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
Chelsea v Arsenal, Sunday at noon. Two teams evenly matched. By Bulldog Drummond And so moving on to comparing the tackles, fouls and yellow cards of Arsenal and Chelsea, and comparing these with Manchester City who tend to tackle and foul less than anyone (according to referees) and Leeds United who tend to …
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The 8 serious refereeing failings that are corrupting the Premier League by Bulldog Drummond Of course we should be clear, there is no reason why any referee should favour either team. And we have no direct evidence that any referee is biased. But we do see some very curious figures when we …
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Creating Arsenal’s most famous back four By Bulldog Drummond. This is where yer amateur writer says “the games are coming thick and fast for Arsenal” but of course we would not indulge in anything so simplistic. No indeed! We will in fact perhaps say that there seem to be an awful lot of …
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How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. by Tony Attwood Today I stumbled across an article with the headline A misguided pre-season tour, tactical muddles and transfer failings have left Jurgen Klopp with serious questions to answer at Anfield… In the past it would have been written about …
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The Europa League: our most successful manager and who we can play in the next round By Tony Attwood The Europa League games are part of the season ticket package, although the three group-stage home matches clearly don’t excite everyone who has paid their money in advance. Some put their seat …
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Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. By Bulldog Drummond Here’s the simple rule of journalism in relation to Arsenal. If the club are perceived as doing badly then the manager is “under threat” and “being questioned”. After that has been run a few …
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Arsenal get seven in Europe – watch the video 3 November – it’s Ian Wright’s birthday By Tony Attwood There was a time in October when a couple of Arsenal results led to commentators suggesting that Arsenal’s rise to the top of the league was over. The bubble we were told had …
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The Europa League: our most successful manager and who we can play in the next round By Tony Attwood When it comes to pointing out the latest load of codswallop from the perfidious English media, Untold Arsenal is quite often not only in the lead but often we are simply out there on …
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Since Arsenal last played Zurich, they’ve turned themselves around. A bit. By Bulldog Drummond There is still quite a way to go in terms of knowing which teams have qualified for the next rounds of the Europa League. So far just four teams have already made it to the round of 16, and as a …
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The “big 7” mini league – how the top teams are doing against each other By Bulldog Drummond FC Zurich have played nine matches in October and have finally they won a league match, beating FC Sion 1-0 away. And amazingly they have also won a Europa League game beating Bodo Glimt 2-1 …
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Why predicting football is about looking at trends, not individual games by Tony Attwood The story that Arsenal had a horror opening fixture list, started before the fixtures were even announced, with the Sun coming out with a catastrophically inaccurate “leaked” (ie made-up) fixture list for the new season. Indeed this “leaked fixture …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal video of the day: Beating Leeds 1-4 in the Unbeaten Season. “It is the eternal gift of Arsenal fans to be able to identify the potential anxiety in virtually any situation, however favourable or triumphant. Pleasure is simply misery deferred. Most people look for crumbs of comfort; Arsenal fans look for …
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