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By Tony Attwood When I say “so few” in the headline above, I have to admit I am not sure if there are any non-white referees or assistants working in the Premier League. Maybe that speaks to my lack of observational powers, or maybe I have just come to accept the fact that footballers come […] January 31st, 2021 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, Rules and referees |
14 comments - (Comments are closed) by Tony Attwood In its report on Leicester’s win at Tottenham, the Guardian mentions Leicester penalty five times. On the BBC Radio 4 report this morning the penalty was mentioned four times. But neither news source mentioned the real oddity of the Leicester penalty. That is that this was Leicester’s ninth penalty of the season. […] December 21st, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Football & club strategies, Media, Rules and referees, Tactics |
11 comments - (Comments are closed) By Tony Attwood You might not know if from reading the English blogs and newspapers but yes, decisions are being made, and proposals are being put on the table. OK these things have not worked out well in Scotland, where, as we noted last time around, a certain local difficulty has been encountered. But elsewhere […] April 14th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Europe, Football & club strategies, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA, Rules and referees, The Premier League |
3 comments - (Comments are closed) By Tony Attwood In the last set of figures presented via annual accounts, the 20 clubs in the Premier League were shown to have a turnover of £4.827 bn. Which is quite a lot of money. Their wages bill was just over half that. 58% to be (more or less) exact. Now obviously the virus […] March 14th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, Football & club strategies, History, Rules and referees, Statistics |
8 comments - (Comments are closed) By Sir Hardly Anyone Quite clearly the Premier League is in a state of flux, and with Arsenal’s manager having the virus, and players out of action now for a couple of weeks, even if the season continues Arsenal are going to be behind in completing the fixtures. But it turns out, that is […] March 13th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees |
6 comments - (Comments are closed) By Tony Attwood This article continues from the findings in the previous piece: Why do Liverpool keep getting the same referees? Here is a simple chart showing refereeing statistics from the five major football leagues in Europe Country Teams in league Referees used Max game per ref England 20 21 25 Germany 18 25 […] March 8th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Rules and referees, The Premier League |
19 comments - (Comments are closed) Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look A second article following on from this is now published – see link at end of this piece. by Andrew Crawshaw. You will be aware that Untold has held strong views about the PGMO, how they keep […] March 8th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Rules and referees |
21 comments - (Comments are closed) Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look
by Andrew Crawshaw In my last article I looked at how some match officials have the opportunity to have an adverse effect on a team’s points score in the season to date. Some comments quite rightly […] February 21st, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Rules and referees |
13 comments - (Comments are closed) by Andrew Crawshaw The PGMO have 17 referees on its list of Select Group (i.e those fully accredited to take charge of Premier League matches). In addition, so far this season, four referees from the Select Group 2 have each taken charge of a single game. This group comprises those referees accredited up to Championship […] February 20th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees |
7 comments - (Comments are closed) Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look
By Sir Hardly Anyone We all know that Granit Xhaka gets yellow cards. All the time. Which means that he spends most of his playing time being doubleplus extra careful, hardly daring to do another tackle […] February 18th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees, Statistics |
16 comments - (Comments are closed) By Tony Attwood I am shocked, amazed, stunned, bemused. For 12 years we have been plodding away, writing up the notion that the reporting of football is warped by the media to suit their own needs and ends, and those of their powerful allies. Among the many examples found are those suggesting that key stories […] February 14th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, England, Finances, Football, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA, Journalists and their comments, Rules and referees |
15 comments - (Comments are closed) by Tony Attwood Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look
Over the weekend I used some of the findings we had on the relationship between fouls and yellow cards; you may recall the data that shows some clubs have to commit many, many more fouls than others […] February 3rd, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football & club strategies, Journalists and their comments, Media, Rules and referees, Tactics |
49 comments - (Comments are closed) by Bulldog Drummond If you want a game that highlights everything that is wrong with English refereeing in the Premier League, and indeed everything that is wrong with the PL and its referees, here you have it. Burnley have committed 270 fouls this season, Arsenal 259. Not that much in it. Burnley the slightly dirtier […] February 1st, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Journalists and their comments, Match reviews and previews, Media, Rules and referees, Tactics, The Premier League |
49 comments - (Comments are closed) Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1 Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2 Football corruption and scandals. How we tipped off Fifa and other unlikely […] January 16th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees |
14 comments - (Comments are closed) Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1 Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2 Football corruption and scandals. How we tipped off Fifa and other unlikely […] January 13th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees |
35 comments - (Comments are closed) Data and analyses from Andrew, and from Footballcharts.co.uk Commentary from Tony We have been discovering huge variations in the number of fouls per card given by referees and how these might be explained by the severity of the fouls, or the leniency or otherwise of the referee. But also there is another possibility here – […] December 31st, 2019 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees |
29 comments - (Comments are closed) This article follows from “If Premier League matches were fixed, how would we know?” Data and analyses from Andrew, and from Footballcharts.co.uk Commentary from Tony
In the last article we saw that huge variations exist in the number of fouls it takes in games to get a card. But of course such figures as […] December 31st, 2019 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees |
19 comments - (Comments are closed) Watch our latest video at: Untold Gooner News: By Tony Attwood “If you have a long nose, you’re offside these days,” said Aleksander Ceferin in a recent interview. It didn’t get much coverage in England (not even the Daily Mirror ran it and it was said in an […] December 7th, 2019 | Category: Arsenal stories, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA, Rules and referees |
6 comments - (Comments are closed) By Bulldog Drummond As we saw in Gordon’s super-analysis of referee actions earlier this week, Arsenal have inflicted the need for treatment on the opposition 11 times this season while Wolverhampton have inflicted the need for treatment on opposition players 5 times. So we shouldn’t have too much worry about fouls from them resulting in […] November 10th, 2018 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, Rules and referees |
10 comments - (Comments are closed) By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw. Head of psychology at the University Hospital of the North Circular Road. As you will know, if you have followed our coverage of PGMO, the high secretive organisation that makes the Masons look at a come-all-ye at the local pub, the refereeing control body does not talk to outsiders. […] February 21st, 2018 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees |
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by Tony Attwood A couple of days back, police in Spain say arrested Ángel María Villar Llona, the president of Spain’s football association, Real Federación Española de Fútbol, on suspicion of embezzling funds. It is an interesting move because Villar Llona is also a senior vice-president at Fifa and Uefa those two gloriously clean […] July 20th, 2017 | Category: Corruption, Football, Rules and referees |
18 comments - (Comments are closed) By Walter Broeckx After a long period in which I had been unable to write for several reasons I hope to be back in action for Untold Arsenal. And no better subject to start with as….the VAR. During the confederations cup the Video Assistant Referee or VAR has been used in each match. And I […] July 18th, 2017 | Category: Rules and referees |
8 comments - (Comments are closed) By Tony Attwood The web site Footstats has recently produced some very interesting league tables of its own, and through their kind permission, I am able to bring you one or two of these, starting with the Premier League Table of fouls. You may remember (if you were paying attention) that in the early days […] May 25th, 2016 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Football & club strategies, Rules and referees |
12 comments - (Comments are closed) By Tony Attwood
“The Gunners should have been applauded as CHAMPIONS if officials had done their jobs properly.” To confirm from the off, that is not a quote from Untold, but from a national UK newspaper – the Sun. OK not my favourite paper, but actually one that I would have said a year […] May 25th, 2016 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Journalists and their comments, Rules and referees |
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Yesterday was great fun, but the scores alone don’t tell us much
by Tony Attwood
In football reporting, every incident becomes a crisis, because every day needs a story. And yesterday we got two, with the defeats of Liverpool and Manchester United.
Such things have happened all the way through football history. There are famous tales told of Arsenal losing 7-0 away to Newcastle in 1925 just […]