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 Fifa has just been dealt a significant blow in its attempts to take on direct control of all elements of world football after a critic of Fifa’s African takeover who was banned for 10 years for allegedly stealing Ebola funds (Issa Hayatou) has been overturned by Court of Arbitration for Sport. The …
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By Tony Attwood We’ve been looking at the simple notion that sacking the manager and/or buying new players will turn a club around. On their own, these approaches don’t deliver. However, there is a complication because spending on transfers does work in the sense that the top four teams in the league have in their …
Read More “Are the most valuable teams also the teams at the top of the league?”
By Tony Attwood We have been exploring over a series of articles what actually brings success to premier league clubs. Is it buying in new players, or is it endlessly changing managers? Or is it on the other hand stability? Or maybe something else? Our examinations of clubs and their purchases have suggested that spending …
Read More “Which PL club has had the most managers and the least success? Guess!”
