Arsenal finances are heading toward the edge, but we’re ok for another season of spending Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football By Tony Attwood An article in the Telegraph asks us to consider the “Ten most irritating things about modern football” and very clever it is too, …
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Arsenal finances are heading toward the edge, but we’re ok for another season of spending Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football By Tony Attwood At least with the Tuchel fellow we know where we stand for as he recently said, “I will not rest England players …
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By Tony Attwood How Arsenal moved from 20th to 2nd in one season Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football Are Arsenal the only bottlers or is that just another stick with which to beat us? It is of course commonplace to talk about Arsenal being in …
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Are Arsenal the only bottlers or is that just another stick with which to beat us? The kindness of footballers, and the appalling behaviour of the media By Tony Attwood As I have mentioned before we don’t have a women’s football correspondent to pick out the nuances of life in the women’s game …
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On the Arsenal History website today: How Arsenal moved from 20th to 2nd in one season under Chapman ———— By Nitram Why are Arsenal always accused of being ‘bottlers’, when in fact they are nothing of the sort? Or at least if Arsenal are, then so is everyone else. The reason I ask …
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Just published: How Arsenal moved from 20th to 2nd in one season under Chapman By Tony Attwood We have had so many Arsenal players have their confidence destroyed playing out of position in a national team that it was rather a surprise to hear that one Arsenal youngster got through an international without being crocked. …
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The fanatical secrecy of the Premier League’s refs put to shame by the Swiss Does fouling a lot and scoring a lot always take a club up the league? By Tony Attwood Following on from my last piece about the exploitative nature of the media and the way in which young men are …
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An evening with Arsenal Legends and that missing London League Table By Tony Attwood And so a new “football” is added. No longer an11 a-side or even a 5-a-side game, but rather a seven a side women’s game. The games will be 30 minutes long, played across two halves of, hang on a …
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Does fouling a lot and scoring a lot always take a club up the league? Why do people keep making up transfer stories when 97% of them are wrong An evening with Arsenal Legends and that missing London League Table A recent development in Switzerland reported in LeMatin should be of major …
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Why Arsenal’s Performance Is So Hard to Predict (and How to Crack the Code) An evening with Arsenal Legends and that missing London League Table By Tony Attwood Recently we had a look at whether a club’s league position directly relates to having a top goal scorer. The answer seemed to be, “sometimes,” …
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An evening with Arsenal Legends and that missing London League Table The personality of referees, and why PGMO is so determined to stay secret By Tony Attwood Many football journalists and bloggers whose prime area of writing is transfer rumours – have something rather nasty in common. For it seems that most of them …
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Arsenal are in the midst of a big injury crisis with Saka, Jesus, Tomiyasu and Havertz out. It’s testing their squad depth. As of March 2025 they are 2nd in the league with 55 points from 28 games, but slipping further behind Liverpool who have 70 points from 29 games. A 1-0 win over …
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. You’ve seen it before. Arsenal steps onto the pitch for a massive game, and suddenly, they look like title contenders – fast, aggressive, playing with purpose. Then, the next week, they lose focus against a mid-table side, and we’re all left scratching our heads. If you’ve ever placed a sports bet, you know …
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Recently… The personality of referees, and why PGMO is so determined to stay secret How have the London clubs been doing this season? And forthcoming… As you can see above, there is a special event on 25 March run by the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association. LIVE CONVERSATION WITH: Lee Dixon, Paul Davis, Alan …
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How have the London clubs been doing this season? Arsenal are only six goals away from being top of the league By Tony Attwood Here’s an interesting question: which organisation manages to govern and control WITHOUT being in the news at all? Put another way, which organisation has no megaphone and indeed no website …
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Arsenal are only six goals away from being top of the league Two Arsenal players in danger of serious injury as prices rise and rise By Tony Attwood In the old days, some websites published a London League table based on the results of London clubs playing each other in the Premier League. It …
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Two Arsenal players in danger of serious injury as prices rise and rise By Tony Attwood Imagine 70 years of pretending to be a big club but not winning anything, and then selling the club to Saudi Arabia and going bonkers over winning a trophy that Arsenal use to give run outs to their …
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Arsenal v Chelsea: This referee has only seen 3 home wins all season! Arsenal v Chelsea: the referee, recent comparisons and where is Abramovich? Two Arsenal players in danger of serious injury as prices rise and rise Arsenal v Chelsea: a visit from little Stamford Creek By Bulldog Drummond According to Blick …
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Arsenal v Chelsea: the referee, recent comparisons and where is Abramovich? Arsenal v Chelsea: a visit from little Stamford Creek By Bulldog Drummond What I think most of us want most of the time is for referees to adopt the same view of the game as each other, so clubs and players and us …
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Two Arsenal players in danger of serious injury as prices rise and rise Arsenal v Chelsea: a visit from little Stamford Creek By Bulldog Drummond Last summer Arsenal spent Sum: €108.90m on transfers Chelsea spent Sum: €276.00m (Figures from https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/) In the league the clubs’ positions are Pos Team Pld W D …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Chelsea: a visit from little Stamford Creek Why the negative tendencies of commentators discussing Arsenal always end badly If the nutters are not stopped, Arsenal will lose their chance of trophies Only two Arsenal players have been put in danger of getting unnecessary and pointless injuries through …
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Why the negative tendencies of commentators discussing Arsenal always end badly If the nutters are not stopped, Arsenal will lose their chance of trophies By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal play Chelsea on Sunday at 1.30pm which at least gives me a chance to get home in the light for a change, and it is interesting …
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If the nutters are not stopped, Arsenal will lose their chance of trophies Is it really true that one more player is all Arsenal now need? By Tony Attwood It has been a thought of mine for some time that journalists who keep on pushing their own point of view, rather than reporting the …
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By Tony Attwood Last night will, I imagine, be remembered as the game when we finished with four left backs on the pitch, but it was also the game when Sterling came back to life, creating goals for Zinchenko and Rice. and when PSV changed into a reliable solid and useful player. Sadly he …
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Arsenal v PSV: media sows fear and anxiety, and a chance for some rested players PSV v Arsenal: could PSV possibly recover – even a bit? By Bulldog Drummond One factor we must bear in mind is that the next game for Arsenal after tonight’s match is on Sunday against Chelsea …
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