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 …
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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 …
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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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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 As we noted in the last article, Everton are a very low scoring team who like to tackle a lot, and with Arsenal in 19th position …
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Arsenal v Everton: the home and away review VAR is not the question of the day: there is something much, much bigger By Sir Hardly Anyone Looking at the statistics for the season of Arsenal and Everton one amazing set of numbers leaps out. Arsenal have scored 89 goals to Everton’s 39. that …
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VAR is not the question of the day: there is something much, much bigger Tottenham have reason to be concerned about how supporters behaviour is seen overseas By Sir Hardly Anyone And so we reach the end of the season, sadly with most of us pretty sure that Arsenal won’t make it to first …
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Tottenham have reason to be concerned about how supporters’ behaviour is seen overseas What the Premier League London derbies did for Arsenal this season by Tony Attwood There was a headline in the New York Times (of all places!) recently, which read, Arsenal fans: Should your club vote to scrap VAR? And reading that …
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What the Premier League London derbies did for Arsenal this season What does this year in the Premier League tell us about next By Tony Attwood It is quite widely accepted that increasingly, clubs are dependent upon income from overseas to help buy more players and meet FFP requirements when so doing. Hence …
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What does this year in the Premier League tell us about next So now we know a little more about what it means to support Tottenham By Tony Attwood The London clubs league table this season tells us a lot about the style of play adopted by the club. Arsenal scored 29 goals …
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So now we know a little more about what it means to support Tottenham Arsenal agree to 11 women’s games at the Emirates next season By Tony Attwood One of the big problems for Arsenal in chasing Manchester City is that Manchester City are working with the benefits of the 115 financial issues that …
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On the Arsenal History site today: 20 years ago today – the greatest moment in Arsenal’s history. Arsenal agree to 11 women’s games at the Emirates next season What might the rest of the Premier League do if Man C are found not guilty By Tony Attwood To be more precise …
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