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
An it wasn’t just Arsenal, who were of course bereft of all of their international players; this was the star performance of Max Dowman, who scored and assisted and took the eye in exactly the way we have all hoped for. It was of course, just a pre-season friendly, but even so. It was a …
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By Tony Attwood live from somewhere or other, but he’s lost the map…. Yes it is Girona v Arsenal played at 7pm BST, and it is a friendly – which means there are going to be lots and lots of substitutes in the second half, so everyone can have a bit of a run …
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Fifa was bonkers years ago. Now it is just beyond complete insanity Now is the moment to remove Infantino from everything to do with football By Tony Attwood So are Arsenal about to sign Vinícius Júnior? Well, some of the media think so, and others think that Arsenal already have. Obviously, as a …
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By Tony Attwood Gianni Infantino’s notion of selling the World Cup to private investors has been withdrawn, after lasting something like a day. Uefa, you may have noted yesterday, had pulled out of the World Cup as a result. And with no European nations in the tournament, the rest of the world didn’t really …
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What do enormous corporations do when they are challenged? Exactly what Fifa does We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are just too big to ignore By Tony Attwood Fifa supposedly represents the world football activities of countries large and small. From Cape Verde and San Marino to Russia and Brazil. There are …
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We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are just too big to ignore Fifa teeters on the edge; punishment is not agreed; Infantino wants football cut in two. By Tony Attwood When something goes wrong in a big corporation, the answers are always the same. First they say, “Oh you don’t understand” treating …
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Fifa teeters on the edge; punishment is not agreed; Infantino wants football cut in two. Man City oppose Leagyue By Tony Attwood So let’s imagine that you wanted to run a World Cup football event that made a lot of money. Maybe you had a few ideas up your sleeve about how the …
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By Tony Attwood What happened when Arsenal stopped being no-hopers and won the league? Just how many goals will are needed to keep a club in the Premier League The Premier League’s plans to offer £1.5bn to the Football League as a solidarity payment will be discussed at a meeting of the 20 …
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By Tony Attwood What happened when Arsenal stopped being no-hopers and won the league? Just how many goals will are needed to keep a club in the Premier League The Premier League’s plans to offer £1.5bn to the Football League as a solidarity payment will be discussed at a meeting of the 20 clubs …
Read More “Man City oppose Leagyue Solidarity move but find their support slipping away”
Arsenal’s Strongest Starting XI Based on Current Form Why Arsenal joned the Football League rather than the Southern League by Tony Attwood Interestingly, it is not a qustion I have heard asked very much: “What happens after Arsenal win the league?” It is an interesting question not least because of that fact: it …
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Have Arsenal really been getting the transfer market completely wrong? An investigation into Fifa president Gianni Infantino: but how will the FA respond? By Tony Attwood In terms of the transfer of players into Premier League clubs this summer, and in terms of players by price, Arsenal sit ninth with the transfer of Piero …
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An investigation into Fifa president Gianni Infantino: but how will the FA respond? What happened next, after the last time Arsenal won the title By Tony Attwood For the past 15 or so years we have been tracking the summer transfers that Premier League clubs are rumoured by the media to be engaged …
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What happened next, after the last time Arsenal won the title Arsenal are always the victims in transfer deals. If only they’d take journalists’ advice!!! By Tony Attwood There are multiple issues with football that I think quite a few of us would like to see resolved, but it is probably fair …
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Are Arsenal likely to win the league again next season? Arsenal are always the victims in transfer deals. If only they’d take journalists’ advice!!! By Tony Attwood The last time Arsenal won the league before the season we have just celebrated was of course, 2003-4. So as we wait (rather impatiently in my case) for …
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Arsenal are always the victims in transfer deals. If only they’d take journalists’ advice!!! One way the Man C 114 games case could be resolved By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s title championships come in groups. And in fact, if we look back through Arsenal history we can find five major groups each with their own …
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One way the Man C 114 games case could be resolved 5 new players tipped to join Arsenal: 43 transfers now in total By Tony Attwood Yes indeed, Arsenal are always the victims, falling for the same old trick, never learning from other people’s mistakes, always thinking they know best, always being ripped …
By Tony Attwood Interesting things are now happening around the ManC case, and not necessarily the ones that people in the football business expected. For the ManC finance case has challenged English football in a way that it has never been challenged before, and there are a lot of people who really don’t …
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Why the transfers of some players may sometimes not quite be what they seem Where do supporters behave badly, and how many do it? Compiled by Tony Attwood Every summer transfer window we collect the details of the players that reporters and bloggers claim will be heading Arsenal’s way when the window “slams …
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Where do supporters behave badly, and how many do it? Arsenal gain new finances from extension of Emirates deal and continue to explore new avenues By Tony Attwood The story is, in essence, simple: the purchasing of players by football clubs is not always quite what it seems. Players can be bought to …
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by Tony Attwood In an average football season, the average attendance at matches is 40,410, meaning that over an average league weekend about 400,000 people go to the ten Premier League games. During my lifetime of watching football matches in leagues ranging from the amateur Spartan League up to the Premier League, and games …
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In the midst of the last century the only way in which clubs made money from football was in the playing of games, and the occasional sellling on of players at a profit. But of course all that has changed and the business of football these days is one of money from multiple sources. …
There is no doubt that Arsenal are in trouble… according to the media Arsenal won the league last season – does that mean they will do it again? By Tony Attwood Of course when we say “Arsenal” start preparations that is a bit of an exaggeration since there were something like 15 Arsenal …
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Arsenal won the league last season – does that mean they will do it again? Biggest club in London? By Tony Attwood The “trouble” I refer to above, is in the sense that, at least according to the newspapers and websites, Arsenal’s scouts are missing the best targets for transfer. Targets that are …
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By Tony Attwood Transfers 21 July: Arsenal now targetting 38 different players!!! Different ways to see the world of football To begin: apologies for forgetting that WHAM had a bigger ground than Arsenal. My mistake. Can’t think how I could have forgotten them. Looking back through history we can see that Arsenal, as …
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Transfers 21 July: Arsenal now targetting 38 different players!!! Different ways to see the world of football By Tony Attwood We are told that Morgan Rogers is ‘excited to join biggest club in London’ after making £117m Chelsea move, according to the Guardian today Now we know that is not true in terms …
