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 There are mistakes and there are mistakes. And then there is Manchester United. In a recent article, the Independent has told us that “Gabriel Martinelli has revealed that Manchester United turned down the chance to sign the Arsenal forward as a teenager.” Which is a bit of an odd thing to say since it is hardly …
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By Tony Attwood Speaking in Parliament, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said, “I do agree with my honourable friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Tracey Crouch), who has just conducted a review on the matter, that we should indeed have an independent regulator for football.” As a result of this those of us …
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Premier League refereeing is going to be reformed, but it still won’t help Do Arsenal really need to change their attack and buy a classic number 9? By Tony Attwood A lot of football commentary is based on certainties. Certainties about the number of points needed, the number of goals needed, the need for a …
Read More “Arsenal’s move toward winning the league: how is it progressing?”
By Tony Attwood One day ago we ran the headline: How the Leeds situation proves that Halsey’s attack on Riley is right: PGMO has gone wrong. In this article, we complained about 1: Lack of oversight of PGMO by an independent body that is not part of the current cosy football world. 2: Unwillingness …
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By Tony Attwood Football journalists love easy questions and easy answers. Do Arsenal need a new centre forward? Yes! Why? Because our current centre forward is out of contract at the end of the season and anyway he’s not scoring goals. That is a perfectly valid reason in that across the last 25 games we …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Last summer’s 136 Arsenal transfers were predicted by the media. You can read about them here: Part one; Part two. Below is the latest edition of the list of players deemed by the all-seeing and usually totally inaccurate media that report such matters, to be coming to and going from Arsenal …
Read More “30 players tipped to come to Arsenal; 19 players tipped to leave”
By Tony Attwood There was an article in the Sun recently (yes I know) which had the headline LAUGHING STOCK Premier League referees struggling because chief Mike Riley and those in charge NOT giving proper coaching or education It was written by Mark Halsey who was on thePremier league’s list of Select Group Referees from …
By Tony Attwood Mikel Arteta has been in charge of Arsenal for 822 days (at least according to my calculator). Which is not bad given that according to the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post the average tenure of a Premier League coach is 772 days. This is longer than the Bundesliga for which the average …
Read More “Arteta has been at Arsenal for an above average time. But is he a success?”
By Christophe Jost I do of course appreciate that you may get bored by Untold’s crusade against what we perceive as the media bias against Arsenal. And regularly, we get comments telling us to bugger-off, that Arsenal fans are sore losers, that it all evens out at the end, and other such general comments based …
Read More “Bias in sport reporting is systemic. The view from afar.”
By Tony Attwood It has always struck me that starting the league season while the transfer window is still open is a pretty dumb thing to do. Surely the logical approach is to close the window, have a week for players to move to new clubs and then get going. As it was Arsenal last …
Read More “If Arsenal had been treated as Liverpool, where would we be now?”
by Ivebeen Downthepub Are Arsenal really heading for fourth or could it all go wrong? Let’s knock Arsenal. Find a story, any story, and paint Arsenal in a bad light. Here are just eight of the current crop of raging negativities… 1: Arsenal’s goal should not have stood in the game v Villa This Is …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone The media has gone into a mini-frenzy of late suggesting that it is far from certain that Arsenal will get fourth spot, because of the difficult nature of the games that they have yet to play. In an earlier article I tried to show that this is far from being right, …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Does Arsenal spend enough each summer on new players? According to the media the answer universally is “no,” in that for every 100 players they tip Arsenal to be looking at buying, or indeed in many cases actually buying, we only get three, often showing no interest in the player whatsoever. …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal are in trouble because of their remaining away games, says Martin There was an insight into what is wrong with Aston Villa after the Mirror published a piece that suggested that Ashley Young has “slammed” Arsenal players for celebrating “like they won the league” after they secured the one-goal victory over …
Read More “Far from being in trouble, Arsenal are close to the form of our double winning side”
By Tony Attwood How Arsenal have risen from the foot of the table to 4th, and how the media has apologised I have seen a suggestion in the Mirror which says that Arsenal are not favourites to reach the top four because Arsenal have a tougher run in than Tottenham for the rest of the …
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Football fans have always been interested in premier leagues and some pro tips have always backed them up by guiding them on how to place their best bets on their favorite teams. Football enthusiasts take immense pride in knowing the game well along with their origin, history, players, background, winnings, etc. 2020-2021 served some of …
By Tony Attwood So, we’ve won again, and that’s another one of our games in hand gone. Here’s the table Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester City 29 22 4 3 68 18 50 70 2 Liverpool 29 21 6 2 75 20 55 69 3 Chelsea 28 17 8 …
By Bulldog Drummond Aston Villa v Arsenal: ranting, and the form of the two clubs. Aston Villa v Arsenal: Villa tackle, foul and get carded more and Smith Rowe’s amazing figures. Aston Villa v Arsenal: Villa’s longest winning run, Arsenal’s 5 consecutive away wins The Evening Standard tells the team for this afternoon’s game like …
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Aston Villa v Arsenal: Villa tackle, foul and get carded more and Smith Rowe’s amazing figures. Aston Villa v Arsenal: ranting, and the form of the two clubs. Our two previous articles, in their own ways, show that far from being in difficulty and in desperate need of a new striker, Arsenal are doing very …
Read More “Aston Villa v Arsenal: Villa’s longest winning run, Arsenal’s 5 consecutive away wins”
By Bulldog Drummond Aston Villa v Arsenal: ranting, and the form of the two clubs. Here is the regular list of tackles, fouls and yellow cards for the two sides in tomorrow’s game… Club Tackles Fouls Yellows Aston Villa 473 282 60 Arsenal 395 248 37 Most 574 357 85 Least 373 235 35 What …
How misleading information about Arsenal is spread daily to undermine the club What Arsenal need is sustainable progress, and that is what we are getting. By Bulldog Drummond I suppose our headline ought to be “Daily Mirror avoids punishment for Mikel Arteta rant but refuses to make any changes” after they ran the headline “Mikel …
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By Tony Attwood Curiously, following our piece on Arsenal against the other members of the top six, there appeared an interesting little note from the utterly daft P. Morgan on Twitter saying, “Arsenal fans need to temper their irrational over-excitement about Arteta’s ‘process’ until we stop losing to City/Liverpool/Chelsea every time, home & away. Even …
Read More “How misleading information about Arsenal is spread daily to undermine the club”
By Tony Attwood An astounding performance from Arsenal bodes well for the future There’s no getting away from it, despite the tremendous upturn in results which came after the opening three league games, when we play the other members of the traditional “big six” clubs in the league, we have not been doing as well …
Read More “What Arsenal need is sustainable progress, and that is what we are getting.”
By Tony Attwood Sitting in the stadium last night ruminating over the first half, my friends and I in the upper east stand were of one opinion: Arsenal were playing brilliantly. We were matching Liverpool man for man with Martinelli in particular having moved up yet one more level. We were running out of superlatives. …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Liverpool: all the form of late points to a draw Arsenal v Liverpool: This is Arsenal’s best position since 2014. Chelsea score yet another own goal, and the tackles / fouls / yellow ratio with Liverpool Arsenal v Liverpool. Recent results, and interesting stats for the ref According to various …
