Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Bulldog Drummond Wolverhampton v Arsenal: home away and discipline It is absolute nonsense to say Arteta does not rotate To win the Premier League clubs need scorers AND creators In this article the figures for tackles, fouls and yellow cards come from WhoScored. If you feel these figures are wrong, please do …
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It is absolute nonsense to say Arteta does not rotate To win the Premier League clubs need scorers AND creators By Bulldog Drummond In terms of home and away games the simplest way to signify the difference between Wolverhampton at home and Arsenal away is to say “Plus 26”. That is Arsenal’s goal …
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To win the Premier League clubs need scorers AND creators Coming soon to a club near you: football but not as we know it By Tony Attwood Every time I see a bold statement about football with no supporting evidence I check the data, simply because most of the time these bold statements …
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Coming soon to a club near you: football but not as we know it By Tony Attwood What is it that takes a club to the top of the league? Is it having a top chance creator, or a top goalscorer? Or maybe a couple of each? Certainly, the media love to push the …
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Why Arsenal are ranked 22nd in Europe, and what’s wrong with the system Moving the Premier League to the USA. Plans are underway By Tony Attwood So now the Arsenal dip looks that bit more real: two defeats and a draw in the last three games, “Gunners fade” says the Guardian headline. “Mikel …
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Bayern v Arsenal and the effect of last weekend Why Arsenal are ranked 22nd in Europe By Bulldog Drummond An Arsenal defeat tonight would not particularly worry me, largely because I don’t see the playing field as even. The funding available to clubs like PSG, Real Madrid and Manchester City makes it highly …
By Bulldog Drummond Bayern v Arsenal and the effect of last weekend Moving the Premier League to the USA. Plans are underway Bayern Munich have a Uefa co-efficient ranking of 140. Only one team in Europe has a higher ranking: Manchester City on 147. In the co-efficient table Real Madrid are third and PSG …
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Moving the Premier League to the USA. Plans are underway Where it costs nothing to go and watch football, and a more savoury approach By Bulldog Drummond Since the first leg game between Bayern and Arsenal, the ex-German-champions have played once and had a 2-0 win over Koln. However the German title has …
Where it costs nothing to go and watch football, and a more savoury approach Add to the transfer rumours, the buyout rumours By Tony Attwood In 2019 we published a history of Arsenal’s pre-season games on the Arsenal History website, covering 1893 up to the year of publication. Take a peek and you …
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Add to the transfer rumours, the buyout rumours How gambling on success through spending more on players can come unstuck Paris has two league teams. One you know about, of course, the other perhaps not. But this other club – Paris FC of the second division in France – has of late urned to …
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How gambling on success through spending more on players can come unstuck The mass walk out at Arsenal was a total indictment of the quality of support for the club By Sheik Yerbouti For years we have got used to the notion of Arsenal buying this, that or some other player only to …
The mass walk out at Arsenal was a total indictment of the quality of support for the club By Tony Attwood Back in 1955 Chelsea won the league. In 1970 they won the FA Cup. In 1997 they won the FA Cup again, and with a repeat in 2000 and a couple of …
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Arsenal v Villa: It’s that ref that Arsenal should never have to face again By Tony Attwood Before yesterday’s game Arsenal had had ten wins and one draw in succession in the league. And yet after the two Villa goals went in, Arsenal fans, in fairly large numbers, started to leave. The implication from …
Arsenal v Villa: It’s that ref that Arsenal should never have to face again Arsenal v Aston Villa: the utterly unexpected tactics Some very good reasons why Arsenal will beat Villa on Sunday By Sir Hardly Anyone Aston Villa are third in the yellow card table at present with 83 cards waved at their …
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Arsenal v Villa: It’s that ref that Arsenal should never have to face again Arsenal v Aston Villa: the utterly unexpected tactics Some very good reasons why Arsenal will beat Villa on Sunday By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have just one injury, which puts the club bottom of the injury table alongside Fulham who are …
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Arsenal v Aston Villa: the utterly unexpected tactics Some very good reasons why Arsenal will beat Villa on Sunday By Sir Hardly Anyone And by “That referee” I mean David Coote. The man who was the “referee” (I use the word lightly) for the game with Crystal Palace on 21 August 2023. A …
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Some very good reasons why Arsenal will beat Villa on Sunday The Arsenal plan: retaliation before the opposition attack By Sir Hardly Anyone Now here is something rather strange. Assuming that you don’t know the answer already, where do you think Aston Villa are in the tackling and fouling statistics? (Data below as usual …
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The Arsenal plan: retaliation before the opposition attack How close are Arsenal to winning the league, and what happens to the money next season? A quick look at the form guide tells us that although Arsenal are first and in the league and Aston Villa fifth, there is a huge amount of distance between …
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How close are Arsenal to winning the league, and what happens to the money next season? Arsenal transfers this summer: the first 20 (with 3 players leaving) By Tony Attwood Some years ago I learned the rather helpful lesson that there is a lot to be said for being able to see life …
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Arsenal transfers this summer: the first 20 (with 3 players leaving) Maltreatment of young players; Arsenal to benefit from FFP enquiry? By Tony Attwood This season with seven games to play Arsenal have won 22 games, one more than each of their two main rivals from up north. But I began to wonder, …
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Maltreatment of young players; Arsenal to benefit from FFP enquiry? Progress for a club like Arsenal happens over time. We’re now reaping the benefits By Sir Hardly Anyone For reasons that no one has ever be adequately able to explain, the transfer window always “creaks open” and always “slams shut,” and although the …
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Progress for a club like Arsenal happens over time. We’re now reaping the benefits Supercomputer hoax says Arsenal have no chance of the title By Tony Attwood I recently came across a case in which an individual made a complaint to the police about the behaviour of a football club in relation to …
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On the Arsenal History Society site today: Arsenal announce a school children enclosure, and undersoil heating, and 20 other Arsenal anniversaries for today More supercomputer gibberish says Arsenal have no chance of the title ———– By Tony Attwood There is no doubt that Arsenal has progressed in recent years on multiple fronts, clearing …
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Not what we wanted but not as bad as the Germans predicted Arsenal back at the top and have a clear plan for the future By Tony Attwood Amidst the general football chatter of the day CNN have moved away from their normal position of being rather a serious news organisation and have dived …
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2024 Summer Transfers: this could get very messy Arsenal back at the top and have a clear plan for the future By Tony Attwood And so we learn once again that European football is not like league football. In the last round Arsenal were perceived by the referee to be fouling at something like …
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