By Tony Attwood Albert Stuivenberg and “North London Forever”: two events from the weekend How many points does it usually take to win the league: or come fourth? Of late I have been taking a look match by match at Arsenal’s position after a set number of games, just to see how the club is …

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By Tony Attwood Last weekend two totally unrelated events struck me as important beyond the game that we went to see.  The game of course always takes over; it is the whole point of travelling a fair old distance, but there is always other stuff at the edges and sometimes the other stuff stays in …

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By Tony Attwood The figures that reveal how referee bias is achieved in the Premier League Arsenal v Leeds: why did the referee not send Ayling off at once? A question was raised in the office: is the Premier League getting harder to win?  And the, is it getting harder to get into the top …

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By Tony Attwood You might recall that in a recent post we revealed just how different the way teams are treated by different referees in the Premier League.   In case you missed it, you can flip back to the whole article here, or just glimpse at the table below or see the data used again …

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By Tony Attwood Over two thirds of Arsenal games this season handled by just seven referees As you will have seen on TV or in person if you were there, ex-Arsenal player Luke Ayling committed a monumentally horrific tackle on Martinelli to have himself sent off in yesterday’s game.  If you have not seen the …

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Arsenal are back in Europe: but who else is on the up this season? Arsenal v Leeds; Leeds new manager, recent history, levels of fouling. Arsenal v Leeds (who have had 27 managers so far this century) By Bulldog Drummond As we have seen in recent posts, everything is pointing in Arsenal’s direction for this …

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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Leeds; Leeds new manager, recent history, levels of fouling. Arsenal v Leeds (who have had 27 managers so far this century) Arsenal v Leeds: two teams travelling in utterly different directions The simple trick that will take Arsenal racing up the league next season Although Tottenham can overtake Arsenal if …

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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal against Leeds in history is a bit like Arsenal this season – runs of wins, then runs of defeats.  Consider this extraordinary run of games… Between 19 March 1958 and 10 December 1977 Arsenal played Leeds United 35 times; 33 in the League, one in the FA Cup and one in …

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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Leeds: two teams travelling in utterly different directions The simple trick that will take Arsenal racing up the league next season Arsenal have the third-best home record in the league this season – here are the top clubs for home matches only.  Manchester United have the same number of home …

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By Bulldog Drummond The simple trick that will take Arsenal racing up the league next season Liverpool v Tottenham, 7 May: An Arsenal preview There is an interesting article in the Telegraph today headlined “Why Arsenal have backed Mikel Arteta with new contract without top four secured” There is much talk along the lines of …

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By Bulldog Drummond Liverpool v Tottenham, 7 May: An Arsenal preview Just how much are Premier League referees biased in favour of home teams? This season Arsenal have the third highest number of wins of any club in the league.  Only Manchester City and Liverpool have won more games, which says an awful lot about …

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By Bulldog Drummond Normally we don’t preview games not involving Arsenal, but with just four games to go and two points between us and Tottenham, it seems there is as much attention being given by many Arsenal fans to the games involving the neighbours as there is to Arsenal’s games. So I thought it might …

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By Tony Attwood  5 May 1966: just 4,554 turn up for an Arsenal home league game For a long period during the pandemic, Premier League games were for the most part played with no crowds present.  Simultaneously the traditional balance between home and away wins was upset.   During the “no crowds” period only 38% of …

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Over two thirds of Arsenal games this season handled by just seven referees The WSL – One Week Left and all to play for Everyone knows about Arsenal’s first three league games of the season – three defeats, relegation was looming, Arteta either was going to be sacked or ought to be sacked, the squad …

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By Tony Attwood The WSL – One Week Left and all to play for Arsenal have returned to the level of the late Wenger era. Now can we finish the job? Let me repeat that headline: over two-thirds of Arsenal games this season are handled by just seven referees. I make no allegation that any …

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by Andrew Crawshaw With only one week left in the season nothing is yet decided at the top of the table.  The champions will either be Chelsea or Arsenal and the final Champions League place will be either Manchester City or United.  Birmingham City are odds on to be relegated but it is not yet …

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By Tony Attwood Don’t be fooled: Arsenal don’t have a small squad The 67 players Arsenal want to sign and 24 tipped to leave Occasionally through this season I’ve been comparing where Arsenal is now in terms of points gained, goals scored and goals conceded, with where the team stood at this same point in …

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By Tony Attwood Throughout this season we have been told over and over again that Arsenal have a small squad.  And not just a small squad, a squad so small that it is positively hindering Arsenal’s attempt to make any serious assault on the Premier League.  Certainly not enough to get into the Champions League. …

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Part 1: The players Arsenal are planning to buy – according to the media. Yes it looks all change at Arsenal this summer, according to the media.   Of course that is what they said last summer, and the summer before and…  Each time they have been hopelessly wrong, getting only between 1 and 3 percent …

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By Tony Attwood In February this year Untold presented the case against the Court of Arbitration in Sport and against its ring-master, John Coates. In that article, we pointed out that John Coates was in charge when Manchester City was let off the hook over its financial doings.   Mr Coates is also the outgoing president …

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By Bulldog Drummond The story so far… West Ham v Arsenal – the portents look promising WHU v Arsenal: the injuries and cards and why are clubs fouling 4 teams particularly? West Ham v Arsenal; the match where players were drugged and 1 defeat in the last 13 West Ham v Arsenal: the injuries and …

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by Bulldog Drummond As we have seen, Arsenal’s injuries stay at a very low level, with just two players marked down to miss this game (Tierney and Partey).  Worst hit in the league at the moment are Manchester United: 9 players out Everton: 8 players out Brentford: 7 players out. (figures from Premier League injuries) …

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WHU v Arsenal: the injuries and cards and why are clubs fouling 4 teams particularly? West Ham v Arsenal – the portents look promising By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal first played West Ham in 1906 in the FA Cup.  A 1-1 draw in Plumstead was followed by a victory in West Ham 2-3. The next FA …

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By Bulldog Drummond Explanation: in this piece I started out with a regular look at injuries and yellow cards.  But in so doing stumbled upon one of the most curious sets of stats I’ve seen in the Premier League in the past year.  So, sorry, I got diverted, but we’ll be back to WHU v …

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