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Fulham v Arsenal: the foibles of the referee Fulham v Arsenal: High scoring and those red and yellow cards Fulham v Arsenal: why we should never shout “Shoot!” when a chance arises Fulham v Arsenal: time for Arsenal to make amends – and the option of a new forward By Bulldog Drummond So …
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Fulham V Arsenal : High scoring and those red and yellow cards Fulham v Arsenal: why we should never shout “Shoot!” when a chance arises Fulham v Arsenal: time for Arsenal to make amends – and the option of a new forward by Bulldog Drummond In our regular preview of referees we have …
Fulham v Arsenal: High scoring and those red and yellow cards Fulham v Arsenal: why we should never shout “Shoot!” when a chance arises Fulham v Arsenal: time for Arsenal to make amends – and the option of a new forward In the last article we looked at the regular table of tackles, …
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Fulham v Arsenal: time for Arsenal to make amends – and the option of a new forward For this analysis I’m including Liverpool as well as Arsenal’s opponents tomorrow and introducing the issues of shots and interceptions, as always thanks to WhoScored Team Shots pg Goals Tackles pg Interceptions pg Fouls pg …
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Would Arsenal season ticket holders really not go to super league matches? The defeat to West Ham: does this mean the title race is over? By Bulldog Drummond The Arsenal match tomorrow has surely become a “must win” game – if not we are most certainly in a dip in form, exactly of …
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The defeat to West Ham: does this mean the title race is over? PGMO’s selection of referees appears to be racist. It would be good if they could explain why this is. By Tony Attwood There is an article in the Guardian today which runs, “The original Super League plan failed in April …
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PGMO’s selection of referees appears to be racist. It would be good if they could explain why this is. What the last six games tell us about the title contenders By Tony Attwood and Jet Lag Well, that very much wasn’t supposed to happen. I had just undertaken the third longest non-stop …
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Arsenal v West Ham United: two opposite strategies PGMO’s selection of referees appears to be racist. It would be good if they could explain why this is. By Bulldog Drummond We have for a long time been looking at the relationship between tackles, fouls and yellow cards, and this season trying to make …
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PGMO’s selection of referees appears to be racist. It would be good if they could explain why this is. What the last six games tell us about the title contenders By Tony Attwood And yes we are back from Australia – got in an hour ago, and so dutifully trying to catch up …
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What the last six games tell us about the title contenders Which clubs are getting up the league by raising the number of fouls committed? By Tony Attwood Five years ago there were no Black or Asian referees in the Football League or Premier League. Not one. Worse, none of the national …
Which clubs are getting up the league by raising the number of fouls committed? We got the ref prediction completely wrong; what a relief! Liverpool v Arsenal – it was a draw By Bulldog Drummond The Guardian has a list of the 30 best Premier League players today – and four of them …
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By Tony Attwood We got the ref prediction completely wrong; what a relief! Liverpool v Arsenal – it was a draw Home and away: Liverpool and Arsenal, last six games and the Arsenal team This season has seen an explosion in the world of yellow cards in the Premier League with some …
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Home and away: Liverpool and Arsenal, last six games and the Arsenal team. Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal: the yellow cards for different reasons By Tony Attwood So the Untold prediction that Arsenal stood no chance because of the referee, was wrong. Liverpool v Arsenal overseen by the most home biased referee in the Premier …
Liverpool v Arsenal overseen by the most home biased referee in the Premier League How pundits failed to see the signs of Arsenal’s rise up the league. We can see immediately from the table below Liverpool have a seriously better home record than Arsenal have an away record. Quite why that is we …
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Liverpool v Arsenal overseen by the most home biased referee in the Premier League How pundits failed to see the signs of Arsenal’s rise up the league. By Sir Hardly Anyone The discipline tables are looking rather interesting at present with Chelsea, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur all knocking up twice as many …
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How pundits failed to see the signs of Arsenal’s rise up the league. Super League is legit and Uefa had no case to stop it, as was clear from the start. By Bulldog Drummond There is one big piece of news about the Liverpool v Arsenal game and it is one that not …
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What do so many top money transfers turn out to be flops? Just how does this Arsenal team compare to past league winners? By Tony Attwood As we have often noticed on this site, most pundit predictions of what will happen to clubs from one season to the next tend to be based …
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Football conspiracy theories: How the media are trying to mislead us What do so many top money transfers turn out to be flops? By Tony Attwood So now we know: Uefa and Fifa were wrong, as they almost certainly knew all the way through: Super League was legit, and Uefa and Fifa have, …
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What do so many top money transfers turn out to be flops? Just how does this Arsenal team compare to past league winners? By Tony Attwood From the start of Untold in 2008, we have suggested that the football media in general tended to ignore certain key issues. And we also noted that …
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Just how does this Arsenal team compare to past league winners? All change: referees falling over themselves to admit they make mistakes By Tony Attwood I recently read a piece which opens “Many Americans—of both parties—have become untethered from reality.” And it struck me that this is exactly the situation relating to football …
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All change: referees falling over themselves to admit they make mistakes The ultimate surprise: Arteta is exhonerated. PGMO & FA admit to different rules for different people By Tony Attwood Trying to keep up with Arsenal while living in Australia, where interest in English football seems modest, I began to wonder just …
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The ultimate surprise: Arteta is exhonerated. PGMO & FA admit to different rules for different people Arsenal’s great experiment which wasn’t and United’s failure which was By Tony Attwood The PGMO head bossman Howard Webb has announced that the referee in charge of the 3-3 between Manchester City and Tottenham made a mistake. This …
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Arsenal’s great experiment which wasn’t and United’s failure which was This is where secrecy and denial invariably lead, and PGMO is taking us ever further inwards. By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold you will know that we have long held that there are fundamental flaws with the …
This is where secrecy and denial invariably lead, and PGMO is taking us ever further inwards. Arsenal’s December’s fixtures. How will Arsenal perform in the final month of the year? By Tony Attwood We were told a lot about the three youngsters who were, according to the media, going to burst into Arsenal’s team …
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Arsenal’s December fixtures. How will Arsenal perform in the final month of the year? PSV v Arsenal from 16,000 km, and a very strange stirring in La Liga By Tony Attwood As has been widely reported, the president of Ankaragücü of the Turkish Super League has announced his resignation after punching the match …
