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by The Referee Team In case you find the full weekly referee review to long/complicated/boring – or indeed in case you are about to leave home in order to buy fish and chips for the evening supper, here is a quick summary in bullet point form. The full detailed analysis will appear tomorrow. In Match …
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By Tony Attwood Some Arsenal supporters get very angry at any match that Arsenal does not win. This is true both home and away. I have often wondered why. Of course some of the people who were at the Bournemouth game might be saying that their moaning resulted in Arsenal waking up and scoring three …
ARSENAL vs. WEST BROMWICH ALBION COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 18 DATE: 26th December 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Neil Swarbrick 1st LINESMAN: Stephen Child 2nd LINESMAN: Constantine Hatzidakis 4th OFFICIAL: Keith Stroud First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 02:34 …
Read More “Ref Review : Arsenal – WBA: the ref who turned his back on time wasting”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Big news, we have just done a transfer. Or so we are told. We are signing Cohen Bramall who is a 20-year-old defender from non-league side Hednesford Town who play in the Evo Stick Northern Premier League. Newsbreak has this story: “Arsenal have almost completed the signing of Hednesford Town left-back, Cohen …
Read More “Arsenal sign their first player of the window, and it is quite a surprise.”
By Walter Broeckx In 2001 the news was made public that referees would become professional in the PL. In an article on the BBC website from 13 June 2001, we found these bits and pieces and we will only highlight the things that relate to the current working of the PGMO and the referees. It …
Read More “How the FA, PL and PGMO backtracked on the promises made by the National Review Board.”
By Tony Attwood 10 years ago Alan Green on Radio 5 would criticise referees regularly – not ever suggesting bias but rather their incompetence. 5 years ago Alan Green was silenced on the subject, and even the Wiki page about him now has no mention of his numerous run-ins with refs nor the controversy surrounding …
By Walter Broeckx A few changes at the start of this match in the Arsenal team. No Özil and from last match no Elneny who was off to Africa. Lucas dropped to the bench. Also Gabriel dropped to the bench. As a result Mustafi came back in the centre of the defence. Coquelin started in …
Read More “Bournemouth – Arsenal : 3-3 crazy match, great come back”
By Tony Attwood Everyone, it seems, (other than those at Chelsea) is now complaining about the way the football fixtures have been sorted out. Right at the start of the holiday period the bean counters at the Telegraph worked out not only how many days rest various clubs had but also how many miles they …
by Andrew Crawshaw We start the second half of the season with a trip to sunny Bournemouth on the South Coast. Our officials for the game are :- Referee – Michael Oliver 31 years old from Northumberland and FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Stuart Burt From Northamptonshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 2 – …
By Sirs Hardly Anyone Before today we already had nine players and a manager (well the manager) who were all ready willing and able to quit Arsenal for pastures new if not pastures greener, at least according to “reports”. But now the bloggettas and journalists are getting themselves into a right lather – and when …
EVERTON vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 16 DATE: 13th December 2016 VENUE: Goodison Park (Liverpool, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mark Clattenburg 1st LINESMAN: Simon Bennett 2nd LINESMAN: Richard West 4th OFFICIAL: Mike Dean First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:27 James McCarthy …
Read More “Ref review Everton – Arsenal : the Clattenburg-Dean combination, a lethal one”
By Tony Attwood In every transfer window various newspapers do their own survey of what each of the PL clubs need. Some papers (such as the Observer – a UK Sunday paper) also do a review submitted by fans (what the Observer rather pompously calls its “Fans Network” – which is seemingly one blog or reader …
Read More “The players Arsenal need this January – compared with what other PL clubs need”
By Walter Broeckx First of all my best wishes to all Untolders and to The Arsenal for the New Year! As I think some players are a bit sick as Wenger said in his press conference a few days ago we had a bit of some unfamiliar names and some people not involved. Arsenal made …
Read More “Arsenal – Crystal Palace 2-0: a good win to start the new year”
By Tony Attwod The Story so Far Arsenal v Crystal Palace 01 January 2017 – The Match Officials. Expect major errors and bias. The Palace comes to the Emirates. Arsenal v Fat Sam: the prologue Arsenal play the Palace. Part the Second And now the conclusion As Mr Wenger said, “The level of confidence or the …
By Tony Attwood And a happy new year to you. This article continues from The Palace comes to the Emirates. Arsenal v Fat Sam: the prologue. If you want to understand the illustrations in this piece you might care to glance back there first. On the injury front the latest list from physioroom looks like this …
By Tony Attwood It is oh so easy to make a list of all the things wrong with football in England. But thinking that it was appropriate to write a piece about the major problems in English football for the end of the year, I started out considering a list of five problems. Quickly that …
By Tony Attwood One of my favourite comedians – and indeed my favourite Shakesperian comic actor (although sadly I was unable to see much of his work in this regard), was Frankie Howerd. At one stage in his career he became completely unacceptable for his politically incorrect jokes, but I never stopped loving his performances, …
Read More “The Palace comes to the Emirates. Arsenal v Fat Sam: the prologue”
by Andrew Crawshaw This match marks the halfway point of the season it is the 19th with another 19 to go. Referee – Andre Marriner 45 from West Yorkshire and FIFA Accredited First assistant – Simon Beck From Bedfordshire and FIFA Accredited Second Assistant -Andy Garratt from the West Midlands Fourth Official – Michael Oliver …
MANCHESTER CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 17 DATE: 18th December 2016 VENUE: Etihad Stadium (Manchester, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Martin Atkinson 1st LINESMAN: Gary Beswick 2nd LINESMAN: Adam Nunn 4th OFFICIAL: Robert Madley First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 02:38 Kevin …
by Linda Thompson The Premier League is arguably the greatest football league in the world. Since its inception in 1992, many of the world’s greatest football players have played in the Premier League. Many consider the Premier League along with La Liga to be the best leagues in the world. As a result, a …
Read More “It’s Not the League Position That Determines a Result: There’s Also the Psychology”
by Sir Hardley Anyone and a chicken called Frostie Last summer, as you will know if you followed the Untold Transfer Index, 20 players were lined up to leave Arsenal. Of course the mass exodus didn’t happen, but those in the know, or rather those who don’t have a clue but like to make it …
Read More “Arsenal plan mass raid on Italian club to cope with predicted January exodus”
By Tony Attwood Preface: if you don’t want to read all this, but simply want the answer to the “how to” you are already thinking like a journalist, and you don’t have to read this article. Just skim to the heading at the bottom that says How to do it and read that. It’s like football – …
Read More “How to be a football journalist and get a job with a newspaper or broadcaster”
By Tony Attwood There seems to me to be a growing feeling of confidence in Fifa that they have weathered the storm. There haven’t been more arrests for a while, and the legal claim against the organisation on behalf of migrant workers employed in dangerous and degrading conditions in Qatar, highlighted recently on Untold, didn’t …
Read More “What horrors do Fifa have in store for us in 2017… and thereafter?”
By Tony Attwood One of the papers recently looked at how many assists the top assistants had after playing 100 games in the premier league. That seemed ok, but I noticed that some clubs seemed to have several players in the list of top assistants (if that is the right word) and some had fewer, …
Read More “The kings of assist – a bit of statistical fun and games”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Last summer we kept a little list running of players who were tipped by the all knowing and extremely informed members of the media to be coming to or going from Arsenal. You will recall how Bellerin was utterly, totally, absolutely certain to leave, along with 21 other members of the …
Read More “Transfer tales: 9 players to leave Arsenal, one new contract and 12 signings”
