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Arsenal Ladies – a busy fortnight by Andrew Crawshaw Whilst we have all been interested in the Arsenal First Team pre-season games, the Ladies have been in full on competition. The Ladies season re-started following the World Cup with a visit from Liverpool Ladies and an unaccustomed loss. Arsenal Ladies v Liverpool Ladies – …
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Arsenal Ladies v Liverpool Ladies – 12 July Meadow Park BorehamWood Match Report and Thoughts By Andrew Crawshaw. This was the first game following the interruption to the Women’s Super League caused by the World Cup in Canada where, as I’m sure you are all aware, England came third and were the highest of all …
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By Tony Attwood They do things differently in Women’s Football. Or do they? Arsenal have just been knocked out of the Champions League, but have reached the FA Cup Final. Rather oddly Arsenal (the team that wins most everything in Women’s Football in England) lie sixth in the league – but then they have achieved …
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The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Coming very soon – “The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal” Making the Arsenal ————— By Tony Attwood The BBC has just released its survey of the price paid to watch League football and the Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association (AISA) has responded, pointing out some …
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The corruption of English football How the media sets the agenda, and helps those in authority avoid the big issues By Tony Attwood Every sunday, on the German channel Sport 1, there is a very popular talkshow which includes a referee from the Saturday games talking live about a contentious or misunderstood referee …
Read More “There’s nothing much wrong with English football, and we know cos we’ve been told”
By Tony Attwood The ability of English commentators on football, be they professional or amateur, to kid themselves about what is happening around them, is overwhelming. For it is not just one thing that is seriously wrong with professional football in England, but a whole raft of issues. And yet they miss the lot! So …
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6 September: Lazio 2 Arsenal 2, and the fight in the restaurant By Bulldog Drummond So finally we have some football to think about. There’s the women’s game against Brighton tonight (sold out, as we noted) but available to all as it is showing on Arsenal.com We have previews of that game already …
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Can football stop hooliganism? By Tony Attwood This is more dangerous than Super League Once upon a time most Football League games ended with a ptich invasion. It was largely a case in the 1960s of children and teenagers running on the pitch at the final whistle, some to get autographs, some just because they …
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By Tony Attwood According to an “exclusive” in the Daily Mail “Football’s lawmakers IFAB [are planning] to discuss increasing half-time to 25 MINUTES in a bid to accommodate Super Bowl-style entertainment shows.” (Their capitals, not mine. They do that sort of thing in the Mail). They then go on to talk about the “15 minute …
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By Tony Attwood The headline in the Guardian reads “Women’s Super League: talking points from the weekend’s action“. Below that there are pictures of three players: one from each of Manchester City, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. After that the article starts… “Manchester City are starting to get back on track, Jessie Fleming is in flying …
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By Tony Attwood We first picked up on Fifa’s plans for handling loans in a different way back in 2018 with the article Fifa are considering banning loans as they target Chelsea and Juventus. But we’d been pondering the issue for years before that. And now, tucked away, out of sight of any readers in …
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By Tony Attwood Chelsea are the reigning women’s premier league champions. But more than that they have won the title five times in the last seven years. But at Arsenal Stadium today Arsenal Women saw off Chelsea with a 3-2 win under the guidance of the new Arsenal manager. Of course the media are using …
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by Andrew Crawshaw In an eerily familiar fashion Arsenal have been drawn against both Chelsea and Manchester City in their opening three matches of the Women’s Super League (WSL). Unlike our men though the Women will be fighting those two clubs for the title so both games are real six-pointers. The WSL started on …
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By Bulldog Drummond The problem with writing a preview of a European semi-final second leg is that not much has happened since the first leg. Arsenal had a fine win over a Newcastle team who spent the match looking over their shoulders, while Villareal beat Getafe 1-0. And AST have been making a noise. Meanwhile …
Read More “Arsenal 99% in Europe next season; but a fan on the board is meaningless”
By Tony Attwood Joe Montemurro, manager of Arsenal Women’s team, has announced that he will leave Arsenal at the end of this season. He called it the “hardest professional decision” of his life, adding, “I absolutely love this job and this club, the club I have supported all my life. I’m hugely grateful to the …
By Tony Attwood I’m delighted to say that Andrew, who covers Arsenal Women’s matches for Untold Arsenal has got a ticket to attend the Arsenal Women match against Birmingham City tomorrow, and thus be among the 900 people watching the match. If you have not got a ticket and fancy going you need to visit …
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By Bulldog Drummond So now how do we feel? Well, pretty miserable and fed up and all that stuff. No one is actually saying that we spent more than anyone else in the summer because well, the way to improve the team is to buy lots and lots of players, that’s the mantra of the …
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Former Player Alex Scott Takes to the Dance Floor in Strictly It’s that time of year again, when the days get shorter, the weather gets colder, and Michael Bublé is played on repeat in every shop in the country. It’s also the time of year when our TV schedules are filled with reality TV contests like …
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By Tony Attwood If you went for a stroll around Arsenal Stadium during the close season last summer you might well have been surprised by the amount of scaffolding against the walls of the ground. It went all the way round and as a result passers by found their from Arsenal station aross to Holloway …
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By Tony Attwood Power in football – now that is an interesting topic and I am obliged to the Daily Telegraph by thinking about writing an article on it. It is a bit of a tough read because there is so much puffing up of themselves and all their collective work in coming up with …
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By Tony Attwood The deep rooted corruption and disregard for the rules by the three largest Spanish clubs and the Spanish Football Association has been confirmed yet again after Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid had their appeals against transfer bans rejected by Fifa, much to the embarrassment of the mainstream UK media who seek to talk …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Of course in the world of transfers not everything is as it seems, so before I let you in on the really big secret of just who it is we are signing, let’s clear the dead wood… Three-Year-Deal: Arsenal Have Agreed Transfer, CL Forward Delighted With Move That story is about Podolski …
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Arsenal 2 Everton 0, by Tony Attwood FA Women’s Cup Final It had been 14 long days since Arsenal had won a cup final and the murmurs were turning into grumbles and calls for resignation. But Arsenal did it again, which will keep the AAA happy until… oh, today, because the Telegraph has just …
By Tony Attwood The last time I went to two Cup Finals in one season was 1993: the League Cup final on 18 April 1993 and the FA Cup final on 15 May. We played Sheffield Wednesday both times, and won both. One of the George Graham triumphs. Totally ignored by the press, of course, …
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The club that changed football Making the Arsenal ————————————————– By Billy the Dog McGraw Olympiakos are top of the 16 team Greek Super League. Played five won five. Goal difference +10. Latest result Atromitos 0-1 Olympiakos In Europe however the Oly’s lost at home to Schalke in the Champs League first round of games. As …
