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
Why are these journalists so often, so anti-Arsenal? Recovering Arsenal’s lost past By Tony Attwood Manchester City’s appeal against their being found guilty of over 100 financial offences comes down to its view that the testimonies of a couple of dozen witnesses, which they think were dismissed in the previous examination of their …
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Recovering Arsenal’s lost past Nottingham Forest v Arseanl 18 October and then it is Bayern By Tony Attwood One of the issues that led to the start of Untold Arsenal as a daily blog, getting on for 20 years ago, was an observation I made as to the way in which some journalists …
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By Tony Attwood Since 2009 we have been trying to build a complete history of Arsenal FC. And of course it inevitably has turned out to be more complicated than that sounds. Not least because some bits of information are hard to find, some have been wrongly reported over the years, and no one …
Why can’t Arsenal make a profit? (part 1). Why can’t Arsenal make a profit? Part 2 By Tony Attwood So looking forward for a moment we have two games of what might be differing difficulty and differing proportions coming up – Nottingham Forest in the League of course, and then Bayern Munich. Forest …
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By Tony Attwood This article continues from Why can’t Arsenal make a profit? (part 1). These are actual figures as reported in Arsenal’s report and accounts posted at Companies House…. (Last season’s figures are not published yet). Figures are in millions of pounds. Year to May ’23 Year to May ’24 Year …
Arsenal, the table, and the results the headlines forget to mention The Regulator speaks out on ManC, but what happens to clubs that go bust? By Tony Attwood That is a very good question in the headline, (and I say that even though I wrote it myself), and like so many good questions …
There is a particular kind of Saturday that every Arsenal supporter knows. Arsenal have played early, won, and for the next two or three hours the afternoon belongs not to what Arsenal did but to what everyone else does next. The title race, the top four, the mood of the week ahead – all …
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How support of distant clubs is wilting away, as Arsenal secure their position. How has the financial doping of both ManC and Chelsea affected Arsenal… By Tony Attwood The ultimate job of sorting out Manchester City falls to the Independent Football Regulator: David Kogan. He’s said he will resign if he faces any …
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How has the financial doping of both ManC and Chelsea affected Arsenal… ManC can’t even see how much each new mistake is damaging them By Tony Attwood “Barrios strikes after 53 seconds as Atlético pile misery on 10-man Manchester United” says the Guardian headline and I must admit that there was a …
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Arsenal XI vs Lille: Raya; Timber, Konsa, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly; Guimaraes, Rice, Merino; Eze, Gyokeres, Madueke Subs: Arrizabalaga, Meslier, Calafiori, Mosquera, White, Salmon, O’Neill, Hashi, Saka, Odegaard, Havertz, Dowman
By Nitram … and how was it even allowed to happen Now that is a question. It is a question that is very difficult to answer. In fact it has many different answers, depending on how you look at. The truth is it’s way too complex for me as a laymen to delve that deeply …
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Arsenal v LOSC: the background to LOSC and the tie ManC can’t even see how much each new mistake is damaging them By Tony Attwood Now here is a funny thing I have never come across before. According to the various sources of information I use to find past historic results between clubs …
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Champions League: First Group Stage ManC can’t even see how much each new mistake is damaging them Can we be reaching the end of one club always winning the league? By Tony Attwood The current club that is generally known as LOSC has as its full name Lille Olympique Sporting Club, and was …
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Moving on to our next game: How have LOSC been doing? When it comes to explaining football maybe there just is no time to think By Tony Attwood I am fairly sure a lot of people approached yesterday feeling a bit sorry for ManC fans; after all, it wasn’t them who arranged all …
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Moving on to our next game: How have LOSC been doing? When it comes to explaining football maybe there just is no time to think By Tony Attwood In the four years from 2019/20 and 2023/23 Arsenal lost €319m, very close t ot the Real Madrid loss of €310m. The loss for Arsenal …
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When it comes to explaining football, maybe there just is no time to think I can’t remember when I have seen a worse load of tripe on a pitch than this By Tony Attwood You wouldn’t know it from the media, for whom the ManC cheating is still the only story, as they go …
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I can’t remember when I have seen a worse load of tripe on a pitch than this Now the ManC issues have been revealed does that mean the PL is not fixed any more? By Tony Attwood Sometimes newspaper headlines do tell a bit of a story. There’s “Man Utd make worst start …
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By Tony Attwood I don’t normally watch football on TV apart from the games involving Arsenal that (obviously) I can’t get to. But this weekend has been somewhat different from normal, and I have ended up at home alone on Sunday evening. So with nothing better to do (which basically means nothing to do) …
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Political interference in Man City appeal: how we lost football once again By Tony Attwood So here we are, second and can’t be overtaken at the moment, although Manchester C can go further ahead with their game in hand. And indeed I presume their match fixing is still going on, so they are more …
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By Tony Attwood Is it fair to call a radio station a “sprout”? After all, it is not a green vegetable, but listening to Talk Sport this morning in what broadcasters call the “build-up”, I am really starting to wonder… The problem is I can’t get to the Arsenal game today, and the …
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Arsenal v Leeds – update on injuries and reasons to expect a victory Arsenal v Leeds United. How this referee compares with others… Political interference in Man City appeal: how we lost football once again By Tony Attwood Well, it does indeed seem so strange that Arsenal actually have an actual match …
By Tony Attwood “Arsenal have confirmed that manager Mikel Arteta and his coaching team have all signed new contracts until June 2030.” Back in September, it was reported by Sports Mole that Arteta had agreed a new long-term deal with the Premier League champions, which included a sharp pay rise on his £10m-a-year …
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Political interference in Man City appeal: how we lost football once again Arteta signs management contract until 2030 By Tony Attwood The Premier League have announced that Paul Tierney will be the main official when these two teams meet on Saturday at the Emirates Stadium as football finally gets going again after what seems …
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Arteta signs management contract until 2030 Leeds have returned from the lower levels – so how did they do last year? By Tony Attwood There did for a moment seem a real chance of the freedom of clubs to react in their own way to the activities of Manchester City was real. But then …
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Leeds have returned from the lower levels – so how did they do last year? After the event, the updates. The ManC case and our managers By Tony Attwood Mikel Arteta has signed a new contract with Arsenal lasting until 2030 – which, although expected, was still a relief since his existing contract would …
