Tackles, fouls and yellow cards: Chelsea three times dirtier than Man City By Bulldog Drummond ‘We’re third, we can’t be that bad’   That is the wonderful headline about Tottenham Hotspur in the Guardian today.   To which I suppose the Arsenal response is, “no, you are not THAT bad.  But not quite as good …

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    Chelsea v Arsenal, Sunday at noon. Two teams evenly matched. By Bulldog Drummond And so moving on to comparing the tackles, fouls and yellow cards of Arsenal and Chelsea, and comparing these with Manchester City who tend to tackle and foul less than anyone (according to referees) and Leeds United who tend to …

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      The 8 serious refereeing failings that are corrupting the Premier League by Bulldog Drummond Of course we should be clear, there is no reason why any referee should favour either team.  And we have no direct evidence that any referee is biased. But we do see some very curious figures when we …

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    Creating Arsenal’s most famous back four By Bulldog Drummond. This is where yer amateur writer says “the games are coming thick and fast for Arsenal” but of course we would not indulge in anything so simplistic.   No indeed!  We will in fact perhaps say that there seem to be an awful lot of …

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    How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. by Tony Attwood Today I stumbled across an article with the headline A misguided pre-season tour, tactical muddles and transfer failings have left Jurgen Klopp with serious questions to answer at Anfield…   In the past it would have been written about …

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        The Europa League: our most successful manager and who we can play in the next round By Tony Attwood The Europa League games are part of the season ticket package, although the three group-stage home matches clearly don’t excite everyone who has paid their money in advance.   Some put their seat …

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    Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order.  By Bulldog Drummond Here’s the simple rule of journalism in relation to Arsenal.   If the club are perceived as doing badly then the manager is “under threat” and “being questioned”.  After that has been run a few …

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      Arsenal get seven in Europe – watch the video 3 November – it’s Ian Wright’s birthday By Tony Attwood There was a time in October when a couple of Arsenal results led to commentators suggesting that Arsenal’s rise to the top of the league was over.  The bubble we were told had …

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    The Europa League: our most successful manager and who we can play in the next round By Tony Attwood When it comes to pointing out the latest load of codswallop from the perfidious English media, Untold Arsenal is quite often not only in the lead but often we are simply out there on …

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Since Arsenal last played Zurich, they’ve turned themselves around. A bit. By Bulldog Drummond There is still quite a way to go in terms of knowing which teams have qualified for the next rounds of the Europa League. So far just four teams have already made it to the round of 16, and as a …

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    The “big 7” mini league – how the top teams are doing against each other By Bulldog Drummond FC Zurich have played nine matches in October and have finally they won a league match, beating FC Sion 1-0 away.  And amazingly they have also won a Europa League game beating Bodo Glimt 2-1 …

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    Why predicting football is about looking at trends, not individual games by Tony Attwood The story that Arsenal had a horror opening fixture list, started before the fixtures were even announced, with the Sun coming out with a catastrophically inaccurate “leaked” (ie made-up) fixture list for the new season.  Indeed this “leaked fixture …

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Qatar World Cup 2022 – Qatar travel advice – GOV.UK IF ALL LIVES MATTER, IF SLAVERY IS UNACCEPTABLE, WHAT IS THE FA DOING ABOUT QATAR? “The mandatory COVID app for the Qatar World Cup is basically government-sponsored spyware.” That is a prime fact of going to Qatar and watching the world cup, or indeed using …

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What’s best in the PL: one top scorer or several high scorers? By Tony Attwood The Athletic in its Daily Football Briefing for 31 October 2022 is running a piece which begins, “One year ago yesterday, Tottenham Hotspur were beaten by Manchester United.” They then add that the defeat was “so humiliating that Daniel Levy …

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Arsenal: the horror, the defeat, the win, the unbeaten, the future By Tony Attwood Top scorers are widely and hugely celebrated in English football, and never more so than in the case of Erling Haaland who has scored 17 league goals – an astonishing total.  Behind him in the charts at the moment comes Harry …

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      by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Nottingham Forest and the choice of the Championship Arsenal v Nottingham Forest: Form, fouls, tackles and cards Such were the results of yesterday we really do need to start with an updated league table.  You’ll know of course that our four nearest rivals have now all played …

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      Arsenal v Nottingham Forest: Form, fouls, tackles and cards By Bulldog Drummond This summer Arsenal brought in Gabriel Jesus, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Fábio Vieira, Matt Turner, and Marquinhos which, all things considered, makes a total of five players. Nottingham Forest on the other hand brought in 14 players for a fee, plus another …

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    How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. By Bulldog Drummond And so after eight consecutive wins we are now in a blip.  Five games in which Arsenal have only scored one goal or no goals at all.  Two games without a win.  And the games are coming thick …

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    By Tony Attwood and a calculator Arsenal’s new tactics explored in detail and what it means for the season ahead “Just 19 points separate the team at the top (Arsenal) and bottom of the league (Nottingham Forest), the smallest gap at this stage of a season since the 2008-09 campaign.” So says the …

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by Tony Attwood Media repeats untrue Arsenal story from 9 years ago, and its still untrue! As you may have heard Pablo Marí, who is currently on loan at Monza, is in hospital after being stabbed in a Milan supermarket.  Although he was not seriously hurt in the attack one person was killed and five …

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  PSV against Arsenal: the effect of PSV fans on the matches they attend By Bulldog Drummond Our last outing in the Europa League 2020-21 season included an opening run in the group stages in which we won all six matches which is a feat worth repeating…   Date Match Res Score Competition 22 Oct …

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      The 8 serious refereeing failings that are corrupting the Premier League By Bulldog Drummond The advent of our match with PSV Eindhoven from the Netherlands on their home ground has raised a question in relation to the tackles, fouls and yellow card tables that we normally publish before each league match. And …

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        Media repeats untrue Arsenal story from 9 years ago, and its still untrue! By Bulldog Drummond A look at the Uefa group A table shows a rather interesting point…   UEFA Europa League – Group A 2022/23 # Team Pl W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 4 4 …

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      Attacks on referees increase; but who is to blame? By Tony Attwood If you have been a regular reader of Untold you’ll know that while many commentators are very selective in the matches they choose to draw conconclusions, especially as to how Arsenal are doing (such as when they concluded that Arteta …

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By Tony Attwood Well, ok maybe one or two other places will point these reasons out but given the mood of negativity swirling around the media at the moment, you’ll be lucky to find them all in one place.  So prepare to smile with 10 reasons to be cheerful Reason to be cheerful 1:   We’re …

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