Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Chelsea and the notion of progress.

Arsenal’s opposition in 2022/3: Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City By Sir Hardly Anyone In this series we are looking at a few of Arsenal’s rivals, to see how the media predicted their progress last season and how they are seeing it for 2022/3. We have mentioned GiveMeSport already and they …

Arsenal’s opposition in 2022/3: Tottenham Hotspur

Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City By Sir Hardly Anyone If you read our recent pieces about predicting results you will know we have been raging against the concept of Super Computers giving a prediction for their results.  Super computers are never used in this way.   See Supercomputer vs human predicting Arsenal next …

Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City

US authorities give extra money to Fifa: the most bizarre timing ever! By Sir Hardly Anyone In 2019/20 it was shown that the number of Premier League clubs that exceeded UEFA’s 70% wage control guideline had risen to 13 out of 20.   Even more bizarre two of the Premier League clubs at the time were …

Arsenal at the Women’s Euros (5-31 July)— an introduction

The two mountains Arsenal have to climb by Andrew Crawshaw The Women’s European Championship gets underway this evening at a sold out Old Trafford with England playing Austria.  All matches in the competition are being screened by the BBC with tonight’s coverage of the opening ceremony and match beginning at 7pm on BBC1. The studio …

The two mountains Arsenal have to climb

By Tony Attwood What’s so wrong with both football, and with the reporting of football Since the Premier League was reduced to its current size of 20 clubs playing 38 games, in 1995/6, there have been 26 seasons.  In ten of those seasons (so that is just over one third) the top club has got …

The 97 players heading Arsenal’s way this summer: 16 new and updated

By Sir Hardly Anyone Is Fifa about to follow Infantino and move to the Persian Gulf? This is a list of players who the media are touting this summer as coming to Arsenal: 97 in all.  We’ve got five completely new stories today, along with a further 11 which have updated information about bids etc. …

Supercomputer vs human predicting Arsenal next season. Both lose.

Is Fifa about to follow Infantino and move to the Persian Gulf? By Tony Attwood There is a screamingly funny piece in the Sussex Express which really does need to be contemplated.  The headline is… Predicted Premier League table 2022-23: Supercomputer forecasts Brighton, West Ham, Tottenham, Fulham, Arsenal finish – after latest transfer activity. Now …

From Edu to Gabriel Jesus – how Sao Paulo became Arsenal’s talent factory

In Switzerland Fifa is on the edge of being blown up. In England….? By Tony Attwood When it comes to goals and assists per 90 minutes, only two players (Sergio Aguero and Mohamed Salah) have been more effective than Jesus since he joined Manchester City in January 2017. In other words, he has contributed goals …

US authorities give extra money to Fifa: the most bizarre timing ever!

by Tony Attwood In Switzerland Fifa is on the edge of being blown up. In England….? In what must be one of the most bizarre coincidences of all time in football, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it is awarding Fifa and the Football Confederation of the United States an additional $92 million …

What are Arsenal’s chances of top four in 2022/3

By Tony Attwood I have been suggesting of late that for Arsenal in the coming season the issue is not just to get better, but rather to get better enough to overtake at least one of the four clubs that ended last season above Arsenal. But of course, last season’s top four also have the …

What’s so wrong with both football, and with the reporting of football

The statistical evidence that shows PGMO are biased against Arsenal By Tony Attwood There is an article in The Atlantic.com which includes the statement “Trump’s supporters have been in denial about Trump’s emotional instability, his malignant narcissism, his fascination with violent rhetoric, and his hostility to the American constitutional order.” And yes that seems to …

Is Fifa about to follow Infantino and move to the Persian Gulf?

By the Untold Team Huge Fifa Corruption Story breaks – no report in English media. “Fifa will not exist in ten years time.” Or maybe even less! Switzerland take a greater interest in Fifa – at last As you may recall from earlier articles, on June 3rd 2015 Blatter, then head of Fifa announced his …

Arsenal injury crisis is a phantom of the Mirror’s imagination

By Tony Attwood Fabio Vieira responds to injury concerns as new Arsenal signing pictured in moon boot So shouts the Mirror, raising the issue once again that Arsenal are being somewhat careless or incompetent about player injuries – not just getting more players injured than other teams, but even being so stupid as to purchase …

In Switzerland Fifa is on the edge of being blown up. In England….?

By Tony Attwood Untold recently received a comment in relation to an article in which I mentioned a player having Covid.   It read… “What Covid ? Are you still under the spell? Wake up ,even if it is long overdue. You do not even have a name let alone a reputation to shatter. Speak for …

Why life working for a football club might not always be what it seems

 Arsenal transfers: Gnabry return, White a disaster, Martinez a loss? By Tony Attwood You might recall the case of Dr Eva Carneiro who made a very public claim of constructive dismissal against Chelsea in 2015 and also claimed discrimination by Jose Mourinho.  That case, in which Dr Carneiro claimed she regularly had to endure sexually …