Manchester City accused of over 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules

    Manchester City accused of breaching financial rules By Tony Attwood La Liga complains to Uefa alleging Manchester City and PSG breach FFP As our article (linked above) from June last year shows, complaints about the behaviour of Manchester City have been flying around for a while.   But now, just as we are all …

Every club now knows how to beat Arsenal (according to reports)

  Why do some teams always get so few yellow cards? Guardiola’s excuse for losing to Tottenham reveals the quality of Arsenal By Tony Attwood Apparently, the loss to Everton is very bad news indeed for Arsenal as it wasn’t only a defeat, but it was a defeat that allowed all the rest of the …

Guardiola’s excuse for losing to Tottenham reveals the quality of Arsenal

  In football distance makes no difference So it wasn’t so bad after all. Arsenal still five points clear with a game in hand By Tony Attwood Pep Guardiola said after his side lost to Tottenham, “Coming from Manchester to London, it’s like going to northern Europe. It’s four hours, 20 minutes to get to …

So it wasn’t so bad after all. Arsenal still five points clear with a game in hand

  Looking back at today’s results WSL Round Up – West Ham v Arsenal Sunday 18:45 By Tony Attwood So here we are watching West Ham v Arsenal women’s game on Sky, knowing that the league table is still as it was.   Arsenal are five points ahead of Manchester City, eight above Manchester United and …

WSL Round Up – West Ham v Arsenal Sunday 18:45

    Arsenal Women: recent events and match preview The Continental Tyres Cup 2022/23 quarterfinals: Arsenal v Villa Second half reinforcements by Andrew Crawshaw The transfer window for the WSL closed on Tuesday at the same time as it did for the PL.  Arsenal were trying hard to sign a new striker and even tabled …

Arsenal lost, but it is all part of the drive toward long-term sustainability

      Budiling Arsenal sustainability – at the top Yet another example of the way the media tries to put down Arsenal When Arsenal lose they sneer, and when they win they sneer even more By Tony Attwood After Arsenal’s game finished and before the rest of the weekend’s fixtures have been completed the …

Everton v Arsenal: a happy video, line-up and what the league table will look like after

  Everton v Arsenal Everton v Arsenal: Points needed for fourth, Arsenal first to 100 Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal: extraordinary figures from the …

Everton v Arsenal: Injuries, points needed for 4th, and Arsenal the first to 100?

  Arsenal and Everton compared By Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? Everton v Arsenal – extraordinary figures seen in the last six games table As …

Everton v Arsenal: extraordinary figures seen in the last 6 games table

  By Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? We’ve done a lot of crowing at how we managed to predict Arsenal’s return to the higher reaches …

Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team

  Arsenal are lucky in the choice of referee Previously… Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? The referee is David Coote; he is overseeing Arsenal for the second time this season.  We’ve always argued that two should be the maximum …

Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour

  Arsenal commit 21% more fouls than Man City, but get 84% more yellow cards! Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? By Bulldog Drummond The more a club tackles, the fewer fouls per 10 tackles are awarded against it.  That is the week-by-week oddity of Premier League refereeing and …

With Balogun will Arsenal be heading toward goalscoring records

    Are Arsenal heading towards goal scoring records? The Big 7 Clubs: how much they have spent this season, and what good has it done? Arsenal anniversaries 2 February: Wenger appeals against charge of violent and threatening behaviour Folarin Balogun is 21 and he is on loan at Stade de Reims. They are 11th …

Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at?

  Everton are in real trouble Previous: 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 …

What the media doesn’t tell you, part 6. There’s a financial problem…

      By Tony Attwood 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 about football part 4: …

The Big 7 clubs, how much they spent and what good is it doing?

    How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. The significant success of Arsenal’s recent signings recognised By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a little chart which makes rather interesting reading in my view, but which is not being shown in any of the newspapers or websites I’ve seen (but …