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By Tony Attwood The Saints can put in 56% more tackles than Arsenal before getting a card The Southampton v Arsenal game was interesting from the point of view that we have been exploring that some referees are very much home team refs, while others are much more balanced in their approach. This table below …
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Matchweek 13 Referee appointments: why do Liverpool keep getting the same refs? By Bulldog Drummond In the 104 Arsenal v Southampton games across the centuries Arsenal have won 53, Southampton 23 and 28 have been drawn. Which means we have won just over half – and naturally we hope to keep that fraction rising …
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Arsenal play Southampton as League attack Arsenal with discipline charge and brawls become commonplace By Bulldog Drummond The Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhüttl joined the club in 2018/19 taking over from Mark Hughes of whom it has often been said. In his three full seasons since then, the club has come 11th, 15th …
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The scandal of the lack of medical records in football. An Untold exclusive By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have been charged by the FA “with a breach of FA Rule E20.1 following their Premier League fixture against Leeds United FC on Sunday 16 October 2022. And of course this being Arsenal, the media tell us not …
The scandal of the lack of medical records in football. An Untold exclusive By Tony Attwood Javier Tebas the president of La Liga is back in the news. He is reportedly threatening to suspend Spain’s first and second divisions if the Spanish government does not take steps to ban the Super League. …
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By Tony Attwood You may recall, if you are regular reader that we have taken quite a lot of interest in issues such as The sexual exploitation of young footballers in which we tried to show that there are really deep and serious problems throughout England in this regard. Indeed there were several …
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By Bulldog Drummond A staggering Arsenal victory, and media proclaim Tottenham to be “miserable” These are indeed strange times, for no longer are all of Arsenal’s top players about the leave the club because our directors and managers and the cleaning company are all too slow, and who would ever want to be …
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How the crowd at Arsenal is now quite different from elsewhere By Tony Attwood If ever Arsenal needed a boost before a game the result of the women’s match last night should surely provide that, with a staggering 1-5 away win at Lyon. Indeed we can be reminded of just how staggering …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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