By Bulldog Drummond Here are the injury details as usual ahead of the Chelsea game… Player Reason Further Detail Potential Return Status Calum Chambers Knee Injury Ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee.” 29/08/2020 Ruled Out Kieran Tierney Shoulder Injury “Dislocated shoulder at West Ham. Kieran will undergo surgery next week and will …
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Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews The transfer fiasco: an Untold exclusive Transfers for the big spenders are not working, so why does the media want more of them? Arsenal could win the league, if only the club would listen to its critics Why does high …
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Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews The transfer fiasco: an Untold exclusive Transfers for the big spenders are not working, so why does the media want more of them? Arsenal could win the league, if only the club would listen to its critics Why does high …
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by Tony Attwood It is interesting to see The Athletic in a current article taking an interest in AFTV, and recognising (perhaps a little late in the day) that not everyone who claims to be an Arsenal supporter actually likes AFTV. But I do find it a little frustrating that articles like this are presented …
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By Tony Attwood And so the noisy fans with their little banners and rather small protest marches have had their way. Two managers out and millions upon millions upon millions spent on players – just as they demanded. And for what? Well, in order to get us seven points above relegation Team P W D …
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By Bulldog Drummond Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews For advertising enquiries contact Snack Media at 0207 272 7582 or email Tom@Snack-media.com For all other issues please contact Untold Arsenal at Tony@schools.co.uk So we’ve now lost our club doctor to Liverpool – or so the media tells us. What does …
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Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Why does high spending on transfers send a club down the table For advertising enquiries contact Snack Media at 0207 272 7582 or email Tom@Snack-media.com For all other issues please contact Untold Arsenal at Tony@schools.co.uk By Bulldog Drummond As we have said so many …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews For advertising enquiries contact Snack Media at 0207 272 7582 or email Tom@Snack-media.com For all other issues please contact Untold Arsenal at Tony@schools.co.uk So which players have the journalists made up in the last couple of days as heading …
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By Tony Attwood Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews For advertising enquiries contact Snack Media at 0207 272 7582 or email Tom@Snack-media.com For all other issues please contact Untold Arsenal at Tony@schools.co.uk The Charity Commission – the UK organisation which regulates charities and makes sure that they abide by …
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Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1 Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2 Football corruption and scandals. How we tipped off Fifa and other unlikely tales. Part 3 …
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Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1 Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2 Football corruption and scandals. How we tipped off Fifa and other unlikely tales. Part 3 …
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We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews By Tony Attwood The fact that spending money on transfers generally reduces rather than enhances the club’s league position was published here. Here is the updated list showing how much was spent, the current league position and last season’s league position… Manchester United …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone I am not sure there has ever been a transfer window like this with such a paucity of transfer news as we have in this one. Normally by now we’d expect to have 40 to 50 men coming to Arsenal, but this January, its very poor. Very, very poor. Just 23, …
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by Sir Hardly Anyone I have been arguing for a long time that football journalists, far from being the experts they claim to be, actually have no more idea what is going on than anyone else, and are thus completely redundant. Except for the fact that they run the football agenda by controlling what goes …
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Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1 Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2 Football corruption and scandals. How we tipped off Fifa and other unlikely tales. Part …
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Untold Updates and solving the mobile problem: We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1 Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2 Football corruption and scandals. How we tipped off Fifa and …
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Untold Updates We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1 Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2 Moving on from the issues of corruption and scandal that we have looked at …
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By Bulldog Drummond Untold Updates and solving the mobile problem: We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Driving home on Thursday night I heard the headline news on BBC Radio 4 that there was trouble at the Palace. Curiously there didn’t seem to be any mention of football at …
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By Bulldog Drummond Untold Updates and solving the mobile problem: We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews It is time I think to consider once again how much value the top spending clubs of the last transfer window have got for their £££m. As we reported earlier in …
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By Tony Attwood Untold Updates and solving the mobile problem: We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews In the last article on football corruption and scandals (Why is it all so underreported part 1) I reached the point of noting that scandals, corruption and illegality exist aplenty in …
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By Tony Attwood Untold Updates and solving the mobile problem: We’re back with our videos: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Compared to some areas of society in the UK football is left pretty much alone by journalists when it comes to investigating potential scandals and I have often wondered why. First, …
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by Sir Hardly Anyone You may have noticed that of late there has been a major shift among the newspapers and websites over Arsenal transfer news. Up to last summer there was some sort of attempt in most journalistic reports to link the headline to the text of the “story” as it is known in …
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By Christophe Jost and Tony Attwood A lot of writing and broadcasting about football obviously consists of personal opinion. When such commentary is done well it tends to be backed up by examples, comparisons and facts. When it is done poorly one of these three elements – the examples, the comparisons and the facts – …
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by Tony Attwood In the UK we get most of our football on TV via four channels: the BBC, which is free to air and covers occasional live games but mostly focusses on highlights after the match, ITV which at the moment focuses on international games, Sky and BT Sport – these last two being …
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By Tony Attwood What is in a word? Quite a lot sometimes if it allows us to express something complex in a simple way. The word gerrymander (originally written Gerry-mander) was invented by a writer on the Boston Gazette in 1812. It was used when the electoral boundaries in Massachusetts were redrawn to help the …
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