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
Arsenal v Chelsea: less money, more goals By Bulldog Drummond One of the topics we have never looked at, is which is the most effective team in terms of shots, so we decided to look at the top six clubs plus Chelsea and see how they compared. In terms of shots Liverpool are way …
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By Bulldog Drummond From “Arteta doesn’t rotate” to “he rotates too much” in one week Apart from the results is any football reporting actually correct? I quite enjoyed this from ESPN: “According to the site Transfermarkt, Chelsea have spent €1.1 billion on transfer fees since summer 2022. Arsenal have spent €421.34.” So …
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Apart from the results is any football reporting actually correct? Ludicrous schedules, anti-Arsenal media, invented tales, declining eyesight So we have been debating Arteta’s alleged lack of rotation (see It is absolute nonsense to say Arteta does not rotate“) and what do we find? A commentary in the Telegraph changes its approach utterly following …
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Ludicrous schedules, anti-Arsenal media, invented tales, declining eyesight By Tony Attwood It seems a bit bizarre to ask the question, but having had a day which included sitting at home without very blurred vision (following hospital treatment on my eye this morning) I have had little to do other than to contemplate this, that …
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. . Wolverhampton v Arsenal: the team, the prediction and the mindless twaddle It is absolute nonsense to say Arteta does not rotate By Tony Attwood In the past it was indeed quite different. Footballers just toughed it out. Take 1932 for example. On 24 December of that year Arsenal beat Sheffield United 9-2 at …
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Wolverhampton v Arsenal: the goals, the history, the injuries Wolverhampton v Arsenal: the strange case of the referees Wolverhampton v Arsenal. The team that can tackle and foul without fear Wolverhampton v Arsenal – home, away and discipline By Bulldog Drummond According to The Guardian, Wolves can rise to occasion” and of course …
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By Tony Attwood Wolverhampton v Arsenal The strange case of the referees Wolverhampton v Arsenal. The team that can tackle and foul without fear Wolverhampton v Arsenal – home, away and discipline Arsenal have historically had much the better of Wolverhampton winning 63 of the games, while losing fractionally over half that number …
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Wolverhampton v Arsenal. The team that can tackle and foul without fear Wolverhampton v Arsenal – home, away and discipline By Bulldog Drummond As you will know if you have ever considered referees in the Premier League, they live in a world of absolute secrecy. While top-level referees in Germany are interviewed on …
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By Bulldog Drummond Wolverhampton v Arsenal: home away and discipline It is absolute nonsense to say Arteta does not rotate To win the Premier League clubs need scorers AND creators In this article the figures for tackles, fouls and yellow cards come from WhoScored. If you feel these figures are wrong, please do …
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It is absolute nonsense to say Arteta does not rotate To win the Premier League clubs need scorers AND creators By Bulldog Drummond In terms of home and away games the simplest way to signify the difference between Wolverhampton at home and Arsenal away is to say “Plus 26”. That is Arsenal’s goal …
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To win the Premier League clubs need scorers AND creators Coming soon to a club near you: football but not as we know it By Tony Attwood Every time I see a bold statement about football with no supporting evidence I check the data, simply because most of the time these bold statements …
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Coming soon to a club near you: football but not as we know it By Tony Attwood What is it that takes a club to the top of the league? Is it having a top chance creator, or a top goalscorer? Or maybe a couple of each? Certainly, the media love to push the …
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Why Arsenal are ranked 22nd in Europe, and what’s wrong with the system Moving the Premier League to the USA. Plans are underway By Tony Attwood So now the Arsenal dip looks that bit more real: two defeats and a draw in the last three games, “Gunners fade” says the Guardian headline. “Mikel …
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Bayern v Arsenal and the effect of last weekend Why Arsenal are ranked 22nd in Europe By Bulldog Drummond An Arsenal defeat tonight would not particularly worry me, largely because I don’t see the playing field as even. The funding available to clubs like PSG, Real Madrid and Manchester City makes it highly …
By Bulldog Drummond Bayern v Arsenal and the effect of last weekend Moving the Premier League to the USA. Plans are underway Bayern Munich have a Uefa co-efficient ranking of 140. Only one team in Europe has a higher ranking: Manchester City on 147. In the co-efficient table Real Madrid are third and PSG …
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Moving the Premier League to the USA. Plans are underway Where it costs nothing to go and watch football, and a more savoury approach By Bulldog Drummond Since the first leg game between Bayern and Arsenal, the ex-German-champions have played once and had a 2-0 win over Koln. However the German title has …
Where it costs nothing to go and watch football, and a more savoury approach Add to the transfer rumours, the buyout rumours By Tony Attwood In 2019 we published a history of Arsenal’s pre-season games on the Arsenal History website, covering 1893 up to the year of publication. Take a peek and you …
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Add to the transfer rumours, the buyout rumours How gambling on success through spending more on players can come unstuck Paris has two league teams. One you know about, of course, the other perhaps not. But this other club – Paris FC of the second division in France – has of late urned to …
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How gambling on success through spending more on players can come unstuck The mass walk out at Arsenal was a total indictment of the quality of support for the club By Sheik Yerbouti For years we have got used to the notion of Arsenal buying this, that or some other player only to …
The mass walk out at Arsenal was a total indictment of the quality of support for the club By Tony Attwood Back in 1955 Chelsea won the league. In 1970 they won the FA Cup. In 1997 they won the FA Cup again, and with a repeat in 2000 and a couple of …
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Arsenal v Villa: It’s that ref that Arsenal should never have to face again By Tony Attwood Before yesterday’s game Arsenal had had ten wins and one draw in succession in the league. And yet after the two Villa goals went in, Arsenal fans, in fairly large numbers, started to leave. The implication from …
Arsenal v Villa: It’s that ref that Arsenal should never have to face again Arsenal v Aston Villa: the utterly unexpected tactics Some very good reasons why Arsenal will beat Villa on Sunday By Sir Hardly Anyone Aston Villa are third in the yellow card table at present with 83 cards waved at their …
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Arsenal v Villa: It’s that ref that Arsenal should never have to face again Arsenal v Aston Villa: the utterly unexpected tactics Some very good reasons why Arsenal will beat Villa on Sunday By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have just one injury, which puts the club bottom of the injury table alongside Fulham who are …
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Arsenal v Aston Villa: the utterly unexpected tactics Some very good reasons why Arsenal will beat Villa on Sunday By Sir Hardly Anyone And by “That referee” I mean David Coote. The man who was the “referee” (I use the word lightly) for the game with Crystal Palace on 21 August 2023. A …
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Some very good reasons why Arsenal will beat Villa on Sunday The Arsenal plan: retaliation before the opposition attack By Sir Hardly Anyone Now here is something rather strange. Assuming that you don’t know the answer already, where do you think Aston Villa are in the tackling and fouling statistics? (Data below as usual …
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