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Budiling Arsenal sustainability – at the top Yet another example of the way the media tries to put down Arsenal When Arsenal lose they sneer, and when they win they sneer even more By Tony Attwood After Arsenal’s game finished and before the rest of the weekend’s fixtures have been completed the …
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Everton v Arsenal Everton v Arsenal: Points needed for fourth, Arsenal first to 100 Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal: extraordinary figures from the …
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Arsenal and Everton compared By Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? Everton v Arsenal – extraordinary figures seen in the last six games table As …
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By Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? We’ve done a lot of crowing at how we managed to predict Arsenal’s return to the higher reaches …
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Arsenal are lucky in the choice of referee Previously… Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? The referee is David Coote; he is overseeing Arsenal for the second time this season. We’ve always argued that two should be the maximum …
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Arsenal commit 21% more fouls than Man City, but get 84% more yellow cards! Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? By Bulldog Drummond The more a club tackles, the fewer fouls per 10 tackles are awarded against it. That is the week-by-week oddity of Premier League refereeing and …
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Are Arsenal heading towards goal scoring records? The Big 7 Clubs: how much they have spent this season, and what good has it done? Arsenal anniversaries 2 February: Wenger appeals against charge of violent and threatening behaviour Folarin Balogun is 21 and he is on loan at Stade de Reims. They are 11th …
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Everton are in real trouble Previous: The real facts about football that the media will never touch Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee …
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By Tony Attwood Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias What the media won’t tell you about football part 4: …
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How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. The significant success of Arsenal’s recent signings recognised By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a little chart which makes rather interesting reading in my view, but which is not being shown in any of the newspapers or websites I’ve seen (but …
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The football stories the media won’t touch So far… Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias What the media won’t tell you …
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The real facts about football that the media will never touch Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias The first point to …
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Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias By Sir Hardly Anyone We’re on the last day of transfers and anything added …
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Why the media won’t handle certain football topics 1: Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported 2: The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch Venue bias is one of the biggest stories in football that the media won’t touch. The evidence that it exists …
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Previously: Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported (part 1) Part of the problem with football reporting is that opinion dominates facts because facts are considered to be few and easily obtained. Football facts are things like the scores and the players. Football opinion relates to why …
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Does spending on transfers automatically bring success? By Tony Attwood For Arsenal and its goalscoring this looks like being a very good season. In 2021/22 Arsenal scored 48 goals. This season after 19 games we have got 45. That puts us in line for getting 90 goals this season. Last season the top Arsenal …
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2022/23 Women’s FA Cup – Arsenal Women v Leeds United. Match Preview By Tony Attwood This article, which I suspect will turn out to be the start of a series, is about the way football is reported, why the way it is reported in the UK is biased, and how this biased reporting …
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Does spending on transfers automatically bring success? Arsenal compared to the rest. No club is too big to fail, as lessons from Italy and Spain are starting to reveal By Tony Attwood Although we don’t know the financial data for 2021/22 yet, it looks like the 20 Premier League clubs will between them …
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Arsenal’s 25 man squad – is it already full? Arsenal Transfers: 329 reports covering 62 players all coming to AFC (allegedly) How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. By Tony Attwood So now we know. A largely reserve side including Matt Turner, Rob Holding, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Kieran …
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Manchester City v Arsenal – tonight’s game Arsenal, the referee and the FA Cup Arsenal – the monster Manchester City created – according to reports. Manchester City v Arsenal: The Big 7 Stats, and comparisons of the last 6 games Manchester City v Arsenal: surprising statistics and a result prediction Has Arsenal caught up …
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Arsenal – the “monster” Manchester City created (according to reports) Manchester City v Arsenal: The Big 7 Stats, and comparisons of the last 6 games Manchester City v Arsenal: surprising statistics and a result prediction Manchester City v Arsenal: the referee and the FA Cup by Nitram I think the answer to both …
Manchester City v Arsenal – the FA Cup Arsenal – the monster Manchester City created – according to reports. Manchester City v Arsenal: The Big 7 Stats, and comparisons of the last 6 games Manchester City v Arsenal: surprising statistics and a result prediction The referee for tonight’s game is Paul Tierney – …
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The Arsenal juggernaut rolls on Manchester City v Arsenal: The Big 7 Stats, and comparisons of the last 6 games Manchester City v Arsenal: surprising statistics and a result prediction Details of our recent series and latest articles can be found on the home page. By Bulldog Drummond The constant theme of the …
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Man City v Arsenal: against the other top clubs Manchester City v Arsenal: surprising statistics and a result prediction One of the ways to look forward to the Manchester City v Arsenal game is to consider the way the two clubs have played against other members of the Big Seven (the old big …
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Arsenal’s 25 man squad – is it already full? Yet another example of the way the media tries to put down Arsenal Arsenal and Man C compared this season By Bulldog Drummond The top team in the away games league table is Arsenal. The top team in the home games league table …
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