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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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Two clubs in recent decline: but why? Arsenal v Chelsea: the behaviour of the referee Arsenal v Chelsea. Chelsea tackle more, foul more, get more yellows Arsenal v Chelsea; home v away; does spending big work? Have a guess. By Bulldog Drummond The injury news ahead of the game has no surprises. …
Arsenal v Chelsea: the behaviour of the referee Arsenal v Chelsea. Chelsea tackle more, foul more, get more yellows Arsenal v Chelsea; home v away; does spending big work? Have a guess. By Bulldog Drummond Through this season we have, before most matches, had a look at the league table based on the …
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Arsenal v Chelsea; home v away; does spending big work? By Bulldog Drummond There is a comment in the Telegraph today from Frank Lampard in which he says, “Chelsea were so used to winning for long periods of time, maybe a short period of non-success brings a real kick-back,” he said. “Maybe with Arsenal, …
The forthcoming games Arsenal v Wolfsburg at a sold out Emirates – today! Arsenal v Chelsea; home v away; does spending big work? Have a guess. By Bulldog Drummond Ahead of this game against Chelsea, Arsenal have played 33 games, Chelsea 32. Chelsea have consistently put in more tackles than Arsenal, committed more …
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Arsenal Women v Wolfsburg Arsenal v Chelsea; home v away; does spending big work? By Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women play Wolfsburg on Monday evening in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final today. Barcelona await the winners in the final in Eindhoven on 3 June after they beat Chelsea on Friday. Can …
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So why did all the predictions of this season go so wrong? Where it all went wrong for football journalists – conclusion By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal may have been through their one and only dip of the season, with three draws and a defeat in the last four games, but by comparison Chelsea’s …
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Unrest down Hotspur Avenue. The trajectories of the top four clubs How Arsenal finally benefitted from the attitude of the football media (part 2) How Arteta has out manoeuvred Tottenham. Arsenal and Tottenham part 3 So why did all the predictions for this season go so wrong? (Part 4) Looking back at …
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How Arteta has out manoeuvred Tottenham. Arsenal and Tottenham part 3 How Arsenal finally benefitted from the attitude of the football media Unrest down Hotspur Avenue. The trajectories of the top four clubs By Tony Attwood In recent articles (listed above) I’ve been trying to show that the way the media looks …
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Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur: the difference How Arsenal finally benefitted from the attitude of the football media Unrest down Hotspur Avenue. The trajectories of the top four clubs By Tony Attwood In the articles noted above I have been arguing that Tottenham Hotspur have of late taken a number of false turns …
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By Tony Attwood Unrest down Hotspur Avenue. The tragectories of the top four clubs Obviously, I occasionally write about Tottenham Hotspur because they are Arsenal’s local rivals, and of course when as a child I lived near Highbury, I also obviously lived near White Hart Lane and so always had an interest in …
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The trajectories of the top four Abuse of young people at football clubs: has anything changed? Disappointing result of course, but look at the two clubs’ trajectories By Tony Attwood No matter what the final outcome of this season, the trajectories of Tottenham and Arsenal have been rather different. Last season Tottenham finished in …
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Child abuse in football Why is the FA still in control? “The Unsavoury Face of Youth Transfers” by Tony Attwood The last child abuse scandal relating to football clubs in England started in November 2016. Players came forward to tell how they were abused as children, and there were allegations of a cover-up …
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By Tony Attwood Trajectories are not that popular in football journalism because they take a little bit of working out and involve some numbers, but they do actually tell us much more about where a club is going than most reports in the media do. But Arsenal’s progress under Arteta is truly sensational. On …
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By Bulldog Drummond Manchester City v Arsenal: how the mighty have utterly collapsed Manchester City v Arsenal and the question of blips and extremes Manchester City v Arsenal: the home v away scores Manchester City against Arsenal: the home team ref v Arsenal The BBC have done their normal match preview and come …
Manchester City, Arsenal and historical perspectives Manchester City v Arsenal and the question of blips and extremes Manchester City v Arsenal: the home v away scores Manchester City against Arsenal: the home team ref v Arsenal How different it has all turned out to be. Not for Manchester City of course, because everyone …
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Manchester City v Arsenal: the home v away scores Manchester City against Arsenal: the home team ref v Arsenal By Bulldog Drummond Among the media which go in for ruminations about the highways and byways of English football there is a feeling that this is a chaotic season. Certainly in one measurable …
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Manchester City against Arsenal: the home team ref v Arsenal By Bulldog Drummond Manchester City are the best home team in the country, and Arsenal are the best away team in the country, but even without taking into account recent results Manchester City are out-doing Arsenal this season when these two statistics …
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Manchester City v Arsenal Why do football journalists always get it so totally wrong part 1? Why journalists’ predictions on football are always so wrong part 2 By Bulldog Drummond Referee: Michael Oliver Assistants: Stuart Burt & Ian Hussin Fourth Official: Craig Pawson VAR: David Coote Assistant VAR: Eddie Smart Michael Oliver is …
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By Tony Attwood This article continues from yesterday’s final piece Why do football journalists always get it so totally wrong? In that earlier piece we noted that Untold Arsenal – a tiny organisation in the general context of things – can uncover a story such as what was actually going on at Leicester tactically, …
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Is it really true that Arsenal are too emotional to win the league? The one huge weakness in the Premier League which one day will unravel By Tony Attwood I have often mentioned that after last season I predicted Arsenal to come third this season, based on the fact that for …
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The development of Arsenal FC The one huge weakness in the Premier League which one day will unravel Taking a positive out of the draw with Southampton By Tony Attwood As the Telegraph recently reminded us Gary Neville last month proclaimed that Arsenal were “too emotional” as a team. They justify bringing this commentary …
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Football: the danger of not talking Taking a positive out of the draw with Southampton According to a report from Italy, and reported across much of Europe, in the Italian Serie A “dark-skinned players are punished more than others.” The study comes from researchers from North American universities. Part of the cause …
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Arsenal v Southampton: the aftermath By Tony Attwood We normally put a couple of links at the top of each article relating back to earlier pieces on a similar theme – or simply just to the last two articles, and yet nothing really comes to mind as appropriate. After such a brilliant run of …
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Arsenal v Southampton: how it might all pan out Arsenal v Southampton: Simon Hooper is the ref, which means… Arsenal v Southampton. Prognostications and a lack of chickens This has just appeared in the Guardian: “EXCLUSIVE: Julian Nagelsmann has now withdrawn from the race to become the new Chelsea head coach — …
