By Tony Attwood On 15 July 2016 Untold covered the case of proceedings against Mamadou Sakho of Liverpool by Uefa following his being found to have taken a banned substance. The proceedings were stopped and the case dismissed after Uefa stated that the drug should not have been on the banned list. Now in reporting …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Part 1: The Frightening (Daily Mail) OK, the Daily Mail with its daily hate campaigning is always frightening, but this is very frightening. They claim that “Bookies slash odds on Chelsea captain John Terry joining Arsenal next season from 33-1 to 5-1.” A large number of bets were placed in the …
by Tony Attwood The story at first was that Arsenal season ticket holders were in revolt and were not buying tickets for the FA Cup semi-final this Sunday. But as per 2014 and 2015, the tickets were sold fast enough, once the sale was opened up to those holding season tickets without any away …
By Tony Attwood Of course I would love to see Arsenal in the Champions League once again next season, difficult though that is going to be to achieve. I’ve had the good fortune to go to most of the Champs League home games we’ve played (and had a good night out most times, despite the …
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By Tony Attwood Football journalists can be most annoying people, and this for three reasons. They don’t tell us what’s going on, except when they do tell us and then they get it wrong. And they can’t count. Fortunately occasionally someone emerges who while still not telling us what is going on, does at least …
Betting Myths to Get Rid of about Football Year after year, there are certain betting myths that simply refuse to die, leading to many fortune-seeking individuals with half-true information and a lot of confusion. These types of myths are often taken completely at face value just because they sound fairly logical, but can cause you …
By Tony Attwood There are, we know, some people around who want Arsenal to lose matches so that the board are forced to refrain from offering Mr Wenger a new job. But it struck me the other day that even for the most hardened anti-Wengerian pro-aaa pro-AAA person there must be a limit somewhere. …
By Sir Hardly Anyone The Great Transfer Index is a listing of all the players that the English media suggest that Arsenal are about to sign. The great joke is that last summer it only had an accuracy rating of under three percent. In short around 107 players nominated to be coming to Arsenal …
by Tony Attwood There was an incident in the first half last night in which a Middlesbrough player grabbed hold of Oliver Giroud in a rugby styled tackle in the penalty area and held on to him for several seconds, stopping him getting to the ball. It was clearly shown on the live footage, so …
By Walter Broeckx A few big changes both in players as in tactics for this match. Cech back in goal after his injury. At the back 3 central defenders with Gabriel – Koscielny and Holding. The first big surprise. I didn’t see that coming. Then we had a 4 man midfield with Oxlade-Chamberlain – Ramsey …
By Bulldog Drummond We know most of the match facts by now – especially those that set out Arsenal in a bad light along with the fact that Middlesbrough have failed to win any of their last 14 games in the Premier League, and have failed to score in six of their last eight league …
by Bulldog Drummond In the last post I pointed out the problems we have been having with the away form of late, but such was the success earlier in the season that our away form for the whole season is still balanced between wins and defeats. Not as good as we would like of course …
By Bulldog Drummond I am not a psychologist, and so I have been asking people wiser than me in terms of explaining human behaviour, what the benefit is to Arsenal, or indeed to Héctor Bellerín, for him to be booed and jeered by some Arsenal fans. It has been hard to find an answer. There …
by Andrew Crawshaw This week we have Referee – Anthony Taylor 37 years old from Cheshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Stuart Burt from Northamptonshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Adam Nunn from Wiltshire Fourth Official – Kevin Friend 45 years old from Leicestershire Well, after the disappointment of last Monday …
By Tony Attwood I am not suggesting, through that title, that “after me comes the flood” is a perfect way of forecasting what happens after a manager leaves a league club, but rather I’d like to suggest that changing managers at Arsenal does not result in an immediate change at the club. In a previous …
As the next season approaches, no one can know where Arsenal will end up but it is worth taking a look at the Europa League, just to get the feel of what might come along! They could wind up in the Champions League or the Europa League. These sorts of details can change very …
By Tony Attwood A while back a correspondent on Untold mentioned that he thought it was fair to expect that Arsenal should either win the league or be challenging to win the league each season. I produced some statistics to show how rarely this happened, not just with Arsenal, but with all clubs across all …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes I will admit it; I have been saying that all the stuff about transfer rumours is rubbish given that there are round about 76 days to go before the transfer window creaks open and something of the order of 137 days before it slams shut and shatters into bits again. …
By the Referee team There are clips included in the report for every wrong decision and every major decision in red bold text First of all sorry it has taken so long. But we followed the order of a few people who said we should get a life and took a break from a very …
by Tony Attwood I think most of us know what happened when Arsenal Wenger arrived at Arsenal and the way he was hounded remorselessly by the press with their disgraceful rumours, and then for years vilely attacked by Man U fans (whose appalling chants were then sold on CD via the club shop). If …
In today’s world, and never more so than in today’s footballing world it is hard to see beyond the immediate situation, the here and now. If things aren’t going our way we demand change. If we don’t like something, we get something else, something newer and shinier until we get bored of that and …
by Tony Attwood The problems with football are multiple, but ultimately, in my opinion they tend to focus on two key areas. First, football is run by a group of organisations that have their own agendas and are in essence answerable to no one. In this regard I think of the FA, Fifa, Uefa, and …
by Tony Attwood In a match which kicked off this morning Eddie Nketiah scored a hat-trick as Arsenal U18s beat Manchester City under 18s 4-3 at London Colney. Kwame Ampadu coaches the team and he put out a strong side of 2nd year apprentices, but Manchester City took the lead through Lukas Nmecha in the …
By Walter Broeckx Over the years we have seen many names being given to our manager. Abusive words, insults, swearing and shouting. What people say on the streets or in the stadium is their prerogative. We live in a (kind of) free world and can say what we want as long as it isn’t something …
