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
“There’s so much fight in this team and it showed today. We dug deep and got the result we needed … It’s not easy to play like that, especially against a team like Liverpool … It was tough, you have to concentrate all game. It’s nice to defend like that asa as defender and keep a clean …
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By Tony Attwood One of the great problems with this transfer malarky – especially in the short January window – and doubly especially when there is an international tournament going on at the same time – and extra especially when there is a pandemic blowing and your opposition have just come up with a world …
Read More “Liverpool False Positives v Arsenal: the Arsenal team”
By Bulldog Drummond There is an article in the Guardian about how soulless and hopeless everything to do with PSG feels. It includes the paragraph… “A 37-year-old Qatari billionaire buys a football club with an unlimited budget to attract the world’s best players to one of its greatest cities. Over the course of a decade …
Read More “With covid testing in football, it’s now a case of two out of three. Liverpool v Arsenal”
By Dr Billy “The Dog” McGraw of the Deparment of Statistical Anomolies at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. The Liverpool manager, Mr Klopp, has revealed that Trent Alexander-Arnold was the only Liverpool player to actually test positive for Covid. And yet the game last Thursday was called off – according to …
Read More “Footballers and their unexpected covid test results ahead of the match”
By Bulldog Drummond Injury lists are of course getting increasingly meaningless, since club injury lists can show maybe four or five players out, and then the next thing we know the club is claiming that it can’t play the game because of the number of players who are unavailable allegedly with covid infection. In fact …
Read More “Liverpool v Arsenal: who has the virus, who is in Africa, who is injured, who is ill?”
by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal’s first signing of the window was not one of the famous foreigners whose names are bandied incessantly by those not in the know, but rather another youngster – at least according to the Daily Mail. And they call it not a signing by a “poaching” – a word that suggests something …
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By Tony Attwood My article Switzerland, Fifa and the crooks. Have they all been involved in anything else? had only been on line for 15 minutes before I started receiving links from interested readers in Europe, pointing me to more and more articles about the extraordinary engagement of the Mafia in Switzerland. Of course, I …
Read More “Just how big is the football, money laundering, match fixing issue? What the papers say.”
By Tony Attwood The media is full of Arsenal being the team that has won the FA Cup more times than anyone else, and have just been knocked out by a Championship side, and that in itself seems interesting. Why wait until we have been knocked out of the cup to remind readers that we …
Read More “Which teams in the Premier League are overachiving and ready for a fall?”
By Tony Attwood As you will know if you have been a regular reader of Untold for a while, we have been most interested in the comings and going at Fifa – the sort of things that are not generally reported in the British media – for reasons best known to themselves. Much of this …
Read More “Switzerland, Fifa and the crooks. Have they all been involved in anything else?”
By Tony Attwood Going out of the FA Cup is always a disappointment, and doubly so yesterday because it looked like a competition which, given Arsenal’s pedigree as all-time record winners, the club might have had a chance of taking the FA Cup once more. But there is an extra danger beyond that defeat, and …
Read More “Arteta’s next huge challenge: cut Arsenal’s recovery time after each defeat”
By Tony Attwood Quite obviously we’d all like to see Arsenal continue in the FA Cup. We are the record winners, and even if Manchester United were to win the Cup this year (they play their third-round tie tomorrow) we’d still be the club with the most FA Cup wins. But here’s another question: at …
Last year, 30 teenagers were murdered in London – the highest number in a single year since records began. “No More Red” is the campaign to support young people in our communities. https://arsn.al/NoMoreRed By Bulldog Drummond Nottingham F v Arsenal: Different lives in different leagues Forest v The Arsenal. Home and away form …
Read More “Forest v Arsenal. The Arsenal team and 4 players predicted to leave for Newcastle”
By Bulldog Drummond As I have mentioned before, we have the fifth best attack in the league and the seventh best defence. But it looks like we are losing Nketiah, Aubameyang and Lacazette at some time or another, so buying another striker seems a good idea. But, again as noted before, in the meanwhile we …
Read More “Forest v Arsenal. Are we utterly utterly desperate for a striker?”
By Bulldog Drummond Injury and absence levels among the Premier League clubs are getting out of control. Here is the latest list of players missing across the Premier League as of lunchtime today. Leicester City: 17 Newcastle United: 12 Watford: 12 Liverpool: 11 Norwich City: 11 Brentford: 10 Leeds United: 10 Southampton: 10 Chelsea: 9 …
Read More “Forest v The Arsenal: Injuries in the PL are getting utterly out of control”
By Bulldog Drummond The story so far: Nottingham F v Arsenal: Different lives in different leagues Let’s now have our regular look at the home and away breakdown of the two clubs: Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts % Pts per game 17 Nottingham Forest home 13 4 3 6 14 …
Read More “Forest v The Arsenal. Home and away form and who played in the last round”
By Bulldog Drummond Thinking about Nottingham Forest v Arsenal the opening discussion chez Untold concerned not just how the two teams were doing (which led to an immediate review of the “last six” and “last 10” league tables) but also how the other teams around Arsenal were doing. For example, we know Tottenham are breathing …
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By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, head of psychological interpretation and other stuff, at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road Wretched 10-man Arsenal left in tatters by strikerless Manchester City That was the headline in The Guardian following Arsenal’s third defeat in the first three league games at the start of this …
Read More “How one journalist is utterly incapable of letting go of his anti-Arsenal agenda”
By Tony Attwood O One of my arguments against the way the entire media in England presents Arsenal is that the media has a “standard view” into which all the facts are twisted to fit. This view says that anything that is negative that surrounds Arsenal is normally totally Arsenal’s fault. Many of the things …
Read More “13 games in six weeks! Chelsea’s hard luck story; Arsenal have been there done that”
By Tony Attwood I need your help. Some people on reading our website of late, are reporting a number of blank spaces on the screen part way through the article. The articles are still there, but instead of there being one line of space between one paragraph and the next, sometimes there can be a …
Read More “Untold Arsenal needs your help on a technical matter”
By Tony Attwood From 1997 when we came third in the league, to 2016 when we were runners’ up, Arsenal always finished in the top four and gained admission to the Champions League. It was the longest run of any club ever from England in the Champions League, and second only across the continent to …
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By Tony Attwood The national authorities have just cut internet and phone access within Kazakhstan, also making it impossible for local people to contact others. This is what made me think of PGMO. PGMO have no website for its Premier League activities, no connection that the outside world can use, no postal address that is …
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By Tony Attwood As you will have heard the match against Liverpool tomorrow has been postponed. The decision was made at lunchtime today, 5 January. Quite honestly, I imagine that if the board of the EFL thought about the people who wanted to be at the game being messed around, their response would probably have …
Read More “Supporters are once more being treated with total contempt”
By Bulldog Drummond Given that the game against Liverpool may or may not be on (at the time of writing) I thought I’d do one of the sets of data that we normally cover ahead of the game, just in case the game goes ahead. And not least because the data is quite interesting of …
Read More “Liverpool and Arsenal: the tackles, fouls and yellow cards (in case the game is played)”
By Dr Billy the Dog McGraw, head of the Department of Certain Things at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. Liverpool as you will have heard, has asked for their league cup semi-final against Arsenal to be stopped on the grounds that although Liverpool are higher up the league than Arsenal, Arsenal’s …
Read More “Liverpool beg for mercy and ask for game against Arsenal to be postponed”
By Tony Attwood It is perhaps typical of football in England that despite the raging pandemic there seem to be no plans at all as to what to do if clubs can’t complete the season. Fifa has already given full permission to its friends in Africa to carry on running their international tournament in the …
Read More “How to sort matters out if games are being postponed wholesale…”
