Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
The tragedy is Arsenal might just give in and do what their critics want By Tony Attwood Because of health issues I am having to cut back on my visits to Arsenal, so although I still have my season ticket, and attending games covered by that, I am not buying tickets for matches …
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By Tony Attwood Is there anything more one can say? A game in which Arsenal had 67% possession and Newcastle (obviously) 33% against their norms of 55.1% and Newcastle 50.7% saw Arsenal get 21 attempts on goal but only two on target. Bizarrely the official figures give Newcastle three attempts with four on target, …
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What do we see tonight? Lots of yellow cards for Arsenal! Arsenal v Newcastle League Cup Semi-Final: the form By Tony Attwood Games between Arsenal and Newcastle go back over 130 years, starting with a 2-2 draw in division two in a match in Plumstead when Woolwich Arsenal and Newcastle drew 2-2. …
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Arsenal v Newcastle League Cup Semi-Final: the form Do Arsenal really need a proper number 9? By Bulldog Drummond CNN have said, “Mikel Arteta was left lamenting a controversial penalty decision on Saturday, the likes of which he said he has “never seen,” and which consigned his team to a 1-1 draw at Brighton.” He …
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Do Arsenal really need a proper number 9? No need to worry: Arsenal are always poor in January By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal find themselves playing Newcastle with inevitably another bit of bad injury news: Ethan Nwaneri who came off at half-time in the Brighton game after scoring, will be out for a few …
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Can Arsenal catch Liverpool? The away games will be crucial Arsenal are being tested to the limit By Nitram As always seems to happen, we have a game where we struggle to score and the same old subject arises of Arsenal’s need for a ‘proper number 9’. The general consensus throughout the …
As the calendar flips into the second half of the season, Arsenal fans find themselves grappling with familiar frustrations and renewed questions about their team’s ability to secure silverware. Under Mikel Arteta’s guidance, the Gunners have shown glimpses of promise, but their resilience is now being tested after a disappointing 2-0 loss to Newcastle …
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Can Arsenal catch Liverpool? The away games will be crucial Arsenal are being tested to the limit By Tony Attwood The pain of the Arsenal draw this weekend was perhaps lessened a fraction by the draw between those teams from somewhere in the northwestern part of the country. “I wouldn’t worry about it too …
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Arsenal are being tested to the limit By Nitram. For those of you who read my ramblings you may of noticed I have taken great interest in the disparity between the quality of opponent both Liverpool and Arsenal have had to face away from home, and it is quite remarkable. Not only is …
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Brighton v Arsenal, the tackles and fouls and the worrying approach of referees Arteta is quoted in the Guardian as saying “I have never seen a decision like this in my career. I asked the boys if they have and nobody has seen it before,” said Arteta. “When you look at the incident, …
Brighton v Arsenal; injuries, goalscoring and Brighton’s trajectory Brighton v Arsenal, the tackles and fouls and the worrying approach of referees Brighton v Arsenal: the referee who favours the away team! Brighton v Arsenal: why Brighton will go for a draw By Bulldog Drummond Beyond any doubt the Brighton problem is goal scoring …
Brighton v Arsenal, the tackles and fouls and the worrying approach of referees Brighton v Arsenal: the referee who favours the away team! Brighton v Arsenal: why Brighton will go for a draw By Bulldog Drummond Much is being made of Arsenal’s high number of injuries, although in pure number terms, Arsenal are …
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Brighton v Arsenal: the referee who favours the away team! Brighton v Arsenal: why Brighton will go for a draw By Bulldog Drummond When we look at the number of tackles Brighton and Arsenal each put in per game, the numbers are remarkably similar: 17.5 for Brighton, 16,6 for Arsenal. The number of fouls …
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By Bulldog Drummond Brighton v Arsenal: why Brighton will go for a draw Arsenal are now most certainly on the up, while most top clubs are on the down There are three ways of looking at the issue of refereeing in the Premier League. One is to say by and large it is …
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Arsenal are now most certainly on the up, while most top clubs are on the down By Bulldog Drummond This is where the phrase “thick and fast” comes to be used pretty much everywhere in terms of Arsenal games. But part of the number of games is of course, Arsenal’s fault, for getting …
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The numbers that prove there is something very very fishy with PL refereeing Untold Arsenal: Focus on Nottingham Forest By Tony Attwood As Nitram pointed out in his comment on yesterday’s game, (which I hope he doesn’t mind my quoting here, as it seems such a relevant point…) Over the last to …
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Against Brentford, Arenal must beat the opposition and overcome the referee. The numbers that prove there is something very very fishy with PL refereeing Arsenal and Brentford – is the opposition only good against certain clubs? By Bulldog Drummond In terms of attack Brentford put in just under four shots fewer than …
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Arsenal and Brentford – is the opposition only good against certain clubs? The numbers that prove there is something very very fishy with PL refereeing (Peter Bankes referee’s today match) by Tony Attwood As we have seen already, at first sight this looks like being an easy win for Arsenal with the league …
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From the Premier League referee who almost never sees a home win, to a referee who hardly ever sees an away win… The Premier League has appointed Peter Bankes as the referee for the trip to Brentford on Wednesday. He has overseen ten games this season – and he is known as the …
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Arsenal and Brentford – is the opposition only good against certain clubs? Arsenal are “unconvincing” title challengers. Really? By Tony Attwood Brentford v Arsenal, 1 January 5.30pm Live on TNT and Discovery Plus. Obviously TNT costs quite a lot for a subscription but it would appear from its on site advertising that Discover …
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By Tony Attwood So now the focus is on Nottingham Forest and their “amazing” rise up the table. And certainly there has been a change from last season when Forest were 17th. Here’s the end of last season…. Team P W D L F A GD Pts 2 Arsenal 38 28 5 …
Why should we assume that everything with PGMO is right and proper? How football journalists draw conclusions without information and why football loves it this way By Nitram Following our 1 – 0 win over Ipswich Town I was rather bemused by the following headline in The Daily Mirror on line: Arsenal have …
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by Tony Attwood In a previous article I wrote How football journalists draw conclusions without information and why football loves it this way My point following on from that article note above is that it is not just football journalists that draw conclusions without information. This is what journalists do by and …
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With Saka out for a couple of months can Arsenal retain momentum, or is the League just ludicrous? By Tony Attwood A recent research paper highlighted by the British Psychological Society reports on a thing known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect (which shows that most people with particularly limited knowledge of a subject are likely …
Arsenal injuries, and the referee who never oversees a home win!!! Has Saka been overplayed or is he just indispensible like other world class players? By Tony Attwood We all know that life on the pitch for Arsenal is going to be more difficult without Saka, but do Arsenal have enough to get …
