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Why do some clubs have their players fouled so much more than others? By Tony Attwood In many ways it would appear that Tottenham Hotspur should be doing better than they are. Every major newspaper and virtually all the major online football sites predicted that Tottenham would finish in the top four this season …
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By Tony Attwood We recently created a table made up of matches between the big seven clubs of the Premier League in order to remove any suggestion that Arsenal’s current success at the top of the league was due (as some were suggesting) to having had an easy fixture list so far. In case you …
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by Tony Attwood Tottenham get more yellow cards at their home ground than anyone else other than Nottingham Forest. They have got almost four times as many yellow cards at home as Liverpool have in their home matches and just on twice as many as Arsenal. Two points arise from that. One is why this …
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Megalomaniac head of Fifa makes new insane demand By Sir Hardly Anyone It is not a phrase that one would expect to see in an English publication but the notion that “the FIFA corruption scandal never seems to end” is one very likely to appear in the media of much of the rest …
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Why football needs an independent regulator now By Sir Hardly Anyone The last time we ran our review of the players said to be coming to Arsenal Mykhaylo Mudryk was reported as making the move in 53 different reports. 19 of those reports involved a publication running the story more than once. In …
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After 18 games: Arsenal’s position and the top team’s tally – and the ultimate target By Admir Pajic It’s been a season that only the biggest optimists could have seen coming. I have to admit that I was thrilled with our preseason performances against Chelsea (4-0) and Sevilla (6-0) where our passing and pressing …
For a review of recent articles listed by the theme covered see the home page How are the big seven clubs doing against each other? There are some surprises By Tony Attwood It is always nice when someone comes along and copies one of our ideas – and that has indeed been happening …
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Tottenham v Arsenal: Sky completely lost, disgraceful scenes, useless Totts, brilliant Arsenal By Tony Attwood Looking at the top seven playing each other is a good way to judge the relative merits of each team this season, especially when analysed on a points per game basis. And especially so when much of …
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How Tottenham are getting the best out of referees Why do Tottenham players get fouled so often (according to referees)? By Tony Attwood Arsenal were brilliant in the first half, but Tottenham to be fair were worse than useless for much of the game. Arsenal are now eight points clear at the top, …
The newspaper Tottenham v Arsenal preview that doesn’t have a word about Arsenal! How Arsenal moved from 15th in the league two years ago, to top of the league today By Bulldog Drummond Now the chances are that as you come to read this you are also watching the Arsenal women game …
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There is an index to the Tottenham v Arsenal articles, and indeed other series on our home page. By Bulldog Drummond The last article on Untold concluded that Mr Pawson, the referee, has overseen 30% of his matches as home wins, 50% as away wins and 20% as draws. Indeed in terms of the …
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The newspaper Tottenham v Arsenal preview, that doesn’t have a word about Arsenal! By Bulldog Drummond The basic news is that Arsenal are getting ever closer to signing Mudryk, and Emile Smith Rowe is ready to start a match. Saka is also expected to be fit to play. Reiss Nelson and Gabriel Jesus …
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How Arsenal moved from 15th in the league two years ago, to top of the league today by Bulldog Drummond It is in the Guardian, in a column that previews all of the weekend’s premier league games, that manages to produce a whole article on Tottenham v Arsenal that does not include a word …
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Do Arsenal need to become more efficient in front of goal? By Tony Attwood Things have not been going well for Chelsea, as you might have noticed. Yesterday they lost 2-1 away to Fulham, to make it one win in the last nine league games. Although remarkably despite that collapse they are …
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Latest: Have Arsenal really moved up to the level of Machester City? By Tony Attwood Gianni Infantino has been hauled in front of two extraordinary prosecutors appointed to take over the investigation into the secret meetings held between the head of Fifa and the former head of the Swiss prosecution service. The fact that …
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How Arsenal has taken on the media, and the club is winning Why the media all want Arsenal to buy buy buy, and why we shouldn’t By Tony Attwood In one sense that question seems one with an obvious answer. Arsenal are of course top of the league: Pos Team P W …
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Why football needs an independent regulator now. By Nitram A headline in the Mirror announces that “Arsenal sign Lionel Messi double nicknamed ‘Tekkers Guru’ to boost Gunners attack.” And it is not just there for the story has turned up in the Mail as well with the headline Arsenal ‘hire ex-Hashtag United star. …
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By Tony Attwood Last September The Spectator magazine (not a publication that normally deals with football) ran the article Why football needs a regulator. In was the first major uptake on a series we started in March last year and ran through three articles… “Football should have a regulator” and what would Fifa say about …
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Arsenal’s world cup benefit: how the top clubs will do from here on. By Tony Attwood Of course I am an Arsenal fan, and so of course when I come to write about Tottenham there is bias. There’s no way around that. But I don’t believe because of that we should hide away …
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Details of recent articles organised by themes can be found on the home page Oxford United v Arsenal: the past and the present and what they foretell By Bulldog Drummond You might expect that this would be a situation in which professional football writers might relax a little from their daily diet of attacking …
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Oxford v Arsenal: Arsenal in the FA Cup and the current form By Tony Attwood So now we know, if we manage to beat Oxford it will be Manchester City away as a reward at the end of the month. I suppose that seems fair enough especially as Tottenham will also be worrying …
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Oxford United v Arsenal: the past and the present and what they foretell With one win in the league in the last five games, and that against Charlton who hadn’t won any of their previous nine games in league and cup, Oxford’s form of late has not been overly impressive. But as we are …
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How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system? By Bulldog Drummond This table shows the number of goals scored by the big clubs after 17 games, and the number scored last season after 17 games. Team GF 2022/3 GF 2021/2 Difference Est End 2022/3 end 2021/2 …
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Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other By Bulldog Drummond Here’s a frightening piece of information. Arsenal played Oxford six times in the old League Division One and have played them nine times in total. And although you might expect this to result in a nine-nil victory list for …
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How much have Arsenal spent on transfers in recent years? By Tony Attwood ‘Time is up’ for Mikel Arteta at Arsenal after Burnley defeat … So said Talk Sport on 14 December 2020. Fortunately, as is the case most of the time, they were totally wrong. Indeed so bad at predicting the …
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