Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal continue to develop their own secret code Somehow the English media is playing down ManC’s situation. But in Europe…. If it is had been Arsenal, they would have “finally” and “at long last” managed a win in the Premier League” but no, this is a time of celebration:”Davies ensures …
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By Tony Attwood Somehow the English media is playing down ManC’s situation. But in Europe…. Some clubs just threaten others; Arsenal find new brilliance within The media love to portray football as a fixed game with clear rules while the variation between clubs is in fact the variation between the quality of players rather than …
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Some clubs just threaten others; Arsenal find new brilliance within A move toward a new style of club financing and a fair approach to football By Tony Attwood In England there tends to be a view that suggests that football happens in England, and we sort out the rules. Other countries play the …
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A move toward a new style of club financing and a fair approach to football Forest v Arsenal: the line up and the various score predictions for today’s game By Tony Attwood Successful businesses, whatever their area of work, never stand still, and football is no exception. If journalists and supporters have noted how …
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Forest v Arsenal: the line up and the various score predictions for today’s game Arsenal injuries and today, the dodgiest of dodgy referees By Tony Attwood Below is the full league table, and it is a result that will give Arsenal ever more belief that given the way things are going, Arsenal are …
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Arsenal injuries and today, the dodgiest of dodgy referees Each ref has his own favoured results – including our ref this weekend! By Tony Attwood According to the Standard Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta revealed after the match that Saka had been dealing with a minor illness issue, but he is expected to be …
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Why are these journalists so often, so anti-Arsenal? Recovering Arsenal’s lost past Nottingham Forest v Arseanal By Tony Attwood According to the Premier League Injuries website, Arsenal currently have four players injured and we have been sitting at that number for several days Top of the injury table are Hull City with nine …
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By Tony Attwood What happens if Manchester City win its appeal against the guilty verdict? Why are these journalists so often, so anti-Arsenal? Now Michael Oliver is a curious referee. He oversaw the second highest number of PL games of any PGMO referee last season, and managed to see more fouls per game (22.93) …
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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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