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Home / away bias of referees As we saw last season some referees favour the home club, and some the away club. As we can see from this season’s results Attwell and Jones have over seen four straight home wins, while Pawson has overseen four straight awa6y wins. Four referees have gone through four …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood 1: The date of the PSV game. This is something that matters to a …
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By Tony Attwood Suddenly a key set of referee statistics does not appear. Why is that? Manchester City put in fewer tackles in each game than any other club in the Premier League. They put in 10.2 tackles a game on average this season compared with Chelsea who put in 21.5 – more than double …
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By Tony Attwood In this strange interregnum, something very odd has happened to Arsenal We have hinted at this already, but there is now growing evidence. The sports media is turning away from its staple diet of attacking Arsenal, and actually starting to say positive things about the club and its players. Take for example …
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By Tony Attwood Clubs are being encouraged to tackle more and more by referee’s approach. Most yellow cards are given in professional football for bad tackles. Which might make one presume that there could be some sort of general relationship between the number of tackles and the number of yellow cards that Premier League clubs …
Read More “Any suggestion that referees are accurate and consistent over fouls is a myth”
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories By Tony Attwood “The best month to change your manager – and why sackings always work” Back in March last year we ran a piece “Why Arsenal supporters should support Tottenham’s fans’ push for …
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By Tony Attwood As you may know, there is a news accumulator service, News Now, which lists many of the latest stories about Arsenal that appear in newspapers, blogs and the like. Indeed that may be how you found us today as Untold Arsenal is included in its listings. You’ll find the Arsenal page …
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Of course those who pay for the game have no choice: football is called off 10 September 1988: Tottenham 2 Arsenal 3 – a surreal free for all. By Tony Attwood Of course it is right and proper that the nation’s most popular sport, and one supported by members of the late …
Read More “Football doesn’t descend into chaos: it was already there”
How the pundits got it all so wrong and no one apologises By Tony Attwood I’m not trying to argue that calling the matches off this weekend is right or wrong, but rather as with virtually everything in football, the vast majority of us who make the game what it is – …
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Following the publication of this article we have been informed that the game has been called off and will be played later in the season. How the teams that commit the most tackles get the easiest ride from refs Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year …
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Today’s historic video: Arsenal 5 Wednesday 0 Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division by Tony Attwood I come from an Arsenal family – both my …
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By Tony Attwood Whoscored have offered us the team for the game tonight Turner Tomiyasu Holding Magalhaes Tierney Odegaard Laconga Vieira Saka Mketiah Marquinhos They confirm the injuries as Elneny, Partey, Nelson and Smith Rowe, and predict a 2-0 win for Arsenal. The Standard has the slightly variant team of Turner; Tomiyasu, White, Holding, Tierney; …
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When a club wins the first 3 games of the season, does it win the league? By Tony Attwood During the summer we undertook a review of the various blogs and newspaper websites that were making predictions for the top four places in the league by the end of the season. To a …
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REPORTS OF ARSENAL BEING IN BREACH OF FFP TURN OUT TO BE MEDIA MAKE-BELIEVE! By Tony Attwood It is an issue we have raised before, but it comes back season after season. The teams that tackle the most, get away with more tackles for each foul given against them, than the teams that tackle least. …
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Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? How the media created the myth of the gap between Arsenal and the top four By Bulldog Drummond “Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta to make surprise Europa League team selections” according to the Express. But the surprise they claim, however, is not that …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years:100 Years in the First Division By Sir Hardly Anyone Folarin Balogun is 21. He was born in New York and has represented England …
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day Today is the anniversary of the first ever game at Highbury By Bulldog Drummond FC Zürich is one of two professional teams from the …
By Tony Attwood My seven-point plan to fix Premier League’s failing Var That is the bold headline over an article in the Telegraph in which the ex-head of PGMO sets out the changes he considers necessary to make refereeing better. And it looks on the face of it interesting since Hacket was for many years …
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By Tony Attwood From the moment of the takeover of Newcastle United by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia there’s been a feeling that matters are different. And so it turns out now that Newcastle United are putting in a complaint about VAR. Suddenly there seems to be an admission that referees are not …
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By Bulldog Drummond With the disappointment of the game and the result, it is easy to forget that we’re still top of the league. Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 6 5 0 1 14 7 7 15 2 Manchester City 6 4 2 0 20 6 14 14 …
Read More “We lost but we’re still top of the league. Reasons to be cheerful part 99.”
Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year By Sir Hardly Anyone With the Daily Mirror, all one can do is laugh at their crass idiocy and …
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Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year (this series is still under construction – stories are listed from 1 December onward). by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal and the return …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division by Tony Attwood UEFA has now released the list of clubs that have breached the Financial Fair Play regulations, and …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Bulldog Drummond We have been doing quite well on the injury front until recently but now the number of …
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood Paul Tierney is the referee for the Manchester United v Arsenal game. He is from Salford …
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