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By Tony Attwood Arsenal chase 7 more players making 45 incoming players in all with 20 leaving Is Chelsea really being sold? SuperLeague II: the return of the billionaires Today’s kick around story in the media is that Arsenal are in a dire position because we have a terrible record against the other members of …
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Is Chelsea really being sold? SuperLeague II: the return of the billionaires Arsenal: knocking down walls or getting back to where we used to be By Sir Hardly Anyone It looked for a while like we might get through a window without being tipped to buy Zaha, but no, as with previous windows, he’s now …
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According to the Daily Mail, Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea FC has decided that he won’t sell the club to a person or group of people associated with any country that has sanctioned Russia or its oligarchs. As a result Abramovich has insisted he is going to decide to whom he sells the club. Which …
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By Tony Attwood A team who have blips, or just a team with two key players missing? There is an interesting comment in The Athletic within an interview with Unai Emery (behind a paywall) in which he says, “With Arsenal, you first had to knock down the walls, which is hard work, then start to …
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By Tony Attwood This has been a season of blips, and each blip has been seized upon by the media as a total disaster, and quite possibly the end of civilisation. Not to mention the time for a major overhaul of the team. Except that is what we had with the defence last summer. It …
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Previously about the game… Palace v Arsenal, the team and the developing commentary Palace v Arsenal: the team and the oddities Arsenal have only won once against Palace in the last seven. But… Crystal Palace v Arsenal – a history of the matches in seven videos… Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the injuries and the curious …
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By Bulldog Drummond Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the home and away form shows AFC favourites Crystal Palace v Arsenal; doom and gloom, tackles, fouls and yellow cards Crystal Palace v Arsenal – a history of the matches in seven videos… Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the injuries and the curious case of draws Arsenal have only …
By Bulldog Drummond Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the home and away form shows AFC favourites Crystal Palace v Arsenal; doom and gloom, tackles, fouls and yellow cards Crystal Palace v Arsenal – a history of the matches in seven videos… Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the injuries and the curious case of draws Perhaps the biggest …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal are, as of course you know, playing Crystal Palace tonight. But what you may not know is that over the years the Arsenal History Society (which is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association) has produced a collection of videos of Arsenal games against various clubs. These appear on the website …
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By Bulldog Drummond Crystal Palace v Arsenal; doom and gloom, tackles, fouls and yellow cards Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the home and away form shows AFC favourites Shock horror Arsenal have dropped out of the top four. It’s all over. According to the Guardian, “Arsenal’s horizons have shifted immeasurably since losing their opening three games …
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By Bulldog Drummond Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the home and away form shows AFC favourites Of course doom and gloom is everywhere for Arsenal. Here is what Football.London said of this match at the start of the weekend… “The pressure will be on Arsenal on Monday night. The Gunners will have watched Manchester United and …
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By Bulldog Drummond Why football is in so much trouble? Did Arsenal really have defensive frailties last season as some suggest ? Of course if football journalists were decent reasonable human beings they would be handing in their resignations this morning after telling us that the prime likelihood would be that Arsenal would sink below …
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By Bulldog Drummond This article continues from Did Arsenal really have defensive frailties last season as some suggest ? So as we have shown over and over again, much (possibly most) of what is written and said about football in the media is factually untrue. But it gets repeated, and so in the minds of …
by Bulldog Drummond “Spending big on Benjamin White last summer, Arsenal made it clear they were determined to address their defensive frailties, and it’s worked.” That is from Sport Witness. Everything I know about the history and performance of Arsenal over the last two years tells me that is one of the biggest load of …
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by Tony Attwood One fifa delegate speaks out against Qatar, and football is stunned Looking at Arsenal’s progress after a set number of games allows us to see how this season compares with others, and how teams that were fourth after 28 games normally finished the season. It also allows us to see how much …
By Tony Attwood The fact that any delegate at the Fifa congress spoke out against Qatar and its appalling lack of human rights is amazing. The fact that most British newspapers failed to mention the speech tells those of us who live in the UK, a lot about our society. The fact, as we have …
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by Tony Attwood C.Ed., B.A., M.Phil (Lond) F.Inst.A.M. Consider this headline: Gary Neville claims if Mikel Arteta was “hard” he would leave Arsenal if they got fourth. It comes from that old bunch of scallywags and ne’er-do-wells, the Daily Mirror journalists. In this case the guilty reprobate is Samuel Meade described as the Sports …
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By Bulldog Drummond Does the media control football? Most certainly yes Why football needs more money urgently and why one day it must all fall apart It was a rather odd-looking Arsenal team that beat Brentford yesterday in an Interlull game but it was a chance to find out how some of the up and …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Why football needs more money urgently and why one day it must all fall apart How Arsenal have built the youngest team in the Premier League If you have been a reader of Untold for any length of time you’ll know this is a major theme of ours: that the media …
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By Tony Attwood How Arsenal have built the youngest team in the Premier League Why the demand for a new high-scoring Arsenal centre forward is wrong “…But unless they’ve got an oligarch or state fund to pump money, it’s hard for clubs to keep up with the relentless rise of Premier League players’ wages and …
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Why the demand for a new high-scoring Arsenal centre forward is wrong 37 players Arsenal tipped to buy this summer and 20 men “set to leave” By Tony Attwood We have known for quite a long time that Arsenal has the youngest team in the Premier League, a fact which becomes all the more significant …
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By Tony Attwood According to an article in the Daily Mirror, for Arsenal “there’s a crisis waiting just around the corner.” And that crisis is … “After allowing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to join Barcelona in February, the Gunners have just two senior strikers on their books – Alexandre Lacazette and Eddie Nketiah – and both of them are out …
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Are Liverpool really as good as the media ceaselessly tells us? PGMO and Arsenal reach an agreement on future refereeing By Sir Hardly Anyone As we have done for a number of years, Untold is recording the names of players that the highly esteemed English media report as being on the move – both incoming …
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By Tony Attwood PGMO and Arsenal reach an agreement on future refereeing Martinelli and the question of some pretty awful mistakes “Liverpool have been run supremely well recently. That they have – just about – kept pace with Manchester City despite spending a net £220m less over the past five seasons is remarkable.” Thus says …
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By Christophe Jost Looking at the referee numbers for Arsenal, it means if I read them right that in 24 games, Arsenal have had only 6 referees If I deduct the lone Paul Tierney game, in 23 games, they have been only 5 referees officiating. It is the select group within the “select group”. Referee …
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