What will happen if Manchester City are found guilty of false accounting? Newcastle poach top Arsenal coach… or perhaps not Who will win the league? By Sir Hardly Anyone According to the mainstream media when faced with the question “Can we be sure who will win the league this season?” the answer is …
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Newcastle poach top Arsenal coach… or perhaps not What the form shows: who will win the league and what if Man C are found guilty? By Tony Attwood City AM which is a financial journal relating to the City of London, not a fanzine of Manchester City, has stated in a headline that …
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Arsenal lose key man What the form shows: who will win the league and what if Man C are found guilty? As we get to the close of the season, result patterns are changing By Tony Attwood When there is nothing else much going on in football (and after all Real Madrid beating …
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Who will win the league? As we get to the close of the season, result patterns are changing The refereeing crisis is here: but not as the media portray it By Tony Attwood When commentators look forward to future fixtures there rarely seems to be much coherence in their explanations, with many predictions …
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End of season portents The refereeing crisis is here: but not as the media portray it Why did Liverpool player Robertson feel entitled to harangue the assistant referee? By Tony Attwood No team in the Premier League has remained undefeated in the last eight games. Arsenal and Manchester City have both lost one …
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Why did Liverpool player Robertson feel entitled to harangue the assistant referee? One year of spending in the PL clearly does not guarantee success. What we now have with refereeing is a crisis: but not exactly the crisis being described by the media. For many years allegations have been made about the …
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Football out of control Saka is being kicked to bits, and the refs are doing nothing about it What the media won’t tell you about football, referee home bias By Tony Attwood There are commentaries still appearing on the subject of the assistant referee Constantine Hatzidakis pushing away Andy Robertson in the …
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Which clubs are going forward, which going back? According to ManUtdNews “Ten Premier League clubs are lobbying to block takeovers closely linked to nation-states” following a bid by Islamic Bank for the club. Indeed it is increasingly felt in many quarters that the takeover of Newcastle United was in fact “The Newcastle …
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PL Clubs improvement and decline Yet another media game: if Arsenal can’t beat Liverpool, the title is lost If Arsenal go on like this what will the final table look like? By Tony Attwood Had we predicted that with nine games to go Arsenal would be top of the league with a six point …
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By Bulldog Drummond Liverpool v Arsenal: the battle of the giants of the “in form” tables Liverpool v Arsenal: with Tierney in charge we could be in trouble. How the referee will influence the result of Liverpool v Arsenal this weekend Yet another media game: if Arsenal can’t beat Liverpool, the title …
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Liverpool v Arsenal: with Tierney in charge we could be in trouble. How the referee will influence the result of Liverpool v Arsenal this weekend Yet another media game: if Arsenal can’t beat Liverpool, the title is lost The Form Table’s guide: who will win the l by Bulldog Drummond I am not …
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Keeping medical records safe Liverpool v Arsenal: with Tierney in charge we could be in trouble. How the referee will influence the result of Liverpool v Arsenal this weekend Driving past Stoke City’s ground one of our regular readers spotted a sign outside the ground of which he caught a couple of words …
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Liverpool v Arsenal Yet another media game: if Arsenal can’t beat Liverpool, the title is lost In our last article How the referee will influence the result of Liverpool v Arsenal we showed that this weekend’s referee is one who is generally more favourable to away sides. However there’s more to the story …
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Liverpool v Arsenal Yet another media game: if Arsenal can’t beat Liverpool, the title is lost The Form Table’s guide: who will win the league based on recent form? By Bulldog Drummond Paul Tierney is the referee for the Liverpool v Arsenal game, and our first concern is to see how much he …
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Liverpool v Arsenal The Form Table’s guide: who will win the league based on recent form? How reporters endlessly knock Arsenal with false “where it all went wrong” tales By Bulldog Drummond There is pages of this stuff in the papers – that this is it, the make or break, the great impossibility …
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How reporters endlessly knock Arsenal with false “where it all went wrong” tales Games against each other: the big seven By Tony Attwood and a calculator The two most reliable guides to form are the last six games of each club and the last ten games of each club. The last six …
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Games against each other: the big seven Dean removed, but referee bias just continues unreported and unabated Are football websites biased? By Tony Attwood I have often made the point that some writers in the media appear to have an agenda of denigrating Arsenal. And I must admit I don’t have statistics …
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Dean removed, but referee bias just continues unreported and unabated Ticket touting at Arsenal: prices rise to insane levels. So what is going on? And today’s Arsenal anniversary: When Tottenham refused a most reasonable Arsenal request What with it being a public holiday today in England, I thought it might be interesting to …
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Ticket touting at Arsenal: prices rise to insane levels. So what is going on? The failure of managers: how has Arsenal got it so right? By Tony Attwood When a referee or VAR official makes a mistake in a football match, nothing happens. There is no comeback for the club – …
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The failure of managers: how has Arsenal got it so right? Real Madrid start looking at Arteta as their next manager By Sir Hardly Anyone Ticket touting – which basically is taken to mean buying a ticket from the original provider (such as a football club) with the intention of selling it on at …
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Real Madrid start looking at Arteta as their next manager The absolute proof that the media is anti-Arsenal By Tony Attwood Football, it is said, is a funny old game. If that’s true then making predictions as to the outcome of the season is total hilarity. But some of us keep doing …
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Will Arteta leave Arsenal? The absolute proof that the media is anti-Arsenal Why Arsenal’s revolution worked, while Tottenham and Chelsea flopped By Sir Hardly Anyone These are difficult times for the football media in England. For years and years they have had a focus on what Arsenal are doing wrong, and now clearly Arsenal …
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How Arteta turned Arsenal around Why Arsenal’s revolution worked, while Tottenham and Chelsea flopped As the investigations grow, the finances of football clubs look somewhat odd By Tony Attwood December 22, 2019: Arteta joined Arsenal. If he had been your average common-or-garden manager that means he would have been out of Arsenal no …
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How Arteta made Arsenal successful As the investigations grow, the finances of football clubs look somewhat odd Did Arsenal really go for Mudryk or was it all a clever trap for Chelsea? By Tony Attwood For football journalists and their media employers, “crisis” is the key word. “Crisis” means its all gone wrong, someone …
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Unexpected sponsorships in football Did Arsenal really go for Mudryk or was it all a clever trap for Chelsea? Arsenal: building a squad to win this year, and again next season. by Tony Attwood A recent report in “L’Equipe” has shown that not surprisingly Kylian Mbappé, Neymar and Lionel Messi are the three highest-paid …
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