100 years since Herbert Chapman joined Arsenal
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- 100 years since Herbert Chapman joined Arsenal. Part 5 – a new manager
In the news
- That double-edged sword heads Arsenal’s way; pompous balderdash on the loose once more
- Inter v Arsenal tonight: the team
- Inter v Arsenal: 8pm, 6 November. This looks tough.
- Edu to Forest, just as we were noting their figures were misleading
- Arsenal, injuries, and the curious rise of the Forest
- Arsenal in decline… or is this not just a re-run of recent seasons?
- Newcastle v Arsenal: who wins the game depends on the referee
Elsewhere
Other big news…
- Fanatically secretive PGMO turns out to be also grossly financially incompetent
- Why clubs like Arsenal are getting less and less interested in older players
- Where do we normally get to after three games
- Just how many players do Arsenal need in their squad to win the league?
Manchester City and the control of the Premier League
Our series on what will happen as the result of Manchester Ciyt’s legal case against the Premier League opens up a world of possibilities that the media simply refuse to touch.
- How Man City may by-pass FFP
- Who controls football: Leagues, media, government, rich clubs. Part 1
- Who controls football: Part 2. How the clubs are seeking the wrestle back control
- Who controls Football 3: Why the rest of the PL will not continue to play Man C
Background notes: The Man City v Premier League case is very different from normal business
The other Key Issues of the Day – the articles that you won’t find discussed elsewhere…
- The benefit of the left footed side
- Why everyone criticises Arsenal’s youth policy – and why they are all wrong
- The media are the enemies of journalism – and youngsters are there to balance the books
- What does Arsenal have to do to improve this season?
- Who has spent the most in recent years Arsenal or Man City?
- What happens if Man City wins the fight against the League?
- The Football Regulator has gone, the Football Deep State is in control
- Progress and regression: How Arsenal have outdone every other club in the league
- When journalists suggest the only comparison point is Man C, we know they have lost it
- The reason why Arsenal do not need a 20+ goals a season player
- Arsenal agree to 11 women’s games at the Emirates next season
- Arsenal’s away form this season has been better than the Unbeaten Season
Keeping the manager, improving year on year, summer purchases
- Arteta now the fourth longest serving manager in the Premier League
- With football, a look behind the story can often reval interesting details.
- How Arsenal stuck with Arteta, but other clubs won’t follow the example
- Why it’s going to be a summer of failure for Arsenal – according to the media
Football news
- What are the key issues in football? Is Arsenal on the edge of a new 1930s?
- Opta tells us who is going to win the League but screws up on Bournemouth and Man U
- Another St. Totteringham’s Day; Arsenal up a bit Man C down a bit
- Teen scores seven for Arsenal, the Arsenal team and what happens afterwards
As the season comes to an end
- It is likely we will start next season not knowing which club is in which division.
- The effect of refs and seasonal change is probably more than you think
- “Premier League club accuse official of supporting rival team
They think it’s all over. And…
- Moving the Premier League to the USA
- Where it costs nothing to go and watch football, and a more savoury approach
- Add to the transfer rumours, the buyout rumours
- How gambling on success through spending more on players can come unstuck
- The mass walk out at Arsenal was a total indictment of the quality of support for the club
Moving forward
- Retaliation before the opposition attack
- How close are Arsenal to winning the league, and what happens to the money next season?
- The first 20 players Arsenal are apparently buying
- Maltreatment of young players; Arsenal to benefit from FFP enquiry?
- PROGRESS FOR A CLUB LIKE ARSENAL HAPPENS OVER TIME. WE’RE NOW REAPING THE BENEFITS
- More supercomputer gibberish says Arsenal have no chance of the title
- Arsenal back at the top and have a clear plan for the future
- Exactly what are the Kroenkes plans for Arsenal?
The fun those media writers will have!
- Are Arsenal really chasing all the players that the media suggest?
- Is it really true that little players foul more as Amy Lawrence suggests?
- Five months ago Tottenham were top. What went wrong?
Who might Arsenal play next season?
- Who might Arsenal face next season: 1 Leicester City
- Who might Arsenal play next season 2: Leeds United
- Who might Arsenal play next season 3: Ipswich Town
The great referee conundrum: why do different referees oversee such different results?
How much do the regular PL referees vary over how they handle games?
Referees
- Referee extremism: the situation in Spain and England
- Who is getting cards for dissent and why is it being kept secret?
- Referee body even more secret that PGMOL emerges from the shadows as controlling body
- Incompetence or corruption. Why referees in England behave so differently from those in Germany
- PGMO’s selection of referees appears to be racist. It would be good if they could explain why this is.
How’s football doing?
- Abuse of children: it seems that clubs have found an absolute loophole
- Football will change if the King’s speech becomes law
- Transfers between linked teams, and the seeming impossibility of reforming PGMO
- A good night’s football and now the report: PGMO dictate what the media say
- Arsenal and fouls. What comes after the “doubling down on a position?”
The dark campaign of Carragher and Neville exposed
- Carragher and Neville distraught as their Anti-Arsenal attitudes exposed once and for all.
- Carragher and Neville should feel ashamed of their behaviour at Arsenal
Referees
- Referee body even more secret that PGMOL emerges from the shadows as controlling body
- Incompetence or corruption. Why referees in England behave so differently from those in Germany
- PGMO’s selection of referees appears to be racist. It would be good if they could explain why this is.
- All change: referees falling over themselves to admit they make mistakes
- The ultimate surprise: Arteta is exonerated. PGMO & FA admit to different rules for different people
- Which clubs are getting up the league by raising the number of fouls committed?
- The proof of a bias among Premier League referees against southern teams
- First the verdict, then the charge. Arteta has not the slightest chance of a fair hearing
- How referee bias works: the details and the statistics
Truth and Lies
- Football and the decline of law and order
- In football we see the two things that crooks always do when running large organisations.
- Tottenham Hotspur owner pleads guilty to insider trading
- In football the trend is for all evidence to be ignored and assertions to be made instead
The corruption crisis
- How long before the ownership of Man City and Newcastle is properly questioned?
- Picture of Premier League refe’s obvious error leads to club director’s Tiwtter account being closed.
- From organised time wasting to outright corruption. 16 years of football
- How much money have PL clubs made from selling 16 year olds?
- Accepting rather than questioning, is English football’s greatest problem
- There are issues in football that lurk in the background and will cause enormous harm
Now and then
- How pundits failed to see the signs of Arsenal’s rise up the league.
- Just how does this Arsenal team compare to past league winners?
The media
- Super League is legit and Uefa had no case to stop it, as was clear from the start.
- Football conspiracy theories: How the media are trying to mislead us
The great football finances scandal of 2023
- The effects of Manchester City and Chelsea’s possible transgressions on Arsenal
- The finance scandal: conclusion. Win or lose, Man City will bring about turmoil
- Girona and Manchester City: two clubs, two brothers and…. something strange in Spain]
- The finance scandal:win or lose Man City will bring about turmoil
The media, Everton, Chelsea and Man City
- How the media’s hypocrisy over VAR is both astonishing and shameful.
- After the Everton case what happens to Chelsea and Manchester City?
- The football sin of “failing to co-operate” and why the League went after Everton
- Why has Everton been hit so hard and what if the rest of the gang just say “no”?
- Everton deducted 10 points, next the legal cases, then Chelsea, then Man C, then…
The Media:
- How the media’s hypocrisy over VAR is astonishing and shameful
- Mirror and Guardian attack on Arteta takes war against Arsenal to new unedifying level
- Arsenal’s protest over VAR shows club have had enough, and the disgraceful bias of much of the media
- The universal description of Arteta’s speech as a “rant” raises serious questions
The Corruption Files:
- After the Everton case what happens to Chelsea and Manchester City?
- The football sin of “failing to co-operate” and why the League went after Everton
- Why has Everton been hit so hard and what if the rest of the gang just say “no”?
- Everton deducted 10 points, next the legal cases, then Chelsea, then Man C, then…
- The Chelsea Papers mean we now have two PL clubs under investigation
The Fouls and Yellows Revolution
After the yellow card fest of Chelsea and Tottenham some are still attacking Arsenal.
Just how well are Arsenal doing when it comes to tackles, fouls and yellow cards?
Mirror and Guardian attack on Arteta takes war against Arsenal to new unedifying level
How different referees respond. Who wins is as much a case of who is the ref, as anything else
Use more players, get fewer cards: the tactic that separates two clubs from the rest
The problems football is facing
The game of 1000 complaints – but not always the right ones
Booing players: how can journalists and officials so utterly fail to understand why?
Referees
The clearest exposition yet that there is something very wrong with PGMOL
There is something very strange going on with yellow cards this season+
We’re asking the wrong questions
Farewell hooligans, farewell facts, hello anger. Why the football debate is now so unhealthy.
Why the media were united over the issue of Man C players not being sent off
Why are the number of Arsenal injuries so regularly misquoted in the media?
Totally malicious and misleading headline reveals newspaper contempt for Arsenal
The Tottenham and Liverpool confusion
The home/away difference: despite media protestations, it is not just Arsenal
The huge danger that lies ahead following the Liverpool VAR cock-up
Arsenal in the Champions League
Defeat in the Champions League: not as bad a portent as one might think
Lens v Arsenal: the Arsenal team
Lens v Arsenal: a town smaller than Highbury stadium; a style based on PSG
If it’s Arsenal it must be chaos. Lens v Arsenal preview
The squads
Arsenal up the number of players used while Everton’s manager is true to form
How much has each club spent in putting its squad together?
How many players in the big seven’s 25 man squad? Not as many as you might think!
Predictions and changes
Beware those people in football who tell you what to think. They are trying to kid you.
Can we really believe Opta predictions any more?
The new FFP rules are with us but the PL is still in a financial crisis
Other news
Behind the window: what happens now with Arsenal?
Abuse has an effect on players but not on officials. Why is that?
Women’s Champions League 2023/24 – Swedish Preview
Does Arsenal really have the best youth recruitment policy of any European club?
Arsenal do NOT need to calm down: we need more and more of this passion
Arsenal’s pre-season
Arsenal’s new weapon: not exactly secret, but certainly more difficult to handle
Did you have a problem with Arsenal’s 4-Game Early Bird Pass?
Shocking revelations about Manchester United fouling against Arsenal in “friendly”
Football Finance
Football is teetering on the brink of a financial disaster
How football has become a house of cards that is very likely to fall at any moment
Football is bust: enjoy it while you can, because it is not going to last in this form.
Preparations for 2023/24
How Manchester City manage their defence in a way others can’t.
How Arsenal are evolving a new set of tactics to overtake Man City
Where Arsenal players sit in terms of the most valuable players in the world
Fifa, Uefa and football machinations
The great Chelsea fire sale and how clubs are now manipulating FFP
Football’s fundamental problem, the lack of checks and balances.
Fifa decide to give club football more competitions and more matches
Fifa’s WC depravity knows no bounds. If you agree, avoid all their sponsors
Clubs begin to split from Uefa; corruption allegations against Fifa mount
Arsene Wenger statue and other current stories
Arsenal to unveil Wenger statue completing the fans proposal of 13 years ago.
How Arsenal are preparing to win the league this coming season
Why are some teams consistently fouled so much more than other clubs?
Tackling
Which clubs got away with tackling last season, and which were penalised?
Tackles fouls and yellow cards the complete 2022/3 review
Finance
Manchester City given unaccounted payments by UAE according to new report
Can the Premier League be saved from Middle Eastern domination and control?
Arsenal in 2023/4
The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress in 2023/4. Part 1
The ten reasons why Arsenal will continue to grow: Part 2
The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress part 3
The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress: part 4
Transfers
Just how revolutionary is the Arsenal approach we are seeing?
Arsenal will replace Xhaka with Havertz this week to help Chelsea resolve their finances
What difference did last summer’s transfers make? (Apparently, most were flops)
Football as we know it about to be blown apart (by the side effects of current deals)
Why this summer’s transfers will tell us little about Arsenal in 2023/4
Referees
There is something fishy about PGMO referees (even more than we knew before)
Football as we know it about to be blown apart (by the side effects of current deals)
Comparing Man City and Bayern Munich is certainly not a good idea!
Why this summer’s transfers will tell us little about Arsenal in 2023/4
2023/24
The anniversary of the start of the collapse of Uefa – at the hands of Man C
What do Arsenal need to do to win the league next season?
The Premier League will be different next season
Fastscore.com
Arsenal’s future
The next step for Arteta: more of the same and then emulate Wenger
The image of football seems increasingly damaged; Arsenal have a chance
Arsenal now face a massive problem, and no obvious solution
Clubs are starting to be challenged over their loses
The start of last season and the end of this season: the lessons
How Arsenal are remourcelessly following the Man City model
How Arteta has become so successful as a manager
Other recent tales
Arsenal’s biggest challenge, now its got the second youngest squad
Why in the battle of the League v Man City, the League will certainly win
Optimism to succeed. A further and last reflection from AKH
What Arsenal have to do next season to become even better?
If Chelsea gave Spurs some defenders and Spurs gave Chelsea some attackers…
Cheating players, incompetent referees. What is really going on?
The dark arts: how football is not quite what we think
Why do fans always think the opposition cheats?
How different fans see the same game
Why do two sets of fans see a match in such different ways?
Why do two sets of fans see a match in such a different way? Part 2.
Records approach
Ten more goals than the Unbeaten Season and still going strong.
The huge problem Arsenal have to face next season.
Allowed tactics, or ruthless play?
Corruption in football
Investigation begins into illegal transfers
What will happen if Manchester City are found guilty of false accounting?
Why is the English football media so in favour of corruption?
Fifa to face face trial on grounds of holding an unreasonable monopoly
Corruption flares up again in Italy as Premier League figures don’t look too clever.
The two faced approach of football regulators to corruption
What makes a club successful in the Premier League
What makes some clubs successful and others not?
What makes a club successful in the Premier League part 2
What makes a club successful? Part 3: Arsenal has stepped beyond the media
Where it all went wrong for Tottenham – and the football journalists
Unrest down Hotspur Avenue. The trajectories of the top four clubs
How Arsenal finally benefitted from the attitude of the football media (part 2)
How Arteta has out manoeuvred Tottenham. Arsenal and Tottenham part 3
So why did all the predictions for this season go so wrong? (Part 4)
Where it all went wrong for football journalists – conclusion
St Totteringham Day returns
Why do football journalists always get it so wrong
Is it really true that Arsenal are too emotional to win the league?
The one huge weakness in the Premier League which one day will unravel
Football and the media
CNN claim Arsenal tickets for the last game selling for for over $60,000
What the media won’t tell you about football 5: Fifa lends money to Switzerland
The absolute proof that the media is anti-Arsenal
Six years late the media finally recognises there is a refereeing problem.
Qatar spied on Lauber and Infantino, and why the UK media won’t touch the story
Uefa offer pathetic compensation knowing that the English media is at their command
Why Fifa, Uefa and the media hate super league and what is likely to happen
Media wake up to the illicit relationship FA and Uefa. It’s time to act.
Building the squad
Arsenal: building a squad to win this year, and again next season.
How does the Arsenal squad compare with the way other clubs are set up?
Finances
As the investigations grow the finances of football look rather odd
Manchester City accused of over 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules
The manager issue (see also Arteta’s revolution)
Real Madrid start looking at Arteta as their next manager
What happened to the eight PL teams that have changed their managers this season?
How Arteta became Arsenal’s most successful manager Ever: From 2021 onward
Untold Investigations
Why Arsenal’s revolution worked, while Tottenham and Chelsea flopped
Yet another factor emerges showing how Arsenal are beating everyone else
Rising to the top: Arsenal v the rest
The set of predictions that tell us exactly how the final table will look
Decline and rise: will Arsenal break their PL goal scoring record this season?
Does a club have a “mentality” or is it just a case of how much you spend?
Comparing Tottenham and Arsenal: what is the secret of success?
Other Recent pieces
Arsenal and Tottenham both built stadia, and each suffered the consequence. But…
Being a visionary is not as easy as it looks
Fifa appeals to Swiss courts against Court of Arbitration in Sport ruling
Arsenal have only three players who have scored in double figures!
Welcome to the new age of football: cunning, manipulation and a simple desire for power
Previously
Did Arsenal want Mudryk and have Arsenal missed Jesus?
Super League or no Super League
Corruption news: Fifa to face trial on grounds of holding an unreasonable monpoly
Why are we against SuperLeague but in favour of foreign ownership and general incompetence
The Premier League action against Man City brings Super League ever closer
What Europe knows about Man C but the English press haven’t told you
Corruption news
Uefa offer pathetic compensation knowing that the English media is at their command
Leader of the anti-super league movement accused of torture and kidnapping
Why Fifa, Uefa and the media hate super league and what is likely to happen
UEFA increasingly looking weak as European clubs propose a completely new approach
Media wake up to the illicit relationship FA and Uefa. It’s time to act.
Arsenal top of the league
Winning the league: the influence of fouls and geography
After this weekend the tables tell us a little more
Why the media’s view of the foundations of Arteta’s success is as wrong as ever
Will Arsenal win the title: Opta’s view, our view, and today’s Arsenal team
Fouling: the part of the game where Arsenal suffered but are now coming good
For Arsenal, history is the best teacher
The media
Football journalists getting desperate in their attempt to hide the facts
Liverpool and the Telegraph show the problem with the way football is reported and debated
If football is so unpredictable why do the rich guys want to buy clubs?
The Premier League is in crisis at many levels
What makes this Premier League season different from the rest?
Saka is being kicked to bits, and the refs are doing nothing about it
How Opta got this season so totally and utterly wrong: the statistics
Why Arsenal need to get their awful defence sorted, and why Uefa / FA are doing a good job
Super League is coming – earlier stories
The Premier League action against Man City brings Super League ever closer
What Europe knows about Man C but the English press haven’t told you
How Man City’s problems began to arise…. nine years ago
The media pile into Manchester City, but where have they been all this time?
Manchester City accused of over 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules
Other recent articles
PGMO “errors” could lose PL billions in revenue as Europe turns away in disgust
There’s nothing much wrong with English football, and we know cos we’ve been told
How the media sets the agenda, and helps those in authority avoid the big issues
The question for football and for Arsenal: Is this a crisis of merely a blip?
Transfers
Did Arsenal really go for Mudryk or was it all a clever trap for Chelsea?
The Big 7 Clubs: how much they have spent this season, and what good has it done?
The final transfer rumours: 3 new names to make 66 players tipped for Arsenal
Arsenal’s 25 man squad – is it already full?
Arsenal Transfers: 329 reports covering 62 players all coming to AFC (allegedly)
How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea.
The significant success of Arsenal’s recent signings recognised
How much have Arsenal spent on transfers in recent years?
How much does a club have to spend on transfers to get a trophy?
The real facts about football that the media will never touch
The referee problem: the difference between incompetence and bias
Why, with football, it is important to ask what is not being reported
The real live facts that the media won’t ever touch (part 2)
What the media won’t tell you about football, part 3 – referee home bias
What the media won’t tell you about football, part 4 – referee variations
What the media won’t tell you about football 5: Fifa lends money to Switzerland
Arsenal and the hunt for the title
Yet another example of the way the media tries to put down Arsenal
The figures from Arsenal v Man U are utterly extraordinary, and misleading
When Arsenal lose they sneer, and when they win they sneer even more
Arsenal v Manchester United. So what did we learn? The media won’t apologise
After 18 games: Arsenal’s position and the top team’s tally – and the ultimate target
How are the big seven clubs doing against each other? There are some surprises
Arsenal Women
The Continental Tyres Cup 2022/23 quarter finals: Arsenal v Villa
Arsenal and the misleading media
Yet another example of the way the media tries to put down Arsenal
When Arsenal lose they sneer, and when they win they sneer even more
Do Arsenal need to become more efficient in front of goal?
Media attack foreign refs but remain silent about PGMO refereeing
How English media refuses to challenge Fifa over its manipulation of TV pictures
How Arsenal has taken on the media, and the club is winning
Why the media all want Arsenal to buy buy buy, and why we shouldn’t
Where is football’s regulator?
Why football needs an independent regulator now
Yet another reason why we need a football regulator
The two faced approach of football regulators to corruption
“Football should have a regulator” Part 1
“Football should have a regulator” Part 2: England’s government challenges Fifa .
Monopoly suppliers need regulators or democracy. In football we have neither.
PSG accused of creating fake accounts to denigrate journalists and players
CHAIR OF THE COURT OF ARBITRATION IN SPORT ADMITS GIVING BRIBES
How the season will end
- Does having the bulk of possession help in Premier League matches
- Which PL clubs are heading for a post world cup slump?
- What normally happens to the club that is top after 15 games of a season?
- Difficult forthcoming fixtures and how often top clubs play each other
- How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system?
- It’s not an Arsenal question, but who’s going down from the PL this season?
Welcome to Infantino Land
Megalomaniac head of Fifa makes new insane demand
Beyond any doubt Infantino is getting his way. Next: Fifa will leave Zurich
Why and how Infantino is still happy to promote the Super League.
“Fifa will not exist in ten years time.” Or maybe even less!
Switzerland take a greater interest in Fifa – at last
Football is being changed from without
When the wise man points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger
No club is too big to fail, as lessons from Italy and Spain are starting to reveal
In ten years time, one way or another football will be unrecognisable
Premier League predictions
What normally happens to the club that is top after 15 games of a season?
How does Untold get its predictions right, and how can you use the same system?
It’s not an Arsenal question, but who’s going down from the PL this season?
Referees
Media attack foreign refs but remain silent about PGMO refereeing
Arsenal are the most penalised team by referees among the current top four.
The bent triangle: four major issues that show all is not right with refereeing
Arteta’s revolution: the transformation of Arsenal
How Arteta built the new Arsenal and took us to the top of the league Part 1.
Arteta’s revolution: How the media missed Arsenal’s change after Xmas Day 2020. Part 2
How Arteta revolutionised Arsenal: Part 3 – the summer of 2021
How Arteta became Arsenal’s most successful manager Ever: Part 4 – From 2021 onward
Will Arsenal win the league this season?
Does the team that is top after 14 games usually go on to win the league?
The simple statistic that shows that Arsenal are on course to win the league
Are Arsenal really playing like a title winning team in attack and defence?
No matter how you analyse it, Arsenal are the top club of the moment
What you won’t read elsewhere
Corruption flares again in Italy
Why is it so difficult to find a sponsor for a new stadium?
Extraordinary report claims Arsenals’ FA Cup win was not a major trophy!
Then and Now: How Arsenal 2022 compare with the Invincibles
What would the league table look like without VAR?
How the value of Arsenal’s squad has increased more than any other club this season
The things Arsenal have been really good at, which nobody has picked up yet
The media against the Arsenal
Momentum is building in media to get Arteta banned from the touchline
How the media got their predictions so wrong, but no one apologised.
Reports of Arsenal being in breach of FFP turned out to be completely wrong
Tackles, fouls and yellow cards
Chelsea are three times dirtier than Man City
How some escape yellow cards but others are penalised for tackles
The team that commits the most tackles gets the easiest ride
New Season, New Journalism, New Crises
How Uefa and PSG have taken control, and fooled all of football
The most ludicrous commentary ever written about Arsenal.
Clubs are being encouraged to tackle more and more by referee’s approach.
Arsenal developing
Arsenal’s new tactics explored in detail and what it means for the season ahead
When a club wins the first 3 games of the season, does it win the league?
Arsenal flying, and everyone else makes the headlines!
Media completely misses Arsenal’s astounding tactical change
Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23?
How the media created the myth of the gap between Arsenal and the top four
The opposition in 2022/23 – can Arsenal make the top four:
Newcastle, West Ham Manchester United Chelsea Tottenham Hotspur Leicester City
Past series from Untold
The great football media scandal. How the media has utterly refused to pick up on the main issues and instead reports the trivia.
The media conspiracy against Arsenal. Part 1: How it unfolded.
Conspiracy, laziness, or stupidity. Part 2 How the media missed the big Arsenal story
Is there really a conspiracy against Arsenal? Part 3: Ownership, laziness and repetition
The evidence of a conspiracy against Arsenal: part 4: Conspiracy, simplicity and false predictions
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Gaslighting: how refereeing in the Premier League is manipulated, and why the media never speak about it.
- 1: Are the referees and the media really out to get Arsenal, or am I just imagining it?
- 2: How discussions about refereeing are deliberately stifled by the media
- 3: Referees: the odd statistics that are simply never revealed or discussed
- 4: How we have been utterly misled about football: part 4
- 5: Hiding the problem of refereeing is destroying the credibility of the Premier League
- 6: Revealed: PL referees are not 98% accurate but actually just 75% accurate
(Footnote: the first ever mention of gaslighting in connection with football other than in this article appeared in the media just six weeks after the launch of the above series on Untold).
The statistical enquiry of 2021 that the media totally ignored
How the media created an alternative story that Arsenal failed in 2020/21, when in fact Arsenal brought about a revolution
- Which PL clubs foul the most and which are fouled the most?
- Behold: The dirtiest teams in the PL last season; and the one that were fouled the most
- Making up statistics about Arsenal is ok… until someone bothers to check.
- New fouls and yellow card data suggest refs are reacting to club ploys.
- Arsenal keeper to be replaced by 8 year old who’s never played football
- 2020/21: The key data tables
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Corruption
The discussion PGMO won’t allow in England, and how it is corrupting football
Why are Arsenal getting so many yellow cards this season?
Rewriting the Saudi Arabia takeover of Newcastle
Compare: Kroenke blood sports TV channel and Mohammed Bin Salman on human rights
What does the purchase of Newcastle by Saudi Arabia mean for Arsenal
Suddenly Saudi Arabia is being allowed into Newcastle
Excusing reputations
How gaslighting excuses Burnley’s tactics, and knocks Arsenal’s reputation
Why do we keep pointing out the errors of what media says when everyone knows?
The Big Six are still the Big Six when it comes to squad values
Arsenal are constantly putting out the youngest team in the PL
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The authorities, Arsenal and football
Football is absolutely not sustainable like this: here are the six crash points.
Here’s a turn up: CAS are supporting Arsenal against Fifa
Have Uefa and CAS finally had enough of club trickery in avoiding FFP?
Why do we keep pointing out the errors of what media says when everyone knows?
Biennial World: Europe unites in opposing the commercialised bi-yearly world cup.
Is football seriously corrupt?
The FA
The slavery files & the FA
Qatar and the world cup – the protests grows
Odegaard speaks out against world cup in Qatar; a country built on slavery
Human rights abuses: has our little campaign had unexpected support?
MP stance on football should fill us all with disgust
If all lives matter, if slavery is unacceptable, what is the FA doing about Qatar?
British media universally continues to support modern slavery
The FA and the corruption files
Brexit bites the Premier League: we’ll never be the same again
Sweet FA. A history of the idiocy and incompetence in football administration
The FA scandals part 2: The minister says reform or we close you
The FA scandals part 3: hiding racism and appointing idiots
Mr Wenger v The FA – the full 20 year history. And the world of the fake innuendo.
The crimes of the FA: failing to deal with Fifa and with discrimination
The failures of the FA: Part 6 – if we don’t communicate it is your fault
Tracking the fun things the FA have got up to over the years. Part 7.
How the FA have manipulated the stats in order to try and gain more power
Refereeing
The proof that something is seriously wrong with football refereeing and reporting
The curious case of how the media treats Man C and how it treats Arsenal
How one journalist decided to turn the truth about Arsenal upside down.
Arsenal’s results are on track for top four finishes – from next season.
This is Arsenal’s worst position for over a quarter of a century
If the media lie and bully about the news, what do you think they do about football?
Arsenal’s financial woes and the media’s call for more spending
How referees influence games
Arsenal have been given more red cards in the last 10 years than any other club.
How clubs manipulate referees through their tactics
Proving unconscious bias by referees is rife in the Premier League: penalties
Revealed: How clubs have evolved their “referee handling” tactics with such success
How the impression refs have of certain clubs influences how they are treated
How clubs developed the fourth type of match fixing in the Premier League
The evidence that referees have not been running matches properly
Referee changed after Liverpool demand; even the excuse makes no sense
Despite media denials, away advantage now outweighs home advantage
Media’s feeble attempt to explain away wins while ignoring the true research
Crowdless stadia stats reveal fallacy of PGMO claims about referee accuracy
PL refs make almost 3 times as many errors per game as Swiss refs. Why?
Without crowds away teams do so much better
We must be clear; it is the referees who have been giving clubs the advantage
160 games analysed with video evidence
The media is quiet as Riley finally admit huge number of referee errors.
Excellent newspaper article proves ref bias and points to media complicity in hiding it
The great refereeing scandal
Excellent newspaper article proves ref bias and points to media complicity in hiding it
The shocking statistics on how referees have affected Arsenal’s league position
Leicester’s strange tackle / foul / yellow figures change as they slip down the league
“Disgraceful;” “The worst refereeing performance I have ever seen”. TalkSport
Now is the time to investigate the refereeing system in the Premier League
Why do Liverpool keep getting the same referees?
Is Premier League refereeing very different from other major European leagues?
The openness of German referees raises the question, what have the PGMO got to hide?
Tactics
Tackles, fouls and yellow cards. These figures are truly weird.
New fouls and yellow card data suggest refs are reacting to club ploys.
How the top clubs foul with impunity
Could Arsenal adopt Leicester’s tactics and follow them up the table?
The corruption files
Platini and Blatter now prosecuted for fraud, but don’t tell the English
Could Fifa really be stopped? Is the unthinkable now actually possible?
Fifa, “Guilty As Charged.” This MUST be the turning point for Fifa and CAS
IFAB vs PGMO vs Fifa… who is the most secret (and damaging) of them all?
Another football scandal looms as law officers raid the German FA’s offices
Infantino is one step closer to the edge of the cliff, but UK media is still silent
Fifa in chaos as Infantino’s illegal meetings revealed and chief Swiss lawman resigns
Swiss prosecutors demand prison for beIN & PSG president and ex-Fifa No 2.
Football scandals
- New security systems hints at threat to serious journalism after Man C case
- The CAS hearing regarding Man C’s suspension is over. What now?
- Huge Fifa corruption story breaks; no report in English media!
- English football in danger of deluding itself out of business
The media
- The lengths some journalists will go to, to attack Arsenal
- Arsenal are currently the dirtiest team in the League. Does it matter?
- Why the Mail’s “Everything that looked wrong at Arsenal WAS wrong” is arrant nonsense
- If the clubs were not prepared for lockdown, the TV companies certainly were
- Crowdless stadia stats reveal fallacy of PGMO claims about referee accuracy
The corruption files: an Untold exclusive
- The Swiss government is fighting Fifa. And now so is the USA!
- Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1
- Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2
- Football corruption and scandals. How we tipped off Fifa and other unlikely tales. Part 3
The “100 years of Arsenal in the first division” series now has its own page here.
New book “exposing” Arsenal’s cheating is itself pure fantasy and lies
The index to the series about how Arsenal supposedly only had a budget of £40m for transfers is now listed under The AAA page.
Publications
“Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football” is the definitive history of Arsenal from its inception as a league club through to its first year at Highbury, and reveals dramatic elements of Arsenal’s early days that have never been revealed before.
“Making the Arsenal” is a journalist’s inside view of the events around Arsenal’s collapse in 1910 and the rescue that paved the way for the move to Highbury and the arrival of Herbert Chapman.
Both books are now available on Kindle and in print. Please see here for more details.
This daily blog was started in January 2008, and as the name is intended to suggest we try to cover issues that do not get fulsome coverage in other blogs or publications, and where we are covering the same ground as others, try to do so from a different perspective. A list of the most recent articles is given on the right under “Recent posts”.
Among the many campaigns and research projects we have run across the years I’d probably pick out these as being of interest…
160 games analysed – in which three researchers analysed the first 160 games of one PL season from the point of view of referee errors, and presented the evidence in videos. It is a project that has, as far as we know, never been attempted or replicated anywhere else. However it was picked up by the BBC and their report is included in this page on Corruption.
The Untold Banner: a group of readers of Untold who supported what we are doing, liaised with Arsenal FC, and raised funding, so that a banner of our choosing could be erected at the Clock End of the ground. The video of Match of the Day focussing on our banner is now shown on that page.
The 25 player rule and the drive to allow fewer foreigners into the Premier League has long been the agenda of the FA. But we undertook the research to see if countries that have done well on the international stage have followed the FA’s desired approach of banning foreigners, or whether there was another factor at play. It turn out that there was indeed another factor involved. The fairly simple research that established this was first published in Untold in 2010 and has since been republished (without acknowledgement) in the Daily Telegraph in August 2013. The Guardian has also picked up on the theme.
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