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Untold Arsenal: latest articles and series by Admir Pajiæ Arsenal are top of the table and have been since early days. It’s interesting to note Arsenal have finished top of the table at the end of August, September and October respectively. And indeed they will have finished top of the table at the …
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By Tony Attwood How Arteta built the new Arsenal and took us to the top of the league Part 1. Arteta’s revolution: How the media missed Arsenal’s change after Xmas Day 2020. Part 2 How Arteta revolutionised Arsenal: Part 3 – the summer of 2021 The one thing that is remembered about 2021/22, …
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by Tony Attwood How Arteta built the new Arsenal and took us to the top of the league Part 1. Arteta’s revolution: How the media missed Arsenal’s change after Xmas Day 2020. Part 2 This four part series of articles tracks the Arteta revolution at Arsenal, and does so in a way that I believe …
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by Tony Attwood How Arteta built the new Arsenal and took us to the top of the league Part 1. How Arteta built the new Arsenal and took us to the top of the league part 2 In the summer of 2020 Arsenal brought in Partey, Magalhães and Elneny (the latter returning …
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ARSENAL ARE TOP OF THE BIG SEVEN LEAGUE: AND GUESS WHO’S BOTTOM By Tony Attwood The problem with pundits is they start from the premise that they know. And because they know they can immediately draw conclusions, without bothering to provide much evidence. Speaking on The Gary Neville Podcast, Neville said, “You ask the question …
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By Tony Attwood Did Qatar buy their World Cup? That is just one of the hundreds of headlines that can be seen in articles in newspapers and magazines across Europe this week as the build-up to the World Cup continues. But such commentaries are rather rarer in England – perhaps because England …
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By Tony Attwood The big seven minileague – and the form. There has been in the media, over the last year or three, a number of suggestions in the media that say that the Premier League is getting more and more fractured, in the sense that the top clubs (the top four …
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With 37 points from 14, are Arsenal likely to win the league? By Tony Attwood For this season we decided to create a Big 7 mini league, bringing Newcastle United into the table on the grounds that with more wealth available than any other club they ought to be able to buy …
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Far beyond simply the best. This is Arteta’s Arsenal. by Tony Attwood Arsenal are top of the league. And so not just top of the league after 37% of the season, but top by five points. And not just top but 14 points above where all the glorious pundits in the newspapers suggested …
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Wolverhampton v Arsenal. Does anyone remember the chaos and noise of 24 February? Wolverhampton v Arsenal, tackles, fouls penalties and oddities Wolverhampton v Arsenal. Where the Wolverhampton problem lies. By Bulldog Drummond The BBC have posted a note saying “Victory for Arsenal will mean they are top of the Premier League table …
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Wolverhampton v Arsenal, tackles, fouls penalties and oddities By Bulldog Drummond 24 February 2022 was one of those games I doubt I’ll ever forget. I’ve never heard so much noise in the Arsenal stadium – and come to that outside. Maybe this season’s win rivals it, but the eruption when Arsenal scored …
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Referee appointments and matters arising by Bulldog Drummond Moving on from the basic observations we now come to the regular comparison we make of tackles, fouls and yellow cards between teams. Data from WhoScored. And as with past seasons, once there have been enough games to help us generate meaningful tables we look …
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By Tony Attwood There once was a time when Arsenal was revered as the best team in the country. In fact there was more than one time. And yet somehow of late it seemed to slip away. Last season’s fifth position was indeed an improvement on coming 8th (twice) – our worst position since …
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PREMIER LEAGUE DEBTS HAVE SURGED TO WHAT LOOK LIKE DANGEROUS PROPORTIONS by Bulldog Drummond A comparison between Arsenal and Wolverhampton is telling… Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 13 11 1 1 31 11 20 34 19 Wolverhampton Wanderers 14 2 4 8 8 22 -14 10 …
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Attacks on referees increase but who is to blame? by Andrew Crawshaw Who is on duty this coming weekend? Matchweek 16 – Saturday/Sunday Match Referee Assistant Referees 4th Official VAR referee Assistant VAR Referee Saturday 12:30 Man City v Brentford Peter Bankes Eddie Smart Nick Greenhalgh Darren Bond David Coote Nick …
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By Tony Attwood The notion that football should have an independent regulator is something that we have been pounding away at for some time. The most recent piece on this site was The scandal of the lack of medical records in football in which we looked at the fact that when a young player is injured, …
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By Bulldog Drummond The story so far… Arsenal v Brighton: videos of games from the past. Arsenal v Brighton: the astounding advantage Brighton bring into this game Arsenal v Brighton: how things have moved on since 9 April And so we come to the time for the team news. The Daily Mirror offers us Turner; Cedric, …
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by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Brighton: how things have moved on since 9 April In 2010/11 – just 12 seasons ago – Brighton and Hove Albion were in League One, and won the title. They remained in the Championship until 2016/17 when they came second in that season and gained promotion to the Premier League. …
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Arsenal v Brighton: how things have moved on since 9 April By Bulldog Drummond With this match being a League Cup affair it is possible that either or both sides will put out some reserve or junior players for the event, but I feel it is still worth looking at he tackles, fouls …
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By Bulldog Drummond Momentum is building in media to get Arteta banned from the touchline The phrase “thick and fast” as in the comment “the games are coming thick and fast” hardly bears logical scrutiny – how can games be thick, although “fast” might just about describe the fact that Arsenal are playing twice a …
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By Tony Attwood Now here is a very interesting story about Fifa. It’s all over the European press, but not being touched in England because… well, you know, it shows Fifa in a bad light and our media don’t want to do that because we are bidding once again for international …
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How Uefa and PSG have taken control, and fooled all of football By Tony Attwood Tottenham Hotspur supporters gave Arsenal a real boost this weekend through the simple expedient of booing their own team. The Tottenham manager responded by arguing, “Spurs deserved a point” and added that Tottenham fans have to understand that …
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The simple tactic Arsenal and Man C use to defeat the opposition time and again By Tony Attwood Here’s the updated Big 7 table, showing as before, the points per game in the final column in order to accommodate the fact that the number of games played between the teams varies between …
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The simple tactic Arsenal and Man C use to defeat the opposition time and again Arsenal’s shocking failure on 3 November will live long in the memory By Tony Attwood Here’s the league table: where else should we start? Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 13 …
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Tackles, fouls and yellow cards: Chelsea three times dirtier than Man City By Bulldog Drummond ‘We’re third, we can’t be that bad’ That is the wonderful headline about Tottenham Hotspur in the Guardian today. To which I suppose the Arsenal response is, “no, you are not THAT bad. But not quite as good …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal: the history between them, Arsenal’s improvement, and the team”
