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By Tony Attwood How football is following the lead of Mohamed Al-Fayed How one manipulative malevolent interview has re-energised the media hatred of Arsenal On 10 October last year the Mirror ran the bold headling “Howard Webb urged to issue ban on referees after Arsenal vs Man City incident”. On October 11 …
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How one manipulative malevolent interview has re-energised the media hatred of Arsenal By Tony Attwood If you ever listen to the news in the UK you will be aware of Mohamed Al-Fayed, who died in 2023. To quote from Wiki, which is in fact quoting something that is on the news in …
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This is a staggeringly brilliant Arsenal team. ManC 2 Arsenal 2 By Nitram Following on from Tony’s previous article Perfidious media link with ManC to launch attacks on all things Arsenal, I thought I’d have a look SKY Sports post match interview that I feel has fuelled this latest bought of media hatred …
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How referees are manipulating the number of yellow cards this season By Tony Attwood I suppose we’ve been a bit naive to expect that the media would be able to celebrate Arsenal’s way of handling ManC, for instead what we have had is a load of whinging, whining and complaining which combined …
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How referees are manipulating the number of yellow cards this season Manchester C v Arsenal. The teams and the records that suggest anything can happen. By Tony Attwood It took Manchester City 100 minutes and playing half the match against 10 men on their home ground just to get a draw, which tells …
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How referees are manipulating the number of yellow cards this season What more can be said about ManC before the game v Arsenal? Manchester City v Arsenal: the games no one will tell you about Of course there is also another Arsenal vs Manchester City game on today and that kicks off just …
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What more can be said about ManC before the game v Arsenal? Manchester City v Arsenal: the games no one will tell you about By Bulldog Drummond There is an article available today which has the line in it reading Manchester United specialise in not doing as well as might be expected And the question …
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Manchester City v Arsenal: the games no one will tell you about By Bulldog Drummond Is there anything new that can be learned about Manchester City? We know they are being charged with 115 offences by the Premier League, we know they are suing the Premier League, we know they are top of the …
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Atalanta goalless, but it is far from doom and gloom How Arsenal away are so different from Arsenal at home By Tony Attwood According to the record books the first three games between the club that went on to become Arsenal (but at the time were Woolwich Arsenal) and the club that went …
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Why is the trial of Manchester City being held in secret? By Tony Attwood And so after five games of the season Arsenal have won three, drawn two and lost none, scoring six goals and conceding one. We might conclude the defence is ok, but the attack needs to recover last season’s form. Last …
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Atalanta v Arsenal Arsenal is accused of looking like a newly promoted team and the player who fights car jackers How Arsenal away are so different from Arsenal at home Atalanta v Arsenal: player options ahead of the game What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday? By Bulldog Drummond Well, …
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How Arsenal away are so different from Arsenal at home Atalanta v Arsenal: player options ahead of the game What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday? By Bulldog Drummond There is no doubt that the changing tactics that Arsenal have used over the last couple of years have often bemused opposition …
Atalanta v Arsenal: player options ahead of the game What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday? By Tony Attwood Given that the first Arsenal game in this season’s Champions League is away I thought it was worth reflecting on Arsenal’s away record last season. Arsenal won 13, dreew three and lost …
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By Bulldog Drummond What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday? There seemed to be many occasions last season when it was hardly possible to write an injury update for Arsenal because there was just one or maybe two players out and we knew all about them. But now we are in …
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By Tony Attwood What will Arsenal be facing in Bergamo on Thursday? This is how Goal sums up the ongoing legal case: “City’s hearing is completely confidential and their fate will be decided by an unnamed three-person panel. They could be relegated if found guilty. The location of the hearing was even kept …
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By Bulldog Drummond The long, long road toward football’s reform. Could these be the first tiny steps? Since winning Serie B in 2011, Atalanta have been in Serie A and have (as far as I know) reached their highest position of third, three times in recent seasons. There has been a bit of …
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“England ‘could face Euros ban’ over regulator plan”. Arsenal win, while Tottenham manager ignores evidence to put faith in the old ways So if it is Tuesday that means its …. err…. Champions League, on Thursday. But that is ok because Uefa has said so. Just as the idea of UK having a …
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Arsenal win, while Tottenham manager ignores evidence to put faith in the old ways By Tony Attwood Arsenal remain in the top eight group of clubs for yellow cards this season, with 11 cards. If they carry on at this rate the club will end up with 104 cards. Mind you that would also …
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By Tony Attwood Is PGMOL holding the Premier League hostage? For Tottenham v Arsenal it looks like it In response to yesterday afternoon’s events The Guardian says, “It is an interesting part of the dynamic that for an hour it had been tempting to wonder if this was the kind of afternoon where Arsenal …
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Is PGMOL holding the Premier League hostage? For Tottenham v Arsenal it looks like it By Bulldog Drummond Showing just where they lie in the scheme of things, the Standard has an article on the Internet headlined “Tottenham XI vs Arsenal: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup and injury latest for Premier League today” …
Arsenal away and Tottenham at home: who really has the advantage? By Tony Attwood Let us imagine that you are approaching the Tottenham v Arsenal game without any thought about the refereeing for the match, except perhaps that in a match of such a high profile and of such importance to Arsenal (who will …
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North London battles. Who has been top in recent years? By Bulldog Drummond Here’s an interesting league comparison that you probably won’t see anywhere else, since it runs against the message that the media wants. Arsenal last season were better away from home than Tottenham were at home. But the panic message is …
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By Bulldog Drummond Is Mr Gillett unconsciously biased in any way, or does he treat teams equally How referees are now penalising Arsenal for tackles, but letting other clubs run free The last ten Arsenal v Tottenham games have all been in the League and they take in the period from 1 September …
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By Bulldog Drummond Of course we do not say (unless somehow it has slipped through, and if it has we all offer our apologies) that PGMO referees are deliberately biased. Rather our argument is that referees have always been influenced by extraneous events – and the most obvious one is the crowd noise. …
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By Bulldog Drummond How referee bias will affect the Tottenham v Arsenal game We decided today to have a look at how clubs had changed their style and approach between last season and the first three games of this season, and yes we found quite a few interesting changes. But as we started …
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