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Is Fifa about to follow Infantino and move to the Persian Gulf? By Tony Attwood There is a screamingly funny piece in the Sussex Express which really does need to be contemplated. The headline is… Predicted Premier League table 2022-23: Supercomputer forecasts Brighton, West Ham, Tottenham, Fulham, Arsenal finish – after latest transfer activity. Now …
Read More “Supercomputer vs human predicting Arsenal next season. Both lose.”
In Switzerland Fifa is on the edge of being blown up. In England….? By Tony Attwood When it comes to goals and assists per 90 minutes, only two players (Sergio Aguero and Mohamed Salah) have been more effective than Jesus since he joined Manchester City in January 2017. In other words, he has contributed goals …
Read More “From Edu to Gabriel Jesus – how Sao Paulo became Arsenal’s talent factory”
by Tony Attwood In Switzerland Fifa is on the edge of being blown up. In England….? In what must be one of the most bizarre coincidences of all time in football, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it is awarding Fifa and the Football Confederation of the United States an additional $92 million …
Read More “US authorities give extra money to Fifa: the most bizarre timing ever!”
By Tony Attwood I have been suggesting of late that for Arsenal in the coming season the issue is not just to get better, but rather to get better enough to overtake at least one of the four clubs that ended last season above Arsenal. But of course, last season’s top four also have the …
Read More “What are Arsenal’s chances of top four in 2022/3”
The statistical evidence that shows PGMO are biased against Arsenal By Tony Attwood There is an article in The Atlantic.com which includes the statement “Trump’s supporters have been in denial about Trump’s emotional instability, his malignant narcissism, his fascination with violent rhetoric, and his hostility to the American constitutional order.” And yes that seems to …
Read More “What’s so wrong with both football, and with the reporting of football”
By the Untold Team Huge Fifa Corruption Story breaks – no report in English media. “Fifa will not exist in ten years time.” Or maybe even less! Switzerland take a greater interest in Fifa – at last As you may recall from earlier articles, on June 3rd 2015 Blatter, then head of Fifa announced his …
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By Tony Attwood Fabio Vieira responds to injury concerns as new Arsenal signing pictured in moon boot So shouts the Mirror, raising the issue once again that Arsenal are being somewhat careless or incompetent about player injuries – not just getting more players injured than other teams, but even being so stupid as to purchase …
Read More “Arsenal injury crisis is a phantom of the Mirror’s imagination”
By Tony Attwood Untold recently received a comment in relation to an article in which I mentioned a player having Covid. It read… “What Covid ? Are you still under the spell? Wake up ,even if it is long overdue. You do not even have a name let alone a reputation to shatter. Speak for …
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Arsenal transfers: Gnabry return, White a disaster, Martinez a loss? By Tony Attwood You might recall the case of Dr Eva Carneiro who made a very public claim of constructive dismissal against Chelsea in 2015 and also claimed discrimination by Jose Mourinho. That case, in which Dr Carneiro claimed she regularly had to endure sexually …
Read More “Why life working for a football club might not always be what it seems”
Why do journalists get so fixated on scoring in double figures? By Sir Hardly Anyone So far this transfer window Arsenal have spent £38m and brought in £12m… a loss of £26m. This compares with Chelsea who have a profit of £28m, Liverpool who have a loss of £39.5m, Manchester City who have a loss …
Read More “The big six transfers thus far, and who’s got more cash?”
If you are looking for a way to make it much more exciting to watch Arsenal play, or a league like the MLB, then online sports betting could be what you want to do. This is where you can try to predict what will happen during a match, or who will win the entire …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Why do journalists get so fixated on scoring in double figures? There really are some unusual stories circulating at the moment: like the notion that Serge Gnabry could be returning to Arsenal. He was one of those players who had looked to be utterly extraordinary when he first burst onto the …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone 93 players rumoured to be going to Arsenal. Are the journos getting lazy? According to the Guardian, “Seeing a rival spend considerable sums on a striker will leave players at those clubs asking why their teams are not doing the same and why they are having to read transfer rumours in …
Read More “Buying players does not mean success as last season shows…”
By Tony Attwood Next season starting lineup and the new Financial Fair Play rules The view we have been putting forward of late is that referees are very diverse in their view of the game. As a result David Coote last season gave out 4.60 yellow cards per game. Martin Atkinson gave out 2.46 yellow …
Read More “All change with PGMO and the refs.. But what change?”
By Tony Attwood Next season starting lineup and the new Financial Fair Play rules Across the last five years, the average number of points gained by the fourth-placed club is 70. Which of course doesn’t mean that 70 points guarantees fourth place, but it is a good number to aim for at the start of …
Read More “The last five years proves one big thing: nothing is guaranteed.”
Next season starting lineup and the new Financial Fair Play rules By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the great problems that Arsenal face year by year is that much of the commentary made about the club is simply not related to reality. Take this line from one of the more infamous daily commentators of Arsenal …
Read More “Injuries Time to sack Tierney according to one part of the media”
By Sir Hardly Anyone 93 players rumoured to be going to Arsenal. Are the journos getting lazy? Last season 19 players made 10 or more starts in first team matches for Arsenal. In addition to the 38 league games we had six in the League Cup and one in the FA Cup. This coming season …
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by Tony Attwood The statistical evidence that shows PGMO are biased against Arsenal “Howard Webb must rebuild confidence in top referees,” says a piece in the Telegraph. The cultural stigmatisation of referees is still relevant today says a piece in the Guardian. Yet neither piece addresses the key issue of the moment; that referees judge …
Read More “The huge bias of referees is proven. PGMO and media fight back.”
The home and away scandal: ignorance, or cover up? By Sir Hardly Anyone. Yes 93 players incoming but with the transfer window now having been open for over two weeks the whole rumour system seems to have collapsed with hardly any new names being added to the list of players Arsenal are signing. In fact …
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Crowdless stadia stats reveal fallacy of PGMO claims about referee accuracy By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you will know during and since the pandemic, we have presented evidence that shows that… Some referees are influenced by the crowd As a result of this, some referees are much more …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone How which referee a club gets has a major impact on the result of each game Two stories of note are circulating today. One in the Guardian says Manchester City and Liverpool have got their key business done early – and raves over their forward looking approach to football in contrast …
Read More “The reason why Liverpool and Man C are ahead of Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood The statistical evidence that shows PGMO are biased against Arsenal We have shown that referees vary enormously in the way that they call fouls and hand out yellow cards – although to be fair, this has been understood by many supporters for some time. We have also reported a wide range of …
Read More “How which referee a club gets has a major impact on the result of each game”
JUST HOW MUCH are PL referees biased in favour of home teams? By Tony Attwood In the UK, people are free to believe what they like. But there are requirements that the BBC, as a national broadcaster funded through taxation has a duty to be impartial. I think there might also be a similar requirement …
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By Tony Attwood We recently covered the story on “How spend spend spend led to Barcelona’s collapse”. Now it is time to move on to the repercussions. The Spanish Football League confirmed last week that it had filed complaints with Uefa against PSG and Manchester City, accusing them of “continuously violating the current financial fair …
Read More “How European football has taken up the fight against clubs breaking FFP”
How Arsenal were robbed by VAR, and the forthcoming transfers By Tony Attwood The story that something in football is corrupt is an easy one to write and an easy one to dismiss. One simply picks on a set of circumstances that look unlikely or too coincidental to be real and say, “this couldn’t happen …
Read More “Football’s biggest story which the media won’t touch.”
