Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
How Arteta turned Arsenal into Champions and how he aims to keep them at the top By Tony Attwood It has just been pointed out to me that Arsenal has become the first team in history to go a whole Premier League season WITHOUT receiving a red card or conceding a penalty. I’ve not …
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If you were, thank you for listening to Untold on Radio 5…. So here we are, the final moments of a season never to be forgotten – and a statue. By Tony Attwood According to the media, big clubs like Arsenal suddenly decide to make a bid for a top player without much preparation. …
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If you were, thank you for listening to Untold on Radio 5, but if not, there’s still a game today. So here we are, the final moments of a season never to be forgotten – and a statue. By Tony Attwood According to the Standard, Bukayo Saka, William Saliba and David Raya did …
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So here we are, the final moments of a seasn never to be forgotten – and a statue. Palace v Arsenal: who cares what happens – it is just a fun afternoon out. By Tony Attwood Thank you to everyone who heard me do my bit on BBC Radio Five Live this morning, nattering …
Palace v Arsenal: who cares what happens – it is just a fun afternoon out. The last hooray: Palace on Sunday, and its all ours By Tony Attwood And thus we get to Crystal Palace away at 4pm, and it is on the tele as well. Our record against the Palace is …
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The last hooray: Palace on Sunday, and its all ours Are the media running football? By Tony Attwood Attempted backtracking is never very pleasant to see or read, and that is what the media is giving us big time. No one actually says, “I thought Arsenal would get it all along,” or “the rest …
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Are the media running football? It appears I’m not the only one that thinks so. How clubs not winning much are trying to save themselves financially – but finding it difficult By Tony Attwood Yes indeed, here we go with the last game and there’s nothing to play for, since we have done it …
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How Arsenal made it to the very top Why are so many Premier League clubs losing so much money? by Nitram As anyone who reads my ramblings may of noticed, recently I have recommended a blog called The Football Terrace, headed up by a Man Utd fan named Terry Flewers. He is very …
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How Arsenal made it to the very top Why are so many Premier League clubs losing so much money? By Tony Attwood This season, Liverpool looks like finishing fourth or fifth, perhaps around 20 points below Manchester City and maybe 30 points below Arsenal. And yet in the course of this season they made …
By Tony Attwood Why are so many Premier League clubs losing so much money? And so there we are: Champions at last! Thanks to every player and every supporter. If you have been reading Untold for a while, you will know that it is not unknown for there to be a negative comment or …
By Tony Attwood And so there we are: Champions at last! Thanks to every player and every supporter. Champions Champions Champions Winning the league this season takes Arsenal up to 14 top division titles – something I did not hear many people on the radio say yesterday, although everyone seemed to want …
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Champions Champions Champions Why I want Arsenal to win the league and have an asterisk in this season’s league table By Tony Attwood It is of course a bit hard to get up and write a commentary first thing in the morning after a night like that, and even harder to find anything …
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As the investigation into ManC finances evolves, what now? Why I want Arsenal to win the league and have an asterisk in this season’s league table By Tony Attwood An independent commission has reported looked at Manc’s accounts, although we don’t know what was found. And as I have stressed repeatedly, I have no evidence …
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The ultimate truth on why refereeing in the Premier League is not all it should be Is Arsenal really the most hated club in football? By Tony Attwood So now we have a new way of insulting and attacking Arsenal. “most gruelling of title pursuits…”, and “another night of football as pain, sport …
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Arsenal against West Ham: results across the years and the game tonight The ultimate truth on why refereeing in the Premier League is not all it should be By Tony Attwood There is a project going on at Arsenal, but it isn’t the one that the media wants you to believe in. You …
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The ultimate truth on why refereeing in the Premier League is not all it should be Is Arsenal really the most hated club in football? By Tony Attwood In terms of Arsenal against Burnley across the years, Arsenal have won 58, and lost 34 with 24 draws in League and FA Cup matches, …
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Is Arsenal really the most hated club in football? The most detailed research into what is wrong with PL refereeing, yet found. Part 1 By Tony Attwood Referees have to declare their interest in clubs before the start of the season, and it is up to them to keep the list up to date. …
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The most detailed research into what is wrong with PL refereeing, yet found. Part 1 Is it possible to have error free refereeing in football? By Tony Attwood. Normally, on the days before an Arsenal match, we’d be focusing exclusively on the forthcoming game, but there was recently an article in the Guardian which …
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By Tony Attwood. Full acknowledgement of the source of much of the data for this piece is given at the end. Is it possible to have error free refereeing in football? Arsenal are almost there, with just minor issues ahead When Untold first started publishing articles about refereeing, we were enormously helped and supported by …
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Is it possible to have error free refereeing in football? Arsenal are almost there, with just minor issues ahead By Tony Attwood In answer to the question in the headline, I would say probably not, because the game moves at speed and we have the notion of “playing the advantage” within the rules. For …
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By Tony Attwod The Premier League is now approaching its ultimate crunch moment Arsenal’s red and yellow card numbers have collapsed this season. The figures are amazing. So we are still a couple of days away from our next matchday, which is on May 18 at home to Burnley, although elsewhere today we …
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By Tony Attwood Has there ever been a moment like this? A moment when the whole club and its fans seem to be in total turmoil, not to say actually fighting each other. To see what is going on, one only has to look at some of the headlines – and these are all appearing …
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I am often interested in the stories that football journalists don’t tell us, as much as the ones they do, not least because they tend to reveal the bias that journalists and their editors have in their reporting. And one set of stats that is not being reported stands out this season: the yellow …
How a new part of league football has been thoroughly weaponised. Who runs football? PGMO? The clubs? And what happened to the Combination? By Tony Attwood There once was a time when managers and other officials in football clubs watched what they said, being careful not to blame referees even for mistakes, let alone …
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