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How top clubs have at least 6+ of the top players in the world in their squads Arsenal one of the sensible six, so we can watch our full squad By Tony Attwood The Arsenal problem, in the eyes of the media, is well defined today as the Guardian runs the statement, “Mikel Arteta …
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by Tony Attwood Sam Barrott will referee tomorrow’s game, with Tim Wood and Wade Smith assisting him. Oliver Langford will be the fourth official, with Michael Salisbury on VAR and Peter Wright as the assistant VAR. So let us compare Sam Barrott, who has overseen ten games this season in the PL, with …
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Arsenal v Everton this weekend: early thoughts and a concern How top clubs have at least 6+ of the top players in the world in their squads By Tony Attwood Arsenal games against Everton are usually jolly nice affairs since, at least for us, Arsenal win them. There have been 225 competitive games across …
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Arsenal one of the sensible six, so we can watch our full squad Journalists turn on Arsenal as a way of avoiding considering the neighbours By Tony Attwood On Saturday at 8pm, Arsenal play Everton. I’ll do the usual Untold preview of the game of course, but I thought it was worth also reflect …
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Arsenal one of the sensible six, so we can watch our full squad Journalists turn on Arsenal as a way of avoiding considering the neighbours By Tony Attwood The Guardian is running a series of articles on “The best 100 male footballers in the world.” Each day they release another group, and so far …
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Journalists turn on Arsenal as a way of avoiding considering the neighbours How Fifa is wrecking club squads and forcing clubs to buy more players By Tony Attwood Every two years, clubs lose players, not because they are transferred or injured or out of form, nor indeed because the player is overtaken in the …
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How FIFA is wrecking club squads and forcing clubs to buy more players Reffymandering.net: at last we can see where refereeing is going wrong 100 years in the top division: Arsenal 1951/2; losing the cup final By Tony Attwood As you may have noticed, Arsenal’s record since the last game in November …
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Reffymandering.net: at last we can see where refereeing is going wrong From 16 December 2020 to now: just how far have Arsenal come? By Tony Attwood In a report published by Associated Press and taken up by the insurance company Howden and other outlets, it has been revealed that Chelsea had nearly half as …
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From 16 December 2020 to now: just how far have Arsenal come? When being in a league means lots of travel and endless defeats By Tony Attwood Why does it matter if one referee oversees multiple Arsenal matches in a season? Actually, it doesn’t, unless that referee is biased in any way. Not …
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Being in a league means lots of travel and endless defeats Another staggering win, as Arsenal players take another kicking By Tony Attwood You know pretty much how the league looks today, but with a handful of minutess to spare I thought it might be interesting to know a little bit about how the …
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By Tony Attwood One of the themes that we have developed on Untold Arsenal is that even the most successful clubs in the Premier League get occasional “blips” – which is to say runs of anything between two and five games in which they draw or even lose games that we would have expected them …
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton. What Arsenal need to be wary of. Are Wolverhampton the worst team ever in the Premier League? Another staggering win, as Arsenal players take another kicking By Tony Attwood And so we are getting closer to kick off, which means it is time to contemplate any last-minute news and, indeed, the …
Are Wolverhampton the worst team ever in the Premier League? Another staggering win, as Arsenal players take another kicking And on the Arsenal History website: 100 years in the top division: Arsenal. 1950/51 – a roof for the north bank, but no trophy By Tony Attwood Now I come to think of it, …
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And on the Arsenal History website: 100 years in the top division: Arsenal. 1950/51 – a roof for the north bank, but no trophy The game this weekend of course is against Wolverhampton Wanderers, so that question in the headline pops up. It is generally reported that Derby County suffered relegation from the English …
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Arsenal have so many injuries it’s impossible to say what the team will be The one gigantic benefit that Arsenal have that everyone has forgotten By Tony Attwood Well, forgive me if I start with a league table, because a) it looks wonderful and b) I can’t think of many or indeed any of …
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Club Brugge v Arsenal: all the things you don’t need to know but are quite interesting Club Brugge against Arsenal: how are the oppositin doing of late? By Tony Attwood Something very odd is happening in the media today, as journalists and publishers who normally fall over themselves to predict who will be selected …
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Club Brugge v Arsenal: all the things you don’t need to know but are quite interesting Are Arsenal getting too many injuries, or should we be watching the tactics? Club Brugge against Arsenal: how are the oppositin doing of late? By Tony Attwood Injuries continued to be the key issue in discussions about Arsenal …
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By Tony Attwood Are Arsenal getting too many injuries, or should we be watching the tactics? Club Brugge against Arsenal: how are the opposition doing of late? There is something wonderful about the history of Jan Breydel, who lived in the late 13th and early 14th century and whose name is given to …
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By Tony Attwood Now available: Untold Referees Club Brugge against Arsenal: how are the opposition doing of late? Why do Arsenal get so many more negative stories than other clubs? We have a game tomorrow so it must be an occasion for Arsenal to be “sweating on injuries” as the media like to …
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By Tony Attwood Within the context of Belgian football, Club Brugge are pretty much one of the top teams – although when they come to compete in Europe, that is no longer the case. So they have the highest number of consecutive participations in the Europa League of any Belgian club, with 20, …
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Does one defeat mean it’s all over for Arsenal? By Tony Attwood There is an article in the Telegraph today which runs with the headline “Liverpool capitulate again before Mohamed Salah outburst,” and it struck me that this is a perfect example of how football is reported. Because football journalism is all about …
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100 years in the top division. 1949/50 – a trophy is demanded What is really wrong with PL refereeing? We decidedto find out By Tony Attwood The agreement seems to be general. Arsenal have a pretty amazing squad this season, but if you take out Gabriel Magalhães and William Saliba at the same …
Peter Banke is the referee who loves home wins What is really wrong with Premier League refereeing? We decided to find out By Tony Attwood Most games won, fewest games lost, second most goals scored, best defence, equal best goals difference, and most points. If you’d been offered that for the 15-game marker, you …
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Previously Peter Banke is the referee who loves home wins; but Arsenal are the team with goalscorers Aston Villa v Arsenal, the referee, and the collusion of journalists Aston Villa v Arsenal: there’s something very odd about this fixture list And on the Arsenal History Society site 100 years in the top …
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Aston Villa v Arsenal, the referee, and the collusion of journalists Aston Villa v Arsenal: there’s something very odd about this fixture list By Tony Attwood Here’s a bit of logic. If every referee worked to the same set of rules, and was given matches spread across all the clubs in a division, …
