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PSV v Arsenal from 16,000 km, and a very strange stirring in La Liga How the media caved in leaving no one who is willing to challenge PGMO and the referees By Tony Attwood Arsenal have played eight home and away which gives us a good basis for evaluating their coming games …
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How the media caved in leaving no one willing to challenge PGMO and the referees If Everton find the Premier League is corrupt, what does that mean? By Tony Attwood The Arsenal match against PSV kicks off at 4.45am Sydney time which probably only affects a small number of Arsenal supporters – but …
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If Everton find the Premier League is corrupt, what does that mean? Can we really predict the outcome of the league table from earlier in the season? “The boys in the studio, as we once knew them, are not there to play football: they are there to discuss it. There is demonstrably a …
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Can we really predict the outcome of the league table from earlier in the season? Arsenal lose, editor injured, Untold upside down By Tony Attwood Now I may well have got this wrong, (and if so that will probably come as no surprise to you), but as I began to contemplate the …
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Arsenal lose, editor injured, Untold upside down Clubs are showing signs of fighting back at journalists By Tony Attwood Predicting how things (or indeed people) will turn out is something that has been part of human existence for as long as we have been in societies. Of course, if we really could know …
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Clubs are showing signs of fighting back at journalists Are Arsenal really making progress, or are we starting to slip back? Apologies for the lack of coverage of the Villa game, although seeing the result perhaps it was best to miss it. I’m now in Australia with part of my family, …
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Clubs are showing signs of fighting back at journalists Are Arsenal really making progress, or are we starting to slip back? By the Untold Team Part of the Untold team (the part that actually publishes the articles) has decamped to the other side of the world where not only the temperature in the …
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Are Arsenal really making progress, or are we starting to slip back? By Tony Attwood What most of us want, I think, is a media that presents facts as facts, and commentary as commentary, each in a balanced and considered manner. Sadly this is not something the UK newspaper industry is particularly well known …
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Luton 3 Arsenal 4: maybe it is time to say positive things Knocking and praising Arsenal at the same time: the new journo psychodrama By Tony Attwood The victory over Luton Town inevitably raises the question, how are things going this season… In fact as soon as we ask that question we find one …
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Knocking and praising Arsenal at the same time: the new journo psychodrama The media centric world which just doesn’t understand what it’s like to be a fan This, for most of us, is why we are here. Why we watch, why we follow the football team that, often by chance, we associate our …
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Luton Town – how do they play the game. The tackles, fouls and cards. Luton Town v Arsenal: Grim football, fewest goals, lowest possession rate By Bulldog Drummond The referee for the game is Samuel Barrott. Now you can find that bit of information on loads of websites, but it is virtually impossible to …
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Luton Town: Grim football, fewest goals, lowest possession rate Knocking and praising Arsenal at the same time: the new journo psychodrama By Bulldog Drummond Moving on from our review of Luton Town (Grim Football, Fewest goals, Lowest possession rate) we can take a look at how Luton compares to Arsenal in the …
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Knocking and praising Arsenal at the same time: the new journo psychodrama The media centric world which just doesn’t understand what it’s like to be a fan By Bulldog Drummond There are three football grounds that are hosting Premier League matches which you might want to visit if you really don’t like …
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The media centric world which just doesn’t understand what it’s like to be a fan Will Haaland and Man City be penalised By Tony Attwood The media is playing a double game when it comes to football. On the one hand they are suggesting that “Arsenal set Mikel Arteta sacking deadline as former …
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Will Haaland and Man City be penalised? A quick look at the league table in case you missed it. There is an article in the Athletic, the essence of which is making fun of fans that leave early, or fans that get up to go to the toilet during a match. It is a …
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A quick look at the league table in case you missed it. Where are they now? The team in game 14, three years ago. By Tony Attwood In 2005 it was agreed that a player or manager verbally abusing a match official when challenging a decision, will be sent off. And that is …
Where are they now? The team in game 14, three years ago. By Tony Attwood As you may know I’m a season ticket holder at Arsenal, but live in the Midlands, so each home game is about a 175 miles round trip, so in later life the temptation to go to away games …
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Where there is power, money and greed there is corruption Why do Tottenham players get fouled more than those of any other club? By Tony Attwood There’s a “mea culpa” article on Football London which starts “Remember the days when calls for Mikel Arteta to lose his job reached their peak after the …
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton: the club that gets cards at over twice the rate of Arsenal Arsenal v Wolverhampton Wanderers: where will each team finish? By Bulldog Drummond Figures throughout are per game Club Tackles Fouls Yellows from fouls Arsenal 15.7 9.5 1.0 Wolverhampton 19.2 13.8 1.62 These figures are particularly interesting …
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Arsenal v Wolverhampton Wanderers: where will each team finish? By Bulldog Drummond The referee is Peter Bankes. He has overseen seven games so far… . Referee Games Fouls pg Fouls/Tackles Yel pg Yel Peter Bankes total 7 22.57 0.68 5.43 38 Peter Bankes home 7 10.00 0.68 2.29 16 Peter Bankes away 7 12.57 …
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Why do Tottenham players get fouled more than those of any other club? The media, the League and PGMO. An insidious agreement rears its ugly head By Bulldog Drummond So we are into another “games coming thick and fast” event, as the journalists like to say, and we are also back to a …
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