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By Bulldog Drummond Liverpool v Tottenham, 7 May: An Arsenal preview Just how much are Premier League referees biased in favour of home teams? This season Arsenal have the third highest number of wins of any club in the league. Only Manchester City and Liverpool have won more games, which says an awful lot about …
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By Bulldog Drummond Normally we don’t preview games not involving Arsenal, but with just four games to go and two points between us and Tottenham, it seems there is as much attention being given by many Arsenal fans to the games involving the neighbours as there is to Arsenal’s games. So I thought it might …
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By Tony Attwood 5 May 1966: just 4,554 turn up for an Arsenal home league game For a long period during the pandemic, Premier League games were for the most part played with no crowds present. Simultaneously the traditional balance between home and away wins was upset. During the “no crowds” period only 38% of …
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Over two thirds of Arsenal games this season handled by just seven referees The WSL – One Week Left and all to play for Everyone knows about Arsenal’s first three league games of the season – three defeats, relegation was looming, Arteta either was going to be sacked or ought to be sacked, the squad …
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By Tony Attwood The WSL – One Week Left and all to play for Arsenal have returned to the level of the late Wenger era. Now can we finish the job? Let me repeat that headline: over two-thirds of Arsenal games this season are handled by just seven referees. I make no allegation that any …
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by Andrew Crawshaw With only one week left in the season nothing is yet decided at the top of the table. The champions will either be Chelsea or Arsenal and the final Champions League place will be either Manchester City or United. Birmingham City are odds on to be relegated but it is not yet …
By Tony Attwood Don’t be fooled: Arsenal don’t have a small squad The 67 players Arsenal want to sign and 24 tipped to leave Occasionally through this season I’ve been comparing where Arsenal is now in terms of points gained, goals scored and goals conceded, with where the team stood at this same point in …
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By Tony Attwood Throughout this season we have been told over and over again that Arsenal have a small squad. And not just a small squad, a squad so small that it is positively hindering Arsenal’s attempt to make any serious assault on the Premier League. Certainly not enough to get into the Champions League. …
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Part 1: The players Arsenal are planning to buy – according to the media. Yes it looks all change at Arsenal this summer, according to the media. Of course that is what they said last summer, and the summer before and… Each time they have been hopelessly wrong, getting only between 1 and 3 percent …
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By Tony Attwood In February this year Untold presented the case against the Court of Arbitration in Sport and against its ring-master, John Coates. In that article, we pointed out that John Coates was in charge when Manchester City was let off the hook over its financial doings. Mr Coates is also the outgoing president …
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By Bulldog Drummond The story so far… West Ham v Arsenal – the portents look promising WHU v Arsenal: the injuries and cards and why are clubs fouling 4 teams particularly? West Ham v Arsenal; the match where players were drugged and 1 defeat in the last 13 West Ham v Arsenal: the injuries and …
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by Bulldog Drummond As we have seen, Arsenal’s injuries stay at a very low level, with just two players marked down to miss this game (Tierney and Partey). Worst hit in the league at the moment are Manchester United: 9 players out Everton: 8 players out Brentford: 7 players out. (figures from Premier League injuries) …
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WHU v Arsenal: the injuries and cards and why are clubs fouling 4 teams particularly? West Ham v Arsenal – the portents look promising By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal first played West Ham in 1906 in the FA Cup. A 1-1 draw in Plumstead was followed by a victory in West Ham 2-3. The next FA …
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By Bulldog Drummond Explanation: in this piece I started out with a regular look at injuries and yellow cards. But in so doing stumbled upon one of the most curious sets of stats I’ve seen in the Premier League in the past year. So, sorry, I got diverted, but we’ll be back to WHU v …
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Is Arsenal more erratic in its performances year by year than other teams? This weekend we’ve got to think of Tottenham, as well as Arsenal By Bulldog Drummond The point of the home / away form guide is to give a much clearer picture of how the two teams have been doing, while taking into …
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This weekend we’ve got to think of Tottenham, as well as Arsenal To cover up its acceptance of Russia Fifa expands its powerbase even further By Tony Attwood Across the past six years, Arsenal’s position in the league has indeed been varied. And thinking on this I have been wondering if the variations in Arsenal’s …
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By Bulldog Drummond To cover up its acceptance of Russia, Fifa expands its powerbase even further Why does English football refuse to act on match-fixing, when the rest of Europe takes it seriously? Of course, if we win all five of our remaining games we will finish fourth and thus be back in the Champions …
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Why does English football refuse to act on match fixing, when the rest of Europe takes it seriously? by Tony Attwood Fifa knows that by allowing delegates from Russia and Belrus to all its events, including of course the World Cup finals in Qatar, it is opening itself up to criticism. So even before websites …
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By Tony Attwood In October 2020, under the headline Exclusive: Uefa admit match-fixing is now too big for them to fight it we ran the story about Uefa’s new policy of recruiting private companies to help it fight the scourge of match-fixing. The “Exclusive” tag was not 100% accurate, however – what we should have …
Part 1: The players Arsenal are planning to buy. Today with have five names that have not been mentioned before among those said to be joining Arsenal this summer. Also seven updates on progress with incoming players. 25 players are meanwhile said to be going away. No Player Source Club Notes 1 Max Aarons Daily …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone As you may have noticed if you read our occasional reviews of transfer tittle-tattle, Untold Arsenal doesn’t think much of newspapers and websites that fill up their columns with speculation about who Arsenal are going to sign in the summer, not least because of their accuracy in the past few years, …
Corruption in football? Oh look its somewhere else, never here. Super League clubs lose case in the Spanish court. Barcelona in deep trouble By Sir Hardly Anyone In an article for The Players’ Tribune, Xhaka described the “pure hatred” he received from “supporters” when he was booed in the home game against Crystal Palace. “When …
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By Tony Attwood Enquiry into child abuse by employees at football clubs is yet again being hampered by the FA. In the Guardian today you’ll find this comment: The British public has “run out of patience” with English football’s failure to reform itself, the sports minister, Nigel Huddleston, has said, as he confirmed legislation for an …
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By Tony Attwood The Spanish judiciary has opened the door to sanctions against the clubs which joined the Super League, by lifting the ban on punishing them, that was imposed a year ago in Spain, following a case bought by Uefa. The new hearing took place in the Madrid Commercial Court according to Le Figaro. …
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