Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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Is Arteta in control at Arsenal, or does he need more power? The simple reason why Arsenal absolutely do not need a new number 9 By Sir Hardly Anyone, Head of Certain Things, at the FA. Throughout Europe, discussions are going on concerning football match security, and there is a constant worry that …
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The simple reason why Arsenal absolutely do not need a new number 9 Arsenal are now where Man C was one year ago. Can we overtake? The Football Regulator has gone, the football Deep State is in control An article in the Telegraph continues the growing theme in the media that if there isn’t something …
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By Tony Attwood An article in the Telegraph recently opened with the line, “Successful managers, or head coaches, find it hard to resist seizing control when success gives them the opportunity. Mikel Arteta works under a sporting director structure at Arsenal but he may feel that two successive second-place finishes gives him the …
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The Football Regulator has gone, the football Deep State is in control How Tottenham have declined while Arsenal have progressed By Tony Attwood A headline from the New York Times / The Athletic website reads, Whichever way you cut it, Arsenal are now elite – here are the numbers to prove it The article does what …
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How Tottenham have declined while Arsenal have progressed 15% of the most valuable players in the world play for Arsenal. But… By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader here you might recall that a number of times we have brought up the fact that despite the horrors of the …
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Over the last four years no club is matching Arsenal for consistent progress Progress and regression: How Arsenal have outdone every other club in the league How Arsenal’s defence has improved in comparison with the defences of other top clubs We’ve been looking at how Arsenal have progressed in terms of goals scored and …
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How Arsenal’s defence has improved in comparison with the defences of other top clubs Over the last four years no club is matching Arsenal for consistent progress By Sir Hardly Anyone Football Observatory has published a llist of the top 100 players by value, and to answer our own question, yes some of …
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Over the last four years no club is matching Arsenal for consistent progress Progress and regression: How Arsenal have outdone every other club in the league Our last two articles have shown that in terms of progress revealed by points gained and goals scored Arsenal are the supreme Premier League club in terms …
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Progress and regression: How Arsenal have outdone every other club in the league When journalists suggest the only comparison point is Man C, we know they have lost it By Tony Attwood In the last article we looked at Arsenal’s points total and found that Arsenal were unique among the clubs we looked at …
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When journalists suggest the only comparison point is Man C, we know they have lost it Arsenal transfers: 40 players incoming and 14 leaving By Tony Attwood The prime talk during the summer is always about transfers, and as that link shows, yet we know from the review of transfers each summer, that only …
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Arsenal transfers: 40 players incoming and 14 leaving If Man C are found guilty should they keep their ill-gotten gains? And is FFP just protecting the Big Six? By Tony Attwood I have endlessly railed against the football media for following certain lines of argument and debate, most notably omitting anything that suggests …
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Recent posts… If Man C are found guilty should they keep their ill-gotten gains? And is FFP just protecting the Big Six? The reason why Arsenal do not need a 20+ goals a season player Untold Arsenal has been running the list of all the players tipped to be coming to Arsenal and …
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The reason why Arsenal do not need a 20+ goals a season player Breakaway football leagues: the women have done it. What next? By Nitram In a previous article, I found two points that were made very interesting. Point One was: “Maybe it’s the old romantic in me but I just prefer titles to …
Breakaway football leagues: the women have done it. What next? The figures that reveal that Arsenal are perfectly set for next season By Tony Attwood The 38 games seasons started in 1988/9, and thus there have now been 35 such campaigns. Out of these 35 Arsenal have exceeded either 80 points or 80 …
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The figures that reveal that Arsenal are perfectly set for next season What to do if Man C win their dispute with the league, and what if they lose. By Tony Attwood An article in SportsPromedia sets it all out: the FA has been running the two top leagues in women’s football for …
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What to do if Man C win their dispute with the league, and what if they lose. How football is failing 4: Chelsea’s £1bn transfer fund gets record yellow card level And today on the Arsenal History Society website: The game that shows Arsenal and Spurs did not fall out over Arsenal’s move north By …
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How football is failing to sort itself out: Part 1 How football is failing to sort itself out Part 2: Green football off the agenda How football is failing 3: we have lost the abilty to analyse How football is failing 4: Chelsea’s £1bn transfer fund gets record yellow card level By Tony …
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How football is failing 3: we have lost the abilty to analyse How football is failing to sort itself out Part 2: Green football off the agenda How football is failing to sort itself out: Part 1 By Sir Hardly Anyone Chelsea, who have spent well above £1 billion on players in the …
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How football is failing to sort itself out Part 2: Green football off the agenda The season is over but slowly journalists are realising something is not quite right… How football is failing to sort itself out: Part 1 – violence grows By Tony Attwood Part of the central argument put forward on …
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The season is over but slowly journalists are realising something is not quite right… How football is failing to sort itself out: Part 1 By Tony Attwood At the start of February this year there was quite a bit of talk about a Green Football Weekend where supporters could work with their clubs …
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How football is failing to sort itself out: Part 1 It;s official: football supporters are stupid. By Tony Attwood With the season over there is a sense in the media of something being not quite right. Somehow they can’t quite put a finger on it, but in one way or another they know …
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It;s official: football supporters are stupid. By Tony Attwood If you have never heard of the Coupe Vaudoise you are forgiven. Because until today I hadn’t either. And indeed I am still struggling to get a full picture. But I have found out that by beating Aigle 3-0, Genolier-Begnins (a club which plays in …
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Arsenal v Everton, the team, 287150 comments and what happens next Arsenal v Everton, and Tottenham doing almost as well as Luton By Tony Attwood I use the word “official” above in a vague sense, because my source for the notion that we are all stupid is the Daily Telegraph which runs a comprehensive …
Arsenal v Everton, and Tottenham doing almost as well as Luton Arsenal v Everton: just how much influence will the referee have? Arsenal v Everton: how the use of tackles does Everton and Tottenham no favours Arsenal v Everton: the home and away review And on the Arsenal History Society site today: Farewell …
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Arsenal v Everton: just how much influence will the referee have? Arsenal v Everton: how the use of tackles does Everton and Tottenham no favours Arsenal v Everton: the home and away review By Sir Hardly Anyone It is quite remarkable that Arsenal have won more points away from home this season (42) than …
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