Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Tony Attwood When Mr Wenger left Arsenal in May 2018, we were sixth, with a points per game for that season of 1.66. When Mr Emery left Arsenal he points per game had sunk to 1.38 and we were 8th. Today the points per game for this season is 1.34 and we are 10th, …
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By Bulldog Drummond In the old days the journalists would always write, “the games are coming thick and fast for Arsenal”, and they would write that every time we had a mid-week game as well as a weekend match. Strangely back in the 1920s when clubs used to play on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, a …
By Bulldog Drummond Our review of the referee performances this year with Arsenal and Aston Villa, and our review of the home and away performances of the club, and the review of recent games, all suggest the two sides are evenly matched. We’ve also noted that the most common result in the Premier League this …
Read More “Aston Villa v Arsenal: what we need is another run of successive victories”
By Bulldog Drummond Back in the days of Arsene Wenger the media used to give attention to injury totals in order to “prove” that he was the cause of Arsenal’s high level of injuries. This was of course completely untrue, and we discovered several sets of data that were completely faked in order to “prove” …
Read More “Aston Villa v Arsenal: “We’re trying to manage Tierney”; Arsenal 5% advantage”
By Bulldog Drummond For a few weeks at the start of the season Arsenal and Aston Villa were high flying clubs, but that quickly slipped away. Villa have now played a uniquely low level of home games but when it comes to comparing Villa’s home form with Arsenal’s away form, the parallels are obvious, …
Read More “Aston Villa v Arsenal: statistics point to a balanced game.”
By Tony Attwood As has been the case for a few seasons now, each of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League clubs that has made it to the round of 32 is allowed to register a maximum of three new eligible players. Since 2018/19, however, it no longer matters if those players have …
Read More “Arsenal Europa Squad, the strange technicalities, and why we can’t play at home”
By Tony Attwood For a club to succeed over time it needs to build a positive reputation. In fact it has to build several positive reputations. The club needs its fans, its players and all its support staff to believe in the club and feel that it is travelling in the right direction. And it …
Read More “How the daily media assault on Arsenal is seriously damaging the club”
by Tony Attwood There are crises, and there are crises. Most crises in football are simply ignored by the media refusing to talk about them, and instead making up transfer stories that never happen. The long running crisis in English Premier League refereeing is kept hidden in this way. The crisis that is the FA …
Read More “A change of tune from the inventors of transfers.”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal now are top of the red card league, with five red cards this season. No other club has five. Four clubs have had three, six clubs have had none. Arsenal were also top of the red card league last season, where they had five all season. But although the media …
Read More “Why do Arsenal get so many red cards and why can’t Liverpool sign new players?”
by Bulldog Drummond With Alexandre Lacazette having scored in each of his last three Premier League away appearances and Arsenal having an extra buoyancy we enter this match with a certain level of enthusiasm as you may have seen in our earlier little pieces… Wolverhampton v Arsenal; playing style, penalties and bed linen The window …
Read More “Wolves v Arsenal, the team, plus media bitterness as they try to cover their errors”
By Bulldog Drummond Isn’t it odd, how one little blog, focused on numbers, can point something out, and then it changes! It was way, way, way back in the distant and very dim past that Wolverhampton once did the double over Arsenal. It wasn’t a very impressive double but it was a double. …
Read More “Wolverhampton v Arsenal; playing style, penalties and bed linen”
By Sir Hardly Anyone In the end the one thing that was missing was the apology. From anyone. In particular from the hundreds of blogs, websites, broadcasters and newspapers that told us of all the players Arsenal were going to sign, and in almost every case they were wrong. Just in case you want a …
Read More “The window ends, one thing missing, the game against Wolverhampton”
By Bulldog Drummond In the last article it was shown that of late Wolverhampton have got themselves into a real spot of trouble. Tracking their league results from the start of December onward we see Date Game Res Score 06 Dec 2020 Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers L 4-0 12 Dec 2020 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Aston …
Read More “Wolverhampton v Arsenal: what recent results and home/away tell us and transfer news”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It has been a desperately awful transfer window for the inventors of tittle and tattle not just because they have as ever got it mostly hopelessly wrong, but because much of the time they haven’t even got it at all, with the number of rumours being way down on the norm. …
Read More “Deadline day transfers: 14 Arsenal last minute deals”
