Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton: the team Arsenal v Wolverhampton: the basic background facts. Arsenal v Wolves. Is this the most biased referee in the League? Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Mind-numbing hardly seems the word Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Football down in the lower reaches by Bulldog Drummond A nice statistic has been found by Sports Mole …
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton: background Arsenal v Wolves. Is this the most biased referee in the League? Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Mind-numbing hardly seems the word Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Football down in the lower reaches By Bulldog Drummond First off, sorry to Wolverhampton fans whose comments have not appeared. Two reasons: one is we don’t …
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Mind-numbing hardly seems the word Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Football down in the lower reaches By Bulldog Drummond The referee for the final game is Andre Marriner, and in the table below (drawn from data from WhoScored) we can see the way in which the number of fouls per game varies …
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Wolverhampton: the mind-numbing club Football in the lower reaches By Bulldog Drummond As we saw in our opening article on the final game of the season, Wolverhampton are a club in the lower reaches of the league, but not a club in danger of descent into the darkness. So we can take a …
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2022/3: The final game How much is each club earning from merit payments this season? Arteta is now the 4th longest serving manager in the league. So what? By Bulldog Drummond One year ago the table read Team P W D L F A GD Pts 4 Tottenham Hotspur 37 21 5 …
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Estimated Merit Payments 2022/23 Arteta is now the fourth longest serving manager in the league. It’s time to read the football press and really have a laugh An article in the Metro recently suggested that the prize money this season for the top four clubs was likely to be… £44 million £41.8 …
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It’s time to read the football press and really have a laugh Premier League manager of the season: not one vote for Arteta By Tony Attwood As we said in the last article, there was not one vote for Arteta as the manager of the season while quite a few managers below the …
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Newcastle make the next move in the process of middle eastern take over of the league Premier League manager of the season: not one vote for Arteta. By Sir Hardly Anyone It has been a constant theme of Untold in recent years that there are two elements in football that according to the …
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Newcastle make the next move in the process of middle eastern take over of the league Alan Davies on Sam Allardyce: the funniest commentary ever By Tony Attwood and a calculator Newspapers and magazines are now coming out with their “manager of the season” commentaries following the launch of the Premier League’s …
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The Middle East takeover of football Alan Davies on Sam Allardyce: the funniest commentary ever What are football clubs supposed to do about racism? On this day: Arsenal win FA Youth Cup but what happened to the team? It looks like Newcastle approves of the slow – slow – slowslow – slow way in which …
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Sam Allardyce: there never has been The next step for Arteta: more of the same and then emulate Wenger The battle to get clubs to accept responsibility for young player injuries hots up In response to a recent article LeMmy Martin suggested that we all should listen to Alan Davies on Sam Allardyce. …
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The next step for Arteta: more of the same and then emulate Wenger The battle to get clubs to accept responsibility for young player injuries hots up By Tony Attwood I have to admit I don’t hear any racist commentaries from anyone when I attend matches at Arsenal although seemingly it still goes on. …
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What Arsenal need next The battle to get clubs to accept responsibility for young player injuries hots up As the image of football seems increasingly damaged, Arsenal have a chance… Today in Arsenal’s history: the relationship with Tottenham after Arsenal moved north By Tony Attwood “The signing of a new contract is of …
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By Tony Attwood I have written many times about what seems to me to be the woeful lack of oversight by the state of the way football clubs can behave when it comes to dealing with children. It seems there are virtually no regulations, and those that do exist can be flouted with impunity …
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How can a club move down the Premier League table? Simple. Spend money. Arsenal now face a massive problem, and no obvious solution Arsenal anniversaries 23 May: Arsenal propose being first southern club to pay it players By Tony Attwood As the Guardian reports Juventus have had 10 points deducted from their total for …
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Arsenal now face a massive problem, and no obvious solution Allerdyce and Moyes and the funny thing the commentator said By Tony Attwood This is the moment when football journalists and commentators get very excited, for it is the moment when the disaster of last season’s predictions are utterly pushed down the …
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The problems with football in Europe: how they have now come back to England The start of last season and the end of this season: the lessons By Tony Attwood Last season Manchester City won the league title by one point. I think it is fair to say that at the start of …
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The problems with football in Europe: how they have now come back to England The start of last season and the end of this season: the lessons By Tony Attwood Sitting at home after doing some shopping at a nearby supermarket (there being no shop in my village) I turned on the TV to …
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Why football violence is back The start of last season and the end of this season: the lessons By Tony Attwood One of the interesting contrasts between football in the UK and in Europe of late is that England has seen a constant reduction in the level of crowd trouble in recent years while …
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Clubs are starting to be challenged over their loses Where now for Arsenal? By Tony Attwood Last season Arsenal began the league campaign with three defeats. They also ended the season with two defeats and a win. Both times there were calls for the manager to be sacked or to have the decency …
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Nottingham Forest v Arsenal: let’s welcome the away referee Nottingham Forest v Arsenal: where Forest’s approach to tackling goes wrong by Bulldog Drummond Gabriel Martinelli and Oleksandr Zinchenko are both on the injury list for the last two games of the season, as it has become ever clearer to less adept teams that …
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Where Forest’s approach to tackling goes wrong Clubs are starting to be challenged over their loses By Bulldog Drummond Anthony Taylor is the referee for the match this evening. And as you will know, not all referees are the same – some are prone to give victories to home teams, some to away …
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Clubs are starting to be challenged over their loses Where now for Arsenal? By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal remain the best away team in the league, while at home Nottingham Forest are 12th out of 20. Here are the comparative figures using data from 11v11 Pos Team P W D L F A …
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Football, rules and tax By Tony Attwood If it is the sort of thing that interests you, you might well already know that there is not one club that is under investigation for breaches of the Financial Fair Play rules (obviously Manchester City) but two – that second club being Everton who it is said …
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How Arsenal are remourcelessly following the Man City model How Arteta has become so successful as a manager What next for Arsenal? By Tony Attwood It seems a very long time ago, but it was just 26 December 2019 when Mikel Arteta picked his first Arsenal team as manager. The game was away …
