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Just how much are PL referees bias in favour of home teams? What the pundits predicted for WHU and what happened? Michael Oliver is one of only three referees who has overseen 12 games this season. The average for a PGMO referee is 7.3 league games so far in 2022/23. Referee Apps Fouls …
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Recent results suggest the Boxing Day game should be easy for Arsenal West Ham’s form has been a trifle on the iffy side of dodgy of late. As a look at their recent results: Date Match Result Score Competition 30 Oct 2022 Manchester United v West Ham United L 1-0 Premier League …
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Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other By Bulldog Drummond After a very frustrating and annoying interruption involving a huge amount of maltreatment of migrant workers, corruption and kowtowing by the media., we return to the football as Arsenal play West Ham on 26 December. There’s a substantial difference …
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By Tony Attwood The 48 players reported as coming to Arsenal and the player noted 40 times in the media There is a football quiz in the Guardian newspaper today which begins “It’s been nearly six weeks since the top flight shut down for the World Cup. How much do you remember?” Which …
Read More “Welcome to the world of unmitigated anti-Arsenal bias in the media”
How Uefa and PSG have taken control, and fooled all of football By Tony Attwood There is an article in the Irish Times about Qatar, which unfortunately is behind a paywall, which says in passing, “That uncanny sense of fakeness is everywhere. Walking around some of its more extravagant manifestations, like the endless …
Read More “Fifa creates fantasies in order to conceal football’s reality”
Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other By Tony Attwood Among the bits of football news which have been reported in passing, and then not explored much by the media, is the revelation that Premier League video assistant referees got over 12 percent of their decisions wrong so far …
Read More “PL finally admit to multiple VAR errors, and do Arsenal need a new No 9?”
By Tony Attwood Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other In the last piece (see the link immediately above) we looked at what happens when clubs in the Big Seven (the traditional big six plus newcomers Newcastle) play each other. Now we can take this a bit further. And …
Read More “Arsenal’s world cup benefit: how the top clubs will do from here on.”
How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system? By Bulldog Drummond It is of course possible that any of the “big seven” clubs this season could slip up in any of their forthcoming matches, but there are two interesting scenarios that all these clubs now face, which …
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The 48 players reported as coming to Arsenal and the player noted 40 times in the media By Tony Attwood If we didn’t know it before the world cup we know it now: football is not just changing as it has always done, but it is changing at a faster pace than ever. …
Read More “In ten years time, one way or another football will be unrecognisable”
by Sir Hardly Anyone How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. The significant success of Arsenal’s recent signings recognised We’ve been keeping tabs on the various players (48 of them in fact) who have been tipped as being on the move to Arsenal in January. In total we …
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By Tony Attwood Let me start by admitting that no one – not even the Untold Arsenal team – manages to call every game correctly in advance. But we do like to think we do a bit better than most, largely because we use the same system over and over, and it …
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Beyond any doubt Infantino is getting his way. Next: Fifa will leave Zurich By Tony Attwood As the Telegraph says today “More has been spent on this World Cup than the cumulative total of all 21 Fifa tournaments that have preceded it.” Which is quite a thought to start with. Qatar isn’t really a …
Read More “The ten saddest things about Qatar and the world cup”
It’s not an Arsenal question, but who’s going down from the PL this season? Media attack foreign refs but remain silent about PGMO refereeing By Tony Attwood In theory, it should have been another win. We had a strong team out Ramsdale (GK); White, Gabriel, Holding, Tierney Partey, Xhaka Odegaard, Vieira, Nelson …
Media attack foreign refs but remain silent about PGMO refereeing By Tony Attwood Fifa is anticipating that the revenues from the next world cup will be above $11 billion spread across the next four years. That is up 46% on this world cup. Everyone who has spoken in favour of this world cup, …
Read More “Fifa is simply a corrupt money making machine that we all pay into”
49 players tipped to come to Arsenal; one player tipped 39 separate times! by Tony Attwood The Moroccan football federation has announced that it was refused “two indisputable penalties” in its world cup match against France and has spoken out to that effect, and has protested to Fifa’s refereeing committee (which of course …
Media attack foreign refs but remain silent about PGMO refereeing By Tony Attwood It has taken the elimination of England from the World Cup for the English press to wake up and recognise what much of the rest of the world has been talking about for some time, but now it seems we …
Read More “The economic deals and espionage that led to Qatar getting the world cup”
Arsenal are the most penalised team by referees among the current top four. By Bulldog Drummond On 14 December 2020 Arsenal were 15th in the league, five points away from the three relegation places. And the media was of course full of Arsenal’s decline. The Guardian newspaper could hardly contain itself with its …
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Arsenal are the most penalised team by referees among the current top four. When we played Man U and the ref and VAR ref were both from Manchester The bent triangle: four major issues that show all is not right with refereeing By Tony Attwood Not many British people living in the UK …
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By Tony Attwood Below are the snapshot video highlights and second more conventional highlights https://youtu.be/a7XaAwd8Y2s https://youtu.be/8LHdTPDFwKY Using the system we have been operating for a couple of years now, of taking games from both sides, adjusting for home and away (which was not necessary this time since both sides were away) this is …
Read More “AFC / Milan: the video. Untold Arsenal predicts the winners and the score”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Milan 13 December 2pm, and the approaching Super League ruling It seems to be part of an increasing arrogance on the part of the people who manage the daily affairs at Arsenal, that there is nothing on the club’s site about how one can watch a recording of …
Read More “Arsenal v Milan: the score prediction based on the season so far, and the team.”
Arsenal are the most penalised team by referees among the current top four. By Tony Attwood Back in November we published the article ENGLAND’S TEAM BEING TARGETTED BY FOREIGN REFEREES? WHY IS NO ONE LAUGHING? In that article we said, “Gareth Southgate has suggested that the England world cup team might be a …
Read More “Media attacks foreign refs, but are remourcelessly silent on English refs”
Data gathered by Tony Attwood For details of all the latest articles on Untold Arsenal, organised by subject, please see our home page The myth perpetrated by the media is that Arsenal have no contingency plan for injuries and thus when an event comes along such as Gabriel Jesus’ current situation, they are …
Read More “21 separate reports tip Mykhaylo Mudryk to be coming to Arsenal in January”
Arsenal v Milan 13 December 2pm, and the approaching Super League ruling By Tony Attwood Whichever way the Super League legal decision goes, it is going to be a problem. At this moment European Court is deciding if football clubs have the right to break away from Uefa and run their own competitions without …
Read More “The court is about to decide on the future of Super League. What now?”
For details of recent articles and our current series please see the home page By Tony Attwood Arsenal play their third game of the interregnum having lost to Watford in a closed game in which those members of the first team who were available played in the first half and then the …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Aston Villa v Arsenal – the match preview part 1 In his press conference, Jonas Eidevall confirmed that there were no new injuries and that both Kim Little and Lina Hurtig are progressing as they recover from their injuries but that neither would be ready for this game. Both are expected …
Read More “Aston Villa v Arsenal part 2. The team, other fixtures and all of Miedema’s goals”
