By Tony Attwood The window hardly happened. So instead, the VAR score and what difference a manager makes Arsenal transfer news: the four Arsenal players who are definitely leaving A comparison of the key defensive numbers between Mancheseter City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, shows that for three metrics those four clubs are …
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Arsenal transfer news: the four Arsenal players who are definitely leaving The January transfer market has collapsed. So what is going on in Premier League football By Sir Hardly Anyone Never has my name been more appropriate – remove my knighthood and the name rings true for who bought whom. in January. And …
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The January transfer market has collapsed. So what is going on in Premier League football Barcelona, Everton, Manchester City: financial issues abound, but Barce is out on its own. By Sir Hardly Anyone Well, as you know, even with a fair bit of padding, there is bugger all happening on the transfer front, …
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The 2022/2023 season marked a return. A footballing giant, suffering from a multi-year slumber, had awoken. The memes faded, the jealousy rose, and enthusiasm among the fanbase came to a crescendo. Arsenal were back. Yes, the club ended up falling short against the Man City machine. Yet finishing second in the Premier …
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Could Arsenal actually be better than the media lead us to believe? Arsenal team against Forest and the prognostications for the match. By Tony Attwood One year ago clubs in England spent between £815m and £843m on transfers (depending on which newspaper you read) which was double the previous January record. Chelsea …
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Could Arsenal actually be better than the media lead us to believe? By Tony Attwood If you watch or look at or listen to or read any football news in England you’ll know that there is a bit of an issue going on in relation to how much money clubs can spend. And you …
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By Tony Attwood If Arsenal really do need to sell, they have a lot of players who could balance the FFP books Referee association even more secret than PGMOL, emerges from the shadows as controlling body Of course the league table can change again after the next set of matches, but for …
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Nottingham Forest v Arsenal How biased toward the home team is this referee? Nottingham Forest v Arsenal: tackles, fouls, cards, possession Which clubs have been doing really badly of late? The team news from the BBC suggests that Declan Rice “could return from the tight hamstring that prompted his substitution against Crystal Palace.” …
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Nottingham Forest v Arsenal and which clubs have been doing really badly of late? If Arsenal really do need to sell, they have a lot of players who could balance the FFP books There is an updated index of articles, arranged by topic, on the home page. By Sir Hardly Anyone According …
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Which clubs have been doing really badly of late If Arsenal really do need to sell, they have a lot of players who could balance the FFP books By Sir Hardly Anyone As you might expect, Arsenal tackle less than Nottingham Forest, and as we have seen through the season, less than Tottenham …
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An index of articles which is easy to read on phones now appears on the home page If Arsenal really do need to sell, they have a lot of players who could balance the FFP books Tottenham are astonishingly reinvigorated according to one journalist. But is that really so? By Sir Hardly Anyone A …
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Tottenham are astonishingly reinvigorated according to one journalist. But is that really so? Referee association even more secret than PGMOL, emerges from the shadows as controlling body By Tony Attwood In 2022 One Football ran the news that “Arsenal are one of 20 clubs in danger of breaching FFP regulations” citing an article …
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Referee association even more secret than PGMOL, emerges from the shadows as controlling body Women’s Super League – Week 11 review and Week 12 preview By Tony Attwood There is a mobile phone friendly index of recent articles on the home page. There is a paragraph in the Telegraph today that reads “To …
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Women’s Super League – Week 11 review and Week 12 preview Football, and the decline of law and order By Tony Attwood As we all know, when a referee, or indeed the back up referees running VAR, make a mistake, the most anyone can get out of PGMO is a shrug of the …
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An index of recent articles appears on the home page VAR is in chaos, but in five years it won’t have anything to do and will be gone In football we see the two things that crooks do when running large organisations by Andrew Crawshaw There were 6 WSL matches last week. Here …
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VAR is in chaos, but in five years it won’t have anything to do and will be gone In football we see the two things that crooks do when running large organisations By Tony Attwood By and large, the maintenance of law and order is based either on fear (as in a dictatorship) …
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There’s an index to our most recent topics on the home page In football we see the two things that crooks do when running large organisations The clubs that cheat at free kicks, and the clubs that are fouled the most By Tony Attwood “With LaLiga in chaos, it’s ‘clear and obvious’ VAR …
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The clubs that cheat at free kicks, and the clubs that are fouled the most Tottenham Hotspur owner pleads guilty to insider trading By Tony Attwood Let me say from the start that I don’t have statistics to back this up, it is simply something that comes from observation of dealing with crooks …
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There is an index to recent posts on the home page, and we’ve adjusted it to make it more easy to read on mobile phones. Tottenham Hotspur owner pleads guilty to insider trading Referee hyper-secrecy continues even when it comes to handling complaints By Tony Attwood There has been a lot of talk …
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Referee hyper-secrecy continues even when it comes to handling complaints Why next season could well see Arsenal winning the league By Tony Attwood It seems to have taken an awfully long time to get there but finally, the Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis has pleaded guilty to a range of insider trading charges in the …
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Why next season could well see Arsenal winning the league In football the trend is for all evidence to be ignored, and assertions made instead. By Tony Attwood According to ESPN the “Spanish Football Federation have filed a report with the police after extracts of the VAR audio from Real Madrid’s 3-2 win over …
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Please note we’ve changed the home page to make it easier to find recent articles when viewing on a mobile phone. In football the trend is for all evidence to be ignored, and assertions made instead. It’s not just Everton, Chelsea and Manchester City that are under investigation By Tony Attwood Prior to …
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It’s not just Everton, Chelsea and Manchester City that are under investigation There is a very real chance that football is running into financial trouble By Sir Hardly Anyone When there is a problem it is generally agreed that a good way forward is to look for a solution. And if the solution …
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Please note we have added a new article index on the home page which is much more user friendly if you are viewing the site on a mobile phone There is a very real chance that football is running into financial trouble Incompetence or corruption? Why referees in England behave so differently …
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Incompetence or corruption? Why referees in England behave so differently from those in Germany. If clubs are to be penalised for fans’ behaviour then Uefa must be penalised for its stadium disasters too By Tony Attwood Espn recently ran a story in which it took issue with headlines about the Premier League’s “record …
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