Howard Webb
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How fitting! 1-0 to the Arsenal on a day when the club was celebrating its 125th anniversary.Like on most big occasions (i.e. cup finals and semi finals), those involved for Arsenal struggled to rise above the mediocre.Even Robin van Persie proved to b…
Man at the match, Chary: Party poopers banished
The pre match 125 year centenary celebrations were the among the usual talking points before a game that saw the Arsenal in line for a top four spot for the first time this season.
With the choice of Arsenal legends for the three commemorative statues …
Arsenal v. Everton: the Big 125
I received an email this morning from the club outlining the events that are set to transpire tomorrow before 3pm GMT and by all accounts it looks like an emotional day is at hand.
It’s easy to joke about how the 125th anniversary is not really …
Arsenal 2-1 Sunderland: the Good, Bad, and Ugly
The Good
Any worries about a hangover from the international break were dispelled with an opening flurry of chances from Arsenal which saw the club’s most in-form player at the moment, Robin van Persie, score the opener in a record time of just …
Arsenal v. Sunderland: Webb of ennui
Housekeeping
For this weekend, I’m publishing the match preview late on Saturday and you all can use the comments here to give your match reactions. After the match on Sunday I will publish a post match By the Numbers on Arseblog News and follow…
Switching off
Arsenal… Arsenal… Arsenal… sensing a drop in energy levels the crowd is trying their best to ‘gee up’ the boys. Arsenal… Arsenal… Arsenal… Song swings the ball back to Per who plays wide to Sagna. A nice…
Cattermole goes full Barton
Check it out. Scott Parker, ‘Rain Man,’ looks Barton, acts Barton, not Barton. Tackle hard, play the ball around, but don’t pick fights and brag about it in the press after. Not Barton. You know William Gallas, ‘Forrest Gump.…
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.
Image from Arsenal.com used for editorial purposes only
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped [...]
Man Utd 8:2 Arsenal – lambs to the slaughter
What else could go wrong? How about Sagna and Vermaelen out as well, that’s what. So Arsenal started with: Szczesny,Read the Rest…
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Man U v. Arsenal: a Webb of Underdogs
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Underdog. Underdog!
I was listening to WNYC’s Radiolab podcast on the way in to work on Friday and the topic was Games. Sports of course featured prominently and the last segment was entirely taken up with a bit on underdogs.
One study they highlighted showed something like 80% [...]
Spurs lose to United at Old Trafford again
Match previews for games at Old Trafford are all pretty much based on the same template no matter the season. We sort of know we’re going to lose so we dress up the pre-match war cry to cite how ‘it’s all about the performance’ and that it’s important …
Did Man U 1-0 Arsenal turn the season?
At the behest of Zach from A Beautiful Numbers Game I have gone back over the data from yesterday’s post and created a rolling or moving average of every game’s results in terms of points per game indexed by match day.
What stood out immediately compared to the graph from yesterday is that you see more of [...]
Ferguson Charged Over Postive Comments About Webb
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been charged with improper conduct by the Football Association for comments about referee Howard Webb, though these comments were of a positive nature.
Ferguson charged for Webb comments
Contribution by Adam Hicks Sir Alex Ferguson’s pre-match comments about referee Howard Webb have resulted in a charge of improper conduct by the Football Association. The comments came in the build-up to United’s crucial league game with Chelsea at Old Trafford last weekend. United beat Chelsea 2-1 to leave them needing one point from their [...]
Top Four? Try Top Six
I listened to Arsene Wenger’s penultimate ATVO Pre-Match Exclusive this morning hoping to find something different from the usual talking points that he hits: Arsenal are mentally strong, they played beautiful football, they played too many games in January, they deserve to win, he’s very upset, etc. etc. Unfortunately, he didn’t hit anything that made me [...]
[VIDEO] More proof that Howard Webb doesn’t support Manchester United
Rotherham surrporter & Premier League referee, Howard Web. Howard Webb will referee today’s potential Premier League decider at Old Trafford between Manchester United and Chelsea. And as expected, many football supporters (ABU’s) up and down the country have been making sly comments about the Sheffielder being bias towards United, so I would like to end…
Match Program: Chelsea
Manchester United v Chelsea Old Trafford Premier League Sunday, May 8th, 16:05 To be perfectly honest, I’m tired of hearing that this game is the ‘title decider’ because we’re the only side that can clearly stake ownership of th…
Webb is in: Should we be worried?
Howard Webb will take charge of Sunday’s potential title decider at Old Trafford. Now, before you sink your pain into some unlucky bloke’s face, do we as Chelsea supporters even have reason to be upset?
Cordial debate
Webb is known for a pro-United bias. Ryan Babel, hell, he absolutely loves the guy.
But how much of that [...]
Injuries, Football, Dowd, and more
Raymond Verheijen
You would be excused if you haven’t heard of Mr. Verheijen or if maybe you know of him as “that guy who tweeted something about Gareth Bale.” I admit that I didn’t know who he was until yesterday when I was listening to the Guardian Football Weekly Extra Podcast with James Richardson.
With no other news [...]
How Arsenal won the 2010/2011 Premier League, Jessie Venture posts from the future
Hello truth seekers.
I’ve just returned from a top secret mission into the future and while I know you’re all just dying to hear what happens with the Kolo Toure drug rap and the Ashley Cole shooting incident both of those have ties to my mission and I’m not at liberty to discuss them. Put it this [...]
Statistical analysis: Do United get all the penalties?
Over the last number of years, ABU’s and others would always say that Manchester United always get penalties, and that teams never get penalties at Old Trafford. Well after a review of the past ten and a bit seasons, I think we can smash this myt…
Focus on Arsenal forget about Foy
Arsenal and Wolves are two teams that go into tomorrow’s clash from two completely different ends of the footballing spectrum. On the one hand, Wolves are riding high. They beat Manchester United last weekend and the result was hailed across the Black Country as an epic win. On the other hand, Arsenal let their fans down [...]
Rooney ‘blanked’ in Tottenham
The grandfathers of the nation’s capital breathed a collective sigh of relief on Sunday night as Wayne Rooney left London.“We don’t like him and his sort,” croaked local pensioner Alfie Cornwallet, 77. “We call ‘em ‘silver surfers’. The…
The Webb report: or how I learned to stop worrying and love Man U
In the 2004-2005 season, Howard Webb became a full time Premier League Official. Since then he’s officiated 289 games between the Premier League, the FA Cup, the League Cup, the Champions League, and the World Cup.
He’s steadily grown in stature as well, starting out officiating the League Championship finals and moving up to the fiery League [...]
Webb makes the headlines but Henry make most of the days for Arsenal.
My mood was just stands for 5 minutes, after watching another clown’s joke from Berbatov to earn MU a penalty. That’s it, Liverpool are finished and by the way Howard Webb was involved again with MU matches.
Straight away I change my channel to Asian …
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