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By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you won’t be surprised that by and large Untold Arsenal doesn’t cover the world cup. True, we have done in the past, with articles such as Small publication threatened by Qatar over slavery allegations Qatar: the protests grow Odegaard speaks out against World Cup in Qatar, …
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THE STATISTICAL EVIDENCE THAT SHOWS PGMO ARE BIASED AGAINST ARSENAL Gareth Southgate has suggested that the England world cup team might be a target for biased referees at the World Cup. This is seemingly based on Harry Maguire being denied what appeared to be a penalty in the 6-2 win against Iran this week. It …
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By Tony Attwood We all know that our last great, great, great season was 2003/4 – the Invincibles, the Unbeaten Season, the last time we won the league. So how are we doing now as compared to then? Is the current team as good as the Invincibles? Or is it better, or perhaps not quite …
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The World Cup Being against the Qatar world cup is not prejudice and bias. It is a perfectly reasonable stance by Tony Attwood In November 2018, the Premier League clubs voted unanimously to introduce VAR in season 2019/20, pending testing. The testing was said to be fine and thus we are now in …
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The things Arsenal have been really good at, which nobody has picked up yet By Tony Attwood The argument is being put that the western democracies are in no position to critise Qatar or Infantino because, as Infantino suggested, Europe should start by apologizing for its behaviour over the course of the last …
Arsenal’s 25 man squad, and how it will accommodate the under 21s as they move up. By Sir Hardly Anyone Arsenal, of course, have been widely publicised (and criticised with the old “can’t win anything with kids” jibe) as having the youngest squad and smallest squad in the league. So we thought we’d …
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Infantino’s speech an enormous success at wrong-footing UK sports media By Tony Attwood Liverpool and Arsenal will both take part in a specially created Dubai Super Cup in December, to help prepare for the return of competitive football after Christmas. . The matches will take place in Dubai in a mini-league also including …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal today: Arsenal Women v Manchester United Women. Infantino’s speech the day before the world cup starts was clearly aimed at deflecting attention from what is happening to world football. And listening to TalkSport radio this lunchtime it is clear it has been a huge success. For they spent the time debating Infantino’s …
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By Tony Attwood I’m sorry to say I don’t have a preview of the match at the moment to publish, but Arsenal Ladies are playing Manchester United today at 5.30pm at Arsenal Stadium. It is on Sky TV. Apparently, 10,000 tickets have been sold so far for the game, although Arsenal’s website says, “Over …
The simple statistic that shows that Arsenal are on course to win the league A full list of recent articles and series can be found on the home page. By Sir Hardly Anyone The range of goals scored by the top team after 14 games in the Premier League in the past 10 …
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Arsenal’s 25 man squad, and how it will accomodate the under 21s as they move up. “If we look at all the times in the last 10 seasons that a club has been top of the league with over 35 points after 14 games, we find that each time they have gone on to win …
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Arsenal are top of the big seven league, but guess who is bottom. How Arteta built a new Arsenal and took us to the top of the league. By Sir Hardly Anyone Each Premier League squad can contain no more than 17 players who do not fulfill the “Home Grown Player” criteria. The …
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Arsenal are top of the big seven league, but guess who is bottom. By Sir Hardly Anyone Having got everything so wrong about Arsenal in their coverage of the last three year – particularly 2019/20 – Arsenal were the most yellow carded team in the league, 2020/21 – no one predicted yellow …
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Untold Arsenal: latest articles and series by Admir Pajiæ Arsenal are top of the table and have been since early days. It’s interesting to note Arsenal have finished top of the table at the end of August, September and October respectively. And indeed they will have finished top of the table at the …
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By Tony Attwood How Arteta built the new Arsenal and took us to the top of the league Part 1. Arteta’s revolution: How the media missed Arsenal’s change after Xmas Day 2020. Part 2 How Arteta revolutionised Arsenal: Part 3 – the summer of 2021 The one thing that is remembered about 2021/22, …
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by Tony Attwood How Arteta built the new Arsenal and took us to the top of the league Part 1. Arteta’s revolution: How the media missed Arsenal’s change after Xmas Day 2020. Part 2 This four part series of articles tracks the Arteta revolution at Arsenal, and does so in a way that I believe …
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by Tony Attwood How Arteta built the new Arsenal and took us to the top of the league Part 1. How Arteta built the new Arsenal and took us to the top of the league part 2 In the summer of 2020 Arsenal brought in Partey, Magalhães and Elneny (the latter returning …
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ARSENAL ARE TOP OF THE BIG SEVEN LEAGUE: AND GUESS WHO’S BOTTOM By Tony Attwood The problem with pundits is they start from the premise that they know. And because they know they can immediately draw conclusions, without bothering to provide much evidence. Speaking on The Gary Neville Podcast, Neville said, “You ask the question …
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By Tony Attwood Did Qatar buy their World Cup? That is just one of the hundreds of headlines that can be seen in articles in newspapers and magazines across Europe this week as the build-up to the World Cup continues. But such commentaries are rather rarer in England – perhaps because England …
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By Tony Attwood The big seven minileague – and the form. There has been in the media, over the last year or three, a number of suggestions in the media that say that the Premier League is getting more and more fractured, in the sense that the top clubs (the top four …
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With 37 points from 14, are Arsenal likely to win the league? By Tony Attwood For this season we decided to create a Big 7 mini league, bringing Newcastle United into the table on the grounds that with more wealth available than any other club they ought to be able to buy …
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Far beyond simply the best. This is Arteta’s Arsenal. by Tony Attwood Arsenal are top of the league. And so not just top of the league after 37% of the season, but top by five points. And not just top but 14 points above where all the glorious pundits in the newspapers suggested …
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Wolverhampton v Arsenal. Does anyone remember the chaos and noise of 24 February? Wolverhampton v Arsenal, tackles, fouls penalties and oddities Wolverhampton v Arsenal. Where the Wolverhampton problem lies. By Bulldog Drummond The BBC have posted a note saying “Victory for Arsenal will mean they are top of the Premier League table …
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Wolverhampton v Arsenal, tackles, fouls penalties and oddities By Bulldog Drummond 24 February 2022 was one of those games I doubt I’ll ever forget. I’ve never heard so much noise in the Arsenal stadium – and come to that outside. Maybe this season’s win rivals it, but the eruption when Arsenal scored …
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Referee appointments and matters arising by Bulldog Drummond Moving on from the basic observations we now come to the regular comparison we make of tackles, fouls and yellow cards between teams. Data from WhoScored. And as with past seasons, once there have been enough games to help us generate meaningful tables we look …
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