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By Tony Attwood Are there cover ups in football? Cover ups of corruption, incompetence, match fixing, the old boys network looking after each other, abuse of money, abuse of power, that sort of thing…. Certainly in the case of the child sex abuse scandals that have swept across English football in recent years it …
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by Tony Attwood According to Amnesty International, Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi owners are “brazenly trying to “sportswash” their country’s “deeply tarnished image” by pouring money into the Premier League club.” And indeed given the level of support that Manchester City has, their success in the league, and the utter reluctance or perhaps inability of any …
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On Monday 20 August Untold may disappear for a while. For details please see the home page. by Tony Attwood In March this year, the Sky Sports website opened an article on refereeing with the comment by Keith Hackett that players and pundits criticising referees in the Premier League is “a little bit like …
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By Tony Attwood According to the Guardian “Chelsea have been accused, after an initial Fifa investigation, of breaking the rules on the signing of 25 foreign players under the age of 18. The number of cases could rise, with the matter now in the hands of the governing body’s disciplinary committee, which has the power to …
Read More “Child trafficking allegations return to haunt Chelsea”
By Tony Attwood Goodness knows how many police raids, tax fraud allegations, court cases, questions about contractual clauses and the like we’ve covered in the nearly 10 years we’ve been running, but it has been quite a few. Spanish football has been rife with scandals, but there has been some activity in the UK too. …
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by Tony Attwood A couple of days back, police in Spain say arrested Ángel María Villar Llona, the president of Spain’s football association, Real Federación Española de Fútbol, on suspicion of embezzling funds. It is an interesting move because Villar Llona is also a senior vice-president at Fifa and Uefa those two gloriously clean and untarnished organisations …
By Tony Attwood The web site Footstats has recently produced some very interesting league tables of its own, and through their kind permission, I am able to bring you one or two of these, starting with the Premier League Table of fouls. You may remember (if you were paying attention) that in the early days …
By Tony Attwood “The Gunners should have been applauded as CHAMPIONS if officials had done their jobs properly.” To confirm from the off, that is not a quote from Untold, but from a national UK newspaper – the Sun. OK not my favourite paper, but actually one that I would have said a …
By Bulldog Drummond The review of recent events, and the league table for 2015 to date appears in the first part of the Southampton Arsenal review. The referee preview also is here. . Now moving on… . The team is most likely to be Giroud Campbell Ozil Walcott Ramsey Flamini Monreal Koscielny Mertersacker Bellerin …
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By Walter Broeckx A spokesman of the Austrian football federation said last Thursday against the press agency Reuter that Michel Platini can count on the full support of the whole Uefa. This was said after a meeting held in Nyon. An emergency meeting it was about the position of Uefa-president Michel Platini. As we all …
Read More “FIFA, Uefa and the national FA’s : the same pile of shit?”
By Walter Broeckx If it wasn’t so sad, it sure would be funny. We all know about Fifa and about how rotten and corrupt some of their members are. This is not invented by Untold; we only see how other people who have examined Fifa and their top dogs came to this conclusion. It is …
Read More “Fifa see North Korea not as a warning but as a blueprint”
By Tony Attwood Does Chelsea shake when the USA uses the language of the AAA? Or come to that does Liverpool worry that no statement from the club will ever be believed again after the admitted lying over Suarez’ contract? Do Rangers fans worry that their club has to pay 30% p.a. interest on a …
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By Tony Attwood And so, after years of pointing out that there is something seriously wrong with refereeing in the Premier League, the English papers have started to admit that there might be a problem. Not all of them, and most are hedging their bets talking of referee mistakes, and the views of “Arsenal supporters”, …
Read More “At last the English media recognise there’s something seriously wrong with the referees”
By Walter Broeckx Look who’s talking. Joseph Blatter the big boss of the organisation that is out there in order to make as much money as possible out of football, uses all means including overloading players as much as possible with meaningless games on every occasion, (also known as Fifa) has spoken. He has said …
Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ———————– Money Laundering and Football “Rather than simply being used as a conduit for money laundering the proceeds of other crimes, there is some sort of activity relating to player …
————————————— Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Follow Arsenal’s History here By Tony Attwood About four years ago a number of Arsenal supporters began to be concerned about what we saw as poor refereeing in the …
Read More “Are the Refs in the Premier League bent? The evidence is worrying.”
————————————————————– Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ————————————————————– By Tony Attwood I was planning to put up a story today (a couple of days late) saying that a third person has been arrested by the police detectives who are investigating allegations that …
Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ————————————————————– By Anne. Part one of this article is available here. ______________________________ Money laundering through the transfer market is slightly more complicated than the activities described in the first article. According to the FATF, one of …
Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal —————— Money laundering is not complicated, you just need a cash generating business. Football is a cash generating business. By: Anne The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) describes itself as “an independent inter-governmental body that …
Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal —————– After Fulham, what Arsène did not say: an Untold apology By: Anne In my previous Untold Media article, “After Fulham. All the things the press reported but which Arsène did not say,” I made the …
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—————————————— Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————————– By Tony Attwood Next month Fifa starts up a telephone hotline for players and officials who come forward with evidence of match fixing. Everyone who does come forward will be guaranteed immunity. Now before we …
Read More “Fifa say the Premier League could be fixed and appoint ex-Interpol man to investigate”
By Tony Attwood According to reports Tom Adeyemi who plays for Oldham, on loan from Norwich City, was racially abused by one or more Liverpool fans at the Anfield ground last night. He gave a statement to Merseyside Police in which it is understood he claimed to have been racially abused twice by a supporter. …
By Walter Broeckx What on earth is wrong with ref Probert? Last year I wrote an article after the Wigan game which was also a Christmas game only 2 days after a previous game. He then screwed us over with not giving a blatant penalty for handball in the last minute. And that after he …
Read More “Corruption in the Premier League: Poor-Bert, the next head of the PGMOL?”
Money laundering, football and the press – part 2 (with added Lassana Diara) By Anne In our first article in this series exposing corruption in football we took a quick look at the situation at Tottenham and the minor matter of how a set of phone records got into the wrong hands – before contemplating the …
By: Anne You know, it’s amazing how quiet the football media can be when they want to… Leading into our upcoming series on the transfer market, transfer rumours, and (here’s the big one) possible money laundering in the EPL, I thought I would give our readers a few things to think about in …
