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Arsenal’s new tactics explored in detail and what it means for the season ahead When a club wins the first 3 games of the season, does it win the league? By Tony Attwood The first point to be reiterated is that the website that was our source of data of much of our data in …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal developing Arsenal’s new tactics explored in detail and what it means for the season ahead When a club wins the first 3 games of the season, does it win the league? Arsenal flying, and everyone else makes the headlines! Media completely misses Arsenal’s astounding tactical change What did we learn from …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal developing… Arsenal’s new tactics explored in detail and what it means for the season ahead Arsenal flying, and everyone else makes the headlines! Media completely misses Arsenal’s astounding tactical change Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? How the media created the myth of the gap between …
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Referees suggest that Tottenham are twice as good at tackling as Man City! by Tony Attwood “Arsenal breaching FFP rules” is being covered in a lot of the media today with headlines such as “Arsenal placed on UEFA’s FFP watchlist as 10 clubs set to be sanctioned next month” and “Arsenal among clubs on UEFA’s …
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Background: 2021 – Which PL clubs foul the most and which are fouled the most? By Tony Attwood Across the last ten years, seven clubs have been in the Premier League every season. The regular big six and Everton. Two clubs stand out for having kept tackles down: Arsenal and Liverpool. Two are known for …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood So now we know; after three games Arsenal are out on their own: three games, three wins, two points ahead …
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By Tony Attwood Recently the Mirror published a piece in which they said that, “Admittedly, it is still very early in the season, and Arsenal know after last year not to judge things at this stage of the campaign”. And yet this is a newspaper that habitually makes judgements very early in the season. For …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division “The jury is still out on Mikel Arteta at Arsenal, he’s done a decent job, but not a great job, says Danny Mills.” So pronounced the Sun on …
by Andrew Crawshaw What did we learn from Matchweek 2 From our match Darren England struggled at times, possibly why he is only on VAR duty this weekend Min 21 no yellow card for Leicester Min 34 no yellow card when Saka was taken out ref played advantage Mike Dean correctly advised Mr England to …
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By Tony Attwood Confirmed team: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Odegaard, Partey, Xhaka, Saka, Jesus, Martinelli Subs: Turner, Tierney, Tomiyasu, Holding, Elneny, Lokonga, Vieira, Smith Rowe, Nketiah But beware the kick off is shown on the Evening Standard Website as 5.30pm GMT, Sky Sports. That is quite wrong. It is 5.30pm BST. The UK is NOT …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Bulldog Drummond Referee Craig Pawson: his bias does Arsenal no favours against Bournemouth Clubs are being encouraged to tackle more and more …
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Suddenly a key set of referee statistics does not appear. Why is that??? Bournemouth v Arsenal: a visit to the smallest ground in the league By Bulldog Drummond Just a week or so ago we looked at the issue of referees and the question of home and away bias. You can read the whole article …
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By Tony Attwood So we have finally got some of our data back – although not on all sites, and not everyone is sorted out yet. For example type “fouls” into the search box of Whoscored.com and at the moment of writing (1155 BST, Friday) one sees this… Results for ‘fouls’ from over 500 tournaments, 10,000 …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division The data vanishes By Tony Attwood This is the moment where we would normally start putting in the fouls per game per club …
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Winning the opening two league games is not that common for Arsenal Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Sir Hardly Anyone On 9 February this year Bournemouth played …
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Last season the table after 3 games was headline news. But it won’t be this season by Sir Hardly Anyone Well obviously yes, and as we pointed out before they have indeed been getting better. The only problem is that the story keeps going around that they have been getting worse. The three most successful …
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By Tony Attwood Last season after three games the media predicted Arsenal’s total decline. In fact we ended up fifth. Which suggests that predictions made from a selected number of matches can be interesting, but need to be dealt with cautiously. Winning the opening two league games is not that common for Arsenal as we …
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by Sir Hardly Anyone We are still lagging behind in the number of players tipped to be coming to Arsenal last summer, which reached 134 players. If you are interested you can see what happened to them in our article from last summer. Meanwhile here are the 117 players coming to Arsenal this summer – …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood The more clubs tackle, the more they get away with it. The stats. Journalists may, by and large, choose to …
Read More “Why Arsenal recruited a new defence first, then a new attack”
By Tony Attwood What does the league table tell us after two games – and come to that just how far is it possible for a club to rise or fall from the second game of the season to the end of the season? A year ago, after two games West Ham United were top …
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Arsenal flying, and everyone else makes the headlines! by Tony Attwood 2022/23 is only the sixth time this century that Arsenal have won their first two league matches in a season. Put another way, only in about a quarter of the seasons Arsenal have played since 2000 have they opened with two wins. The last …
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Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? By Sir Hardly Anyone Each monday, the Guardian runs a column on 10 talking points from the weekend’s action, which this monday manages to include nothing at all about Arsenal. There was, it seems no talking point. At least none concerning the club that …
Read More “Arsenal? Nothing to see here. It’s only news when they’re losing.”
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood Having several hobbies makes for a full life, but means I sometimes miss all the fun. And thus it was …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone, Curiously, for such huge questions as those posed in the headline, these are not questions that are being posed in the football media. Maybe that’s because media editors think that football is too big an industry to fail, or that supporters aren’t really interested, or that the story has been around …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in August: All the anniversaries day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood It was noisy, upbeat, vibrant and as far as I could see, full – exactly what you want for a …
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