Arsenal have only three players who have scored in double figures! By Tony Attwood For years and years we have been claiming that there is a problem with refereeing in the Premier League, arguing that because of this no Premier League referee should oversee matches involving an individual club more than twice in the season. …
Welcome to the new age of football: cunning, manipulation and a simple desire for power By Tony Attwood If you have a long memory you may remember the time when journalist Amy Lawrence went on the attack against Arsenal in 2016 for only having two players who scored in double figures in the …
The referee problem: the difference between incompetence and bias Did Arsenal want Mudryk and have Arsenal missed Jesus? Qatar spied on Lauber and Infantino, and why the UK media won’t touch the story by Tony Attwoood There is a new vision of football slowly emerging in the media, to replace the old image …
Arsenal v Palace – the form of the Palace and what did it for Patrick Arsenal v Crystal Palace: the insanity of the refereeing in the Premier League Arsenal v Crystal Palace; home/away form and Palace’s tough run of games. Arsenal v Palace: this ref doesn’t see the fouls that others see, which benefits …
Arsenal v Crystal Palace: the insanity of the refereeing in the Premier League Arsenal v Crystal Palace; home/away form and Palace’s tough run of games. Arsenal v Palace: this ref doesn’t see the fouls that others see, which benefits Palace Out of 52 matches between Arsenal and Crystal Palace, Palace have won …
Arsenal v Crystal Palace; home/away form and Palace’s tough run of games. Arsenal v Palace: this ref doesn’t see the fouls that others see, which benefits Palace By Bulldog Drummond In this article, I want to go back to the referee. Figures in this piece as in all our articles on refereeing and the …
Arsenal v Palace: this ref doesn’t see the fouls that others see, which benefits Palace How journalists totally misunderstood Arteta’s plans by Bulldog Drummond As we all know Palace have sacked our old chum Patrick Vieira as manager. Here are the records for Premier League games of the two managers Team P W …
How journalists totally misunderstood Arteta’s plans Rule changes are only being proposed to maintain Uefa’s grip By Bulldog Drummond Referee: Stuart Attwell. Assistants: Lee Betts, James Mainwaring. Fourth official: Andy Madley. VAR: Darren England. Assistant VAR: Sian Massey-Ellis. Stuart Atwell is right at the foot of the table for seeing fouls per game… Referee Games Fouls pg …
Rule changes are only being proposed to maintain Uefa’s grip Losing was not a disgrace, but there was still ignominy for Arsenal By Tony Attwood There is an 1800+ word article on ESPN’s web site under the headline, “Mikel Arteta interview: Taking Arsenal from midtable to Premier League title challengers …
Losing was not a disgrace, but there was still ignominy for Arsenal Arteta reaches the summit of Arsenal managers, and tonight’s team According to the top man in Uefa, Aleksander Ceferin, Uefa ought to consider changing its rules which prohibit clubs with the same owners from playing each other. It is a policy …
Anything that challenges the current football insanity is better than nothing By Tony Attwood If Arsenal sail forth and continue with their current form in the Premier League, last night will be forgotten by many Arsenal supporters, and quite possibly the amnesic media. But there were scenes last night which had nothing …
Arsenal v Sporting: the media downgrades itself, but the view is Arsenal will win. Arsenal v Sporting: the referee and the home/away conundrum Arsenal v Sporting: the prognostications based on the stats. By Bulldog Drummond Of course we know that Mikel Arteta has won just one trophy – the FA Cup. Arsene Wenger …
Arsenal v Sporting: the referee and the home/away conundrum Arsenal v Sporting: the prognostications based on the stats. By Bulldog Drummond “Be careful what you make fun of,” is not quite as popular an adage as “be careful what you wish for” but it is nonetheless a wise observation, as our constant …
Arsenal v Sporting: the prognostications based on the stats. Anything that challenges the current football insanity is better than nothing By Bulldog Drummond Our referee is Antonio Mateu Lahoz, from Spain. And the website “NowArsenal” are running an article under the heading Arsenal appointed super strict referee for Sporting clash In the table …
Anything that challenges the current football insanity is better than nothing The incredible renaissance of Granit Xhaka, and how it happened By Bulldog Drummond. On Thursday Arsenal play the second leg of their Europa League battle with Sporting Clube Portugal (also still known in some quarters as Sporting Lisbon), having drawn the first …
Corruption news: Fifa to face trial on grounds of holding an unreasonable monopoly Why are we against SuperLeague but in favour of foreign ownership and general incompetence The Premier League action against Man City brings Super League ever closer By Sir Hardly Anyone It is tempting to believe that football clubs – especially …
What happened to the eight PL teams that have changed their managers this season? The league table for the last 16 games, has a few interesting surprises to offer By Nitram The other day I was looking into how Xhaka had managed to get his cards down so dramatically this season, and it …
Arsenal have had their fair share of players over the years that simply haven’t quite hit the exciting potential that they’ve shown glimpses of. One of the players that fits into that category is Reiss Nelson, and with the 23-year-old being out of contract at the end of the 2022/23 season, it seems …
The league table for the last 16 games, has a few interesting surprises to offer The referee problem: the difference between incompetence and bias By Tony Attwood Two newspapers in England have recently looked at the issue of sacking football managers. One uses one set of data to say that when there’s a problem …
The referee problem: the difference between incompetence and bias Did Arsenal want Mykhaylo Mudryk? Have Arsenal really missed Jesus? By Tony Attwood If you are a long-term reader of Untold Arsenal you will know that last season we did something rather different from everyone else in terms of analysing Arsenal’s progress. We argued that …
Did Arsenal want Mykhaylo Mudryk? Have Arsenal really missed Jesus? Qatar spied on Lauber and Infantino, and why the UK media won’t touch the story By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the most common put-downs that exist in relation to speculative journalism is that the writer is a conspiracy theorist. The notion that …
Qatar spied on Lauber and Infantino, and why the UK media won’t touch the story Some amazing stats after Sunday’s demolition of Fulham By Tony Attwood The general assumption has been that Arsenal have missed Gabriel Jesus, and that his return as a 77th-minute substitute – his first action since he injured his knee …
Some amazing stats after Sunday’s demolition of Fulham Fulham v Arsenal: the political fall out and the teams By Tony Attwood This article updated 13 March to correct two errors in terms of locations. Apologies for the errors, According to the Swiss newspaper Le Matin (but not reported in the UK) meetings between …
Fulham v Arsenal: the political fall out and the teams Fulham v Arsenal: tackles, fouls and yellow cards: surprising statitics indeed By Tony Attwood We don’t have the opportunity to do a detailed write-up on this afternoon’s win, which adds something to everyone else’s commentaries, but we do have a few bits …
Fulham v Arsenal: tackles, fouls and yellow cards: surprising statitics indeed Fulham v Arsenal, ineligible and injured players, Arsenal’s front line problems Fulham v Arsenal: Recent form, the home/away analysis, and score projections By Bulldog Drummond The game is showing on Sky Sports. It has been announced as being on Radio 5 in …
