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 Attwood Occasionally this season I’ve tried to compare Arsenal at different times in the campaign, with where we were in recent years. This is done by taking our league position after a set number of games – today obviously after 21 games. And it turns out that our position after 21 games has …
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by Bulldog Drummond The oldest team in the Premier League meets the youngest today, as the game today celebrates the anniversary of the purchase of Burnley for £170m. Thus showing new owners don’t always mean new money. ALK Capital have a lot to answer for, but seemingly no money of their own to invest and …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley: Burnley’s problems, Arsenal’s team”
by Bulldog Drummond As we have seen (links to past articles are below), everything points to a solid Arsenal win today. History and form are with us, whether it involves looking back across the years, the current season, the last ten games or the last six games. Our one problem might be the lack of …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley: the visitors look to be in real trouble.”
By Bulldog Drummond The key issue for Burnley is that they have sold Chris Wood to Newcastle. Although he has only scored three league goals for the club this season, that actually represents almost one fifth of Burnley’s goals. In terms of the league only Maxwell Cornet has scored more in the league for Burnley …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley: recent and historical form between the clubs”
By Bulldog Drummond This article continues our match preview series following on from Arsenal v Burnley: tackles, fouls, yellows and home/away form. When it comes to injuries it might feel like we are top of the league, but in fact that is not the case. Figures as always come from Premier Injuries. It is interesting …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley absentees, recent form and managerial success.”
By Bulldog Drummond The Telegraph is still headlining its utterly misleading notion Why Arsenal’s red cards are a black mark against Mikel Arteta’s management by Sam Dean; an article that deliberately aims at misleading the reader into the notion that Arsenal are a dirty side. In fact as we saw in Red card plague blights …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley: tackles, fouls, yellows and home/away form”
by Tony Attwood This article continues from Red card plague blights Arsenal, the plague of blindness blights the media In my last piece I noted the Uefa Convention on the Future of European Football and the chaos in football in which lots of separate organisations fight for control, and no one group particularly seems to listen …
Read More “How football has turned into a tax free process of unregulated self-aggrandisement”
by Tony Attwood Diogo Jota double sends Liverpool to Wembley as red card plague blights Arsenal again That’s the headline in the Telegraph today in an article by Sam Wallace, their “Chief Football Writer”. So “red card plague” – the new disease – is hitting Arsenal. OK let’s look for some evidence to back up …
Read More “Red card plague blights Arsenal, plague of blindness blights the media”
By Tony Attwood There are euphemisms and euphemisms. The Guardian today says, “Jürgen Klopp’s side mustered all their street-fighting experience to hold them [Arsenal] at bay.” That’s one way to describe it. Looking at the team many would probably say that the return to the squad of a 20 a season centre forward could help …
Read More “Covid certifcate, car insurance, empty seats at £10 each… another Arsenal night”
By Bulldog Drummond According to the BBC, “Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta praised his side’s “fight, determination and brotherhood” after the 10-man Gunners frustrated Liverpool in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final at Anfield.” Of course it wasn’t a fair battle, according to the Corporation’s headline because “Liverpool miss Salah & Mane”. Ah, of …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool: Arsenal’s team and the strange issue of Liverpool’s fouls”
By Bulldog Drummond Despite all the negatives about Arsenal of late we are still up there when it comes to current form Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester City 6 6 0 0 21 4 17 18 2 Tottenham Hots 6 4 2 0 13 5 8 14 3 …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool. Comparisons over the last few games give us hope”
By Bulldog Drummond These are indeed the craziest of football times. With Infantino, head of Fifa, packing his bags and moving to Qatar with his family, seemingly to escape the investigation of his activities by the Swiss authorities who are looking into corrupt and illicit meetings with their most senior lawman, and with the British …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool: why do clubs not want to tackle Liverpool players?”
By Lizzie Howard Arsenal FC is a club that is steeped deep in history. The club has gone through many iconic phases in the 135 years since it was established. These phases have produced some of the most exhilarating moments of triumph. Here are the seven greatest moments in Arsenal history. The Invincibles Few …
By Tony Attwood You will know if you are a regular reader that G. Infantino, the head of Fifa, is under investigation in Switzerland for colluding with the head of the Swiss legal system in a series of illicit, private and unrecorded meetings while he (Infantino) was under investigation. Now the rest of Europe (but …
Read More “Head of Fifa quits Europe and moves to Qatar and escapes Swiss investigation”
By Sir Hardly Anyone “Erling Haaland gives Edu green light for new £58m Arsenal signing after fresh transfer update” according to a headline in Football London. Now FoLo in their funny way are actually not telling us Arsenal are going to sign Haaland, but we can show that this is a false negative and he …
Read More “Erling Haaland gives Edu the green light: it’s on for Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood You may well have read or heard about the referee Janny Sikazwe who made a mistake over his time keeping and blew for full time after 85 minutes during an Africa Cup of Nations game between Mali and Tunisia. He was then taken to hospital suffering from heatstroke. Comments are also made …
Read More “Why can a newspaper criticise refs in Africa, but not refs in the PL?”
In response to the article Tackles, fouls, yellow cards, injuries and illness. How Tottenham and Arsenal compare an email came in from Nicklas Skott in which he said, “Why bother about this when you have cheated your way in to football. This club stinks abd now we get to see it again.” Given that several …
Read More “The accusation that Arsenal cheated its way into football: and the answer”
By Bulldog Drummond The Guardian is reporting that Tottenham are annoyed at the postponement of the game today saying that “Tottenham have been left furious… believing rules regarding Coronavirus-related postponements have been manipulated to create “unintended consequences”.” The Guardian adds that “Arsenal would have been without at least 15 first-teamers for their visit to Tottenham …
Read More “Tackles, fouls, yellow cards, injuries and illness. How Tottenham and Arsenal compare”
by Tony Attwood If you have had a read of some of the commentaries on this site about Arsenal’s request for a postponement of the planned match for today against Tottenham you might notice several points that link the commentaries together. First, although the articles on, for example, the Liverpool postponement carried a fair amount …
Read More “The debate over Arsenal’s postponement of today’s game raises key issue”
By Tony Attwood (Updated at 1507) Tomorrow’s game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has been postponed after the Premier League accepted Arsenal’s request to postpone the match due to their depleted squad. Although the Daily Mirror never once suggested that Liverpool’s postponement of their League cup game was controversial, this one apparently is. Mind you …
Read More “Tottenham v Arsenal is off, but here’s the team we would have put out”
By Tony Attwood At the moment of writing, we are waiting for any news about tomorrow’s match and whether it is on or not, which is a little frustrating since this is normally the moment that we are doing all the regular preview bits. But thank you in the meanwhile to everyone who has dropped …
Read More “Reading the Guardian while waiting on news of the Arsenal game tomorrow”
By Tony Attwood ————– Today is the anniversary of the first north London derby. What impact did it have on football? ————– Following Liverpool’s request for a match postponement for a group of players who seemingly tested positive one day and negative the next (the chances of which are so unlikely it is hard to …
Read More “Arsenal ask for postponment, but will the club get equal treatment?”
Arsenal is one of the most successful clubs in English football with 13 league titles and a record 14 FA cups. They are also one of the most popular teams on social media, boasting over 5 million followers on Facebook alone. With all this success though, there have been some low points for Arsenal as …
Read More “What Would Count As Success For Arsenal This Season?”
By Tony Attwood Here’s a basic question: is everything that is done in the name of football in England ok and above board? Or are there grounds for suggesting something is wrong? As far as I know there are only two sites on the internet that regularly suggest the latter. One is Football is Fixed, …
Read More “Why suspicions about the integrity of football are always growing”
By Tony Attwood One might have thought that after last night the media could have toned it down a bit and given Arsenal some real praise. Or if they wanted to knock Liverpool, maybe (even it is very late) returned to the miracle of the false positive that let them a) pull out of the …
Read More “Arsenal have had twice as many red cards in the league as Tottenham this season”
