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North London Forever:
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Just published by the Arsenal History Society
100 seasons of Arsenal in the top division: Arsenal’s first cup final; Chapman’s second season
Latest
- How different people react to Arsenal’s march onwards and upwards
- How do you measure success in a football club. or the competence of a commentator?
The end of the season
And recently on Untold Arsenal
- The strange trail of Edu and rule breaking (allegedly)
- Vendettas and short tempers. How chairmen run football clubs
- Fifa accused of wholesale corruption, but the English media really don’t want to know
- Who should tell managers they’ve got it wrong, plus Port Vale on TV
- Football is standing on the edge of the cliff and looks ready to jump
- Doing what’s best for the club. But really, what is best for the club?
Football finances
- Clubs are being dealt with under PSR rules, but 1 year on ManC are still untouched
- How much longer can Arsenal go on losing this much money?
Summer transfers
- It is more than likely that Arsenal’s new players are taking a while to adjust to the ways of English officials
- Summer transfers: who spent the most and which 7 clubs received more than they spent?
- Why do clubs make such appalling errors with some transfers?
Moving on after the Liverpool defeat
- Why do clubs make such appalling errors with some transfers?
- Arsenal yet again top of the injury table. Why is this?
Champions League
Football stadia
Referees
- Six seasons of fouls and cards…. and possible referee bias
- Is there a regional bias over the way referees had out cards?
- Why do Arsenal get so many yellow cards for unspecified reasons?
The great penalty scandal
- Penalties for and against. Are Arsenal being hard done by?
- Penalties for and against Arsenal. The Mike Riley factor
- Fouls and cards: are Arsenal being hard done by?
- Refs give far more penalties against Arsenal than other clubs: but why?
- Why are Arsenal’s penalty numbers so different?
How the media hides the real issues
- How “The ten most irritating things about football” are used to hide the real debate
- Thomas Tuchel declares war on Arsenal
- Suspicions arise that many children have been trafficked to England to play football
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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 left 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.
Meanwhile we also publish….
Untold Dylan: A daily review of Bob Dylan songs, his concerts and the sources that he uses
