR rules By Tony Attwood Football is no longer about playing and winning matches. Now it seems it is about the club telling the fans how they should support and what sort of banner …
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Arsenal’s defeat, the calls for new players and the PSR rules Revealed: how PSG are funding their attempt to buy the Champions League By Tony Attwood Before the Copa del Rey final between Real Madrid and Barcelona the referee and the assistant referees sat in front of the media, just as club managers …
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100 years since the arrival of Chapman: Chapman’s first season at Arsenal: the changes he made What steps can Arsenal take to win the League next season? By Tony Attwood Arsenal last night had four players missing from the team that beat PSG earlier in the season. These were Riccardo Calafiori, Gabriel, Thomas Partey and …
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Arsenal v PSG – a club built on money, money, money and then… money Revealed: how PSG are funding their attempt to buy the Champions League By Tony Attwood Of course, it can be argued that football is an industry that is all about debt, and that is true, but it has …
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Revealed: how PSG are funding their attempt to buy the Champions League What steps can Arsenal take to win the League next season? By Tony Attwood The total market value of PSG players according to TransferMarkt is €923.50m. The club second in the French top division at the moment has a squad valued by …
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What steps can Arsenal take to win the League next season? The Premier League is wallowing in incompetence and illegality By Tony Attwood What is the link between PSG and Arsenal? Easy: they both have “Visit Rwanda” on their shirt sleeves. Otherwise, well, we know that there is something dodgy about …
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By Jack Beam When Declan Rice traded West Ham for pastures new at Arsenal, it certainly raised a few eyebrows. Despite the academy graduate’s stellar performances for the Hammers in their first UEFA Europa Conference League title win, his July 2023 move to Arsenal was deemed a gamble by some. Fast forward to today, …
