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If they had any moral fibre they would immediately resign By Tony Attwood Arsenal as we know, missed out on Europe in 2021/22 having come eighth the season before and having failed to retain the FA Cup or win the League Cup (both of which can provide routes into European competitions). But …
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Major element in regulator’s control of football is missing By Tony Attwood Last season Arsenal had no less than five bad runs during the course of the campaign. The first I am sure you will remember because it was national headlines – losing the first three league games against Brentford, Chelse and Manchester City …
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Leicester v Arsenal (I think!) The form guide Leicester City v Arsenal: the (revised) question of the referee By Bulldog Drummond Back in the 1930s there was a rather amusing set of results between Leicester and Arsenal. Between 11 September 1926 and 21 April 1930 the clubs played each other eight times and …
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Leicester City v Arsenal: the (revised) question of the referee Leicester v Arsenal: a correction By a contrite Bulldog Drummond The form table (below) makes interesting reading. Nottingham Forest should be noted because they were tipped as favourites to go down before the season started and in the early months. But they really have …
By Bulldog Drummond For reasons that will most certainly not become clear at this time, the Untold “team” (hardly the right word as it turns out) reversed the location of this fixture and so prepared a nonsense report on what the referee might get up to. We did (I think) get the referee …
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Sincere apologies. The article put up this morning related to Arsenal V Leicester whereas of course this weekend it is Leicester v Arsenal – making total nonsense of the piece. The fact that it was the first total and utter mess up since we started Untold 15 years ago and the first in almost 13,000 …
Major element in regulator’s control of football is missing Football journalists getting desperate in their attempt to hide facts By Bulldog Drummond If you’ve been reading Untold awhile you’ll know that it was Leicester’s tackles, fouls and yellow card figures that tipped us off that there was something very funny going on with …
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Football journalists getting desperate in their attempt to hide facts Liverpool and the Telegraph show the problem with the way football is reported and debated By Tony Attwood Untold has long argued that football in England needs a regulator – not least to protect the well-being of young players, who have been …
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Liverpool and the Telegraph show the problem with the way football is reported and debated If football is so unpredictable why do the rich guys want to buy clubs? By Tony Attwood I have been arguing for quite a long time that the way football is reported throughout the media is highly misleading, omitting …
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If football is so unpredictable why do the rich guys want to buy clubs? Why Arsenal need to get their awful defence sorted, and why Uefa / FA are doing a good job By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a headline in the Daily Telegraph (an upmarket UK newspaper aimed supposedly at the …
What makes this Premier League season different from the rest? By Tony Attwood Football clubs lose money – we all know that. It happens all the time. And we also know that money doesn’t guarantee success as we watch the big clubs can slip majestically down the leagues faster than they rose …
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How Opta got this season so totally and utterly wrong: the statistics By Tony Attwood This season, after 23 games played, the top two teams are just two points apart – something that has not been the case since 2013/14, when the gap after 23 games was just one point. And in fact, this …
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How Opta got this season so totally and utterly wrong: the statistics By Tony Attwood I know from conversations that many people like me are tired of Saka being targeted by defensive oafs whose fouls are not punished by referees. It can seem in some games as if it is open season on …
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By Tony Attwood Now we all make mistakes, and there’s not much point in pointing out the errors of those who have used a pen and paper, with maybe a calculator, to work out what will happen at the end of the season. (That’s what we did, and we predicted Arsenal in third place). But …
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UEFA increasingly looking weak as European clubs propose completely new approach The Premier League action against Man City brings Super League ever closer By Tony Attwood There is a piece on the Daily Mirror website in which they say, “Ex- Arsenal ace Emmanuel Petit has labelled Gunners central defensive duo Gabriel and William …
Alleged supercomputer gets it utterly wrong, Martinez: yet another cock up, By Tony Attwood It wasn’t that we scored four goals for the first time this year. It wasn’t that we won. It wasn’t just that the run of poor results was broken, or that the joy and relief for the players was there …
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Aston Villa v Arsenal: Referee upheavals and Arsenal’s team With Simon Hooper as referee, Arsenal have no chance at all today Aston Villa v Arsenal: there is something seriously amiss with the refereeing. Aston Villa v Arsenal: how to tackle without conceding free kicks – the Villa way Aston Villa v Arsenal: the …
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With Simon Hooper as referee, Arsenal have no chance at all today Aston Villa v Arsenal: there is something seriously amiss with the refereeing. Aston Villa v Arsenal: how to tackle without conceding free kicks – the Villa way Aston Villa v Arsenal: the Unai Emery factor By Bulldog Drummond According to the …
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Aston Villa v Arsenal: the Unai Emery factor Aston Villa v Arsenal: how to tackle without conceding free kicks – the Villa way Aston Villa v Arsenal: there is something seriously amiss with the refereeing. By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal.com does give a brief mention of the officials for the Aston Villa game saying, …
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Aston Villa v Arsenal: the Unai Emery Factor Aston Villa v Arsenal: how to tackle without conceding free kicks – the Villa way Aston Villa were promoted to the Premier League via the play offs in 2018/19. It wasn’t until their third season in the Premier League that they were able to take …
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Aston Villa v Arsenal: the Unai Emery Factor By Bulldog Drummond In an attempt to stop the remorseless flow of free kicks and yellow cards against Arsenal, the club has continued under Mikel Arteta to reduce the number of tackles that the players put in, in each game, although as the …
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The real battle in football behind Super League vs Uefa is about to start Why Fifa, Uefa and media hate Super League II and what is likely to happen. By Bulldog Drummond So off we go again, trying to see what will happen in the game, a day before it happens. Our review …
Why Fifa, Uefa and media hate Super League II and what is likely to happen. By Tony Attwood At the heart of everything in this story is Nasser Al-Khelaifi. Wherever one goes, his name pops up. To give a quick summary he is chairman of beIN Media Group (60 channels in 43 countries), chairman …
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PGMO “errors” could lose PL billions in revenue as Europe turns away in disgust By Tony Attwood Last time Arsenal won the league, the club did it with no defeats. The time before that Arsenal had three league defeats, but went on a run from 23 December to the end of the season in …
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By Bulldog Drummond Videos of past victories and the dip in away form Arsenal v Manchester City: tackles, fouls and cards Arsenal v Manchester City: the bias and the referee Arsenal v Manchester City: the surprising home and away form As usual we finish our previews of a game with the team as …
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