Brighton v Arsenal. The team, the ref’s odd statistics and the prediction

By Bulldog Drummond We started out this series of articles with a prediction based on the statistics which is different from most sites who predict based on… well, I am never quite sure.  Our figures came out as a victory for Arsenal by 1.25 goals to 0.75 goals – which turned from probability into reality …

Martin Odegaard to leave… according to “reports” plus more on Brighton

      Brighton v Arsenal: the prediction based on the statistics By Bulldog Drummond Predictions are tough.  I mean I wonder what Dan of Fantasy Football League website is thinking now having written last summer, “I think West Ham are on course for another successful season.”    Or Sports Mole’s senior reporter who wrote …

Arsenal: fewer tackles and fouls, but more yellows than Brighton. Why?

By Bulldog Drummond For me, one of the most interesting innovations of Untold Arsenal in recent years is the comparison of the level of fouls, tackles and yellow cards between different clubs and different referees.  It really does give a clue as to how clubs approach games and how referees approach clubs. These figures also …

Brighton v Arsenal. Brighton’s hunt for a European place

  Brighton v Arsenal: the prediction based on the statistics By Bulldog Drummond Brighton are one of those curious clubs (at least thus far in the season) that are doing better away from home than at home – which given the location of Arsenal’s next match is not a bad situation to find. And having …

Brighton v Arsenal: the prediction based on the statistics

    Which PL clubs are heading for a post world cup slump? By Bulldog Drummond So we are now back to our regular prediction machine, with its very simple methodology – yet thankfully still seemingly a methodology not copied by anyone else.   Even though we have been using it for several years. As ever …

Arsenal linked with 52 players in January. The full details.

      Latest articles arranged by subject  By Sir Hardly Anyone Interesting article in Sport Witness which begins “While Sergej Milinković-Savić has been linked with a move to the Premier League for the past few years, Arsenal have never been pushed forward as his destination.”    Except that during the last month that player …

When the wise man points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger

  Latest articles arranged by subject  By Christophe Jost I wonder how UEFA are feeling now that FIFA is making a real power grab on the calendar, clubs and players…. While they were fighting out the Super League in front of EU courts, FIFA was waiting for the chicken to come home to roost.  They …

Which PL clubs are heading for a post world cup slump?

    What normally happens to the club that is top after 15 games of a season? By Tony Attwood After each of the World Cups held this century, prior the one that has just finished, the points gained by the club that wins the league one year on, is less than in the season …

What normally happens to the club that is top after 15 games of a season?

    How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system? By Tony Attwood In eight of the last ten years the team that was first in the Premier League after 15 games won the league.  On the two occasions in which this didn’t happen the team that was …

No club is too big to fail, as lessons from Italy and Spain are starting to reveal

    By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s finances: another loss but going the right way To say that the ancient Italian club Juventus is in trouble is something of an understatement. The board has stood down en masse, the prosecutors and regulators are circling. La Liga has demanded fulsome sanctions complaining that Juventus has broken the …

For Arsenal a much bigger test comes at the start of 2023

  The 48 players reported as coming to Arsenal and the player noted 40 times in the media How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. By Tony Attwood The mood in the match last night moved from despair in the crowd and “told you so” in the journalist’s seats, to …

Arsenal v West Ham: the Arsenal injuries, world cup damage and the team

    Arsenal v West Ham – why the main issue tonight is not Eddie Arsenal v West Ham. The referee and recent games between the two. Arsenal v West Ham: what the pundits predicted for WHU and what happened by Bulldog Drummond So here we are, three years on to the day since Mr …

Arsenal v West Ham – why the main issue tonight is not Eddie

  Arsenal v West Ham. The referee and recent games between the two. Arsenal v West Ham: what the pundits predicted for WHU and what happened By Bulldog Drummond And so as the negatives and implied negative pour in from all sides (Arsenal must buy big and go all-out for the title – this chance …

Arsenal v West Ham. The referee and recent games between the two.

  Just how much are PL referees bias in favour of home teams? What the pundits predicted for WHU and what happened? Michael Oliver is one of only three referees who has overseen 12 games this season.  The average for a PGMO referee is 7.3 league games so far in 2022/23.   Referee Apps Fouls …

Arsenal v West Ham: what the pundits predicted for WHU and what happened

    Recent results suggest the Boxing Day game should be easy for Arsenal West Ham’s form has been a trifle on the iffy side of dodgy of late.  As a look at their recent results:   Date Match Result Score Competition 30 Oct 2022 Manchester United v West Ham United L 1-0 Premier League …

Recent results suggest the Boxing Day game should be easy for Arsenal

    Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other By Bulldog Drummond After a very frustrating and annoying interruption involving a huge amount of maltreatment of migrant workers, corruption and kowtowing by the media., we return to the football as Arsenal play West Ham on 26 December. There’s a substantial difference …

Welcome to the world of unmitigated anti-Arsenal bias in the media

    By Tony Attwood The 48 players reported as coming to Arsenal and the player noted 40 times in the media There is a football quiz in the Guardian newspaper today which begins “It’s been nearly six weeks since the top flight shut down for the World Cup. How much do you remember?” Which …

Fifa creates fantasies in order to conceal football’s reality

    How Uefa and PSG have taken control, and fooled all of football By Tony Attwood There is an article in the Irish Times about Qatar, which unfortunately is behind a paywall, which says in passing, “That uncanny sense of fakeness is everywhere. Walking around some of its more extravagant manifestations, like the endless …

PL finally admit to multiple VAR errors, and do Arsenal need a new No 9?

    Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other By Tony Attwood Among the bits of football news which have been reported in passing, and then not explored much by the media, is the revelation that Premier League video assistant referees got over 12 percent of their decisions wrong so far …

Arsenal’s world cup benefit: how the top clubs will do from here on.

    By Tony Attwood Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other In the last piece (see the link immediately above) we looked at what happens when clubs in the Big Seven (the traditional big six plus newcomers Newcastle) play each other.   Now we can take this a bit further. And …

Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other

  How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system? By Bulldog Drummond It is of course possible that any of the “big seven” clubs this season could slip up in any of their forthcoming matches, but there are two interesting scenarios that all these clubs now face, which …

In ten years time, one way or another football will be unrecognisable

    The 48 players reported as coming to Arsenal and the player noted 40 times in the media By Tony Attwood If we didn’t know it before the world cup we know it now: football is not just changing as it has always done, but it is changing at a faster pace than ever.  …

The 48 players reported as coming to Arsenal and the player noted 40 times in the media

    by Sir Hardly Anyone How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. The significant success of Arsenal’s recent signings recognised We’ve been keeping tabs on the various players (48 of them in fact) who have been tipped as being on the move to Arsenal in January. In total we …

How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system?

      By Tony Attwood Let me start by admitting that no one – not even the Untold Arsenal team – manages to call every game correctly in advance.   But we do like to think we do a bit better than most, largely because we use the same system over and over, and it …

The ten saddest things about Qatar and the world cup

    Beyond any doubt Infantino is getting his way. Next: Fifa will leave Zurich By Tony Attwood As the Telegraph says today “More has been spent on this World Cup than the cumulative total of all 21 Fifa tournaments that have preceded it.”  Which is quite a thought to start with. Qatar isn’t really a …