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Comparing Tottenham and Arsenal: what is the secret of success? By Tony Attwood There is an article in the Telegraph that includes this interesting comment: “Conte, just as others have done before him, believed he could change the mentality of a club and a chairman that have, for so long, settled for second …
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Football is blindly walking into its biggest ever crisis. Part 1 Football’s biggest ever crisis Part 2: the big are just getting bigger Football’s biggest crisis ever part 3: How to maintain the excitement Football is facing its biggest crisis ever, Part 4: taking emotion to a new level By Tony …
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By Tony Attwood Leicester City winning the League in 2016 didn’t make enormous waves in football in a marketing sense. It was their first top three finish since 1929 and was followed by a drop to 12th – which is pretty much the position they were in, the season before they won the league. …
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by Tony Attwood As Swiss Ramble points out: the big six (so that means for the moment, excluding Newcastle) have captured 93% of European TV money available to English teams in the last eight years. Although, to be sure, the arrival of Newcastle on the scene is going to make it interesting …
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Football is blindly walking into its biggest ever crisis. Part 1 According to the Independent “The total revenue for the top 20 revenue generating clubs in 2021/22 stood at €9.2 billion, an increase of 13% compared to the €8.2 billion reported by the Money League clubs of 2020/21.” In addition to those …
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Why this season is not a one-off for Arsenal, but probably a sign of things to come Why, when a player assaults a referee, the ultimate guilty party is the media By Tony Attwood In the world of economics, there is a phrase – “late-stage capitalism” – which is used by some to …
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Why, when a player assaults a referee, the ultimate guilty party is the media Arsenal and Tottenham both built stadia, and each suffered the consequence. But… By Tony Attwood Is it getting tougher at the top of the Premier League? Are the bigger teams pulling away from the rest? After all, this …
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Media comments on referees Arsenal and Tottenham both built stadia, and each suffered the consequence. But… Being a visionary is not as easy as it looks By Sir Hardly Anyone It is extraordinary that there is so little talk about the quality of refereeing in the media… Indeed it is rather like the …
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Being a visionary is not as easy as it looks Fifa appeals to Swiss courts against Court of Arbitration in Sport ruling By Tony Attwood The consequence of building a stadium was for Arsenal difficulty in repeating the period of Arsene Wenger’s greatest success, The problem for Tottenham with having built the stadium …
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Fifa appeal to Swiss courts against Court of Arbitration in Sport ruling 6 years late, media finally starts to admit there is a refereeing problem in the PL. by Admir Pajic Back in 2002, Arsenal were arguably the best team in England, if not Europe. We won the league & FA Cup double, we …
6 years late, media finally starts to admit there is a refereeing problem in the PL. Arsenal have only three players who have scored in double figures! By Tony Attwood In an extraordinary move, Fifa has decided to appeal against a finding of the Court of Arbitration for Sport – the body (which …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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