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Tackles fouls and yellow cards for the big seven: the different way each club is treated – By Bulldog Drummond So the top two in Group A of the Europa League play each other on Thursday in order to bring them up to speed with the rest of the group on four …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone, our man with a pint at the Toppled Bollard Football Talk has a piece which claims that In an interview with Wettfreunde, “reliable journalist Gianluca Di Marzio has said that Manchester United and Arsenal could be possible contenders to sign PSV Eindhoven star Cody Gakpo in January.” He’s a forward. But …
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by Tony Attwood How the crowd at Arsenal is now quite different from elsewhere As I have written 83 trillion times (or so it seems) the media in England will absolutely not criticise PGMO or its referees. No matter what they do or how often they do it. No matter how much the number of …
Read More “How it was proven that PL referees are unreliable, and this season’s figures”
After the first 10 games, Arsenal are doing better than the unbeaten season Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. By Tony Attwood In 2017/18 Liverpool lost no games at Anfield. In 2018/19 it was the same – no home defeats. …
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After the first 10 games, Arsenal are doing better than the unbeaten season By Tony Attwood On the HITC website there is a most interesting post by Amir Mir concerning Arsenal’s future. It reads… PROOF IN THE PUDDING [Actually I think the phrase is “The proof of the pudding” but never mind. Let’s continue…] “Arsenal …
Read More “The contradictions of Arsenal, and its know-nothing critics”
By Tony Attwood Leeds v Arsenal. Leeds can foul with far fewer consequences than Arsenal. According to the referees of the Premier League, Leeds are committing twice as many fouls as Manchester City. And this makes a certain type of sense because Manchester City undertake only half the number of …
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Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. by Tony Attwood Over a quarter of the season has now gone, and from what I can see in the history books this is the first time ever Arsenal have won nine of the …
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By Bulldog Drummond Leeds v Arsenal: For Leeds the start of this season is the same as the end of last season Leeds v Arsenal. After 9 games Arsenal are doing better than in the unbeaten season Leeds v Arsenal. Leeds can foul with far fewer consequences than Arsenal. Apologies are nice. Apologies are good. …
On this day in Arsenal’s history: 15 October: George Male’s first appearance at right back and why that’s so important By Bulldog Drummond Of course, when we think of 2003/4 we think of Arsenal’s most glorious season, probably forgetting the fact that it was a momentous season for Leeds United too, although …
An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. By Bulldog Drummond As we recently saw, 24 points is the best we have had at this stage of a season for at least 10 years. Indeed only once in the past decade has any team had more than 24 …
Read More “Leeds v Arsenal. After 9 games Arsenal are doing better than in the unbeaten season”
Arsenal are now doing better than the Invincibles in 2003/4! By Tony Attwood Here is an interesting pair of statistics concerning Arsenal and Leeds… Arsenal commit 10.2 fouls per game but they are fouled 11.7 times per game. So they are fouled just a little more than they foul. Leeds commit 15 fouls …
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By Tony Attwood Let me say from the very start that PSG denies any involvement in the activities that are reported in Blick.ch today, and indeed the many other allegations we mention here and have mentioned before. Blick is, as I understand it, the best-selling newspaper in Switzerland but that doesn’t mean it is right. …
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13 October: Arsenal smash the world transfer record Bodo/Glimt: heading for the return match – artifical turf and public scandal By Bulldog Drummond Looking forward to the early evening game SportsMole have done their homework and found that Bodo/Glimt have just gone eight games in each of which they have conceded at least one …
By Bulldog Drummond Five of the top 20 players in the Premier League play for Arsenal Looking ahead to the match tonight we know that Elneny and Smith Rowe are out and Zinchenko is unlikely to play while Gabriel Jesus has been left behind in London. Which means Holding, Vieira, Eddie Nketiah, Sambi Lokonga, Maquinhos …
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by Tony Attwood Five of the top 20 players in the Premier League play for Arsenal 1: Edu and Arteta are reportedly about to do something that’ll overjoy Arsenal fans. (HITC) Martinelli is going to sign a new contract. 2: Arsenal ‘eyeing bargain transfer’ to give William Saliba a new partner in crime (Express). Arsenal …
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If only English refs could be as open and honest as those in Germany By Tony Attwood Around eight years ago I wrote a piece suggesting that far from protecting football, the rule that said that there could be no broadcasting of live football at 3pm on a saturday afternoon was actually destroying the game. …
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By Bulldog Drummond The game of course is tomorrow at 5.45 and it is expected that the temperature at that time will be just a few degrees above freezing. On the Arsenal injury front there is not too much that is new. Smith Rowe and Elneny are both out for the foreseeable future while Zinchenko …
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Is this the most insulting anti-Arsenal headline ever? By Tony Attwood There are many comparisons between this season and previous campaigns that can be mulled over, but I’ll just give a couple of thoughts here which relate to our present position. The first meander considers where Arsenal were after nine games in each of the …
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By Tony Attwood Can Arsenal really ‘do a Leicester’ and win the Premier League? That really is the headline over a piece in the Telegraph today. The piece was written by Jim White – and that may explain something. A recent piece of his in the Telegraph was headlined, “From anal beads to iPhone apps” …
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By Tony Attwood The other day we asked, Why are the rest of the league fouling Arsenal so much? One possible answer comes from the table of top players provided by WhoScored. This table is adapted from their data, and the final rating column includes various other factors such as shots per game not listed …
Read More “Five of the top 20 players in the Premier League play for Arsenal”
The team that commits the most tackles get the easiest ride by Tony Attwood “Referee tactics” is what it is called in refereeing circles across Europe. Except in England, wherein one gets the impression that nothing to do with refereeing is ever called anything because no one will ever talk about anything for fear of …
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by Nitram In a recent article on Untold it was said, “But where we are getting it absolutely right and distinguishing ourselves against most of the rest is in terms of shots on target per game. 6.4 per game in fact. Only Manchester City is knocking in more.” And that is what has made all …
Important prelim: if you are having difficulties posting comments to Untold Arsenal, or indeed difficulties accessing the site, we’d be very grateful if you could write about the situation to help us resolve it. Please write directly to Tony@schools.co.uk and mark the subject line UA problems. thanks By Tony Attwood How the media got their …
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Liverpool in flux Arsenal in recalibration. How the match might play out… by Bulldog Drummond We recently reported that one of the goals in the Arsenal women’s match against Ajax was found by Arsenal to be of the wrong size, and that issue was resolved. Now we have a similar story in …
Arsenal v Liverpool: the unexpected statistics by Bulldog Drummond There is a story doing the rounds that after seven years at a club Jurgen Klopp feels he has had enough, or that even if he doesn’t feel like moving on, his results drop off and so he quits and finds himself another club. It hasn’t …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool: the stats suggest a narrow Arsenal win.”
