Arsenal v Brentford: the Arsenal team, plus a video of Arsenal beating the Bees

  Arsenal v Brentford at 3pm Arsenal v Brentford: the way history changes Arsenal have the ref who doesn’t like home teams. So what else is new? Arsenal v Brentford: Brentford get the same referee for the 16th time Arsenal v Brentford: the psychological challenge   By Bulldog Drummond For the last match Arsenal’s line …

Arsenal v Brentford: the way history changes

    Arsenal v Brentford Arsenal get the ref that doesn’t like home teams Arsenal v Brentford: Brentford get the same referee for the 16th time The psychological challenge Arsenal have the ref who doesn’t like home teams. So what else is new?   This century Arsenal have played Brentford just four times, and one …

Arsenal have the ref who doesn’t like home teams. So what else is new?

  Arsenal v Brentford analysed Arsenal v Brentford: Brentford get the same referee for the 16th time Arsenal v Brentford: the psychological challenge By Bulldog Drummond This time we take a look at the tackles, fouls and yellow cards for Arsenal and Brentford, and then by way of comparison add in two other teams: Leeds …

Arsenal v Brentford: Brentford get the same referee for the 16th time

  Arsenal v Brentford: the psychological challenge Some refs give home wins, some don’t. Referee: Peter Bankes Assistant referees: Edward Smart and Nick Greenhalgh Fourth official: Simon Hooper Video assistant referee: Lee Mason Additional video assistant referee: Adrian Holmes If you are a regular reader you will know our constant demand for PGMO to employ more staff, …

Arsenal v Brentford: the psychological challenge

    Arsenal v Brentford: the home/away predictions UEFA increasingly looking weak as European clubs propose a completely new approach  The Premier League action against Man City brings Super League ever closer By Bulldog Drummond “It may not have been their first loss of the season, but Arsenal’s misstep at Everton presents them with an unfamiliar …

Uefa increasingly look weak as European clubs propose completely new approach

    The final defeat of Uefa The Premier League action against Man City brings Super League ever closer What Europe knows about Man C but the English press haven’t told you By Tony Attwood Although it is not what the English media is saying, the fact is that if ever there was a business …

The Premier League action against Man City brings Super League ever closer

By Tony Attwood We now have on the table the Premier League’s case against Manchester City. and bubbling below that, another little issue: Super League.   The media recently got very excited about the fact that a judge ruled that Uefa in claiming the right to run trans-national competitions is not against competition laws. But what …

What Europe knows about Man C but the English press haven’t told you

  How Man City’s problems began to arise…. nine years ago The media pile into Manchester City, but where have they been all this time? Manchester City accused of over 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules By Tony Attwood For years and years the media has stayed silent (at least in comparison with the …

Arsenal v Manchester City Women’s Continental League Cup semi-final – match preview

by Andrew Crawshaw After the disappointment of Sunday evening’s draw against West Ham in the WSL there is no time to lick our wounds as we are back in action Wednesday evening at Meadow Park against Man City in the semi-final of the Continental Tyres (League) Cup.  Kickoff is 19:15 and the match is being …

How Man City’s problems began to arise…. nine years ago

    The media pile into Manchester City, but where have they been all this time? Manchester City accused of over 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules By Sir Hardly Anyone It was on 12 May 2014 – yes almost nine years ago – that Untold ran the headline Man City decides to take on …

The media pile into Manchester City, but where have they been all this time?

  Manchester City: what took the media so long? By Tony Attwood It is perhaps ironic and/or possibly amusing that Manchester City have been hit with 100+ accusations of false accounting and by and large cheating their way to a series of league titles, just after Untold ran the series The real facts about football that …

Manchester City accused of over 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules

    Manchester City accused of breaching financial rules By Tony Attwood La Liga complains to Uefa alleging Manchester City and PSG breach FFP As our article (linked above) from June last year shows, complaints about the behaviour of Manchester City have been flying around for a while.   But now, just as we are all …

Every club now knows how to beat Arsenal (according to reports)

  Why do some teams always get so few yellow cards? Guardiola’s excuse for losing to Tottenham reveals the quality of Arsenal By Tony Attwood Apparently, the loss to Everton is very bad news indeed for Arsenal as it wasn’t only a defeat, but it was a defeat that allowed all the rest of the …

Guardiola’s excuse for losing to Tottenham reveals the quality of Arsenal

  In football distance makes no difference So it wasn’t so bad after all. Arsenal still five points clear with a game in hand By Tony Attwood Pep Guardiola said after his side lost to Tottenham, “Coming from Manchester to London, it’s like going to northern Europe. It’s four hours, 20 minutes to get to …

So it wasn’t so bad after all. Arsenal still five points clear with a game in hand

  Looking back at today’s results WSL Round Up – West Ham v Arsenal Sunday 18:45 By Tony Attwood So here we are watching West Ham v Arsenal women’s game on Sky, knowing that the league table is still as it was.   Arsenal are five points ahead of Manchester City, eight above Manchester United and …

WSL Round Up – West Ham v Arsenal Sunday 18:45

    Arsenal Women: recent events and match preview The Continental Tyres Cup 2022/23 quarterfinals: Arsenal v Villa Second half reinforcements by Andrew Crawshaw The transfer window for the WSL closed on Tuesday at the same time as it did for the PL.  Arsenal were trying hard to sign a new striker and even tabled …

Arsenal lost, but it is all part of the drive toward long-term sustainability

      Budiling Arsenal sustainability – at the top Yet another example of the way the media tries to put down Arsenal When Arsenal lose they sneer, and when they win they sneer even more By Tony Attwood After Arsenal’s game finished and before the rest of the weekend’s fixtures have been completed the …

Everton v Arsenal: a happy video, line-up and what the league table will look like after

  Everton v Arsenal Everton v Arsenal: Points needed for fourth, Arsenal first to 100 Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal: extraordinary figures from the …

Everton v Arsenal: Injuries, points needed for 4th, and Arsenal the first to 100?

  Arsenal and Everton compared By Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? Everton v Arsenal – extraordinary figures seen in the last six games table As …

Everton v Arsenal: extraordinary figures seen in the last 6 games table

  By Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? We’ve done a lot of crowing at how we managed to predict Arsenal’s return to the higher reaches …

Everton v Arsenal: how this referee treats the home and away team

  Arsenal are lucky in the choice of referee Previously… Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? The referee is David Coote; he is overseeing Arsenal for the second time this season.  We’ve always argued that two should be the maximum …

Everton v Arsenal and the oddity of referee behaviour

  Arsenal commit 21% more fouls than Man City, but get 84% more yellow cards! Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at? By Bulldog Drummond The more a club tackles, the fewer fouls per 10 tackles are awarded against it.  That is the week-by-week oddity of Premier League refereeing and …

With Balogun will Arsenal be heading toward goalscoring records

    Are Arsenal heading towards goal scoring records? The Big 7 Clubs: how much they have spent this season, and what good has it done? Arsenal anniversaries 2 February: Wenger appeals against charge of violent and threatening behaviour Folarin Balogun is 21 and he is on loan at Stade de Reims. They are 11th …

Everton v Arsenal this saturday lunchtime: just what are Everton playing at?

  Everton are in real trouble Previous: The real facts about football that the media will never touch Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee …

What the media doesn’t tell you, part 6. There’s a financial problem…

      By Tony Attwood Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2) What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias What the media won’t tell you about football part 4: …