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The Continental Tyres Cup Update by Andrew Crawshaw The Continental Tyres Cup is the Women’s version of the League Cup – equivalent to the Carabao Cup in the Men’s competition. It is open to the 24 clubs in the two professional leagues, the Women’s Super League and the Women’s Championship. For years this was …
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The media against Arsenal FC The media won’t apologise By Sir Hardly Anyone On 15 December 2021 Arsenal were 15th in the table. Now, a little over two years later, well, you know where they are. That rise of 14 places across a period of just over two years is extraordinary, and …
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WSL roundup following a chaotic weekend for Arsenal… and others Tottenham’s managing director of football banned, Man Utd losses out of control By Sir Hardly Anyone So far this season Arsenal have brought in… Player From Cost Gabriel Jesus Manchester City €52.20m Fábio Vieira FC Porto €35.00m Oleksandr Zinchenko Manchester City €35.00m Jakub …
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Tottenham’s managing director of football banned, Man Utd losses out of control by Andrew Crawshaw The weekend’s games kicked off on Saturday lunchtime with a game between Manchester City and Aston Villa. You will recall my prediction:- “they (Aston Villa) will prove a stiff test for a City team who are trying to …
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Why football needs an independent regulator now By Tony Attwood The Guardian is carrying the story that “Tottenham have concerns” that Fabio Paratici, their managing director of football, will be banned from football worldwide as his previous employer Juventus have had 15 points deducted from their current league total, leaving them languishing in 10th position. …
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The figures from Arsenal v Man U are utterly extraordinary, and misleading By Tony Attwood “Arsenal banish poisonous issue as Man Utd win underlines Mikel Arteta’s biggest achievement” That is a headline in the Mirror today. And one might well ask “What poisonous issue?” Is that the poisonous issue created by the Mirror who …
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Arsenal v Manchester United. So what did we learn? The media won’t apologise by Tony Attwood One of the most extraordinary things about football in England is that we are given a mountain of data and statistics about the game in general and each game in particular, but no one ever says why these …
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Arsenal v Manchester United; a game that is not just like old times Arsenal v Man U: the home/away form and an equal recent record Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United game. By Tony Attwood Obviously we learned that Manchester United are really not quite as good as the media …
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By Bulldog Drummond In the previous articles: Arsenal v Manchester United: the tackles, the fouls and the yellow cards Arsenal v Manchester United; a game that is not just like old times Arsenal v Man U: the home/away form and an equal recent record Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United …
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The Sunday games Arsenal v Manchester United; a game that is not just like old times Arsenal v Man U: the home/away form and an equal recent record Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United game. Brighton V Arsenal Women Sunday 22 January – The Match Preview When we look at …
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Arsenal v Man U: the home/away form and an equal recent record Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United game. By Bulldog Drummond One of the more curious things about today’s game between Arsenal and Manchester United is that in the predictions made by newspaper columnists last summer neither of these …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United game. And so onto the usual home / away analysis for the Manchester United game – something still unique to Untold I think, although it proves to be a very good aid to forecasting Team P W D L F …
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By Tony Attwood It appears that we are signing Jakub Kiwior from Spezia, who is a 22-year-old, who joined the Serie A side in August 2021 and is now joining Arsenal for more than €20m including the inevitable add-ons. Jakub also plays for the Polish national team. It is an interesting transfer in that Spezia …
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By Andrew Crawshaw Our match in the WSL this weekend is away against Brighton. The game kicks off at 18:45 and is live on Sky Sports. It will mark the half way point in the season for Arsenal in terms of number of matches played, although technically it is the first of the …
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The richest clubs are in the Premier League, and many have unimaginable debts By Nitram The thing is, and it is what I have been saying for years and years, winning the PL in particular and trophies in general, is all about medium and long-term spending. I don’t mean the occasional splurge, …
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Another day another Fifa corruption scandal (but don’t tell the English media) By Tony Attwood “Deloitte reveal more than half of world’s 20 richest clubs are in Premier League”. That is the headline in the Guardian. According to the article, more than half of the world’s 20 richest clubs are in the Premier …
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Why do some clubs have their players fouled so much more than others? By Tony Attwood In many ways it would appear that Tottenham Hotspur should be doing better than they are. Every major newspaper and virtually all the major online football sites predicted that Tottenham would finish in the top four this season …
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By Tony Attwood We recently created a table made up of matches between the big seven clubs of the Premier League in order to remove any suggestion that Arsenal’s current success at the top of the league was due (as some were suggesting) to having had an easy fixture list so far. In case you …
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by Tony Attwood Tottenham get more yellow cards at their home ground than anyone else other than Nottingham Forest. They have got almost four times as many yellow cards at home as Liverpool have in their home matches and just on twice as many as Arsenal. Two points arise from that. One is why this …
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Megalomaniac head of Fifa makes new insane demand By Sir Hardly Anyone It is not a phrase that one would expect to see in an English publication but the notion that “the FIFA corruption scandal never seems to end” is one very likely to appear in the media of much of the rest …
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Why football needs an independent regulator now By Sir Hardly Anyone The last time we ran our review of the players said to be coming to Arsenal Mykhaylo Mudryk was reported as making the move in 53 different reports. 19 of those reports involved a publication running the story more than once. In …
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After 18 games: Arsenal’s position and the top team’s tally – and the ultimate target By Admir Pajic It’s been a season that only the biggest optimists could have seen coming. I have to admit that I was thrilled with our preseason performances against Chelsea (4-0) and Sevilla (6-0) where our passing and pressing …
For a review of recent articles listed by the theme covered see the home page How are the big seven clubs doing against each other? There are some surprises By Tony Attwood It is always nice when someone comes along and copies one of our ideas – and that has indeed been happening …
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Tottenham v Arsenal: Sky completely lost, disgraceful scenes, useless Totts, brilliant Arsenal By Tony Attwood Looking at the top seven playing each other is a good way to judge the relative merits of each team this season, especially when analysed on a points per game basis. And especially so when much of …
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How Tottenham are getting the best out of referees Why do Tottenham players get fouled so often (according to referees)? By Tony Attwood Arsenal were brilliant in the first half, but Tottenham to be fair were worse than useless for much of the game. Arsenal are now eight points clear at the top, …
