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By Tony Attwood We got the ref prediction completely wrong; what a relief! Liverpool v Arsenal – it was a draw Home and away: Liverpool and Arsenal, last six games and the Arsenal team This season has seen an explosion in the world of yellow cards in the Premier League with some …
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Home and away: Liverpool and Arsenal, last six games and the Arsenal team. Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal: the yellow cards for different reasons By Tony Attwood So the Untold prediction that Arsenal stood no chance because of the referee, was wrong. Liverpool v Arsenal overseen by the most home biased referee in the Premier …
Liverpool v Arsenal overseen by the most home biased referee in the Premier League How pundits failed to see the signs of Arsenal’s rise up the league. We can see immediately from the table below Liverpool have a seriously better home record than Arsenal have an away record. Quite why that is we …
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Liverpool v Arsenal overseen by the most home biased referee in the Premier League How pundits failed to see the signs of Arsenal’s rise up the league. By Sir Hardly Anyone The discipline tables are looking rather interesting at present with Chelsea, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur all knocking up twice as many …
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How pundits failed to see the signs of Arsenal’s rise up the league. Super League is legit and Uefa had no case to stop it, as was clear from the start. By Bulldog Drummond There is one big piece of news about the Liverpool v Arsenal game and it is one that not …
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What do so many top money transfers turn out to be flops? Just how does this Arsenal team compare to past league winners? By Tony Attwood As we have often noticed on this site, most pundit predictions of what will happen to clubs from one season to the next tend to be based …
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Football conspiracy theories: How the media are trying to mislead us What do so many top money transfers turn out to be flops? By Tony Attwood So now we know: Uefa and Fifa were wrong, as they almost certainly knew all the way through: Super League was legit, and Uefa and Fifa have, …
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What do so many top money transfers turn out to be flops? Just how does this Arsenal team compare to past league winners? By Tony Attwood From the start of Untold in 2008, we have suggested that the football media in general tended to ignore certain key issues. And we also noted that …
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Just how does this Arsenal team compare to past league winners? All change: referees falling over themselves to admit they make mistakes By Tony Attwood I recently read a piece which opens “Many Americans—of both parties—have become untethered from reality.” And it struck me that this is exactly the situation relating to football …
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All change: referees falling over themselves to admit they make mistakes The ultimate surprise: Arteta is exhonerated. PGMO & FA admit to different rules for different people By Tony Attwood Trying to keep up with Arsenal while living in Australia, where interest in English football seems modest, I began to wonder just …
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The ultimate surprise: Arteta is exhonerated. PGMO & FA admit to different rules for different people Arsenal’s great experiment which wasn’t and United’s failure which was By Tony Attwood The PGMO head bossman Howard Webb has announced that the referee in charge of the 3-3 between Manchester City and Tottenham made a mistake. This …
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Arsenal’s great experiment which wasn’t and United’s failure which was This is where secrecy and denial invariably lead, and PGMO is taking us ever further inwards. By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold you will know that we have long held that there are fundamental flaws with the …
This is where secrecy and denial invariably lead, and PGMO is taking us ever further inwards. Arsenal’s December’s fixtures. How will Arsenal perform in the final month of the year? By Tony Attwood We were told a lot about the three youngsters who were, according to the media, going to burst into Arsenal’s team …
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Arsenal’s December fixtures. How will Arsenal perform in the final month of the year? PSV v Arsenal from 16,000 km, and a very strange stirring in La Liga By Tony Attwood As has been widely reported, the president of Ankaragücü of the Turkish Super League has announced his resignation after punching the match …
PSV v Arsenal from 16,000 km, and a very strange stirring in La Liga How the media caved in leaving no one who is willing to challenge PGMO and the referees By Tony Attwood Arsenal have played eight home and away which gives us a good basis for evaluating their coming games …
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How the media caved in leaving no one willing to challenge PGMO and the referees If Everton find the Premier League is corrupt, what does that mean? By Tony Attwood The Arsenal match against PSV kicks off at 4.45am Sydney time which probably only affects a small number of Arsenal supporters – but …
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If Everton find the Premier League is corrupt, what does that mean? Can we really predict the outcome of the league table from earlier in the season? “The boys in the studio, as we once knew them, are not there to play football: they are there to discuss it. There is demonstrably a …
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Can we really predict the outcome of the league table from earlier in the season? Arsenal lose, editor injured, Untold upside down By Tony Attwood Now I may well have got this wrong, (and if so that will probably come as no surprise to you), but as I began to contemplate the …
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Arsenal lose, editor injured, Untold upside down Clubs are showing signs of fighting back at journalists By Tony Attwood Predicting how things (or indeed people) will turn out is something that has been part of human existence for as long as we have been in societies. Of course, if we really could know …
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Clubs are showing signs of fighting back at journalists Are Arsenal really making progress, or are we starting to slip back? Apologies for the lack of coverage of the Villa game, although seeing the result perhaps it was best to miss it. I’m now in Australia with part of my family, …
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Clubs are showing signs of fighting back at journalists Are Arsenal really making progress, or are we starting to slip back? By the Untold Team Part of the Untold team (the part that actually publishes the articles) has decamped to the other side of the world where not only the temperature in the …
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Are Arsenal really making progress, or are we starting to slip back? By Tony Attwood What most of us want, I think, is a media that presents facts as facts, and commentary as commentary, each in a balanced and considered manner. Sadly this is not something the UK newspaper industry is particularly well known …
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Luton 3 Arsenal 4: maybe it is time to say positive things Knocking and praising Arsenal at the same time: the new journo psychodrama By Tony Attwood The victory over Luton Town inevitably raises the question, how are things going this season… In fact as soon as we ask that question we find one …
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Knocking and praising Arsenal at the same time: the new journo psychodrama The media centric world which just doesn’t understand what it’s like to be a fan This, for most of us, is why we are here. Why we watch, why we follow the football team that, often by chance, we associate our …
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Luton Town – how do they play the game. The tackles, fouls and cards. Luton Town v Arsenal: Grim football, fewest goals, lowest possession rate By Bulldog Drummond The referee for the game is Samuel Barrott. Now you can find that bit of information on loads of websites, but it is virtually impossible to …
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