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The football stories the media won’t touch So far… Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias What the media won’t tell you …
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The real facts about football that the media will never touch Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias The first point to …
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Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias By Sir Hardly Anyone We’re on the last day of transfers and anything added …
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Why the media won’t handle certain football topics 1: Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported 2: The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch Venue bias is one of the biggest stories in football that the media won’t touch. The evidence that it exists …
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Previously: Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported (part 1) Part of the problem with football reporting is that opinion dominates facts because facts are considered to be few and easily obtained. Football facts are things like the scores and the players. Football opinion relates to why …
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Does spending on transfers automatically bring success? By Tony Attwood For Arsenal and its goalscoring this looks like being a very good season. In 2021/22 Arsenal scored 48 goals. This season after 19 games we have got 45. That puts us in line for getting 90 goals this season. Last season the top Arsenal …
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2022/23 Women’s FA Cup – Arsenal Women v Leeds United. Match Preview By Tony Attwood This article, which I suspect will turn out to be the start of a series, is about the way football is reported, why the way it is reported in the UK is biased, and how this biased reporting …
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Arsenal Women – FA Cup Arsenal women: second half reinforcements by Andrew Crawshaw After our win in the League Cup Quarter Final on Thursday Night, we are back in cup action again this afternoon (Sunday) against Leeds United. The Women’s FA Cup is open to all clubs affiliated to the FA, be they amateur …
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Does spending on transfers automatically bring success? Arsenal compared to the rest. No club is too big to fail, as lessons from Italy and Spain are starting to reveal By Tony Attwood Although we don’t know the financial data for 2021/22 yet, it looks like the 20 Premier League clubs will between them …
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Arsenal’s 25 man squad – is it already full? Arsenal Transfers: 329 reports covering 62 players all coming to AFC (allegedly) How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. By Tony Attwood So now we know. A largely reserve side including Matt Turner, Rob Holding, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Kieran …
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Manchester City v Arsenal – tonight’s game Arsenal, the referee and the FA Cup Arsenal – the monster Manchester City created – according to reports. Manchester City v Arsenal: The Big 7 Stats, and comparisons of the last 6 games Manchester City v Arsenal: surprising statistics and a result prediction Has Arsenal caught up …
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Arsenal – the “monster” Manchester City created (according to reports) Manchester City v Arsenal: The Big 7 Stats, and comparisons of the last 6 games Manchester City v Arsenal: surprising statistics and a result prediction Manchester City v Arsenal: the referee and the FA Cup by Nitram I think the answer to both …
Manchester City v Arsenal – the FA Cup Arsenal – the monster Manchester City created – according to reports. Manchester City v Arsenal: The Big 7 Stats, and comparisons of the last 6 games Manchester City v Arsenal: surprising statistics and a result prediction The referee for tonight’s game is Paul Tierney – …
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The Arsenal juggernaut rolls on Manchester City v Arsenal: The Big 7 Stats, and comparisons of the last 6 games Manchester City v Arsenal: surprising statistics and a result prediction Details of our recent series and latest articles can be found on the home page. By Bulldog Drummond The constant theme of the …
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Man City v Arsenal: against the other top clubs Manchester City v Arsenal: surprising statistics and a result prediction One of the ways to look forward to the Manchester City v Arsenal game is to consider the way the two clubs have played against other members of the Big Seven (the old big …
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Arsenal’s 25 man squad – is it already full? Yet another example of the way the media tries to put down Arsenal Arsenal and Man C compared this season By Bulldog Drummond The top team in the away games league table is Arsenal. The top team in the home games league table …
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Yet another example of the way the media tries to put down Arsenal The figures from Arsenal v Man U are utterly extraordinary, and misleading By Tony Attwood Has the media miscounted the 25 man squad? “Arteta facing Europa League squad problem to make room for new Arsenal signings” is a story that …
How the media is attacking Arsenal The Continental Tyres Cup 2022/23 quarter finals: Arsenal v Villa When Arsenal lose they sneer, and when they win they sneer even more By Tony Attwood There was an article in the Daily Mail recently in the build-up to the Manchester United home game, which included the …
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The Continental Tyres Cup Update by Andrew Crawshaw The Continental Tyres Cup is the Women’s version of the League Cup – equivalent to the Carabao Cup in the Men’s competition. It is open to the 24 clubs in the two professional leagues, the Women’s Super League and the Women’s Championship. For years this was …
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The media against Arsenal FC The media won’t apologise By Sir Hardly Anyone On 15 December 2021 Arsenal were 15th in the table. Now, a little over two years later, well, you know where they are. That rise of 14 places across a period of just over two years is extraordinary, and …
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WSL roundup following a chaotic weekend for Arsenal… and others Tottenham’s managing director of football banned, Man Utd losses out of control By Sir Hardly Anyone So far this season Arsenal have brought in… Player From Cost Gabriel Jesus Manchester City €52.20m Fábio Vieira FC Porto €35.00m Oleksandr Zinchenko Manchester City €35.00m Jakub …
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Tottenham’s managing director of football banned, Man Utd losses out of control by Andrew Crawshaw The weekend’s games kicked off on Saturday lunchtime with a game between Manchester City and Aston Villa. You will recall my prediction:- “they (Aston Villa) will prove a stiff test for a City team who are trying to …
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Why football needs an independent regulator now By Tony Attwood The Guardian is carrying the story that “Tottenham have concerns” that Fabio Paratici, their managing director of football, will be banned from football worldwide as his previous employer Juventus have had 15 points deducted from their current league total, leaving them languishing in 10th position. …
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The figures from Arsenal v Man U are utterly extraordinary, and misleading By Tony Attwood “Arsenal banish poisonous issue as Man Utd win underlines Mikel Arteta’s biggest achievement” That is a headline in the Mirror today. And one might well ask “What poisonous issue?” Is that the poisonous issue created by the Mirror who …
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Arsenal v Manchester United. So what did we learn? The media won’t apologise by Tony Attwood One of the most extraordinary things about football in England is that we are given a mountain of data and statistics about the game in general and each game in particular, but no one ever says why these …
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