Pre-season is about tactics, and liaison with foreign fans, not about winning

    How the media create fantasy stories in order to talk down Arsenal Why some people just can’t understand what pre-season games are all about= As I have already pointed out, pre-season matches are not about winning, but about bedding new players in and making sure that the new players start to get used …

How the media create fantasy stories in order to talk down Arsenal

    Why some people just can’t understand what pre-season games are all about Premier League introduces Extra Access to players. But will we even notice? By Tony Attwood There is a line in the Guardian’s preview of Arsenal for the season that says that “there remain concerns about a lack of creativity in the …

Why some people just can’t understand what pre-season games are all about

    Premier League introduces Extra Access to players. But will we even notice? When they are talking about you in Europe, you know you have arrived by Tony Attwood There is a growing anger in the Arsenal fan base.   It is not shared among those who gather data and ideas for Untold Arsenal, nor …

Premier League introduces Extra Access to players. But will we even notice?

        Media finally starts to realise: Arsenal are being screwed by referees Do Arsenal need to sell before buying any more players? By Tony Attwood We will be seeing some innovations in the 2025/26 season and there is no doubt that the broadcasters will be pitching them as “revolutionary.”  Not because they …

When they are talking about you in Europe you know you have arrived

Tottenham: better than Arsenal? Or is football teetering on the brink? Media finally starts to realise: Arsenal are being screwed by referees By Tony Attwood One of the great points about Arsenal giving Max Dowman outings with the first team in the pre-season tour, is often overlooked in commentaries, but it is real all the …

Tottenham: better than Arsenal? Or is football teetering on the brink?

  By Tony Attwood The point was put to me yesterday that “in recent years” Tottenham have done better in the league than Arsenal.   That didn’t feel right to me so I went and looked, and being an honest chap, I then had to admit I was wrong.  Or looked at differently, right. Across the …

Media finally starts to realise: Arsenal are being screwed by referees

      Do Arsenal need to sell before buying any more players? Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice) By Tony Attwood We’ve written a lot about penalties in recent times, so it is nice to see at last that the BBC has picked up on the issue of just what is going …

Do Arsenal need to sell before buying any more players?

      Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice) As supporters, do we support everything or do we criticise and petition? By Tony Attwood Mikel Arteta has, as I am sure you will know, signed six players for fees this summer, the fees ranging from a small amount to lots.    Here’s the …

Souh London v Middlesex, plyaed in Hong Kong. But really, do origins matter?

    Celebrating 100 consecutive seasons of Arsenal in the top division Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice) By Tony Attwood It is thoroughly boring the hear the ceaseless moaning of some anti-Arsenalistas that Arsenal is a South London club.   But if we have to hear them, we must also accept (as was …

Arsenal v Tottenham in Hong Kong. Tottenham’s two trajectories of last season

    Women’s football: now everyone wants to know Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice) By Tony Attwood Arsenal play Tottenham Hotspur in their next pre-season “friendly” and it is interesting in the build-up to be reminded of just how Tottenham Hotspur ended last season.   They were of course, on two different trajectories …

Women’s football: now everyone wants to know

    By Christophe Jost I remember a few years back UA being the only place, or one of the only places, were Arsenal’s women’s team games were reported on, with attendances of a few hundred people.   I mean…just think about that for a minute… a few years ago. And now…look at what happened…. just …

Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice)

  The last time Arsenal came 2nd three seasons running, they won the league Celebrating 100 consecutive seasons of Arsenal in the top division   By Tony Attwood Although it is true that the  Arsenal has worken up a little to the fact that the fortccoming season marks the 100th anniversary of the arrival of …

As supporters, do we support everything or do we criticise and petition?

    Why Arsenal are going to have a really tough time of it this season The problem with counting the number of homegrown players in Europe By Tony Attwood Supporters can sometimes be very critical of the club they support – that’s obvious – although Arsenal supporters do on occasion seem to take it …

How Saudi Arabia is seeking to undermine football and the most valuable clubs in the PL

      What this summer’s signings imply for Arsenal’s goal scoring potential The problem with counting the number of home grown players in Europe   By Tony Attwood There was a story circulating just recently that noted that “Newcastle’s Alexander Isak [has been] offered £600,000-a-week tax-free deal by Al-Hilal”.  The suggestion was that the …

Why Arsenal are going to have a really tough time of it this season

    By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Newcastle today at 1230 – available on your computer The problem with counting the number of home grown players in Europe Because the media never touch the issue, there is a general assumption that all Premier League clubs are treated pretty much the same way by the opposition …

What this summer’s signings imply for Arsenal’s goal scoring potential

      The problem with counting the number of home grown players in Europe Up and down we go. Does the yoyo effects between the leagues matter? By Tony Attwood Arsenal have now signed Viktor Gyökeres, Martín Zubimendi, Noni Madueke, Cristhian Mosquera, Christian Nørgaard, Kepa Arrizabalaga, and Marcell Washington.  That is seven players totalling …

Arsenal v Newcastle today at 1230 – available on your computer

    Up and down we go. Does the yoyo effects between the leagues matter? Are Arsenal spending the most or lagging behind in the transfer market? By Tony Attwood It’s Arsenal so the Big Boys of the media don’t really want to know – but as with the last friendly game, you can watch …

The problem with counting the number of home grown players in Europe

    Up and down we go. Does the yoyo effects between the leagues matter? Are Arsenal spending the most or lagging behind in the transfer market? By Tony Attwood According to the New York Times website the Arsenal forward Noni Madueke has just been reclassified as a ‘homegrown’ player.    And I am not …

Up and down we go. Does the yoyo effects between the leagues matter?

    After 100 years in the first division: the advent of two men for each position Arsenal sign a new striker: will he be able to do in England what he did in Europe?   By Tony Attwood In the last four years, Burnley have been promoted twice and relegated twice.  The difference between …

Are Arsenal spending the most or lagging behind in the transfer market?

    After 100 years in the first division: the advent of two men for each position Arsenal sign a new striker: will he be able to do in England what he did in Europe? By Tony Attwood And in addition to that question in the headline, does it matter? Now there is one factor …

After 100 years in the first division: the advent of two men for each position

    100 consecutive seasons in the first division: An Arsenal record and a football record The58 players Arsenal are currently chasing; 10 new and updated reports By Tony Attwood You might be excused for not knowing, because the media utterly refuse to mention such things in relation to Arsenal, but the forthcoming season not …

Arsenal sign a new striker: will he be able to do in England what he did in Europe?

    The58 players Arsenal are currently chasing; 10 new and updated reports How big transfer spending is usually good for clubs – but not immediately   By Tony Attwod Viktor Gyökeres has always been a special case in terms of his transfer, simply because as we have noted in many previous articles, he scored …

Arsenal v AC Milan: recent history and today’s line up

      The58 players Arsenal are currently chasing; 10 new and updated reports The two big problems in the Premier League the media refuse to consider By Tony Attwood So it is Arsenal v Milan at 1230 today to start the round of friendlies.    Between 2020/21 and 2023/24 Milan came 2nd, 1st, 4th …

The58 players Arsenal are currently chasing; 10 new and updated reports

  By Tony Attwood This season’s transfer window mill seems to be continuing its lathargic passage – at least in comparison with previous windows, and it is starting to look very unlikley as if Arsenal will have the allgeged interest in over 100 men by the time the window “slams shut” (as it always does, …

How big transfer spending is usually good for clubs – but not immediately

      How Arsenal is now the model for other clubs – but some still can’t get it right Why it is really important for Arsenal to stay well away from the Club World Cup By Tony Attwood Both fans and the media often focus on individual issues when it comes to predicting how …