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Answer to the last night’s quiz, and the form ahead of the Brentford game A club on the up vs a club in decline By Bulldog Drummond When Mikel Arteta came to Arsenal on 20 December 2019 he inherited a club that was running on fouling. As a result of this at the …
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By Bulldog Drummond Answer to the last night’s quiz, and the form ahead of the Brentford game Exactly how Arsenal beat Liverpool in the League after losing in the FA Cup? So the results of recent matches, however they are analysed, suggest that Arsenal should not have too many problems in overcoming Brentford …
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Exactly how did Arsenal beat Liverpool in the League after losing in the FA Cup? How an ex-Arsenal player is scoring more goals now, and why it doesn’t matter And on the Arsenal history society site: The 1970s: Arsenal’s sixth consecutive defeat, only 19,000 in the ground. By Tony Attwood The question last …
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Exactly how Arsenal beat Liverpool in the League after losing in the FA Cup? How an ex-Arsenal player is scoring more goals now, and why it doesn’t matter By Tony Attwood Being of a certain age – and indeed being older than a certain age – I like to make sure I knock …
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How an ex-Arsenal player is scoring more goals now, and why it doesn’t matter What does Arsenal have to do to win the League? By Tony Attwood The background chitter chatter is always there so if you will excuse me I will deal with this first before giving the answer to the issue …
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Today in Arsenal’s History: 254 league games;174 goals, and then he left Arsenal on 7 March What does Arsenal have to do to win the League? Super League: fans are starting to think it might be a good idea after all By Tony Attwood These are strange days indeed. Strange because when the …
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For an index of recent articles please see the home page. Super League: fans are starting to think it might be a good idea after all Transfer fantasies abound as no one wants to look at child abuse in football By Tony Attwood The media in this regard have already got their copy …
Transfer fantasies abound as no one wants to look at child abuse in football Arsenal: When has it ever been as good (or as utterly stupid) as this? Today anniversary’ Dr Jimmy Patterson – the man who helped unravel the truth about Arsenal’s early years. By Tony Attwood You might recall that when …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal: When has it ever been as good (or as utterly stupid*) as this? The King’s Speech is the speech that the King reads out in the House of Lords on the occasion of the State Opening of Parliament. It sets out the legislation that we can expect to see in …
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Today in Arsenal’s history: Arsenal’s owner moves a bill to stop gambling on football. Sheffield United v Arsenal: do Arsenal need a new £100m striker? * The stupid bit is right at the end if you want to know what it was, but the rest of the article’s quite interesting too! By Tony Attwood …
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Sheffield United v Arsenal: the team and the result Sheffield United v Arsenal: tackles, fouls and yellow cards Do Arsenal need a new £100m striker? How far are Arsenal now off the top in terms of points and goals? Sheffield United against Arsenal: past results and possible outcomes Positive injury news …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Sheffield United v Arsenal: do Arsenal need a new £100m striker? How far are Arsenal now off the top in terms of points and goals? Sheffield United against Arsenal: past results and possible outcomes Positive injury news for Arsenal ahead Monday’s game with Sheffield United The key news from …
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Apologies from the production team (ie Tony) this article was published originally in the wrong place so you may well have missed it! By Bulldog Drummond In an earlier article, we looked at the issue of tackles, fouls and yellow cards and noted that this season Sheffield United are tackling 22% more than …
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How far are Arsenal now off the top in terms of points and goals? Sheffield United against Arsenal: past results and possible outcomes Details of all recent posts, organised by subjects, appear on the home page. By Bulldog Drummond The classic approach to having a title-winning team is to have a goal …
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Today in Arsenal’s history: Arsenal become the first English team to beat Milan in the San Siro Sheffield United against Arsenal: past results and possible outcomes Positive injury news for Arsenal ahead Monday’s game with Sheffield United A full list of recent and current posts grouped by topic appears on the home page …
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Positive injury news for Arsenal ahead Monday’s game with Sheffield United By Bulldog Drummond Since 1995 Arsenal and Sheffield United haven’t played each other much – in fact just ten times with seven of those games being in the league. The other three (two in the league cup and one in the FA …
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What every football club (and most certainly Arsenal) is aiming for. The apparent decline of Tottenham and the question of care for players elsewhere By Tony Attwood Today’s game in the FA Women’s super league, once again sees Arsenal stadium sold out – the last home match for Arsenal’s women’s team created the …
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The apparent decline of Tottenham and the question of care for players elsewhere Positive injury news for Arsenal ahead Monday’s game with Sheffield United Of course in one sense the thing that every football club is aiming for, is success. Except there’s more to it than that for as we have often seen …
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Positive injury news for Arsenal ahead Monday’s game with Sheffield United Arsenal’s finances stay secure but we can expect more price rises for fans From the Arsenal History site: 50 Years ago today Arsenal’s home crowd was just 19,210 By Tony Attwood On 24 October last year Forbes ran the headline, Can Tottenham Hotspur …
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Arsenal’s finances stay secure but we can expect more price rises for fans How a 14th century monk described Arsenal’s failure to buy Moisés Caicedo and Mykhailo Mudryk By Siry Hardly Anyone We have got very used of late to Arsenal being moderately high in the injury tables, but in fact, that is …
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It has turned into another very good week for Arsenal fans, and after a pretty decent first half of the season for manager Mikel Arteta, once we ticked into January and the year of 2024, it seemed like we managed to find an extra gear in our Premier League form levels. Seven games into the …
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How a 14th monk described Arsenal’s failure to buy Moisés Caicedo and Mykhailo Mudryk The January transfer window moved few players around: but did any club benefit? On the Arsenal History site today: Arsenal become the first league club to get 100 wins against an opponent By Tony Attwood Back in 2017 Untold Arsenal …
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The January transfer window moved few players around: but did any club benefit? Are Newcastle United really in financial difficulty? And what about Arsenal? By Frankly Boring The central problem with most football journalism is that it is transfer-focused, and most rumoured transfers don’t happen. And unless Arteta makes a speech in which …
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Are Newcastle United really in financial difficulty? And what about Arsenal? Did Arsenal want Mudryk and Caicedo, and was it just luck that they didn’t sign them? Today on the Arsenal History Society website: Arsenal have never been beaten on 29 Feb, but untrue tales continue By Tony Attwood As we have often …
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Did Arsenal want Mudryk and Caicedo, and was it just luck that they didn’t sign them? Is the Premier League getting more exciting or simply ever more predictable? By Tony Attwood Last month figures were released that showed that Newcastle United had loaned its director Amanda Staveley £659,000 for legal fees in August …
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