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By Bulldog Drummond Chelsea v Arsenal: the injuries and the transfer costs Arsenal / Chelsea Tackles, fouls, cards and why Chelsea are perhaps a little boring Chelsea v Arsenal: the augurs all look good for Arsenal Chelsea v Arsenal: the referee, his team, and what’s happening with yellow cards this season If you …
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. . . Chelsea v Arsenal: the augurs all look good for Arsenal Chelsea v Arsenal: the referee, his team, and what’s happening with yellow cards this season By Bulldog Drummond It was indeed hardly a couple of weeks ago that some in the media were raving over Arsenal’s attempt to win the …
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Chelsea v Arsenal: the augurs all look good for Arsenal Chelsea v Arsenal: the referee, his team, and what’s happening with yellow cards this season By Bulldog Drummond For some years we have been looking at the variance between the way referees handle different clubs in regard to the relationship between tackles, …
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. . Chelsea v Arsenal: the referee, his team, and what’s happening with yellow cards this season How the top 3 clubs are using different approaches to maintain their position By Bulldog Drummond There was a moment last season (19 October to be exact) when Chelsea looked to be doing rather …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone How the top 3 clubs are using different approaches to maintain their position Does the referee each team get make any difference? Yes, and there could be an explosion coming! For this weekend’s game between Chelsea and Arsenal, we have Referee: Chris Kavanagh. Assistants: Richard West, Matthew Wilkes. Fourth official: James Linington. VAR: Jarred Gillett. Assistant …
Does the referee each team get make any difference? Yes, and there could be an explosion coming! Is Man U about to have a financial revolution, and if so how? By Tony Attwood Diverting the discussion away from Arsenal successes is a common feature of the chitchat that goes on in the …
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Is Man U about to have a financial revolution, and if so how? Which club has spent the most money on players since Arteta arrived at Arsenal By Tony Attwood It’s our question and at last someone else is asking it – and it is the Liverpool Echo who have joined us with …
Which club has spent the most money on players since Arteta arrived at Arsenal The Arteta revolution. How Arsenal moved from 15th to 2nd in the PL By Sir Hardly Anyone Football.London has an article on line which tells us that the challenge for Arsenal to win the league has just got a …
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Arsenal top of the league after the next round of games! Football: The game of 1000 complaints, but not always the right ones By Tony Attwood It has long been our assertion that Mikel Arteta did not come to Arsenal as simply a man who better understood how the existing squad could …
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Football: The game of 1000 complaints, but not always the right ones Booing players: how can journalists and officials so utterly fail to understand why? By Bulldog Drummond By way of an aside from all the heavy stuff of late about the corruption of the PGMO – absolutely vital to comment on …
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Booing players: how can journalists and officials so utterly fail to understand why? 2024/24 WSL Week 3 – Arsenal v Aston Villa By Tony Attwood It is a fairly commonplace and indeed easy observation to make: football is full of complaints. At the moment the media is full of annoyance that the FA …
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2024/24 WSL Week 3 – Arsenal v Aston Villa Who will be in the top five at the end of this season? By Tony Attwood One of the great problems with football is the complete and absolute disconnect between the people running the game and the people who actually pay for the game: …
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Who will be in the top five at the end of this season? The evidence against PGMO and the referees is mounting: here it is… by Andrew Crawshaw After two indifferent, to say the least, performances, Arsenal are back at the Emirates on Sunday afternoon to play Aston Villa, one of the most …
By Tony Attwood The evidence against PGMO and the referees is mounting: here it is… The clearest exposition yet that there is something very wrong with PGMOL After the Manchester City match Thierry Henry commenting on TV, put it at the time, “You can’t be too emotional about it. You can feel the …
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The clearest exposition yet that there is something very wrong with PGMOL There is something very strange going on with yellow cards this season By Tony Attwood Citing a video blogger we repeated the question that he asked, namely, “In an era when two of the Premier League’s most pre-eminent clubs are …
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Where will each of the top clubs be after another six games? Here’s the answer. Farewell hooligans, farewell facts, hello anger. Why the football debate is now so unhealthy. By Tony Attwood I am not sure that I have ever previously handed over an article on Untold to an outside youtube blogger, …
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Farewell hooligans, farewell facts, hello anger. Why the football debate is now so unhealthy. Why the media were united over the issue of Man C players not being sent off By Tony Attwood Occasionally we get accused of playing with numbers when it comes to our football coverage. But in our defence I’d argue …
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Why the media were united over the issue of Man C players not being sent off Arsenal: not the youngest team in the PL but certainly the team with the most potential There is an interview with comedian Andy Hamilton in the Telegraph in which he seeks to explain how he came to …
Arsenal: not the youngest team in the PL but certainly the team with the most potential There is something very strange going on with yellow cards this season There has been a lot of reaction to the issue of yellow cards in the Arsenal v Manchester City game – I am sure …
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There is something very strange going on with yellow cards this season Who would Arsenal drop from the “25” if anyone is to be signed in January? By Tony Attwood Research from Football Observatory has revealed that Arsenal have not, contrary to some reports, put out on average the youngest team in the …
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Who would Arsenal drop from the “25” if anyone is to be signed in January? Should Manchester City have had fewer than 11 men on the pitch by the end? By Tony Attwood The level of yellow cards this season is more varied than I can ever recall. In the table below we …
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The forgotten issue of the power exerted by club owners on referees Eight games in, how are Arsenal doing compared to last year and the unbeaten season? By Sir Hardly Anyone It is not that often that there is a whole series of events in which the referee disagrees with most of the …
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Eight games in, how are Arsenal doing compared to last year and the unbeaten season? Everyone knows that referees have clubs that they support. That’s not a secret: PGMO referees have to declare who they support to their employer. They are then not given any games involving that club, or their local …
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