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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here A walk on the wild side; not football, just weird There is an argument that I have had sometimes about whether players who step up from the reserves or who come back from a very long injury period are like “new transfers”. Personally I do count …
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By Walter Broeckx This is the last article in this series where I will give you other possible reasons for poor refereeing in the EPL. But even then after this article it will not be over. I think it never will be in fact. But before we start here’s a list of the articles so …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx Chris Foy was the ref today. Let’s get it on. OTHER/OTHER/GOAL: Wilshere is being tripped but manages to get the ball that rolls to Cesc who then scores. But before Cesc scored the ref had blown his whistle. This is …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony RefWatch – Arsenal v Wolverhampton Wanderers (12/02/2011 15:00) By DogFace Referee: Chris Foy Assistant 1: Darren Cann Assistant 2: Gary Beswick 4th Official: Mick Russell Good morning stat-fans and welcome to another RefWatch. I’d like to start today by saying thanks to all …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony Having established that all is not equal when it comes to referees we now start our regular build up and down over another game. It was Dogface’s preview of the referee for the Everton game that started all the excitement and got the …
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By Walter Broeckx In this part of the series on what could cause poor refereeing in the EPL, I want to talk about a very personal subject of the ref. His inner thoughts and how it could affect them. As well as some hard-to-discover issues happen in all countries and why should the EPL be …
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A brief pause from Walter’s series on football referees, following our coverage on the BBC web site (see the home page for the latest). Here’s a piece on Deloitte’s latest figure fest. Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony by Tony Attwood For some reason the regular table of football …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony This is the third article in referee Walter Broeckx series about the reasons behind the extraordinarily poor state of refereeing in the Premier League as revealed in his regular post-match analysis of the number of decisions right, wrong and missed in each Arsenal …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Tony Attwood After a week or so of interviews with our regular refereeing correspondents “Dogface” (who does the previews) and Walter Broeckx (who reviews the ref’s actions), the BBC has published a major article on refereeing in the Premier League. The article …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx In part one of this series Walter presented the first two points in his argument that there is something very wrong with refereeing in the Premier League -noting that there are not nearly enough referees and that those that we …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Gfor60 “Say it ain’t so, Joe”… a few thoughts on football and betting syndicates. Well before the Boston White Sox baseball scandal, bribery has been used to influence games of skill . You name the sport, it’s had its share. Even the …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx In my previous articles I showed you that the level of the refs in the EPL is below par. Now I will try to give a few reasons on to why some things might be wrong. But a word of …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil Gregory You may not be familiar with the name Karen Murphy, but I imagine you soon might be. I saw on BBC news last week that Ms Murphy has had her first victory in her war in the European Courts, a …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony Walter Broeckx continues his series of articles on the standard of referring in the Premier League. You can read Walter’s last article (The shocking figures that show the Premier League is bent) on this site, and we have an introduction to the series …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Dale Higginbottom Gameweek 26 and we’re well into the season now. I’m surprised how quickly it seems to be going. But even so I’m really enjoying the ups and downs and can’t wait to see how it all pans out. In terms …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony IT’S A FUNNY OLD GAME Paul Collins Here are some games for people to think about: September 1970 – Stoke 5 Arsenal 0 Stoke thrashed Arsenal at home in this early season clash. Imagine what the responses would have been had we …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony Nitesh Padhi As our dear Gaffer prepares to receive the Manager of the Decade Award 2001-2011 this May, I thought we would have a close look at how Arsenal have fared under him during this period. Season Played Games Won Games Drawn Games …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the trend watching ref As you may know (and most of you appreciate my work on reviewing the refs) I try my best to keep records of each game and how the ref has done his job. But I also try …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx When I wrote my article Arsenal against the rest: Everton, the refs, the epl, the fa…. I didn’t realised that the …would be filled in that soon. Oh yes we have to play the rest of the teams on the …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the sad ref Every time before the game I have one hope. And certainly after the match this midweek with the completely worthless performance of Ref Mason I was hoping to be able to stop my ref review with one …
RefWatch – Newcastle United v Arsenal (05/02/2011 15:00) By DogFace Referee: Phil Dowd Assistant 1: Trevor Massey Assistant 2: Darren Bond 4th Official: Stuart Attwell Good morning stat-fans and welcome to yet another RefWatch… ok, let’s get it out there, before I begin – there was quite a frenzy kicked off all over the internet …
By Phil Gregory After the controversy surrounding the Everton game, we’re off to the North East for a traditional 3pm kick off against Newcastle. Newcastle didn’t have the best of times in their last match, losing 1-0 to an average Fulham side at Craven Cottage. Newcastle were probably hoping for a bit of good news …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil Gregory The Arsenal Supporters Trust has been busy recently. They gave evidence to the Commons Inquiry into Football Governance; indeed they were invited to give their evidence in person given how widely respected they are in this regard (unlike yours truly, …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 25 By Dale Higginbottom Into February and the madness of the January window is behind us. The squads are now set for the final fourteen/fifteen league games of the season so this is where it all counts. There …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx Thanks to a reader from a very cold place in Canada we got some interesting statistics which we will bring to you. Our reader pointed at the numbers and maybe they could settle a few nerves in the coming weeks …
