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The final defeat of Uefa The Premier League action against Man City brings Super League ever closer What Europe knows about Man C but the English press haven’t told you By Tony Attwood Although it is not what the English media is saying, the fact is that if ever there was a business …
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By Tony Attwood We now have on the table the Premier League’s case against Manchester City. and bubbling below that, another little issue: Super League. The media recently got very excited about the fact that a judge ruled that Uefa in claiming the right to run trans-national competitions is not against competition laws. But what …
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How Man City’s problems began to arise…. nine years ago The media pile into Manchester City, but where have they been all this time? Manchester City accused of over 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules By Tony Attwood For years and years the media has stayed silent (at least in comparison with the …
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The media pile into Manchester City, but where have they been all this time? Manchester City accused of over 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules By Sir Hardly Anyone It was on 12 May 2014 – yes almost nine years ago – that Untold ran the headline Man City decides to take on …
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Manchester City: what took the media so long? By Tony Attwood It is perhaps ironic and/or possibly amusing that Manchester City have been hit with 100+ accusations of false accounting and by and large cheating their way to a series of league titles, just after Untold ran the series The real facts about football that …
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Manchester City accused of breaching financial rules By Tony Attwood La Liga complains to Uefa alleging Manchester City and PSG breach FFP As our article (linked above) from June last year shows, complaints about the behaviour of Manchester City have been flying around for a while. But now, just as we are all …
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Why do some teams always get so few yellow cards? Guardiola’s excuse for losing to Tottenham reveals the quality of Arsenal By Tony Attwood Apparently, the loss to Everton is very bad news indeed for Arsenal as it wasn’t only a defeat, but it was a defeat that allowed all the rest of the …
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In football distance makes no difference So it wasn’t so bad after all. Arsenal still five points clear with a game in hand By Tony Attwood Pep Guardiola said after his side lost to Tottenham, “Coming from Manchester to London, it’s like going to northern Europe. It’s four hours, 20 minutes to get to …
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Looking back at today’s results WSL Round Up – West Ham v Arsenal Sunday 18:45 By Tony Attwood So here we are watching West Ham v Arsenal women’s game on Sky, knowing that the league table is still as it was. Arsenal are five points ahead of Manchester City, eight above Manchester United and …
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Budiling Arsenal sustainability – at the top Yet another example of the way the media tries to put down Arsenal When Arsenal lose they sneer, and when they win they sneer even more By Tony Attwood After Arsenal’s game finished and before the rest of the weekend’s fixtures have been completed the …
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Everton v Arsenal Everton v Arsenal: Points needed for fourth, Arsenal first to 100 Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal: extraordinary figures from the …
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Arsenal and Everton compared By Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? Everton v Arsenal – extraordinary figures seen in the last six games table As …
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By Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? We’ve done a lot of crowing at how we managed to predict Arsenal’s return to the higher reaches …
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Arsenal are lucky in the choice of referee Previously… Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? The referee is David Coote; he is overseeing Arsenal for the second time this season. We’ve always argued that two should be the maximum …
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Arsenal commit 21% more fouls than Man City, but get 84% more yellow cards! Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? By Bulldog Drummond The more a club tackles, the fewer fouls per 10 tackles are awarded against it. That is the week-by-week oddity of Premier League refereeing and …
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Are Arsenal heading towards goal scoring records? The Big 7 Clubs: how much they have spent this season, and what good has it done? Arsenal anniversaries 2 February: Wenger appeals against charge of violent and threatening behaviour Folarin Balogun is 21 and he is on loan at Stade de Reims. They are 11th …
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Everton are in real trouble Previous: The real facts about football that the media will never touch Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee …
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By Tony Attwood Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias What the media won’t tell you about football part 4: …
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How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. The significant success of Arsenal’s recent signings recognised By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a little chart which makes rather interesting reading in my view, but which is not being shown in any of the newspapers or websites I’ve seen (but …
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The football stories the media won’t touch So far… Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias What the media won’t tell you …
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The real facts about football that the media will never touch Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias The first point to …
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Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias By Sir Hardly Anyone We’re on the last day of transfers and anything added …
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Why the media won’t handle certain football topics 1: Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported 2: The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch Venue bias is one of the biggest stories in football that the media won’t touch. The evidence that it exists …
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Previously: Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported (part 1) Part of the problem with football reporting is that opinion dominates facts because facts are considered to be few and easily obtained. Football facts are things like the scores and the players. Football opinion relates to why …
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Does spending on transfers automatically bring success? By Tony Attwood For Arsenal and its goalscoring this looks like being a very good season. In 2021/22 Arsenal scored 48 goals. This season after 19 games we have got 45. That puts us in line for getting 90 goals this season. Last season the top Arsenal …
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