By Tony Attwood The Daily Mail’s headline comment, “‘They don’t have much to celebrate’: Jose Mourinho bites back at Arsenal tweet mocking their defeat by Sheffield United… but Spurs face a task to finish above their rivals ahead of Everton clash,” reminded me that even the media’s favourites must sometimes slip down the pecking order …
By Sir Hardly Anyone This summer is clearly going to come out with the all time record for the number of players tipped to be coming to Arsenal by the all-seeing, all-knowing media. And to be clear these are not the players that pundits are saying Arsenal “ought to sign” – if we included those …
By Tony Attwood There is no doubt that lockdown has changed things. Since the League returned without crowds in stadia, results have reversed, as indeed happened in Germany, with home wins now being the least likely, rather than the most likely result. It is more than likely that referee bias has a significant part to …
by Bulldog Drummond As we saw in yesterday’s piece, Wolverhampton have been on a fine run of form, both before and after the break. Date Game Res Score Competition 01 Mar 2020 Tottenham Hotspur v Wolverhampton W W 2-3 Premier League 07 Mar 2020 Wolverhampton W v Brighton and Hove D 0-0 Premier League 12 …
By Bulldog Drummond Fox Sports is reporting that Arsenal have been fined around £50,000 and warned about its future conduct regarding transfers after the club inserted restricted sell-on clauses in transfer contracts. This news follows the release of Fifa legal documents which have been seen by The Associated Press and relate to the departure of …
By Tony Attwood Christophe Jost spotted a comment by Bixente Lizarazu after Arsenal’s last match which intrigued both of us. Lizarazu, as you may know played for Bordeaux and Bayern Munich and got 97 caps for the French national team. So one might think he is a man who most certainly has earned the right …
By Bulldog Drummond We know from all the research we have been able to unearth just how ghost games influence the referees. Now with teams having played several games since the resumption of football after the lock down phase of the season, we can start looking at just how the experience of playing ghost games …
by Tony Attwood and Christophe Jost Arsenal winning 4-0 at the Ems…. no boo boys (as Chapman called them), no insults… That undoubtedly helped us. Indeed it is possible that Arsenal might be one of the few teams that sees their home results go up during the lock down, simply because the players know how …
By Tony Attwood On 11 December 2019 the table looked like this… Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Liverpool 16 15 1 0 40 14 26 46 2 Leicester City 16 12 2 2 39 10 29 38 3 Manchester City 16 10 2 4 44 19 25 32 4 …
By Bulldog Drummond Physioroom is not showing much change in terms of injuries with eight players out. Player Reason Further Detail Potential Return Condition Status Calum Chambers Knee Injury Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury – ACL Injury 29/08/2020 None Ruled Out David Luiz Knee injury “Right knee. Being assessed ahead of Norwich City.” 01/07/2020 Late fitness …
By Bulldog Drummond It has been so long since Arsenal played a home game that going back to the Arsenal Stadium will probably feel like an away game to the players. And since we have won the last two away games that could be a help. But since it is technically a home game let’s …
