Have Arsenal really moved up to the level of Machester City?

    How Arsenal has taken on the media, and the club is winning Why the media all want Arsenal to buy buy buy, and why we shouldn’t By Tony Attwood In one sense that question seems one with an obvious answer.   Arsenal are of course top of the league:   Pos Team P W …

Arsenal Women: Second Half Reinforcements

  Reflections on the Euros and the Copa American Women’s Finals by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal women resume their season this coming Sunday with a home match against our biggest rivals Chelsea.  The game is at the Emirates and there are more than 40,000 tickets sold to date. Our last game before the Christmas break was …

Do Arsenal need to become more efficient in front of goal?

      Why football needs an independent regulator now. By Nitram A headline in the Mirror announces that “Arsenal sign Lionel Messi double nicknamed ‘Tekkers Guru’ to boost Gunners attack.” And it is not just there for the story has turned up in the Mail as well with the headline Arsenal ‘hire ex-Hashtag United star.  …

Why football needs an independent regulator now.

By Tony Attwood Last September The Spectator magazine (not a publication that normally deals with football) ran the article Why football needs a regulator. In was the first major uptake on a series we started in March last year and ran through three articles… “Football should have a regulator” and what would Fifa say about …

Where next for Tottenham? The Qatar / PSG links that keep surfacing…

    Arsenal’s world cup benefit: how the top clubs will do from here on. By Tony Attwood Of course I am an Arsenal fan, and so of course when I come to write about Tottenham there is bias.  There’s no way around that.   But I don’t believe because of that we should hide away …

Arsenal to make multiple changes tonight despite having a very thin squad

  Details of recent articles organised by themes can be found on the home page Oxford United v Arsenal: the past and the present and what they foretell By Bulldog Drummond You might expect that this would be a situation in which professional football writers might relax a little from their daily diet of attacking …

Oxford v Arsenal; the return of Smith Rowe, the form and last season

    Oxford v Arsenal: Arsenal in the FA Cup and the current form By Tony Attwood So now we know, if we manage to beat Oxford it will be Manchester City away as a reward at the end of the month.   I suppose that seems fair enough especially as Tottenham will also be worrying …

Oxford v Arsenal: Arsenal in the FA Cup and the current form

  Oxford United v Arsenal: the past and the present and what they foretell With one win in the league in the last five games, and that against Charlton who hadn’t won any of their previous nine games in league and cup, Oxford’s form of late has not been overly impressive.  But as we are …

How Arsenal’s multiple goalscorers is greatly increasing their chance of the title

  How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system? By Bulldog Drummond This table shows the number of goals scored by the big clubs after 17 games, and the number scored last season after 17 games.   Team GF 2022/3 GF 2021/2 Difference Est End 2022/3 end 2021/2 …

Oxford United v Arsenal: the past and the present and what they foretell

    Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other By Bulldog Drummond Here’s a frightening piece of information.   Arsenal played Oxford six times in the old League Division One and have played them nine times in total.   And although you might expect this to result in a nine-nil victory list for …

Does having the bulk of possession help in Premier League matches?

      How much have Arsenal spent on transfers in recent years? By Tony Attwood ‘Time is up’ for Mikel Arteta at Arsenal after Burnley defeat … So said Talk Sport on 14 December 2020.  Fortunately, as is the case most of the time, they were totally wrong. Indeed so bad at predicting the …

56 players, 290 reports: all the men joining Arsenal this month (allegedly)

Index to all the lates stories organised by themes Megolamaniac Infantino makes new insane demand on all footballing countries By Sir Hardly Anyone. As we progress through the transfer window the stories begin to change, not least because inventive not to say utterly fictional stories about new players that Arsenal are trying to sign become …

Megolamaniac Infantino makes new insane demand on all footballing countries

    Even for the anti-Arsenal media this reporting is totally outrageous Details of recent articles arranged by theme can be found on the home page By Tony Attwood Just to be clear, a megalomaniac is a person who has an obsessive desire for power and just from everyday observation you might agree that Gianni Infantino …

Even for the anti-Arsenal media this reporting is totally outrageous

By Tony Attwood Gunners slip in title race That is a headline from the Daily Mirror today. But is that a reasonable summary?  When Liverpool have just lost to Brentford, Tottenham have lost to Villa, Chelsea drew with relegation favourites Nottingham Forest, Man City drew at home with 16th placed Everton…  The only team on …

Apparently it’s Arteta’s fault that Arsenal don’t win every game

    Predicting how the season will end, as we enter 2023 by Tony Attwood Apparently, it is all Arteta’s fault.  He rages too much, shouts too much, points too much.  That at least seems to be the view in some journalists, but as ever what they are doing is pushing their own failings onto …

Arsenal v Newcastle: the team, the danger of a ban and a record to beat

  The Top Two in-form teams take on each other Arsenal v Newcastle United. The transformation of two clubs with past glories by Bulldog Drummond And so, the last post of the build up for the Newcastle game. The two clubs have played each other a massive 189 times, with Arsenal winning 83 and Newcastle …

Arsenal v Newcastle United. The transformation of two clubs with past glories

    How the season will end 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 Bulldog Drummond The transformation of both Arsenal and Newcastle across the last three seasons has been extraordinary. As we know at …

Arsenal v Newcastle: Arsenal discover who the referee is, and suffer major setback

    Arsenal v Newcastle: the story so far The Top Two in-form teams take on each other Predicting how the season will end, as we enter 2023 By Sir Hardly Anyone Our referee for the game against Newcastle is Andy Madley, and that means Arsenal have a problem.  Because A. Madley is one of …

Arsenal v Newcastle United: the top two in form teams take on each other

    You can see details of all the latest stories organised by themes on the home page. by Bulldog Drummond “Thick and fast” is the platitude of the day, when talking about fixtures, and how quickly they come one after the other.  But it does seem that we have only just started to get …

Predicting how the season will end, as we enter 2023

  You can see details of all the latest stories organised by themes on the home page. By Tony Attwood One of the problems with the football predictions that we see in the media is that they are by and large based on what has already happened in the season thus far happening throughout the …

Tottenham fans give Arsenal unexpected boost

  Ødegaard, Ødegaard, Ødegaard Is Odegaard the best in the League? Was that the best NYE party ever? Yes to both Martin Odegaard to leave… according to “reports”  by Tony Attwood Watching the Tottenham game against Aston Villa on TV it was quite clear that a number of Tottenham supporters were fairly irate concerning the …

Is Odegaard the best in the League? Was that the best NYE party ever? Yes to both

By Tony Attwood Is Martin Odegaard the best player in the Premier League? asks the Telegraph.  “Will my legs start working again properly soon?” asks your author.  But my woes after what was undoubtedly the best New Year’s Eve party I have ever been in my life, are of course as nothing.  What matters is …