Clubs are starting to be challenged over their loses Where now for Arsenal? By Tony Attwood Last season Arsenal began the league campaign with three defeats.  They also ended the season with two defeats and a win.   Both times there were calls for the manager to be sacked or to have the decency …

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    Nottingham Forest v Arsenal: let’s welcome the away referee Nottingham Forest v Arsenal: where Forest’s approach to tackling goes wrong by Bulldog Drummond Gabriel Martinelli and Oleksandr Zinchenko are both on the injury list for the last two games of the season, as it has become ever clearer to less adept teams that …

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    Where Forest’s approach to tackling goes wrong Clubs are starting to be challenged over their loses By Bulldog Drummond Anthony Taylor is the referee for the match this evening.  And as you will know, not all referees are the same – some are prone to give victories to home teams, some to away …

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    Clubs are starting to be challenged over their loses Where now for Arsenal? By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal remain the best away team in the league, while at home Nottingham Forest are 12th out of 20.  Here are the comparative figures using data from 11v11   Pos Team P W D L F A …

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Football, rules and tax By Tony Attwood If it is the sort of thing that interests you, you might well already know that there is not one club that is under investigation for breaches of the Financial Fair Play rules (obviously Manchester City) but two – that second club being Everton who it is said …

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    How Arsenal are remourcelessly following the Man City model How Arteta has become so successful as a manager What next for Arsenal? By Tony Attwood It seems a very long time ago, but it was just 26 December 2019 when Mikel Arteta picked his first Arsenal team as manager.   The game was away …

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        Arsenal and Manchester City compared  Arsenal’s biggest challenge, now its got the second youngest squad Why in the battle of the League v Man City, the League will certainly win By Sir Hardly Anyone Next season Liverpool FC might make it into the Champions League, or they might not.   They are …

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      Arsenal’s biggest challenge, now its got the second youngest squad Why in the battle of the League v Man City, the League will certainly win By Tony Attwood Arteta joined Arsenal as manager on 22 December 2019.   At that moment the league table showed that after 18 games Arsenal were eight points …

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    Why in the battle of the League v Man City, the League will certainly win Optimism to succeed. A further and last reflection from AKH By Tony Attwood I’ve noted several times that Arsenal have one of the youngest squads in the league – a situation which combined with the success this season …

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    Same clubs always winning Optimism to succeed. A further and last reflection from AKH What Arsenal have to do next season to become even better? By Tony Attwood In Scotland, Celtic have won the league 11 times out of the last 12 (and there’s a suggestion people are getting a bit bored by …

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    Optimism over Arsenal’s future. What Arsenal have to do next season to become even better next season? If Chelsea gave Spurs some defenders and Spurs gave Chelsea some attackers… By AKH I have mentioned in a previous article I have penned for Untold Arsenal, that I have been watching and following Arsenal for …

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Did Arsenal collapse this season? If Chelsea gave Spurs some defenders and Spurs gave Chelsea some attackers… Did Arsenal and Brighton agree to hurt Tottenham on Sunday? By Sir Hardly Anyone What Arsenal must do to avoid another title race collapse That headine over an article in a newspaper which predicted another Europa League place …

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    The problems of Chelsea and Tottenham Did Arsenal and Brighton agree to hurt Tottenham on Sunday? By Tony Attwood Arsenal are not going to win the league, and this weekend’s game gave Arsenal a pretty awful result (although not worthy of the booing that came from some quarters at the end of the …

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    Investigation begins into illegal transfers What will happen if Manchester City are found guilty of false accounting? By Sir Hardly Anyone Yesterday was indeed an upset and a half, and one on which a fortune could have been made had one been able to predict the score.  But besides virtually ruining any remaining …

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    Arsenal v Brighton: Only a minority of this ref’s games are home wins Tackles, fouls and yellow cards. Arsenal v Brighton The worst time-wasters are Newcastle! Top scorers and games v Brighton Arsenal v Brighton, how the opposition have been doing By Bulldog Drummond Just before we get into the team details here …

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    Tackles, fouls and yellow cards. Arsenal v Brighton The worst time wasters are Newcastle! Top scorers and games v Brighton Arsenal v Brighton, how the opposition have been doing By Bulldog Drummond The referee is Andy Madley and we can see just a slight variability in terms of referees from this table.  His …

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      The worst time wasters are Newcastle! To scorers and games v Brighton Arsenal v Brighton, how the opposition have been doing By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have played 35 games and Brighton 33 and as we come to the statistics, this is taken into account in these figures on tackles, fouls and yellow …

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    Arsenal v Brighton, how the opposition have been doing By Bulldog Drummond I want to break off just for a moment from the Arsenal v Brighton commentaries for something rather amusing. You may have noticed that we spent a lot of time examining the Newcastle fans’ somewhat aggressibve claims that Arsenal were the …

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    How Arsenal could still win the league – despite Manchester City Why we believe the opposition clubs and players are cheats – conclusion By Bulldog Drummond So it is Arsenal, 10th in the league table for the last six games, against Brighton, 11th in the table over the last six games.  And it …

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      Why football fans believe the opposition cheats. Why we believe the opposition clubs and players are cheats – conclusion By Tony Attwood We decided to counteract the rather heavy analyses in recent articles over the future of football by having a look at the future of this season – still in as …

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    The dark arts: how football is not quite what we think Why do two sets of fans see a match in such a different way? Part 2. Why football fans believe the opposition cheats. In the survey within the Journal of the British Psychological Society in which they investigated curious beliefs that different …

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      The dark arts: how football is not quite what we think Why do two sets of fans see a match in such a different way? Part 2. The essence of the cheating hypothesis the Newcastle fans put forward recently is that not only does Arsenal cheat but that the referees are not …

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  By Nitram This article continues from Why do two sets of fans see a match in such different ways?   I wasn’t going to do the second half but having read Tony’s article (The Sins of Omission) about how the media, as well as fans, pick and chose what they see and don’t see, it …

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More goals are being scored, but are all clubs treated equally by refs? The sin of ommission: the bits of the football story that are missing By Tony Attwood Arsenal master the dark arts: How Arteta’s side wasted almost 17 minutes at Newcastle That is the headline in the Daily Telegraph, and it seems to …

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  The sin of omission: the bits of the football story that are missing Why do two sets of fans see a match in such different ways? By Sir Hardly Anyone This season the Premier League is seeing more goals scored than ever before in the Premier League – an average of 2.85 goals a …

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