Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Tony “all I want is a semi-decent coffee” Attwood Arsenal supporters arrived at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday desperate to welcome a man who has already done it all in English football, but left talking about a summer signing whose career has only just started. So said the Telegraph once it had woken up …
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Introduction We have suggested for some time that the constant decision by PGMO (the organisation that employs and selects referees for Premier League matches) to employ a very small number of referees is one that should be changed, for the simple reason that if there is a rotten apple among the refs there is something …
Read More “Revealed: How referees are able to manipulate the results of Premier League games.”
by Tony Attwood Indeed it seems like only last May that I had the honour to watch my second successive cup final at Wembley. Ever since then it has struck me just how different that occasion was from the 2014 edition. And it wasn’t that Villa were worse than Hull it was that we …
Read More “No sooner have we beaten one team 6-0 than we’re off again.”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsène Wenger has revealed just about the most boring set of team news that there has ever been. Everyone who went away came back safe. Flamini has a little bit of a knock on his ankle but “I will decide if I involve him or not over the weekend,” said Mr W. …
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By Tony Attwood Just before we get down to the ins and outs of the team for today, I thought it might be interesting just to look at the two teams that started in Singapore. Here’s the first team Martinez Debuchy Gabriel Mertersacker Monreal Coquelin Flamini Wilshere Oxlade Chamberlain Akpom Iowbi and the second …
Read More “This is the most complete and flexible squad in the history of Arsenal”
By Sir Hardly Anyone, (who is now getting just a teensy weensy bit annoyed). You might think that having got all the transfers so incredibly wrong thus far this summer the spoof sites might show a little humility and back off. But no – they haven’t. I mean when Untold introduced the concept of vapour …
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By Tony Attwood You’ll probably know by now the basic story of how Blacksheep came up with the idea that Untold could have its own banner up at the Emirates. If not, the history thus far is on the Untold Banner page along with our Roll of Honour of everyone who contributed. That page …
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By Tony Attwood Of course it was ludicrous – why would Arsenal sell the goalkeeper who had done so much during the latter half of the season to keep the club on track, and yet retain the player who had been dropped to make way for the success? There were one or two minor …
Read More “The done deal was did but they didn’t do the deal dey said dey would did.”
Happy Christmas everyone. Here are the answers to our little quiz of yesterday… For simplicity I have printed the questions again (in italics). I did try and print them upside down, but then had to turn the computer around to read them, so it didn’t seem to help. 1. In 1893, the year Arsenal …
Read More “The answers to the anniversary quiz and how to re-write history”
By Tony Attwood Most days (when I remember, when I get up in time, and when I am not travelling or living upside down in Australia) I update the home page of Untold with a list of anniversaries of that day. The actual files that these anniversaries come from are housed on the AISA Arsenal …
Read More “The Anniversary Quiz (now there’s no football until Boxing Day)”
By Billy The Dog McGraw Now in theory I am going to the Arsenal with our chum Drew – he of the occasional comment and upstanding member of the Arsenal History Society and AISA committee, is having his birthday party tonight – fancy dress and all – and that may make getting up in the …
Read More “Arsenal v Norwich. Billy the Dog ventures forth.”
By Billy the Dog McGraw I asked for transfer rumours and I got them… “An Unknown Source claims Radamel Falcao’s Agent has held talks with Arsenal over possible signing of his client for a reported fee of £60m and that talks are in advanced stage and the Columbian would be heading to Emirates at the …
By Billy the Dog McGraw If you have been paying attention (and woe betide anyone who has not been paying attention, as Mrs Dog is on the prowl, and I can tell you that is not a good thing) we have been covering all the transfers that Arsenal will be certain to be making in …
Read More “Start your own Arsenal transfer rumour today and end it tomorrow.”
By Billy the Dog McGraw Oh its all go at the red alert station. And apart from that, we’re also tipped, expected to, enquiring for, and generally throwing ourselves all over the place, while quite possibly being covered in custard. Because the race is on to sign… Well, everyone. And yes it is all true …
Read More “Arsenal on red alert over 9 amazing transfers and the invisible man”
By Billy the Dog McGraw Swansea is a Stone Age settlement which has been run at different times by the Italians (then going under the name of “Romans”) and the Vikings who set up a trading post known as Sveinn’s Island. The Welsh didn’t really get going until the 13th century, by which time everyone …
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By Billy the Dog McGraw Today we are off to Southamptonshire, one of the ceremonial counties of England. Ceremonial counties have a Lord Lieutenant who is required under the Lieutenancies Act 1997 to play for the local football club, and then be transferred to north London. Alex Ox, Theo Henry and G the Baleful are …
By Billy Neither of our regular pre-match correspondents has delivered the news of the day, and Tony is going dancing tonight in some far-off town (he’s just an old jiver at heart and apparently they have clubs around where you can throw women across the room and not get arrested or something), so I am …
Read More “Us vs The Other Lot. Billy The Dog takes a good look”
————————————————————– If you think you know your Arsenal, it is time to think again. Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. ————————— By Billy the Dog McGraw Having left Sir Toby Belch in control of the homespun fixtures, and hearing that he is still stranded on the M25 Olympic Canal Lane, I have followed the …
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By our resident astrologer, Gypsy “The Dog” McGraw August: Having failed to resolve the issue of who the Old Rangers players were contracted to, the New Rangers start life in the 3rd Division of the Scottish League with a new team made up of loanees from Arsenal’s youth and reserve teams. They win the first …
Read More “2012/13 month by month. Every main story before it happens.”
By Billy “le chien” McGraw, our man on Le Continent. Arsenal are reported by prime sources, people who know and indeed the Daily Mirror, to have agreed a fee of £13 million with Montpellier for France international striker Olivier Giroud. Montpellier won the League (“in France” as the Mirror says, helpfully). Oh yes and some …
By Billy the Dog McGraw Many of the players in the Euros are not more or less out of bounds in terms of transfer talk. If the deal is nearly there then the agent can see it through – but even so, no club will sign a player in the Euros at this stage, for …
Read More “The three players most likley to sign in the coming four weeks”
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw OK I have had enough of this. I have been dutifully working for Untold Arsenal for four years, and never once have I had a penny. Not a cent. OK there have been a few pints of beer en route but now I want my share. I mean it now …
By Billy Le Dog McGraw My preview for the Leeds game was such a stunning success that I have been asked to write again on the subject. You will recall then we were playing the Yorkshire Grit (which is, as you will now know, made up of coarse sand grains and small stones). Against such …
Read More “Swansea v Arsenal: a team to dream about, a team to die for”
By Billy the Dog McGraw I don’t know if it is just me but it seems to be easier these day to understand what Mr Wenger is going to do in terms of his playing staff for each game. It is almost like the 1987/88 season when the same players would come out for match …
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By Billy the Dog McGraw It is 10am on the second day of 2012 and the sheer size of the horror is just bursting upon Arsenal fans – Van Persie has scored no goals this year. After the triumphs of 2011 when he got over 2,864 goals per game on average, this season is a …
Read More “Van Persie in goal scoring drought shock: no goals in 2012”
