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Tottenham are astonishingly reinvigorated according to one journalist. But is that really so? Referee association even more secret than PGMOL, emerges from the shadows as controlling body By Tony Attwood In 2022 One Football ran the news that “Arsenal are one of 20 clubs in danger of breaching FFP regulations” citing an article …
Referee association even more secret than PGMOL, emerges from the shadows as controlling body Women’s Super League – Week 11 review and Week 12 preview By Tony Attwood There is a mobile phone friendly index of recent articles on the home page. There is a paragraph in the Telegraph today that reads “To …
Women’s Super League – Week 11 review and Week 12 preview Football, and the decline of law and order By Tony Attwood As we all know, when a referee, or indeed the back up referees running VAR, make a mistake, the most anyone can get out of PGMO is a shrug of the …
VAR is in chaos, but in five years it won’t have anything to do and will be gone In football we see the two things that crooks do when running large organisations By Tony Attwood By and large, the maintenance of law and order is based either on fear (as in a dictatorship) …
There’s an index to our most recent topics on the home page In football we see the two things that crooks do when running large organisations The clubs that cheat at free kicks, and the clubs that are fouled the most By Tony Attwood “With LaLiga in chaos, it’s ‘clear and obvious’ VAR …
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The clubs that cheat at free kicks, and the clubs that are fouled the most Tottenham Hotspur owner pleads guilty to insider trading By Tony Attwood Let me say from the start that I don’t have statistics to back this up, it is simply something that comes from observation of dealing with crooks …
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There is an index to recent posts on the home page, and we’ve adjusted it to make it more easy to read on mobile phones. Tottenham Hotspur owner pleads guilty to insider trading Referee hyper-secrecy continues even when it comes to handling complaints By Tony Attwood There has been a lot of talk …
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Referee hyper-secrecy continues even when it comes to handling complaints Why next season could well see Arsenal winning the league By Tony Attwood It seems to have taken an awfully long time to get there but finally, the Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis has pleaded guilty to a range of insider trading charges in the …
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Why next season could well see Arsenal winning the league In football the trend is for all evidence to be ignored, and assertions made instead. By Tony Attwood According to ESPN the “Spanish Football Federation have filed a report with the police after extracts of the VAR audio from Real Madrid’s 3-2 win over …
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Please note we’ve changed the home page to make it easier to find recent articles when viewing on a mobile phone. In football the trend is for all evidence to be ignored, and assertions made instead. It’s not just Everton, Chelsea and Manchester City that are under investigation By Tony Attwood Prior to …
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It’s not just Everton, Chelsea and Manchester City that are under investigation There is a very real chance that football is running into financial trouble By Sir Hardly Anyone When there is a problem it is generally agreed that a good way forward is to look for a solution. And if the solution …
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Please note we have added a new article index on the home page which is much more user friendly if you are viewing the site on a mobile phone There is a very real chance that football is running into financial trouble Incompetence or corruption? Why referees in England behave so differently …
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Incompetence or corruption? Why referees in England behave so differently from those in Germany. If clubs are to be penalised for fans’ behaviour then Uefa must be penalised for its stadium disasters too By Tony Attwood Espn recently ran a story in which it took issue with headlines about the Premier League’s “record …
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If clubs are to be penalised for fans behaviour then Uefa must be penalised for its stadium disasters too Journalist writes in favour of Ashburton Army. But maybe it is not the full story. Please note we’ve changed our home page to make it easier for you to find our stories if you …
Journalist writes in favour of Ashburton Army. But maybe it is not the full story. Before the Palace game there were demands to sack Arteta. So what did we learn? By Tony Attwood Fifa demands forfeit for teams with racist fans after ‘abhorrent’ incidents, shouts the headline in the Guardian And yes it …
Before the Palace game there were demands to sack Arteta. So what did we learn? By Tony Attwood Two interesting statistics have emerged recently from Arsenal. One is that Arsenal have scored more set-piece goals than any other team in the league, the current count showing the club having 13, which is four more …
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How long before the ownership of Man City and Newcastle is properly questioned? How clubs are using a gap in the rules to allow them to ignore young players’ injuries By Tony Attwood So perhaps it is not such a bad season after all 5-0 against Sheffield United, 6-0 v Lens, and now 5-0 …
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Arsenal v Crystal Palace: Do Arsenal need to beat Palace to avoid sacking Arteta? Tackles, fouls and yellow cards, Arsenal, Palace, Chelsea and Tottenham compared. The referee for the Arsenal v Palace game is Paul Tierney. The other officials are Assistant Referees, Scott Ledger and Daniel Robathan, Fourth Official: Andrew Madley, Video …
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Arsenal v Crystal Palace: Do Arsenal need to beat Palace to avoid sacking Arteta? Tackles, fouls and yellow cards. Arsenal Palace, Chelsea and Tottenham compared By Bulldog Drummond Back in September, Crystal Palace beat Manchester United away 0-1 having lost 3-0 four days earlier to the same team, at the same ground. …
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Arsenal v Crystal Palace: Do Arsenal need to beat Palace to avoid sacking Arteta? Arenal Women – Preview of the second half of he season Part 2 By Bulldog Drummond In the last article, we looked at how Arsenal and Crystal Palace have been doing this season in terms of home and away …
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Arenal Women – Preview of the second half of he season Part 2 How long before the ownership of Man City and Newcastle is properly questioned? By Bulldog Drummond There is the old saying that one can prove anything with figures, and although that is most certainly not true (try for example, proving …
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What happened to Folarin at Monaco, and the fate of other young players at Arsenal How clubs are using a gap in the rules to allow them to ignore young players’ injuries By Tony Attwood I have often thought that the problem with having clubs in England run by people who are …
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How clubs are using a gap in the rules to allow them to ignore young players’ injuries Could keeping Folarin Balogun have made a difference to Arsenal this season? We recently published an article: Could keeping Folarin Bolgun have made a different to Arsenal this season? and in response our long term reader Le Gall wrote …
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Could keeping Folarin Balogun have made a difference to Arsenal this season? Managers sacked, players banned, points deducted: it’s the groundwork that counts By Tony Attwood Can we have competition in football without rules? Well, obviously not. If you have ever dipped into our companion publication “The History of Arsenal” website you may …
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Managers sacked, players banned, points deducted: it’s the groundwork that counts Everton and Forest: what exactly has gone wrong with their accounting? By Tony Attwood “Shock horror Arsenal make the wrong decision” That’s the sort of generic headline that various media outlets love to use – Arsenal buy a player, Arsenal don’t buy …
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