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Arsenal’s defeat, the calls for new players and the PSR rules Revealed: how PSG are funding their attempt to buy the Champions League By Tony Attwood Before the Copa del Rey final between Real Madrid and Barcelona the referee and the assistant referees sat in front of the media, just as club managers …
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100 years since the arrival of Chapman: Chapman’s first season at Arsenal: the changes he made What steps can Arsenal take to win the League next season? By Tony Attwood Arsenal last night had four players missing from the team that beat PSG earlier in the season. These were Riccardo Calafiori, Gabriel, Thomas Partey and …
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Arsenal v PSG – a club built on money, money, money and then… money Revealed: how PSG are funding their attempt to buy the Champions League By Tony Attwood Of course, it can be argued that football is an industry that is all about debt, and that is true, but it has …
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Revealed: how PSG are funding their attempt to buy the Champions League What steps can Arsenal take to win the League next season? By Tony Attwood The total market value of PSG players according to TransferMarkt is €923.50m. The club second in the French top division at the moment has a squad valued by …
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What steps can Arsenal take to win the League next season? The Premier League is wallowing in incompetence and illegality By Tony Attwood What is the link between PSG and Arsenal? Easy: they both have “Visit Rwanda” on their shirt sleeves. Otherwise, well, we know that there is something dodgy about …
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By Jack Beam When Declan Rice traded West Ham for pastures new at Arsenal, it certainly raised a few eyebrows. Despite the academy graduate’s stellar performances for the Hammers in their first UEFA Europa Conference League title win, his July 2023 move to Arsenal was deemed a gamble by some. Fast forward to today, …
The Premier League is wallowing in incompetence and illegality PSG are starting to show their nerves – which could help Arsenal By Tony Attwood To answer the question in the headline I’m going to ask another. Just how good – or bad – have Arsenal been in the second half of this season? …
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PSG are starting to show their nerves – which could help Arsenal How Jamie Carragher made fools of everyone with his gibberish statistics By Tony Attwood In a weekend when the media are falling over themselves to praise Liverpool it is perhaps not surprising that little has been made of the fact …
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What Arsenal are lacking and what Tottenham are lacking. How Jamie Carragher made fools of everyone with his gibberish statistics Sorry for the late arrival of this post – we had a technical hitch, now hopefully resolved. By Tony Attwood While we are used to football clubs tracing their origins from the 19th …
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With football, history don’t mean a thing. Until we point out the lunacies Football’s insanity: sacking managers over and over again By Tony Attwood Yesterday in Football 365 there was a piece that included the comment, “From where I’m sitting, Arsenal need three forwards (upgrades on Saka, Jesus, and Martinelli) and two midfielders …
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How Jamie Carragher made fools of everyone with his gibberish statistics With football, history don’t mean a thing. Until we point out the lunacies By Tony Attwood Nicolas Jover was appointed as set-piece coach for Arsenal in the summer of 2021. Since then Arsenal have scored more goals from corners (55) and set-pieces …
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Football’s insanity: sacking managers over and over again Secrecy still dominates why and how yellow cards are given out By Tony Attwood Liverpool will win the league this season, that is for sure. What is less sure is how many people realise just how modest Liverpool have been in the 21st century (which you …
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Secrecy still dominates why and how yellow cards are given out For Arsenal a draw was predicted, but even so it was disappointing by Tony Attwood The Football Observatory recently published a piece on the lifespan of a club coach . In essence, how long the average coach or manager of a football …
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For Arsenal a draw was predicted, but even so it was disappointing Visit Tottenham. It’s safer than Rwanda (which backs the war in DR Congo) By Tony Attwood In terms of yellow cards awarded against the teams this season, Arsenal are in 16th position with 60 cards. Only four clubs have got …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Palace: could this referee be looking for a draw? As we said in the preview to last night’s match, “the biggest problem for Arsenal with this referee is that he prefers away wins to home wins. 45.5% of his matches have been home wins but 54.5% of …
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Arsenal v Palace: could this referee be looking for a draw? It’s Wilshire vs Ramsey on Saturday at 12.30, and a review of Arsenal’s transfer spend By Tony Attwood The Arsenal team tonight is predicted by the Standard as being Raya; Timber, Saliba, Kiwior, Lewis-Skelly; Odegaard, Partey, Rice; Nwaneri, Merino, Trossard Football …
It’s Wilshire vs Ramsey on Saturday at 12.30, and a review of Arsenal’s transfer spend Visit Tottenham. It’s safer than Rwanda (which backs the war in DR Congo) by Tony Attwood With Arsenal having played 16 games at home and Palace 16 away, the comparison between the two clubs is easy, and stark…. …
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Visit Tottenham. It’s safer than Rwanda (which backs the war in DR Congo) With the way football is going, is it time to laugh or cry? Which club has the best record over the last 100 Premier League games? By Tony Attwood Through a strange twisting of events Jack Wilshire and Aaron Ramsey will be …
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By Tony Attwood With the way football is going, is it time to laugh or cry? Refereeing in England is under constant attack. But why, and how can this be changed? It is now a couple of months since the foreign minister of the UK, along with similar representatives of six other countries ranging …
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Referreeing in England is utter constant attack. But why, and how can this be changed? Which club has the best record over the last 100 Premier League games? By Tony Attwood Football is England is run on the basis of inevitability – as in, “this is the obvious way it has to …
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Promotion to and relegation from the Premier League has changed beyond recognition At last a recognition of the effect of injuries, and Arsenal’s brilliant response By Tony Attwood An Article in the Telegraph tells us, if we didn’t know already, just how bad it is to be a referee at all levels …
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Promotion to and relegation from the Premier League has changed beyond recognition A recognition of the effect of injuries and Arsenal’s brilliant response By Tony Attwood The headline is typical: Leandro Trossard double secures victory for Arsenal at 10-man Ipswich It makes it sound as if the fact that Ipswich were playing …
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By Tony Attwood Ipswich v Arsenal, injuries and the need for more of a gap Ipswich v Arsenal and more thoroughly shocking referee figures Ipswich v Arsenal: the preview and the days of scoring five (or more) Let’s start with a bit of old-boy news. Aaron Ramsey has got the job of being …
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Ipswich v Arsenal and more thoroughly shocking referee figures Ipswich v Arsenal: the preview and the days of scoring five (or more) By Tony Attwood Ipswich go into this game with both injuries and history (not to mention the league table) against them. They have seven players unavailable and one rated at 50/50 for …
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Ipswich v Arsenal: the preview and the days of scoring five (or more) Prmotion to and relegation from the Premier League has changed beyond recognition By Tony Attwood Chris Kavanagh is the referee for the Ipswich game. As usual we can have a look at a few of the referees active in …
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