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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, …
The newspaper Tottenham v Arsenal preview that doesn’t have a word about Arsenal! How Arsenal moved from 15th in the league two years ago, to top of the league today By Bulldog Drummond Now the chances are that as you come to read this you are also watching the Arsenal women game …
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by Andrew Crawshaw You will recall that in my piece earlier in the week about returning and new players I said that I was sceptical about the club signing 29 year old Canadian Goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo. Well yesterday’s official announcement from the club was that she has joined and will wear the 14 shirt. I …
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There is an index to the Tottenham v Arsenal articles, and indeed other series on our home page. By Bulldog Drummond The last article on Untold concluded that Mr Pawson, the referee, has overseen 30% of his matches as home wins, 50% as away wins and 20% as draws. Indeed in terms of the …
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The newspaper Tottenham v Arsenal preview, that doesn’t have a word about Arsenal! By Bulldog Drummond The basic news is that Arsenal are getting ever closer to signing Mudryk, and Emile Smith Rowe is ready to start a match. Saka is also expected to be fit to play. Reiss Nelson and Gabriel Jesus …
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How Arsenal moved from 15th in the league two years ago, to top of the league today by Bulldog Drummond It is in the Guardian, in a column that previews all of the weekend’s premier league games, that manages to produce a whole article on Tottenham v Arsenal that does not include a word …
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Do Arsenal need to become more efficient in front of goal? By Tony Attwood Things have not been going well for Chelsea, as you might have noticed. Yesterday they lost 2-1 away to Fulham, to make it one win in the last nine league games. Although remarkably despite that collapse they are …
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Latest: Have Arsenal really moved up to the level of Machester City? By Tony Attwood Gianni Infantino has been hauled in front of two extraordinary prosecutors appointed to take over the investigation into the secret meetings held between the head of Fifa and the former head of the Swiss prosecution service. The fact that …
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How Arsenal has taken on the media, and the club is winning Why the media all want Arsenal to buy buy buy, and why we shouldn’t By Tony Attwood In one sense that question seems one with an obvious answer. Arsenal are of course top of the league: Pos Team P W …
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Reflections on the Euros and the Copa American Women’s Finals by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal women resume their season this coming Sunday with a home match against our biggest rivals Chelsea. The game is at the Emirates and there are more than 40,000 tickets sold to date. Our last game before the Christmas break was …
Why football needs an independent regulator now. By Nitram A headline in the Mirror announces that “Arsenal sign Lionel Messi double nicknamed ‘Tekkers Guru’ to boost Gunners attack.” And it is not just there for the story has turned up in the Mail as well with the headline Arsenal ‘hire ex-Hashtag United star. …
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By Tony Attwood Last September The Spectator magazine (not a publication that normally deals with football) ran the article Why football needs a regulator. In was the first major uptake on a series we started in March last year and ran through three articles… “Football should have a regulator” and what would Fifa say about …
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Arsenal’s world cup benefit: how the top clubs will do from here on. By Tony Attwood Of course I am an Arsenal fan, and so of course when I come to write about Tottenham there is bias. There’s no way around that. But I don’t believe because of that we should hide away …
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Details of recent articles organised by themes can be found on the home page Oxford United v Arsenal: the past and the present and what they foretell By Bulldog Drummond You might expect that this would be a situation in which professional football writers might relax a little from their daily diet of attacking …
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Oxford v Arsenal: Arsenal in the FA Cup and the current form By Tony Attwood So now we know, if we manage to beat Oxford it will be Manchester City away as a reward at the end of the month. I suppose that seems fair enough especially as Tottenham will also be worrying …
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Oxford United v Arsenal: the past and the present and what they foretell With one win in the league in the last five games, and that against Charlton who hadn’t won any of their previous nine games in league and cup, Oxford’s form of late has not been overly impressive. But as we are …
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How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system? By Bulldog Drummond This table shows the number of goals scored by the big clubs after 17 games, and the number scored last season after 17 games. Team GF 2022/3 GF 2021/2 Difference Est End 2022/3 end 2021/2 …
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Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other By Bulldog Drummond Here’s a frightening piece of information. Arsenal played Oxford six times in the old League Division One and have played them nine times in total. And although you might expect this to result in a nine-nil victory list for …
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How much have Arsenal spent on transfers in recent years? By Tony Attwood ‘Time is up’ for Mikel Arteta at Arsenal after Burnley defeat … So said Talk Sport on 14 December 2020. Fortunately, as is the case most of the time, they were totally wrong. Indeed so bad at predicting the …
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Index to all the lates stories organised by themes Megolamaniac Infantino makes new insane demand on all footballing countries By Sir Hardly Anyone. As we progress through the transfer window the stories begin to change, not least because inventive not to say utterly fictional stories about new players that Arsenal are trying to sign become …
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Even for the anti-Arsenal media this reporting is totally outrageous Details of recent articles arranged by theme can be found on the home page By Tony Attwood Just to be clear, a megalomaniac is a person who has an obsessive desire for power and just from everyday observation you might agree that Gianni Infantino …
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By Tony Attwood Gunners slip in title race That is a headline from the Daily Mirror today. But is that a reasonable summary? When Liverpool have just lost to Brentford, Tottenham have lost to Villa, Chelsea drew with relegation favourites Nottingham Forest, Man City drew at home with 16th placed Everton… The only team on …
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Predicting how the season will end, as we enter 2023 by Tony Attwood Apparently, it is all Arteta’s fault. He rages too much, shouts too much, points too much. That at least seems to be the view in some journalists, but as ever what they are doing is pushing their own failings onto …
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The Top Two in-form teams take on each other Arsenal v Newcastle United. The transformation of two clubs with past glories by Bulldog Drummond And so, the last post of the build up for the Newcastle game. The two clubs have played each other a massive 189 times, with Arsenal winning 83 and Newcastle …
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