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By Bulldog Drummond For me, one of the most interesting innovations of Untold Arsenal in recent years is the comparison of the level of fouls, tackles and yellow cards between different clubs and different referees. It really does give a clue as to how clubs approach games and how referees approach clubs. These figures also …
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Brighton v Arsenal: the prediction based on the statistics By Bulldog Drummond Brighton are one of those curious clubs (at least thus far in the season) that are doing better away from home than at home – which given the location of Arsenal’s next match is not a bad situation to find. And having …
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Which PL clubs are heading for a post world cup slump? By Bulldog Drummond So we are now back to our regular prediction machine, with its very simple methodology – yet thankfully still seemingly a methodology not copied by anyone else. Even though we have been using it for several years. As ever …
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Latest articles arranged by subject By Sir Hardly Anyone Interesting article in Sport Witness which begins “While Sergej Milinković-Savić has been linked with a move to the Premier League for the past few years, Arsenal have never been pushed forward as his destination.” Except that during the last month that player …
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Latest articles arranged by subject By Christophe Jost I wonder how UEFA are feeling now that FIFA is making a real power grab on the calendar, clubs and players…. While they were fighting out the Super League in front of EU courts, FIFA was waiting for the chicken to come home to roost. They …
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What normally happens to the club that is top after 15 games of a season? By Tony Attwood After each of the World Cups held this century, prior the one that has just finished, the points gained by the club that wins the league one year on, is less than in the season …
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How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system? By Tony Attwood In eight of the last ten years the team that was first in the Premier League after 15 games won the league. On the two occasions in which this didn’t happen the team that was …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s finances: another loss but going the right way To say that the ancient Italian club Juventus is in trouble is something of an understatement. The board has stood down en masse, the prosecutors and regulators are circling. La Liga has demanded fulsome sanctions complaining that Juventus has broken the …
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The 48 players reported as coming to Arsenal and the player noted 40 times in the media How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. By Tony Attwood The mood in the match last night moved from despair in the crowd and “told you so” in the journalist’s seats, to …
Read More “For Arsenal a much bigger test comes at the start of 2023”
Arsenal v West Ham – why the main issue tonight is not Eddie Arsenal v West Ham. The referee and recent games between the two. Arsenal v West Ham: what the pundits predicted for WHU and what happened by Bulldog Drummond So here we are, three years on to the day since Mr …
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Arsenal v West Ham. The referee and recent games between the two. Arsenal v West Ham: what the pundits predicted for WHU and what happened By Bulldog Drummond And so as the negatives and implied negative pour in from all sides (Arsenal must buy big and go all-out for the title – this chance …
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Just how much are PL referees bias in favour of home teams? What the pundits predicted for WHU and what happened? Michael Oliver is one of only three referees who has overseen 12 games this season. The average for a PGMO referee is 7.3 league games so far in 2022/23. Referee Apps Fouls …
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Recent results suggest the Boxing Day game should be easy for Arsenal West Ham’s form has been a trifle on the iffy side of dodgy of late. As a look at their recent results: Date Match Result Score Competition 30 Oct 2022 Manchester United v West Ham United L 1-0 Premier League …
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Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other By Bulldog Drummond After a very frustrating and annoying interruption involving a huge amount of maltreatment of migrant workers, corruption and kowtowing by the media., we return to the football as Arsenal play West Ham on 26 December. There’s a substantial difference …
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By Tony Attwood The 48 players reported as coming to Arsenal and the player noted 40 times in the media There is a football quiz in the Guardian newspaper today which begins “It’s been nearly six weeks since the top flight shut down for the World Cup. How much do you remember?” Which …
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How Uefa and PSG have taken control, and fooled all of football By Tony Attwood There is an article in the Irish Times about Qatar, which unfortunately is behind a paywall, which says in passing, “That uncanny sense of fakeness is everywhere. Walking around some of its more extravagant manifestations, like the endless …
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Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other By Tony Attwood Among the bits of football news which have been reported in passing, and then not explored much by the media, is the revelation that Premier League video assistant referees got over 12 percent of their decisions wrong so far …
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By Tony Attwood Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other In the last piece (see the link immediately above) we looked at what happens when clubs in the Big Seven (the traditional big six plus newcomers Newcastle) play each other. Now we can take this a bit further. And …
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How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system? By Bulldog Drummond It is of course possible that any of the “big seven” clubs this season could slip up in any of their forthcoming matches, but there are two interesting scenarios that all these clubs now face, which …
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The 48 players reported as coming to Arsenal and the player noted 40 times in the media By Tony Attwood If we didn’t know it before the world cup we know it now: football is not just changing as it has always done, but it is changing at a faster pace than ever. …
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by Sir Hardly Anyone How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. The significant success of Arsenal’s recent signings recognised We’ve been keeping tabs on the various players (48 of them in fact) who have been tipped as being on the move to Arsenal in January. In total we …
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By Tony Attwood Let me start by admitting that no one – not even the Untold Arsenal team – manages to call every game correctly in advance. But we do like to think we do a bit better than most, largely because we use the same system over and over, and it …
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Beyond any doubt Infantino is getting his way. Next: Fifa will leave Zurich By Tony Attwood As the Telegraph says today “More has been spent on this World Cup than the cumulative total of all 21 Fifa tournaments that have preceded it.” Which is quite a thought to start with. Qatar isn’t really a …
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It’s not an Arsenal question, but who’s going down from the PL this season? Media attack foreign refs but remain silent about PGMO refereeing By Tony Attwood In theory, it should have been another win. We had a strong team out Ramsdale (GK); White, Gabriel, Holding, Tierney Partey, Xhaka Odegaard, Vieira, Nelson …
Media attack foreign refs but remain silent about PGMO refereeing By Tony Attwood Fifa is anticipating that the revenues from the next world cup will be above $11 billion spread across the next four years. That is up 46% on this world cup. Everyone who has spoken in favour of this world cup, …
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