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————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- WHO WAS THE BEST REFEREE IN 2011-2012 – The Final table By Walter Broeckx And then we come to the final question. Who was according to our reviewers reports the best referee in the PL in the season 2011-2012. Who was not …
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By Tony Attwood Sitting in the Ems yesterday two things struck me from the off. First, the number of empty seats was fewer than last season, second the noise level was up. Empty seats is an issue at the Ems, and judging from meetings I have been at and reports that have come back from …
By Walter Broeckx Santi or Saint. The same number of letters but what a difference the place of the I made today. Or was it the dot on the i? It looked a sunny North London day and the way the game went it was a bright summer day at the end. From the first …
By Billy Neither of our regular pre-match correspondents has delivered the news of the day, and Tony is going dancing tonight in some far-off town (he’s just an old jiver at heart and apparently they have clubs around where you can throw women across the room and not get arrested or something), so I am …
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————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- After the competency tables we now move on to the bias tables. And I don’t think I need to explain to you that it is very important to not only have a ref that is competent enough to make the right decisions …
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The club that changed football Making the Arsenal By Phil Gregory Following on from my last article looking at the summers movements and likely additions, I took the plunge and made some predictions for the top of the table come May. With the close of the transfer window and a couple of games under our belts, …
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The club that changed football Making the Arsenal ————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- WHO WAS THE BEST REFEREE IN 2011-2012 – The competency tables By Walter Broeckx After having done the team reviews and the referee reviews we now will give you an overall picture on …
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By Mike Collins Sitting in my house in Nova Scotia I have been consumed reading about the results of the enquiry into Hillsborough and the Liverpool FC tragedy. The reason I remember it so well is that I was standing on the old north bank with my son as some very confused news started to …
If you are new to this site and this is your first visit then please: Read this to fully understand our reviews. Today’s referee is Howard Webb MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Howard Webb (2012-09-02) Period 1 Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment Weight 2 OFFSIDE Giroud C Assumed Correct 1 5 OTHER Mertersacker Suarez …
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By Tony Attwood Internationals are a pest because… 1: They stop our club matches When did Arsenal last play? It seems ages ago. We are three weekends into the season and it all stops. And we are supposed to be thankful. 2: Our players might get injured Diaby is the only Arsenal name on the …
————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology …
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By Tony Attwood Atlético Madrid recently beat Chelsea 4-1 in the European Super Cup. Unfortunately Atlético Madrid made a tiny error. They forgot to pay their bit of the tax bill owed by Spanish clubs to the Spanish government. It seems that in Spain not paying tax if you are a football club is, well, …
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By Tony Attwood Tom Fox is the second most powerful man in the Arsenal business empire – the Chief Commercial Officer. He was a guest at the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association AGM last night, and did a question and answer session with AISA members at the Emirates Stadium. What I found particularly refreshing was that …
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————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology …
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By Tony Attwood It is easy to believe that nothing much is happening. The transfer window has gone, the internationals are here, Radio 5 acts as if we are all interested in international football, despite huge evidence that lots of people are not, and the tabloids continue without a break as if there was a …
Read More “Tonight there is something really important happening”
————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology …
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————————————————————– The club that changed football Making the Arsenal By Tony Attwood When football got its first whiff of the money Sky could offer Alan Sugar apparently made a statement to the effect that the League should put aside some of the new money into a fund, the purpose of which could be determined later. …
————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- The club that changed football Making the Arsenal By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match …
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The club that changed football Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Making the Arsenal “That could suggest something closer to £1m a game it has cost Tottenham to have Bentley on the books.” —————————————— By Tony Attwood It is a common tactic for anyone who wants to knock a club and its management to point to …
Read More “It is not so much the transfer fees, it is the salaries that are the problem in football”
The club that changed football Making the Arsenal ————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match …
Read More “Ref Review: Martin Atkinson. Poor on goals, ok elsewhere (unless you are Everton)”
The club that changed football Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Making the Arsenal By Tony Attwood I know I know I know I have written about this so many times before. But I still have this memory of seeing Hleb, Flamini and Fabregas sitting together in the stand all chatting away merrily, laughing and joking, …
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————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 Referee reviews this season are published on Referee Decisions. Ref Review of Arsenal games are also published on Untold Arsenal, as usual. —————————————————- By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of …
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By Tony Attwood Manchester United and Liverpool make an unlikely pairing in any sense, and the animosity felt between them is huge and long-term. But today they are indeed linked together in a new campaign to persuade the Board of the Premier League to introduce new rules that would control the finances of Premier League …
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The club that changed football Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Making the Arsenal Or is Deuda, Deuda in any language? By Cameron Wolfe. On the day when Manchester United and Liverpool have come out and admitted that they are in a group of clubs demanding that the Premier League board introduce financial controls on …
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The regular and usually inaccurate summary of the 25 squad by Tony Attwood Clubs also have to name at least eight homegrown players (ie one who has been registered with an English or Welsh club for at least three years prior to them turning 21) for the season until the next transfer window. The names …
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