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Tackles fouls and penalties: Leicester City and Arsenal compared By Tony Attwood In 2015/16 Arsenal scored their lowest goal total in nine years – 65 goals. And yet gained their highest league position in nine years (runnes-up). The following season they scored 77 and came in fifth. What the club actually had in that season …
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By Tony Attwood The newspapers and websites are full of predictions about how well various clubs will do in the coming season, and the consensus among them (be they those that claim to have nicked time on one of the most expensive computers in the country, or those that let their journalists make simple predictions) …
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How much of the transfer market is grinding to a halt By Tony Attwood It has been rather difficult to pick up much information about the Arsenal v Brentford friendly game although we were given the Arsenal team… Turner, Cedric, Walters (Awe 46), Holding, Tavares (Souza 76), Elneny, Lokonga, Maitland-Niles (Patino 85), Marquinhos, Nelson (Sagoe Jr 90), Nuno Tavares and …
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By Tony Attwood Although it was not made compulsory, we are now seeing that all the teams competing in the world cup finals which will interrupt the Premier League season this year, will be staying in the independent emirate of Qatar for the duration. According to reports from Fifa, all the teams stay in officially …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Which clubs are spending the most and how did last year’s spending help? This summer Manchester City have bought two players for a fee and sold nine players for a fee. As a result, they have a profit on transfers this summer of £74m. It is something that is marvelled at …
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Which clubs are spending the most and how did last year’s spending help? Why was the victory over Chelsea so easy? By Bulldog Drummond What Arsenal need is one point more than the club that comes fifth, in order to get back into the Champions League next season. Of course, quite often the club that …
By Tony Attwood Are Arsenal in line for a return to the top four? Indexes to recent series on Untold Arsenal can be found on our home page The response of clubs to their position in the league last season, in terms of purchasing varies – both because of the money available and because of …
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How the media created the myth of “the gap” between Arsenal and the top four By Bulldog Drummond One reason that is given in the media for Chelsea not doing so well in the match against Arsenal is that Chelsea were slow off the mark in the transfer window, while Arsenal got going on their …
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How Arteta is copying the Guardiola method and what it means for Arsenal By Tony Attwood One of my regular points on Untold (and it has become regular because no one else seems to want to touch it, so it fits into the “Untold” theme perfectly) is that the English media tends to hunt in …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal in the summer: tales from pre-season Of course there is still one to go but so far it is hard to imagine that Arsenal could have done anything more in the pre-season… Nuremberg 3 Arsenal 5 Arsenal 2 Everton 0 Orlando City 1 Arsenal 3 Arsenal 4 Chelsea 0 Not just …
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How Arteta is copying the Guardiola method and what it means for Arsenal The deadwood journalist producing three football stories an hour, every hour https://youtu.be/iGJnKzV6kf8 (See also “That pass from Saka” below) Starting XI Ramsdale Saliba White Gabriel Zinchenko Xhaka Partey Saka Odegaard Martinelli Jesus Arsenal substitutions during the game Ramsdale (Turner 72), Zinchenko …
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The 12 players to Arsenal the media are talking about this week By Tony Attwood In football, as in the arts, where there is success, it often seems to me that there exists beneath that success a combination of instinctive talent and a clear theory, which merge to form the approach adopted. Take for example …
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Arsenal v Chelsea: the most bizarre odds you have ever seen. And the team. By Tony Attwood We have debated of late the way journalists call certain players (players who normally have far more talent and ability in their little fingers than the journalists have in their entire body) “deadwood”. Our view has been that …
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More international football in Britain, and we will have to pick up the bill by Sir Hardly Anyone Arsenal and Chelsea play their next pre-season friendly at 1am BST tomorrow, Sunday, at the Camping World Stadium in Orlando. Sports mole have given us a starting XI for this match of Ramsdale; Cedric, White, Gabriel, Tavares; …
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WHY ARE FIFA, UEFA, THE FA AND OTHER BODIES THAT RUN FOOTBALL NOT HELD TO ACCOUNT? By Tony Attwood One of the key issues in football at the moment is that there is a complete disconnect between the authorities such as Fifa, Uefa, the Football Association etc, and the people who go to football matches …
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SUPER LEAGUE IS FAR FROM DEAD. IN FACT IT IS JUST STARTING ITS FINAL BATTLE. HOW SPEND-SPEND-SPEND LED TO BARCELONA’S COLLAPSE By Iver Coupleoquid According to Le Figaro, FC Barcelona are now desperately in search of even more cash to allow it to buy players. For just one week after it sold 10% of its …
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Why one particular club is finding it hard to buy or sell this summer. What Arsenal need to do to get to third next season. by Tony Attwood Several readers recently commented on the contemptuous way in which journalists and sub-editors (the people who write the headlines) treat footballers. The particular word that sparked the …
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We have now reach 106 players who are being tipped by the media to be coming to Arsenal this summer. Three of these are new names in the past week, and ten of the players mentioned in previous weeks are still being talked about with updated information about their likely arrival. So far Arsenal have …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone There is an article in the Telegraph which has this line in its sub-heading: “Moving on unwanted players is proving difficult, especially for teams selling to the continent” Now the article was written by no less than seven different journalists “Sam Wallace, Sam Dean, James Ducker, Matt Law, Chris Bascombe, John …
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How Arsenal’s 25 man squad is shaping up for next season By Bulldog Drummond Orlando City are part way through their own season and involved in a heavy schedule of games, so can be forgiven for not taking the match too seriously. Arsenal are of course trying to use as many players as possible to …
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By Tony Attwood As we all know, after coming second in 2015/16 Arsenal ended their glorious run of consecutive years in the Champions League – a run that exceeded any other club in Europe except Real Madrid. And we also know of course that this run didn’t contain endless Premier League trophies – we won …
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by Tony Attwood Arsenal sign Zinchenko, and how the 25 is looking To get back to third position the first thing we have to do is not change our manager. This might seem an odd thing to say, but after a poor start to last season we had ceaseless calls for the manager to be …
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Super League is far from dead. In fact it is just starting its final battle. By Sir Hardly Anyone Zinchenko has been signed or is about to be signed, according to our old friend R E Ports. He has played mostly as a left-back by Manchester City but he can play in other positions, particularly …
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By Tony Attwood How Arsenal’s 25 man squad is shaping up for next season The reason that Super League (which you may recall, included Arsenal for a while) was needed was that Barcelona (and a few other clubs) were in mega-debt and had no way of continuing, unless they could get their hands on not …
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Are Arsenal in line for a return to the top four? The transfer dealings of the Big 7: how they compare. By Tony Attwood Every summer I try and predict the squad that Arsenal will have for the coming season, while doing what the media generally refuse to do: taking into account the rules of …
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