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From the Premier League referee who almost never sees a home win, to a referee who hardly ever sees an away win… The Premier League has appointed Peter Bankes as the referee for the trip to Brentford on Wednesday. He has overseen ten games this season – and he is known as the …
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Arsenal and Brentford – is the opposition only good against certain clubs? Arsenal are “unconvincing” title challengers. Really? By Tony Attwood Brentford v Arsenal, 1 January 5.30pm Live on TNT and Discovery Plus. Obviously TNT costs quite a lot for a subscription but it would appear from its on site advertising that Discover …
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By Tony Attwood So now the focus is on Nottingham Forest and their “amazing” rise up the table. And certainly there has been a change from last season when Forest were 17th. Here’s the end of last season…. Team P W D L F A GD Pts 2 Arsenal 38 28 5 …
Why should we assume that everything with PGMO is right and proper? How football journalists draw conclusions without information and why football loves it this way By Nitram Following our 1 – 0 win over Ipswich Town I was rather bemused by the following headline in The Daily Mirror on line: Arsenal have …
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by Tony Attwood In a previous article I wrote How football journalists draw conclusions without information and why football loves it this way My point following on from that article note above is that it is not just football journalists that draw conclusions without information. This is what journalists do by and …
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With Saka out for a couple of months can Arsenal retain momentum, or is the League just ludicrous? By Tony Attwood A recent research paper highlighted by the British Psychological Society reports on a thing known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect (which shows that most people with particularly limited knowledge of a subject are likely …
Arsenal injuries, and the referee who never oversees a home win!!! Has Saka been overplayed or is he just indispensible like other world class players? By Tony Attwood We all know that life on the pitch for Arsenal is going to be more difficult without Saka, but do Arsenal have enough to get …
A win today takes Arsenal to second, as Arsenal get to the 13 point marker Arsenal injuries, and the referee who never oversees a home win!!! Arsenal v Ipswich Town. There have been times when Ipswich has consistenly outplayed Arsenal. Has Saka been overplayed or is he just indispensible like other world class …
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Arsenal injuries, and the referee who never oversees a home win!!! Arsenal v Ipswich Town. There have been times when Ipswich has consistently outplayed Arsenal. Has Saka been overplayed or is he just indispensible like other world-class players? How the last six games really show which clubs are up and which are sinking …
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Arsenal v Ipswich Town. There have been times when Ipswich has consistenly outplayed Arsenal. Has Saka been overplayed or is he just indispensible like other world class players? By Bulldog Drummond Referee data for this article comes from WhoScored. Arsenal’s injury list is not looking that good. Ben White, Bukayo Saka, Raheem Sterling, …
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By Bulldog Drummond Look at the current league table and the difference between Arsenal and Ipswich before the game to be played on 27th Deember is quite stark… Team P W D L F A GD Pts 3 Arsenal 17 9 6 2 34 16 18 33 19 Ipswich Town 17 2 …
How the last six games really show which clubs are up and which are sinking What lies behind Man City’s Premier League Capitulation? By Nitram Even before Arteta announced that Saka would be out for ‘many weeks’ with his hamstring injury, I saw one headline from Goal.com claiming that Arsenal had FAILED …
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What lies behind Man City’s Premier League Capitulation? Arsenal has the best defence in the league – and an attack that is sparkling too By Tony Attwood The media tend to make very little (if anything at all) of the Last Six Games table, instead just occasionally quoting an individual club’s recent rise …
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Arsenal has the best defence in the league – and an attack that is sparkling too Looking back at chants from years gone by By Nitram There’s a big article in football365 today exploring the reasons why Manchester City have suddenly had this massive downturn in form. The reasons range from the FFP …
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Looking back at chants from years gone by Arsenal’s sudden return to form really could mean it is still all to play for By Tony Attwood It is not too often noted but Arsenal have the best defence in the league – and that despite the injuries that the club has faced this …
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Arsenal’s sudden return to form really could mean it is still all to play for By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you’ll know we have had a host of technical foul-ups of late. I won’t bore you with the details but to try and resolve this I’ve had to delete lots …
By Tony Attwood Technical notes: Well, we have managed to get the site back up and running, but at the cost of losing a number of posts. But let’s see if we can keep this one up and dated in the right way! There was a run of Arsenal matches last season which most …
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After 16 games shouldn’t Arsenal be doing better than this? Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the referee and how he is likely to behave The team news from Arsenal appears to be positive, in that it seems that the minor injury that took Declan Rice off the pitch was indeed minor and he is …
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Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the referee and how he is likely to behave How Arsenal have got the best players but get the worst media coverage By Tony Attwood An article in the Telegraph says “Five years of Mikel Arteta have transformed Arsenal – but he must now win Premier League “Manager has turned team …
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How Arsenal have got the best players but get the worst media coverage 70 percent possession, 100 percent of the goals. Arsenal saunter through By Bulldog Dummond The Referee for Saturday’s game is Simon Hooper. His assistants are Adrian Holmes, and Simon Long is the Fourth official: Oli Langford. VAR is being run …
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70 percent possession, 100 percent of the goals. Arsenal saunter through By Tony Attwood There was a comment recently on this site from Nittram that I thought was so very apposite, and I’d like to re-use it here: Writing of the media and I guess bloggers too he said “Winning ‘trophies’ is all …
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Fifa warns the FA: Shut up or be thrown out of the world cup In football, a lack of information doesn’t stop confident decisions and opinions By Tony Attwood The curious fact that Arsenal are playing Crystal Palace twice in four days takes the very, very much older supporters back to the days …
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Fifa warns the FA: Shut up or be thrown out of the world cup In football, a lack of information doesn’t stop confident decisions and opinions Just published in the 100 Years of Chapman series: 100 years of Chapman, part 12: what made him such an amazing manager By Tony Attwood Of course …
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Just published: 100 years since Chapman joined Arsenal. Part 12: What made him such an amazing manager In football, a lack of information doesn’t stop confident decisions and opinions Arsenal v Monaco: being gruntled rather than disgruntled By Sir Hardly Anyone I’ve just come across an article which claims that after the drawn …
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In football, a lack of information doesn’t stop confident decisions and opinions Arsenal v Monaco: being gruntled rather than disgruntled Fifa, that most appalling of football organisations has warned the FA that if it raises any complaints about Saudi Arabia hosting the 2034 World Cup it is likely to be thrown out of the …
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