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The worst time wasters are Newcastle! To scorers and games v Brighton Arsenal v Brighton, how the opposition have been doing By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have played 35 games and Brighton 33 and as we come to the statistics, this is taken into account in these figures on tackles, fouls and yellow …
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Arsenal v Brighton, how the opposition have been doing By Bulldog Drummond I want to break off just for a moment from the Arsenal v Brighton commentaries for something rather amusing. You may have noticed that we spent a lot of time examining the Newcastle fans’ somewhat aggressibve claims that Arsenal were the …
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How Arsenal could still win the league – despite Manchester City Why we believe the opposition clubs and players are cheats – conclusion By Bulldog Drummond So it is Arsenal, 10th in the league table for the last six games, against Brighton, 11th in the table over the last six games. And it …
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Why football fans believe the opposition cheats. Why we believe the opposition clubs and players are cheats – conclusion By Tony Attwood We decided to counteract the rather heavy analyses in recent articles over the future of football by having a look at the future of this season – still in as …
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The dark arts: how football is not quite what we think Why do two sets of fans see a match in such a different way? Part 2. Why football fans believe the opposition cheats. In the survey within the Journal of the British Psychological Society in which they investigated curious beliefs that different …
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The dark arts: how football is not quite what we think Why do two sets of fans see a match in such a different way? Part 2. The essence of the cheating hypothesis the Newcastle fans put forward recently is that not only does Arsenal cheat but that the referees are not …
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By Nitram This article continues from Why do two sets of fans see a match in such different ways? I wasn’t going to do the second half but having read Tony’s article (The Sins of Omission) about how the media, as well as fans, pick and chose what they see and don’t see, it …
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More goals are being scored, but are all clubs treated equally by refs? The sin of ommission: the bits of the football story that are missing By Tony Attwood Arsenal master the dark arts: How Arteta’s side wasted almost 17 minutes at Newcastle That is the headline in the Daily Telegraph, and it seems to …
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The sin of omission: the bits of the football story that are missing Why do two sets of fans see a match in such different ways? By Sir Hardly Anyone This season the Premier League is seeing more goals scored than ever before in the Premier League – an average of 2.85 goals a …
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By Tony Attwood Why do two sets of fans see a match in such different ways? Arsenal v Brighton – The fight for Europe continues In the Guardian there was recently a piece, “Football fans, the national anthem and a battle for who controls the public space,” which started from the point that before last …
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Arsenal v Brighton – The fight for Europe continues Allowed tactics, or ruthless play? By Nitram Following our hard fought victory at Newcastle I felt pretty much the same as most of the Untold regulars, regarding both the match itself, and the referee. Regarding the match: it was tough, as we expected. It …
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by Andrew Crawshaw The top of the WSL could hardly be tighter – here is the current table Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Man United 20 16 2 2 53 11 42 50 2 Chelsea 18 15 1 2 51 15 36 46 3 Man City 20 14 2 …
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The hidden problem facing Arsenal Women The huge problem Arsenal have to face next season. Allowed tactics or ruthless play? A personal observation from AKH My observations of certain football matches in the UK, as seen from tv viewings, suggest that some teams seem to follow more robust tactics against certain opposition players, …
The huge problem Arsenal have to face next season. 10 more goals than in the Unbeaten Season. Arsenal still going strong By Tony Attwood Just Arsenal raised an interesting issue recently concerning injuries in women’s football in which the point was made that “43% of the Arsenal Women first-team squad [are] unavailable. For …
This article updated 9 May to correct the Manchester City transfer figures. 10 more goals than in the Unbeaten Season. Arsenal still going strong By Tony Attwood I have been pondering the question of which clubs have really made great progress this season, and then in relation to that, how much it has …
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One more win secures runners’ up place: Newcastle v Arsenal Newcastle v Arsenal: tackles, fouls, yellows and the impact on league position Newcastle v Arsenal the injuries and the form By Bulldog Drummond Newcastle really have built up a head of steam of late, as in the last three games they have beaten …
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Newcastle v Arsenal: tackles, fouls, yellows and the impact on league position Newcastle v Arsenal the injuries and the form By Bulldog Drummond We know that winning the league will be extremely difficult because we have to overtake Manchester City but it is good to know that Arsenal are certain of a …
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Newcastle v Arsenal the injuries and the form By Bulldog Drummond There is a real contrast between Newcastle and Arsenal on the pitch this season. According to Opta Analyst, “Newcastle United fans deserve a lot of credit. Not only do their fans have to endure the lowest amount of ball-in-play time per …
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After the child sex scandals maybe things have got worse The legal investigation begins into the way transfers are manipulated by Bulldog Drummond As ever we take a look at how to protagonists in the forthcoming game are doing in relation to where this game is to be played. But on this occasion, …
In 2021 I ran a series of articles as outlined below… The biggest scandal to hit the English game is ongoing, and no one will speak The biggest scandal in football: who is checking on how clubs behave? Part two. The biggest scandal in football: no one is checking what is going on: …
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Criminal proceedings against Infantino What makes some clubs successful and others not? What makes a club successful in the Premier League part 2 What makes Arsenal successful 3: the club has stepped beyond the media According to the Swiss newspaper Le Matin the public prosecutor of Fribourg has opened criminal proceedings against Gianni …
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By Tony Attwood What makes some clubs successful and others not? What makes a club successful in the Premier League part 2 In part one of this little series of articles What makes some clubs successful and others not? I outlined seven factors that seemed to me to be important in the success …
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The success of Arsenal What makes some clubs successful and others not? In our previous piece on this topic we looked at some of the facts of life in football, such as how much money the club has and the ability of the club to engage in long term planning. And as we …
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When the referee makes a mistake, and admits it on live TV…. By Tony Attwood Football is full of mythology created by journalists, clubs, supporters and individuals. Trying to get beneath it can be difficult – but not because the subject itself is difficult to grasp, but because so many people writing and talking …
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Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias What the media won’t tell you about football, part 4 – referee variations The problem …
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