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Arsenal’s team news for tonight’s Champions League game Athletic Club v Arsenal – Champions League Tuesday And on the history society site…. Arsenal’s first cup final; Chapman’s second season By Tony Attwood Due to UEFA rules, “Arsenal will wear their blue away shirt with a new pair of silver shorts and socks.” This …
This article was originally published on the Arsenal History site this morning as we had technical problems here. By Tony Attwood Athletic Club v Arsenal – Champions League Tuesday How do you measure success in a football club or the competence of a commentator? My apologies that yet again, Untold Arsenal has come under …
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How do you measure success in a football club or the competence of a commentator? How this season compares with previous campaign starts By Tony Attwood For one thing we can be grateful – the first leg of Arsenal’s next match tomorrow going to be played in the country of the opposition, and not …
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How this season compares with previous campaign starts 74 charges against Chelsea. 115 against ManC. Arsenal playing Forest By Tony Attwood The answer to both of those questions above (concerning success in a club or competence in a commentator) is generally simple: by trophies for a club, and predictions and relevant insights of …
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This Arsenal story has been manufactured to meet our publishing requirements Latest in the “100 seasons in the top division” series: Arsenal’s first cup final; Chapman’s second season By Tony Attwood This start to the season feels to me like a really positive opening – yes, there has been a defeat, but that …
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Nottingham Forest: the heritage and a very, very weird fixture list Arsenal v the man who never won a north London derby Arsenal v Forest: The referee who reverses all the normal statistics By Tony Attwood So how did it all come to this? The fact is, stories as we all …
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Arsenal v the man who never won a north London derby Arsenal v Forest: The referee who reverses all the normal statistics By Tony Attwood Nottingham Forest is called “Forest” because they started playing at the Forest Recreation Ground, which at some stage might have been in Sherwood Forest, but isn’t any more. Moving …
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Arsenal v Forest: The referee who reverses all the normal statistics This Arsenal story has been manufactured to meet our publishing requirements By Tony Attwood It is rather interesting that while several websites report the number of players injured at the moment, they generally don’t seem to put the figures in order of …
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This Arsenal story has been manufactured to meet our publishing requirements The strange trail of Edu and rule breaking (allegedly) By Tony Attwood Darren England is the referee This will be Darren England’s third Premier League match of the season. So far he has had one home win and one draw and …
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We already know how the league will look at season’s end Fifa accused of wholesale corruption, On the Arsenal History site, “as part of our 100 seasons in the top division series,” we have Arsenal’s first cup final; Chapman’s second season By Tony Attwood Now that is not a headline (above) you are …
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Vendettas and short tempers. How chairmen run football clubs Fifa accused of wholesale corruption, but the English media really don’t want to know By Tony Attwood I always liked Edu as a player at Arsenal, but also sometimes had the feeling that there was something “different” about him. He, sort of, had …
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Vendettas and short tempers. How chairmen run football clubs Fifa accused of wholesale corruption, but the English media really don’t want to know By Tony Attwood I’m always desperately nervous about Arsenal players playing for their country – especially England – because so often it seems they do the stuff for their country but …
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Fifa accused of wholesale corruption, but the English media really don’t want to know Football is standing on the edge of the cliff and looks ready to jump By Tony Attwood Supposing you owned a football club which for the last couple of seasons had come 16th and 17th in the Premier …
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Football is standing on the edge of the cliff and looks ready to jump “Doing what’s best for the club.” But what is best for the club? By Tony Attwood There is an interesting story that has been highlighted in the Sunday Times and has popped up in other places concerning more than £7 …
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By Tony Attwood Football is standing on the edge of the cliff and looks ready to jump “Doing what’s best for the club.” But what is best for the club? “What gives you the right to comment?” In a country like the UK we all, fortunately, have the right to comment within the bounds …
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Clubs are being dealt with under PSR rules, but 1 year on ManC are still untouched The ineptitude of the FA in running football is overwhelming By Tony Attwood The big news doing the rounds is that there is serious discussion going on in relation to some Premier League matches being moved …
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By Tony Attwood Clubs are being dealt with under PSR rules, but 1 year on ManC are still untouched The ineptitude of the FA in running football is overwhelming The turmoil at Tottenham Hotspur is by and large, the story of the moment. When Daniel Levy came along, they were worth £80m, but …
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The ineptitude of the FA in running football is overwhelming It is more than likely that Arsenal’s new players are taking a while to adjust to the ways of English officials By Tony Attwood There is talk that Amanda Staveley, the former Newcastle director who was at the centre of the deal …
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By Tony Attwood Naturally, like all supporters, Untold looks first at the club we support – Arsenal FC. But Arsenal are of course part of a bigger picture, for being members of the Premier League, the club is automatically subservient to the Football Association, Uefa and Fifa. Now we have long been critical of …
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by Tony Attwood 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 receive more than they spent? In the last eight seasons, two teams have won the Premier League: In the …
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Summer transfers: who spent the most and which 7 clubs receive more than they spent? Remembering past Arsenal players: Emi Martinez, football’s biggest prat By Tony Attwood As you might well have realised, one of the prime driving forcesof this site is that the media not only omits some important news from its daily …
Why do clubs make such appalling errors with some transfers? Arsenal yet again top of the injury table. Why is this? By Tony Attwood Arsenal appear to have had the biggest net spend this summer, with a total of £267m spent on players and just £10m received for the players who have left, giving …
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Why do clubs make such appalling errors with some transfers? Arsenal yet again top of the injury table. Why is this? By Tony Attwood You might remember Emi Martinez. He was actually with Arsenal for eight years (2012-2) but only managed 15 games, although he had loans of Oxford, Sheffield Wednesday, Rotherham, Wolverhampton, …
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By Tony Attwood There is a Telegraph article running at the moment, headlined “The 10 worst signings of all time.” It is a typical doom and gloom feature of their site, and each time they run it, the message one might take from it is, “Do not give your manager everything he asks for, until …
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From the Arsenal History Society: 100 seasons in the top division: Removing Knighton, the arrival of Chapman, and changing reality By Tony Attwood The fact that Arsenal played without Saliba for 95% of the game, so we add his name to Kai Havertz, Jesus, Saka, Norgard, White…. it is starting to look like a …
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