by the Referee Review Team 1: Details of Match Referees and Assistants Bournemouth vs. Tottenham [0-0] Referee – Craig Pawson 1st Assistant Referee – Scott Ledger 2nd Assistant Referee – Peter Kirkup Fourth Official – Roger East West Ham United vs. Sunderland [1-0] Referee – Robert Madley 1st Assistant Referee – Keith Stroud 2nd Assistant …
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By Josif As Untold Arsenal has already reported, someone who calls himself a journalist actually gave advice to a football team to use violence as a legitimate way to win the game over their rivals. Just like many people who use their own brain-cells to make conclusions on what the hell is going on with …
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By Tony Attwood Senior officials and management found involved in dubious deals, and guilty in court of crimes? That must be another boring “told you so” story about Fifa from Untold with a mention that we spotted the change in Swiss law which allowed the raid on Fifa’s in December 2015. Well, actually no. It’s …
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By James Bailey Arsenal midfielder Alex Iwobi has said that he is amazed by the level of support there is for his football team at home in his native Nigeria. Speaking to the Evening Standard, Iwobi revealed that during an international match, supporters were shouting out his team’s name – rather than his! Arsenal …
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. by Blacksheep FIFA (in their infinite wisdom) have decided that the remembrance poppy is a ‘political symbol’ and therefore should not be sported by players of England and Scotland in their forthcoming World Cup qualifier. Not surprisingly, as this game takes place on the 11 November (the traditional day of remembrance of those who …
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By Tony Attwood It was quite a move by the Daily Telegraph to publish its “kick them” article when speaking of how Tottenham could try and beat Arsenal. And there was some of that, but it was the elbow of Wanyama that really caused the concern. We could see Theo holding the back of …
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By Walter Broeckx No live match report this time as I had to be with a rather large group of Arsenal Belgium members who gathered in Leuven to see the match against our neighbours. So this is written a few hours after the match and not during the match as usual. So the shape and …
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By Bulldog Drummond The joy of having a big squad – a squad of 25 players registered and five more youth players in serious contention – is that there is always choice. Those old days when a player would be risked, and more often than not (or so it seemed) get a worse injury as …
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By Tony Attwood It used to be so easy in bygone days – I could write a piece about how many managers Tottenham had had in the past week, and we could all have a little laugh, and that would be the preview. Then we had the period when the anti-Arsenal-Arsenal mob put forward the …
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By Tony Attwood (and his abacus) According to the Guardian today (in a more upbeat mood than of late it must be said), “Arsenal have actually lost only once in their last eight matches against their bitter rivals, and have not succumbed at home since 2010.” In the bloggettas the story is somewhat more downbeat. …
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By Tony Attwood Against Leciester away, earlier this season, a group of supposedly Arsenal supporters started to chant “Spend some ****ing money” (**** = not offending NxNow) and “We want Wenger out” etc. Of late I have not heard much from them, as they have left the complaining to the journalists who are always happy …
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. Arsenal v Spurs Sunday 6 November 2016 by Andrew Crawshaw Before I look ahead to our game, Bournemouth will be enjoying the pleasures of Mike Dean for a third time this season in their game against Sunderland on Saturday. What’s more Liverpool have Michael Oliver for a third time in their game against Watford. …
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By Tony Attwood When you think about transfers, abuse of the transfer system, and the hoarding of players probably the first club that comes to mind is not Arsenal. While we all know about Chelsea and Manchester City having large numbers of players that they buy and then loan out and never get back, …
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By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw Head of the Dept of Psychiatric Medicine, University Hospital of the North Circular Road We don’t normally start previews for a Sunday game on Thursday but matches against the Tiny Totts do require a little more chit chat than most, and there are always one or two things worth …
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By Tony Attwood “The chairman of the LLDC, owners of the London Stadium, has resigned after an inquiry was opened into the soaring costs to the taxpayer to run the venue.” The Guardian “Tottenham have now lost each of their ties at the national stadium – they were beaten 2-1 by Monaco in September”. The …
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By Tony Attwood There are two things we know about players who have played for Barcelona. One is that they have been in a club that engaged for multiple years in child trafficking. The second is that they employ or have employed a number of players who have been found guilty of tax fraud …
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By Tony Attwood On 2 September we bade farewell to the great Arsenal Transfer Index – a listing of all the players we could find who were allegedly leaving the club or coming to the club. In our final analysis we noted 115 incoming transfer rumours – almost all of them wrong 22 players who …
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SUNDERLAND vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 10 DATE: 29th October 2016 VENUE: Stadium of Light (Sunderland, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Martin Atkinson 1st LINESMAN: Stephen Child 2nd LINESMAN: Stuart Burt 4th OFFICIAL: Craig Pawson First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:05 John …
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By Tony Attwood If you want to skip my chit-chat and usual rambling just scroll down the page, the video is below. But if you have a moment to spare, do consider this…. Driving home from Heathrow Airport last night I heard someone on BBC Radio 5 announce that his “worry” was that Arsenal treated …
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By Walter Broeckx A few changes as we already knew as some players had to stay at home. Walcott, Bellerin, Monreal and Santi amongst them. So we had Jenkinson at right back and Gibbs came on at left back but he did that in the last matches also. Xhaka also came back in the team …
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By Bulldog Drummond Seems there is a bit of a debate going on about Arsenal’s line up today with Mr Wenger being at his most enigmatic. We know that Monreal, Cazorla, Bellerin and Walcott did not travel. Mr Wenger said of the two last named players “both are ‘more or less’ injuries”. I’m not …
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By Tim Charlesworth So here it is – November. Halloween brings genuine horror for Arsenal fans, because the day after Halloween is November 1st and that is something for us all to be scared of. Every year I convince myself that November is an absurd irrational superstition, and every year it delivers on the horror. …
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by the Referee Review Team 1: Details of Match Referees and Assistants Chelsea vs. Leicester City [3-0] Referee – Andre Marriner 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Beck 2nd Assistant Referee – Andy Garratt Fourth Official – Stuart Attwell Bournemouth vs. Hull City [6-1] Referee – Lee Mason 1st Assistant Referee – Mick McDonough 2nd Assistant …
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ARSENAL vs. MIDDLESBROUGH COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 9 DATE: 22nd October 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Dean 1st LINESMAN: Simon Long 2nd LINESMAN: Ian Hussin 4th OFFICIAL: Tim Robinson First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 06:16 Daniel Ayala …
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. By Fishpie To enjoy: to derive pleasure from, or take delight in, an activity or an occasion. And with the first-quarter stage of the season now completed, we’ve seen 15 competitive occasions in which Arsenal have endeavoured to play great football for us to enjoy. They’ve endeavoured and, in a good proportion of those …
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