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By Tony Attwood Should Arsenal learn to shoot more often? How are the supercomputers doing in predicting this season – and what they should be looking at? I have often in the past mentioned the horrors of child abuse within football. Indeed a quick search of the internet suggests that …
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How are the supercomputers doing in predicting this season – and what they should be looking at Arsenal Women Champions League Round 1 2024 the final games If we look at the number of shots per game that some of the bigger clubs in the Premier League have we can see a huge …
How simply spending money on players doesn’t take clubs up the league Why going to football matches really is good for you and should be encouraged By Nitram and Tony Attwood It is repetitious of us to say that it is the silly season again because we are having an unnecessary interruption to …
How simply spending money on players doesn’t take clubs up the league Why going to football matches really is good for you and should be encouraged by Andrew Crawshaw The opening round matches were played on Wednesday resulting in one surprise win and one emphatic victory. The opening game started at Borehamwood …
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Why going to football matches really is good for you and should be encouraged TILT Does it exist or is it just in our imagination? By Tony Attwood The domination of talk about transfers every summer suggests that transfers are all it takes to get a club up the league. And the league that …
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The League is on the edge of being crippled through legal costs in casees it is winning How to reform refereeing and bring back free speech in football By Tony Attwood As a recent piece from the British Psychological Society reports rather obviously, most people in the UK now have access to a …
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The League is on the edge of being crippled through legal costs in casees it is winning How to reform refereeing and bring back free speech in football By Nitram When I read the Reddit article which was featured on Untoldwhat sprung to mind was, he’s talking about ’tilt’. The subtle behaviour …
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How to reform refereeing and bring back free speech in football Do Arsenal really get twice as many red cards as other clubs? By Tony Attwood There is an article today in the Telepgrah which has also appeared in MSN (in case you don’t have a subscription to the former), which follow up …
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Do Arsenal really get twice as many red cards as other clubs? How some clubs are still in a total mess with the new financial rules (although not Arsenal) Prelude: A million apologies for Untold going down yet again this morning. We really are trying to find the bug in the …
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How some clubs are still in a total mess with the new financial rules (although not Arsenal) Arsenal Women – Champions League Round1 Mini Tournament By Tony Attwood There has long been an assertion that Arsenal get many more cards than other teams, with the explanation being either that this is pure chance …
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Arsenal Women – Champions League Round1 Mini Tournament The Premier League in court: the shape of football to come will be decided by the outcomes. By Tony Attwood In the end Arsenal spent £12.7m net in the transfer window. Chelsea spent £50.4m net and Manchester United £97.7m (seven times as much as Arsenal). …
The Premier League in court: the shape of football to come will be decided by the outcomes. 3 matches gone, what does this tell us about the end of the season? by Andrew Crawshaw The season proper starts for Arsenal Women with Round 1 one the Champions League on Wednesday and Saturday at Borehamwood. …
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3 matches gone, what does this tell us about the end of the season? One unexpected signing: Arsenal are still moving in the right direction By Tony Attwood By and large, the media don’t like to suggest that there is anything seriously amiss with English football, largely because that would involve them in …
Arsenal Football Club are exploring the possibility of expanding the Emirates Stadium in a move that could redefine the future of the club. The expansion would see an increase to the seating capacity, enhancing fan experience and generating additional revenue streams. One of the biggest and best-supported teams in the Premier League, Arsenal would …
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One unexpected signing: Arsenal are still moving in the right direction Why one bizarre draw and an unexpected signing doesn’t affect the view that Arsenal are moving in the right direction The media always measures Arsenal against an abstract concept rather than comparing the situation now with the situation in the past, to …
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By Tony Attwood Why one bizarre draw and an unexpected signing doesn’t affect the view that Arsenal are moving in the right direction How likely are Arsenal to move out of the 8 game group stage in Europe? Looking back we can see that there was just the hint that Arsenal were going …
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How likely are Arsenal to move out of the 8 game group stage in Europe? Fanatically secretive PGMO turns out to be also grossly financially incompetent Of course it would have felt much better to win, just as it would have felt much better not to lose a player to referee action, but …
Arsenal has been making some serious moves in the transfer market lately, and this summer was no exception. With the signing of Riccardo Calafiori for £42 million, the Gunners continue to show they’re not afraid to spend big to bring top talent to the Emirates. But where does this signing rank among Arsenal’s …
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Arsenal v Brighton: past results and future prospects Anyone for Arsenal? (as the transfer window tinkles into broken fragments) A luncthime match means the Untold team leaving their base in the East Mindland early in the morning without time for writing, so this is the expected team as per yesterday. But to …
Anyone for Arsenal? (as the transfer window tinkles into broken fragments) How likely are Arsenal to move out of the 8 game group stage in Europe? And in Arsenal’s history today… 30 August: Arsenal start the longest run of any club ever in the top division By Sir Hardly Anyone So it is …
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How likely are Arsenal to move out of the 8 game group stage in Europe? Fanatically secretive PGMO turns out to be also grossly financially incompetent By Bulldog Drummond And yes I know that the conventional phrase is that the window “slams shut” but this year I thought we ought to change things not least …
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Fanatically secretive PGMO turns out to be also grossly financially incompetent Why clubs like Arsenal are getting less and less interested in older players By tony Attwood As you may have heard we have a totally different approach in the Champions League this season with eight games against different clubs in the first …
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Why clubs like Arsenal are getting less and less interested in older players 5 players in, 4 players sold, 6 out on loan, 2 released, 4 out on a free. That’s the window By Tony Attwood The one thing we know about PGMO, is that we don’t know much about the organisation that …
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Today on the Arsenal History Society site 25 years ago Arsenal sold a player and used the profit to build a new training centre. 5 players in, 4 players sold, 6 out on loan, 2 released, 4 out on a free. That’s the window Where do we normally get to after three games? …
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Where do we normally get to after three games Just how many players do Arsenal need in their squad to win the league? By Sir Hardly Anyone So with Eddie Nketiah having a medical at Crystal Palace (according to reports and we all know what that means) the deal is perhaps finally …
