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Arsenal 2023/4: the preview What Arsenal have to aim for next season What should happen next to Manchester City if found guilty by the League? By Tony Attwood Based on what we have observed in recent times, what guesses can we make about 2023/4? It is a young team that is maturing. In …
What should happen next to Manchester City if found guilty by the League? Arsenal transfers: what happened in January, and the rumours for now By Tony Attwood The last time Arsenal came runners-up in the league was in 2015/16. Leicester won the league and Arsenal got 71 points – a league total that …
How to punish Manchester City Arsenal transfers: what happened in January, and the rumours for now The first ever analysis of how referees see each Premier League club By Tony Attwood There is a report in the Evening Standard in which it says that Guardiola has asked for the issue of the 115 …
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The first ever analysis of how referees see each Premier League club By Sir Hardly Anyone In January we found 66 players who were said to be coming to Arsenal and top of the list of course was Mykhaylo Mudryk with TBR and HITC each mentioning the transfer eight times in different articles. …
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Tackles fouls and yellows: how Arsenal have learned to handle the refs By the Untold Team with data derived from WhoScored When all things are considered it is the variations that are concerning. Now the number of tackles a club can put in before a foul is called perhaps doesn’t worry us much. …
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The fouls and yellows: how Arsenal have learned how to handle the refs. By Tony Attwood Watching the match on Sunday at Arsenal, knowing I would then start work on the tackles / fouls / cards tables was fascinating. As were the final figures for the season: Leeds put in 78% more tackles …
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton: the Arsenal team and predictions Arsenal v Wolverhampton: the basic background facts Prior to the game between Arsenal and Wolverhampton, we had a number of comments from Wolverhampton supporters pointing out that Wolverhampton had suffered this season at the hands of referees. And indeed if we were to include …
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton: the team Arsenal v Wolverhampton: the basic background facts. Arsenal v Wolves. Is this the most biased referee in the League? Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Mind-numbing hardly seems the word Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Football down in the lower reaches by Bulldog Drummond A nice statistic has been found by Sports Mole …
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton: background Arsenal v Wolves. Is this the most biased referee in the League? Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Mind-numbing hardly seems the word Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Football down in the lower reaches By Bulldog Drummond First off, sorry to Wolverhampton fans whose comments have not appeared. Two reasons: one is we don’t …
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Mind-numbing hardly seems the word Arsenal v Wolverhampton. Football down in the lower reaches By Bulldog Drummond The referee for the final game is Andre Marriner, and in the table below (drawn from data from WhoScored) we can see the way in which the number of fouls per game varies …
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Wolverhampton: the mind-numbing club Football in the lower reaches By Bulldog Drummond As we saw in our opening article on the final game of the season, Wolverhampton are a club in the lower reaches of the league, but not a club in danger of descent into the darkness. So we can take a …
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2022/3: The final game How much is each club earning from merit payments this season? Arteta is now the 4th longest serving manager in the league. So what? By Bulldog Drummond One year ago the table read Team P W D L F A GD Pts 4 Tottenham Hotspur 37 21 5 …
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Estimated Merit Payments 2022/23 Arteta is now the fourth longest serving manager in the league. It’s time to read the football press and really have a laugh An article in the Metro recently suggested that the prize money this season for the top four clubs was likely to be… £44 million £41.8 …
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It’s time to read the football press and really have a laugh Premier League manager of the season: not one vote for Arteta By Tony Attwood As we said in the last article, there was not one vote for Arteta as the manager of the season while quite a few managers below the …
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Newcastle make the next move in the process of middle eastern take over of the league Premier League manager of the season: not one vote for Arteta. By Sir Hardly Anyone It has been a constant theme of Untold in recent years that there are two elements in football that according to the …
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Newcastle make the next move in the process of middle eastern take over of the league Alan Davies on Sam Allardyce: the funniest commentary ever By Tony Attwood and a calculator Newspapers and magazines are now coming out with their “manager of the season” commentaries following the launch of the Premier League’s …
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The Middle East takeover of football Alan Davies on Sam Allardyce: the funniest commentary ever What are football clubs supposed to do about racism? On this day: Arsenal win FA Youth Cup but what happened to the team? It looks like Newcastle approves of the slow – slow – slowslow – slow way in which …
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Sam Allardyce: there never has been The next step for Arteta: more of the same and then emulate Wenger The battle to get clubs to accept responsibility for young player injuries hots up In response to a recent article LeMmy Martin suggested that we all should listen to Alan Davies on Sam Allardyce. …
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The next step for Arteta: more of the same and then emulate Wenger The battle to get clubs to accept responsibility for young player injuries hots up By Tony Attwood I have to admit I don’t hear any racist commentaries from anyone when I attend matches at Arsenal although seemingly it still goes on. …
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What Arsenal need next The battle to get clubs to accept responsibility for young player injuries hots up As the image of football seems increasingly damaged, Arsenal have a chance… Today in Arsenal’s history: the relationship with Tottenham after Arsenal moved north By Tony Attwood “The signing of a new contract is of …
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By Tony Attwood I have written many times about what seems to me to be the woeful lack of oversight by the state of the way football clubs can behave when it comes to dealing with children. It seems there are virtually no regulations, and those that do exist can be flouted with impunity …
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How can a club move down the Premier League table? Simple. Spend money. Arsenal now face a massive problem, and no obvious solution Arsenal anniversaries 23 May: Arsenal propose being first southern club to pay it players By Tony Attwood As the Guardian reports Juventus have had 10 points deducted from their total for …
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Arsenal now face a massive problem, and no obvious solution Allerdyce and Moyes and the funny thing the commentator said By Tony Attwood This is the moment when football journalists and commentators get very excited, for it is the moment when the disaster of last season’s predictions are utterly pushed down the …
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The problems with football in Europe: how they have now come back to England The start of last season and the end of this season: the lessons By Tony Attwood Last season Manchester City won the league title by one point. I think it is fair to say that at the start of …
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The problems with football in Europe: how they have now come back to England The start of last season and the end of this season: the lessons By Tony Attwood Sitting at home after doing some shopping at a nearby supermarket (there being no shop in my village) I turned on the TV to …
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