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By Tony Attwood Being in Australia as I am now, and slowly feeling the benefits of being here (the jet lag is going, and what appeared on day one to be an 8 mile hike along the road to my breakfast bar of choice turns out in reality to be a pleasant 15 minute stroll) …
This article is based on the numbers that has been given by Vince. So credit must go to him for researching this. Some of the text has been edited by the Untold team to make this an article as it has been taken from the comment section but this deserved more than just a comment. …
Borehamwood FC Sunday 19 February 14:00 by Andrew Crawshaw At the end of last season Kelly Smith MBE announced that she was retiring from playing professional football. She was however taking up a permanent coaching position with Arsenal Ladies so the club will continue to be able to call on her experience and expertise. Kelly …
By Tony Attwood “The worst Cameroon team in living memory.” I suspect there are people somewhere who are talking about this being worst Arsenal team in living memory. I only mention Cameroon because they have just won the Africa Cup and I have seen them so called. Mohamed Elneny scored to put Egypt ahead in …
Read More “Exactly who could be brought in to end Arsenal’s misery?”
by Andrew Crawshaw As Tony reported in his article What the top teams did in the transfer window and how deep fake news has seeped. there have been a large number of loan moves for some of the players who we would expect to see in the U23 squad. There have also been a number …
Read More “The U23 Team – Who’s left and who is joining the Academy for next Season?”
By Walter Broeckx I have to come back to the first goal from Chelsea. A lof of things have been said about the Alonso-Bellerin assault that went unpunished by the ref. And a lot of rubbish has been said. Now before I come to the point of this article I will start with a few …
Read More “Pundit talk: Intention and only eye for the ball. What say the laws of the game?”
By Tony Attwood in Australia I have seen Arsenal on TV in all sorts of somewhat unusual places – including I recall watching the 1971 Cup Final in Algiers – but I don’t think I ever anticipated watching a live Arsenal game eight miles above ground level. But that is what happened with the Chelsea …
By Walter Broeckx In trying to ignore the Atkinson antics people said it didn’t matter because we were played off the pitch. Now I must say that I had the impression that it was a more balanced match. But hey, what do I know I could be wrong. I thought it started as a more …
By Bulldog Drummond Chelsea, as we will all remember, were thumped by Arsenal 3-0 at the Ems, and although that was good news for us it was pretty bad news for the rest of football as they then went on a whirlwind of winning. Date Venue Opposition Score (h-t) Result 24/09/2016 A Arsenal 0:3 (0:3) …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal part 1: the build up and the preview.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Martin Atkinson 45 years old from West Yorkshire FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Stuart Burt Northamptonshire FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Stephen Child Kent FIFA Accredited Fourth Official – Stuart Attwell 33 years old from Warwickshire Well it’s finally happened Martin Atkinson appointed as referee for his first …
Read More “Atkinson (and Chelsea) v Arsenal Saturday Feb 4 2017 – the Match Officials”
by Tony Attwood I seem of late to have annoyed more people than usual with my occasional ramblings on this site, so I guess there might be a little bit of pleasure dished into the lives of one or two people when I report that tomorrow (Friday) I am toddling off to foreign parts; to …
By Tony Attwood There is something delightful about watching the nation’s media writers making total idiots of themselves as they respond to an Arsenal defeat – and something inevitable about the way the anti-Wengerian camp followers will pick up on the theme. But the way in which they overtly seek to mislead the public is …
Read More “Senior member of Arsenal’s medical team subject to outrageous attack by journalist”
by Tony Attwood In terms of what we did in the transfer window the answer was not a lot although given the general hysteria of who we were going to sign, that might come as a surprise. But jut to check you didn’t miss anything here’s the list… In Cohen Bramall (Hednesford Town) – …
Read More “What the top teams did in the transfer window and how deep fake news has seeped.”
by the Referee review team 1: Referee Appointments and Results matchweek 16 Bournemouth vs. Leicester City [1-0] Referee – Paul Tierney 1st Assistant Referee – Andy Garratt 2nd Assistant Referee – Scott Ledger Fourth Official – Andre Marriner Everton vs. Arsenal [2-1] Referee – Mark Clattenburg 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Bennett 2nd Assistant Referee …
Read More “Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek #16 complete with video evidence”
By Tony Attwood What to make of that? Well, block 110 front row had enough humour to keep us sane, and remove life-threatening situations from any cats that might be lurking at home. But maybe that was because a) none of us owns a cat and b) we had seen it before – just as …
By Walter Broeckx Again a lot of changes, in fact the same number (10) of changes compared to our last starting line up. The only player to keep his place is also the same: Mustafi. Welbeck was not on the bench and I think this might be a wise move from Wenger to not burn …
Read More “Arsenal – Watford 1-2: a costly defeat in points and personel”
By Bulldog Drummond One of the interesting facts in the referee summary published earlier today is the comment that The teams with most decisions in their favour are United (31) Spurs (25), Watford (23) and Leicester (21). While… Arsenal continue to be the team most affected by wrong decisions against with 31. Which means we are …
Read More “Arsenal v Watford: the team (and the silly stats about runs and stuff)”
by the Referee Team Just in case you find the full weekly referee review too long – here is a quick summary in bullet point form. The full analysis will follow. Matchweek 16 included these games Tuesday 13 December 2016 Everton 2 – 1 Arsenal West Ham 1 – 0 Burnley Sunderland 0 – 1 …
Read More “Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek 16 – The bullet points”
by Tony Attwood Having heard that Tottenham have put up posters all over the London Underground selling their Premium Packages with the word “premium” spelled wrongly twice, I have some sympathy. I can’t spell either – as of course you will have noticed if u lok ocasionaly @ wot i right. Mind you there are …
Read More “Arsenal v Watfurd taktiks. And Premum Premiun seats at Totteringham too”
By Tony Attwood It happened on 25 January 2003 and is still recorded in most history books as Farnborough 1-5 Arsenal. But in fact the game took place at Highbury, switched there to help Farnborough get additional revenue. Arsenal donated all the income from programme sales for the day to Farnborough, and as the teams came …
Read More “Sutton v Arsenal: will the tie be reversed to be played at the Ems?”
By Tony Attwood Watford and Arsenal are in two very different places. Yes I know, one is in Hertfordshire and one in North London. But apart from that, they are in two very different psychological places. In the FA Cup Walter Mazzarri made seven changes to the Watford side for the game against Millwall on Sunday …
Read More “Arsenal v Watford: will the Ox get the defensive midfield slot in place of Ramsey?”
by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly an apology for the inadequacy of my preview of Jon Moss. In essence I got things right but failed to predict the scale of his ‘crimes’. My predictions for his performance are in blue italic script, post match comments are in black Mr Moss is really not a terribly good referee …
Read More “Arsenal v Watford Tuesday 31 January 2017 – The Match Officials”
By Sir Hardly Anyone, Prince of the Make Believe. Just when we thought it was safe to conclude that Alexis was ready to walk away from Arsenal having had a big fall out with Arsene Wenger over money, position on the pitch, minutes played, tactics and how big the banner about his dogs should be, …
Read More “Arsenal face new midfield injury chaos as transfer window gets ready to shatter.”
By the referee team SWANSEA CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 21 DATE: 14th January 2017 VENUE: Liberty Stadium (Swansea, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Jones 1st LINESMAN: Richard West 2nd LINESMAN: Mark Scholes 4th OFFICIAL: Oliver Langford First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
by Tony Attwood At the first away match of the season a group of aaa’s attending the game organised a chant of “Wenger out” followed by the usual one about the need to spend some money. Of course chants are very short and don’t leave much room for reasoned debate on issues such as who …
Read More “Why being a thick-and-thin positive supporter who takes exercise is better than moaning.”
