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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 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 […] 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 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 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 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 […] 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 […] 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 – […] 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 […] 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 |
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“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 |
39 comments - (Comments are closed) by Andrew Crawshaw Following the review of Roger East in the Palace game Here is the updated Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 16 Penalties 3 30 Goals 1 11 Total 7 101 Possible Cost in Points 0 29 Only one wrong Important […] I may be nuts but I’m not crazy: Crying foul – the league table that will amaze all Arsenal fans By Proud Kev Whenever we mention referees, there are certain people who roll their eyes and believe we are all conspiracy nut jobs. For what it is worth I may be nuts but I do […] March 20th, 2016 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees |
93 comments - (Comments are closed) by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the Table of Shame updated following the Liverpool game. Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 24 Red Cards 1 10 Penalties 2 16 Goals 0 8 Total January 23rd, 2016 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees | 22 comments - (Comments are closed) The Referee Preview by Andrew Crawshaw Following Usama and Walter’s review of the Chelsea game Ref Review : Chelsea – Arsenal. How Mike Dean & Co screwed an entire game… here is the updated table of shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 7 Red Cards 0 6 Penalties 0 […] October 3rd, 2015 | Category: Arsenal stories, Rules and referees |
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Few journalists ever criticise the state of football… so why is it starting now?
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 […]