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By Walter Broeckx The kicking of Arsenal players that we have seen happening over the last weeks is starting to show some results. If we look at the injury league table we now have 11 players out. Now one of them is Diaby so I will not count him as I will not count Oxlade-Chamberlain …
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Arsenal v Cardiff 01 January 2014 – the Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Jonathan Moss Assistants – S Long, S Child Fourth Official – P Gibbs This is the first time either team have seen Mr Moss this year and seems to be a first appearance for Mr Gibbs so a warm welcome …
Read More “Arsenal v Cardiff: 1/1/14 – the Match Officials. Are we making an impression?”
By Walter Broeckx Are we seeing the French Ligue 2011-2012 being redone in the PL this season? When I looked in to the stats of Olivier Giroud I asked myself this question. I have written about the career of Giroud when he came to Arsenal before. And I then pointed at the fact that in …
By Tony Attwood All clubs do slumps at some time during the season. The only occasion I can think of when there was not a real slump was the Unbeaten season, but even then I remember away fans getting incredibly angry at the match at Leicester on 6 December 2003, and the frustration of the …
By Walter Broeckx As this is the end of the calendar year this is the best moment to have a look back at the year that is almost over. And what better way to do this than to look at the results that we have seen from the teams at the top in the PL. …
By Walter Broeckx This was May 19th all over. A tight game between two teams that look tired at times. Is this Christmas period congestion of fixtures really a good way to produce good football? I don’t think. By the way players have to be replaced after injuries it sure isn’t a healthy situation to …
One year to the day after Arsenal 7 Newcastle 3 we meet them again. There’s a link to last year’s fun and games at the end. Matters Everyone’s Favourite Pundit Some say that listening to Michael Owen is similar to watching paint dry. I was one of these until quite recently, where awkwardly I …
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Newcastle v Arsenal 29 December 2013 – The match officials Referee – Lee Probert Assistants – I Hussin and M Scholes Fourth Official – A Marriner Second time this year for Mr Probert – he was in charge for our 4-1 win over Norwich on 19 October. Here is Walter’s post match report. The fastest …
In September Football Association chairman Greg Dyke announced a commission to ascertain why so few English footballers make it to the top level. As we did with the Parliamentary commission of enquiry into football, wherein Phil Gregory wrote Untold’s reply, Untold has now made its submission to the FA. This time I wrote it, and …
Read More “Untold’s submission to the FA enquiry: “sort out the coaching, sort out the FA””
Media Review By Tony Attwood Arsenal fear the worst screams the Daily Telegraph today, over the news that our “top scorer” is likely to be out for months and months. Well, four weeks anyway. I’ll come back to that in a moment, because no sooner had I focussed on that headline from today’s papers than …
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: The bias that teams get from the refs by playing at home”
By Tony Attwood According to the Daily Telegraph, Brendan Rodgers, “is to ask the Premier League why ‘a referee from Greater Manchester’ was in charge of Thursday’s fixture [v Man City] which ended in a controversial defeat for the visitors.” This is a very welcome step forwards, because it continues to force the issue of …
This article continues our occasional review of the tactics employed by Arsenal this season. By Arvind This is the game against Swansea at the Liberty. A super interesting game when I watched it slowly. It’s a classic template of how we’re doing what teams used to do to us a few years ago. It’s just …
By Walter Broeckx After 46 minutes you started to get the feeling: it was one of those days. We didn’t play super football. But we were much better than West Ham for most of the game. And we had enough chances in the first half to put us in front. More than enough in fact. …
Read More “It was almost one of those days till Poldi came along”
D-Sanchez-Cabello My dear friends, Merry Boxing Day and all that… Now I hope, that unlike myself your enjoyment of the festive season does not hinge entirely on Arsenal’s success. Which, of course is a truly absurd way to live… a bit like clinging to a leisurely morphine addiction. Sometimes you enjoy it, but other times …
Read More “West Ham behind the curtains, the methods of Allerdyce, Arsenal rotating”
West Ham v Arsenal 26/12/2013 – The Match Officials Andrew Crawshaw Referee Phil Dowd Assistants – D Cann, L Betts Fourth Official – C Breakspear At last this year new officials – welcome to C Breakspear as fourth official. OK he is unlikely to play a great part in proceedings apart from having to …
Read More “Boxing Day ref preview. Phil Dowd we (and the guys in the press box) are watching you”
By Tony Attwood The standard approach to match fixing as reported by the TV stations and press is one that relates to spot betting – which is to say betting on a particular event. The attraction of it is that you only need to fix one player to do whatever the deed is you are …
By Tony Attwood And so, after years of pointing out that there is something seriously wrong with refereeing in the Premier League, the English papers have started to admit that there might be a problem. Not all of them, and most are hedging their bets talking of referee mistakes, and the views of “Arsenal supporters”, …
Read More “At last the English media recognise there’s something seriously wrong with the referees”
By Walter Broeckx Just before the game started I saw a comment after the match preview article from a Chelsea supporter and he said: “What have you been smoking, the comments are worse than the article, Dean will let Chelsea players go out to injure? Its a game between two good teams why can’t you …
Read More “Dean useless as usual, Mourinho still the master in killing football pleasure”
I thought a while ago that Mourinho’s return to Chelsea hinged on him changing his style. An Oligarch reemploying a man he’d spent 20 million to get rid of seemed odd, and suggested that something had changed. In an interview the other day, Mourinho alluded to an inability (for whatever reason) to resort to his …
Read More “Chelsea Preview | Importance of the First Goal | Mourinho…”
The Twelve Days of Arsenal – Don McMahon In keeping with the season’s festive and joyous appreciation of all things Arsenal, I would like to present all UA and true Gooners worldwide with my revised version of an old seasonal favourite, direct from the home of Football. My apologies to our Gooner fans of other …
By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood (Note: the gathering of data and interpretation of it is by Walter. The commentary on sampling techniques is by Tony) This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site …
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Arsenal v Chelsea 23rd December 2013 – The match officials Dean v Arsenal – the story continues. by Andrew Crawshaw —– Yes it’s official… Referee – Mike Dean Assistants – J Collin, J Brooks Fourth Official – J Moss The dark lord returns and, after his somewhat benevolent visit for Stoke which we won 3-1 …
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By Tony Attwood According to the papers this is the crunch moment for Arsenal. There are great worries. Lose to Chelsea and we could be fourth. And that leads to the belief that such a defeat would leave us doomed because this is the DEFINING MOMENT. But in fact nothing is sure to be the …
Read More “This is absolutely not a defining moment (and a quick change of plan)”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked more closely …
Read More “Does it “all even out in the end”? At last the answer!”
