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By Tony Attwood It is a story that has often been pushed around: Arsenal are in trouble because they have such a small squad. Give me Sport for example on 1 February this year led with the headline Arsenal’s squad depth is seriously concerning, continuing with the sarcastic note that “Perhaps the only saving …
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by Tony Attwood Of late the Belgian league has been troubled by match-fixing allegations dating back to the 2013-2014 season. According to various news sources in Belgium, Roland Duchâtelet, former president of Standard Liege, as well as two players of the club, have filed a complaint against Anderlecht and RC Genk. Now Roland Duchâtelet is …
Read More “Why don’t we ever talk about something not being right with the Premier League?”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s next two games were supposed to be against Wolverhampton at home on Thursday and Chelsea away on Sunday but with Chelsea in the League Cup final that game has been re-arranged. So Wolverhampton is all we have to worry about this week! (Apologies, I hadn’t realised that when the article first …
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By Tony Attwood There really is little left in the universe for the raging anti-Arsenal Mirror and their pals on Football.London, the Express, the Sunday People, the Star and over 100 local daily newspapers to write about. So instead they are making up tales about “Arsenal are running provisional checks on Spain midfielder Fabian Ruiz …
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By Tony Attwood In the last article I noted the “last six matches” table which shows that taking just the last six league games into account for all the clubs in the Premier League we are second only to Liverpool, and (if I may stress this) ABOVE MANCHESTER CITY ON GOAL DIFFERENCE. Now I capitalise …
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By Tony Attwood And so on one of the more bizarre days of recent years (for me if no one else) I watched Arsenal have their expected victory against a team playing in the way the pundits used to call “dogged” Arsenal did as expected and won. Even the media seemed to find it so …
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by Bulldog Drummond. It is always interesting when this day comes around in the season to look and see where we were before – for this of course is the day when the opening matches of the campaign are reversed. As a result we played Brentford away in the first match of the season at …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Brentford: injuries, tackles, fouls, yellows Arsenal v Brentford… Against each other and the all important recent form… Do Arsenal really urgently need a striker as the media says? As for Brentford the BBC tell us, “The Bees could lose five consecutive away league matches for the first time in 11 …
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By Bulldog Drummond Previously: Arsenal v Brentford… Against each other and the all important recent form… In the Guardian today we have the following commentary… “Aside from the quality that has been added since, Arsenal seem to have developed a grittiness that has served them well in recent weeks.” Grittiness indeed – that seems like …
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By Bulldog Drummond Brentford are one of the small number of clubs that have beaten Arsenal, more than Arsenal have beaten them. We’ve won four, four have been drawn and they have won six – including of course the first match of this season. After a Woolwich Arsenal cup game in 1902 which was a …
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By Tony Attwood The point about our recent series (links at the end of this article) on The Media Conspiracy is not specifically to show that the media is made up of a bunch of ill-formed or highly speculative writers, but rather to show that the approach the media has taken to football leads to …
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This is the concluding part of the series on the media conspiracy against Arsenal. Previously… The media conspiracy against Arsenal. Part 1: How it unfolded. Conspiracy, laziness, or stupidity. Part 2 How the media missed the big Arsenal story Is there really a conspiracy against Arsenal? Part 3: Ownership, laziness and repetition The evidence of …
Read More “The media conspiracy 5, Conclusion: Lay off the proof, stay clear of the facts”
Previously in this series… The conspiracy against Arsenal. Part 1: How it unfolded. Conspiracy, laziness, or stupidity. Part 2 How the media missed the big Arsenal story Is there really a conspiracy against Arsenal? Part 3: Ownership, laziness and repetition By Tony Attwood In the last article in this series we looked at four key …
Top professional footballers have beyond doubt been given a staggering natural talent – a talent that can bring them in an income that is beyond the wildest dreams of most “mere mortals”. But, of course, they have to work hard on the training ground to keep up the level of fitness and talent that allows …
by Tony Attwood Preface: this little series was initially planned as a three-parter, but as I have gone on I’ve felt the need to cover more and more topics that support the thesis that there is something wrong with the media’s reporting of the Premier League. I suspect this will end up as a five …
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By Tony Attwood This article follows on from The media conspiracy against Arsenal. Part 1: How it unfolded. In part one of this short series, I argued that the media (TV, radio, newspapers, bloggers) united to ignore key elements in what was happening at Arsenal last season, and in the early stages of this season …
Read More “Conspiracy, laziness, or stupidity. Part 2 How the media missed the big Arsenal story”
By Tony Attwood This is the first part of a short series that pulls together the evidence which reveals a significant conspiracy against Arsenal set up and wilfully maintained by much of the media. In it I take a look at what has happened in terms of media reporting of Arsenal, how it has warped …
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By Tony Attwood In response to my post yesterday about how Arsenal were doing in the last six games, and how the media insisted on ignoring this, (instead focussing on the disaster that they proclaimed our transfers window was in January), Matthew Campbell wrote in with the league table for the last 19 games. The …
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by Tony Attwood “Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word.” At 1300 GMT Untold Arsenal published its commentary on the Guardian’s piece “Talking points from the weekend’s action,” reviewing an article written by the editor of “Intelligent Life” which seemed to have no grasp whatsoever of Arsenal’s current form. At 1407 GMT …
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By Tony Attwood There is a screamingly funny and utterly lunatic article in the Guardian this morning, in its regular post-weekend series “Talking points from the weekend’s action” It is by Tim de Lisle (author of “How to Write Well”), whose profile on Wikipedia reads, “De Lisle is a feature writer for The Guardian, focusing …
Read More “Outrageous attack on Arsenal as recent games give boost to hope of top four finish”
By Tony Attwood SC Freiburg gained a point against Mainz at the weekend, after first falling behind in the match. Now I know that is hardly a matter for debate on Untold Arsenal much as we do like to stay in touch with European football. But this one incident shines a very, very bright …
Read More “The discussion PGMO won’t allow in England, and how it is corrupting football”
By Tony Attwood I’ve not seen anyone publish details of just how many points a club needs to get to fourth place each season, so I created the list myself, and immediately I was struck by the variability. Over the years anything from 66 to 79 points would be needed to not get a trophy. …
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By Tony Attwood Prelim: Today is the anniversary of the first report in a newspaper of Arsenal fans signing a song to celebrate a victory. A recording of the original of the song, and a report on where it came from appear today in the regular anniversary of the day series. Are they trying to …
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By Tony Attwood When people start having a go at Arsenal I do like to delve a little to see what lies beneath. Like for example how odd the transfer of Auba to Barca really was, given that there was no transfer fee. And (as I explore below) Arsenal’s alleged inability to score goals. Three …
Read More “Are really Arsenal in as bad a state as the Mirror suggests?”
By Tony Attwood This is a report on a story that the media is ignoring completely. And it is not the story of Arsenal’s form of late (which is another story they are ignoring, for as you will know, if you have been taking notice, across the last six league games Arsenal have recorded the …
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