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Is it possible that Arsenal could retain the title next season? What’s wrong with Declan Rice and how do we make it better? By Tony Attwood Players are due to return to Arsenal to start pre-season training just a day or two after the World Cup final. But of course many won’t make it …
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What’s wrong with Declan Rice and how do we make it better? How Fifa handles regulations – a quick review By Tony Attwood Having exhausted most other topics during the WC, some of the media had turned to the number of World Cup managers who have been dismissed or have resigned during the inter-season …
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By Tony Attwood The decision of England to play Declan Rice for half their quarter-final match in the current round of internationals has been criticised in some medical quarters, as it could well lead to serious damage to Rice’s health and hope for a long-term recovery. Now I am not a medical doctor, and …
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We are losing our belief that football is not fixed, and that is incredibly dangerous Here’s the bleedin’ obvious. In football not all countries are equal. By Tony Attwood FIFA, as we know, does scandals. And really, it doesn’t mind, because each time we look at them they have another expansionist plan in …
Here’s the bleedin’ obvious. In football, not all countries are equal. The two approaches to football: ignore financial rules or bring on the youth team By Tony Attwood It is more than likely that in days to come, this is going to be the moment when historians agree that Fifa lost it. Indeed, the …
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By Tony Attwood In league football it’s different. Arsenal joined the Football League to help it secure the League’s position as the definitive national league, rather than as just being a northern variant on the Southern League. That Arsenal were a mid-table side in those early years was neither here nor there. …
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Rioting in the streets after a world cup game: I don’t want to pick up the bill What wrong with football; what’s wrong with Declan By Tony Attwood One of the interesting things about this World Cup compared with many that have gone before is that the debate about corruption has been much more …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone It seems this is a time of arguments. We have, for example, the headline “Egypt accuse Fifa of World Cup ‘fix’ after Argentina’s remarkable comeback” and “Trump and Infantino have poisoned this World Cup” and those headlines come from the Telegraph (unfortunately, you can only read the articles if …
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By Tony Attwood Why we shouldn’t forget the positives achieved by Uefa and Fifa Bruno Guimaraes is the latest name we have to learn how to pronounce It was so long ago that you have probably forgotten the headlines that told us that, “Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has led a chorus of condemnations …
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By Christophe Jost The thing about FIFA and UEFA is that they redistribute most of the gazillions they earn – and the jetsetting of Infantino and co is just a drop in the water when you consider the amounts. So even the African clubs who have been hard hit by the refereeing, politics, …
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35 Players reported be media to be heading to Arsenal, but we await for the horrors to unfurl Maybe some people do believe us: Fifa is not worthy of running anything By Tony Attwood Bruno Guimarães Rodriguez Moura is the latest name in the journalistic schedule of players who might or might not come to …
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There is a fair old number of players still taking part in the World Cup and so unable to start their three weeks “off” before getting ready for the new season. But lurking beneath is a real threat, and sadly it is one from an old source: Man City set to poach another Arsenal …
The effect the transfer chit chat has on Arsenal’s future and who they buy Football civil war is just what we wanted and have needed for so long By Tony Attwood We have been saying it for quite a long time now – Fifa is not fit to run football in this world. …
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Football civil war is just what we wanted and have needed for so long Let’s change the rules of football as we go along; it’s more fun that way. Transfers: 6 July. Arsenal signing 33 players! By Tony Attwood Take a look at the transfer rumour stories that emerge from the internet moment …
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Let’s change the rules of football as we go along; it’s more fun that way. Transfers: 6 July. Arsenal signing 33 players! By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold, you’ll know that from the off we have been against international (as in country v country) games of football. …
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Transfers: 6 July. Arsenal signing 33 players! How transfers are manipulated to help everyone find something to say By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of this site or its companion from the Arsenal History Society, you might know that we are often critical of refereeing and the PGMO. But even …
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How transfers are manipulated to help everyone find something to say Football supporters are treated like plankton – and it is not just England fans By Tony Attwood Transfer rumours relating to players coming to Arsenal, as reported in the media. These have been collated by me but I don’t guarantee the accuracy …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s squad: do we have space for all 28 players we are signing? Football supporters are treated like plankton – and it is not just England fans And so we have moved on from the seemingly endless list of players that Arsenal are interested in to players that Arsenal are interested …
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Football supporters are treated like plankton – and it is not just England fans Arsenal Transfers: 4 July. AFC sign twins! By Tony Attwood Now, if you believe anything you read in the media, according to the Metro, things are getting desperate. For despite finishing comfortably clear of the chasing pack, “the Gunners were …
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Arsenal Transfers: 4 July. AFC sign twins! If it wasn’t for the world cup these people would still be alive By Tony Attwood “England fans treated like plankton with kick-off shambles” says a headline in the Telegraph, and although not of a right-wing persuasion, for once I agree with them. I don’t watch country …
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If it wasn’t for the world cup these people would still be alive Is this headline football reality or football gone utterly bonkers? Details of transfer tales compiled from blogs and newspapers that cover Arsenal matters. The list of Arsenal players who are tipped to be signed by the club this summer …
Is this headline football reality or football gone utterly bonkeers? 100 consecutive seasons in the top division: by why no celebration from Arsenal? By Tony Attwood I must say that although I don’t find the World Cup the slightest bit interesting, as I get my footballing pleasures from yer actual league football, I …
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100 consecutive seasons in the top division: by why no celebraton from Arsenal? Gabriel scores, Martinelli selected and Englsih refs have a new organisation (but no sign of change) By Tony Attwood We are used to football in the UK getting headlines about hooliganism, fighting, and the like. Indeed I have been at …
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By Tony Attwood Last season 2025/26 was Arsenal’s 100th consecutive season in the top division of English football – a series of seasons that started in 1919 as professional football resumed after the First World War. And it is an absolute record. Now of course it is not my job to keep track …
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The 30 players that the media currently say that Arsenal are chasing this summer Are Fifa incompetent, a bunch of crooks, or the backdrop of violence? By Tony Attwood On 18 May 2026, Martinelli was selected for Brazil’s squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. On 29 June 2026, he scored his fifth international goal for …
