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By Tony Attwood We regularly cover issues of racism and violence within football. See for example “Racist abuse, physical violence” in August this year. Back in 2018 we were asking “Should clubs be responsible for the behaviour of their fans inside and outside the ground?” We also know that there was a lot of bother …
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By Tony Attwood The problem with tactical rethinks is that they can take a while to get right. And we have perfect evidence of that with the first third of last season when the whole approach to defending was changed and we slipped to 15th in the league. I must admit I had hoped that …
Read More “Arteta’s latest tactical surprise – and is there one more to come?”
By Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal – the referee and past matches Everton v Arsenal: comparisons of the current state of the clubs Everton v Arsenal, the turmoil in the build up, the walk out by the fans. Everton v Arsenal: the tackles, fouls and yellow cards. What will the ref do? And now here’s …
by Bulldog Drummond If you have been reading Untold for a while you will know that uniquely, we’ve developed the process of comparing tackles, fouls and yellow cards for clubs, and have found it a great source of information in terms of how clubs set themselves up. And of course what the referees get up …
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By Bulldog Drummond The referee is either Andre Marriner or Mike Dean, depending on which website one reads. Marriner we have not had at all. However last season we had him in charge of our games three times. Mike Dean we have had once for the game in October against Palace. Last season, six referees …
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By Bulldog Drummond I don’t think we’ve been in the position of writing previews of two major Arsenal matches in two days, but if you are looking for our coverage of the Women’s Cup Final today that is here 2021 FA Women’s Cup Final – Arsenal v Chelsea Sunday 5 December – Part 1 History …
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By Bulldog Drummond 2021 FA Women’s Cup Final – Arsenal v Chelsea Sunday 5 December – Part 1 History 2021 FA Women’s Cup Final – Arsenal v Chelsea Sunday 5 December – Part 2 – Match Preview With Andrew having covered today’s big match in detail (see above) all there is left for me to …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal, the turmoil in the build up, the walk out by the fans.”
By Tony Attwood On Radio 4 in the UK today there was a discussion of the events at Wembley for the Euro 2020 final. And yet despite a fulsome piece on the subject, the interviewer completely failed to ask a representative of the FA, “Why did you not realise this could happen?” The reason that …
Read More “Football in England is broken beyond repair. We need a new controlling agency”
by Tony Attwood Untold recently ran the series: The biggest scandal in football – the first part of the three part review is here with links to the other two parts at the end. The scandal is that there is no one single body looking after the well-being of children who are taken on by …
Read More “Of course football needs oversight because no one is protecting the youngsters”
By Tony Attwood In its ratings of Arsenal players last night the Daily Telegraph generally gave Arsenal players ratings of six out of ten apart from Ramsdale, Gabriel and Martinelli who all got seven. Which is another way of saying that we didn’t have a standout player who could turn the match and remotivate the …
Read More “At least with Arsenal we can see we certainly are improving”
By Bulldog Drummond I have to admit, getting news about this game has been tough since the media seem only to want to talk about Manchester United. And I know that normally on Untold we end our run of match previews with a prediction of the team – (which as you may have seen in …
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By Bulldog Drummond Perfidious is the only polite word I can think of for these journalist chappies. Consider this headline: Arsenal suffer injury blow ahead of Man Utd clash as three players could miss out It suggested that there has been a new injury in training, when it appeared this morning, but no – it is …
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By Bulldog Drummond By and large football journalists know little about football tactics, and less about football supporters. But still they go on pretending that they know exactly what clubs should do, in the vague hope that this will then stir supporters into criticising their clubs, which will then give the journalists another story without …
Read More “The overwhelming arrogance of journalists is destroying football”
Dating back from 1976 to the present day we have a collection of Arsenal v Manchester United videos on the Arsenal History Society Website. It’s completely free, and hopefully will act as a nice warm up to Thursday night’s dramas. You can find the Arsenal v Man United videos index here But to consider the …
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By Bulldog Drummond While there is a huge amount of focus on the ever rising talents of Saka and Smith Rowe, even to the extent that some are even saying they are “running the show,” there is a case to be made for two other players to be noted as the revelations of this season: …
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By Bulldog Drummond One of the benefits of the move away from tackling which was introduced by Mr Arteta at the start of last season is that it tends to reduce the number of injuries gained while making ungainly tackles. What’s more when one team is clattering away at the opponents and the other isn’t, …
By Bulldog Drummond Both Arsenal and Manchester are at the low end of the tackling chart- in fact, Manchester United have been delivering fewer tackles than anyone this season. And yet despite being the lowest tackling team in the league, they are the ninth highest team for fouls and the fifth-highest team for yellow cards!!! …
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by Tony Attwood It is not surprising that the story behind this article comes from the Daily Mirror. It tells us that Arsenal could lose Alexandre Lacazette and Eddie Nketiah on a free if each doesn’t sign a new deal. Now administrative incompetence is, according to the Mirror, the Arsenal curse, and as a result …
Read More “It is true that sheer incompetence will mean Arsenal lose 2 strikers for nothing?”
By Tony Attwood Under current regulations the Premier League clubs sell their broadcasting rights collectively, the money received being shared between clubs in the league, and to a small extent through solidarity payments with the Championship. So the clubs that bring in big TV audiences don’t get as much as they could, but they agree …
Read More “Why are club owners so against proper regulation and financial control?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Half of the referees who took Arsenal games last season, have had an Arsenal game this season. The man who took control of five Arsenal games last season and awarded more fouls against Arsenal per game than any other referee has already had four Arsenal games this season. At this rate …
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By Tony Attwood Following my piece about media coverage this morning, I stumbled across another Mail article from the same writer as before which says, “Mikel Arteta would finally appear to be moving Arsenal forwards. It has taken a while and his team are still short of where they need to be, but there are …
Read More “Arsenal back in the Champions League next season? It’s looking likely.”
By Tony Attwood There is a piece in the Daily Mail today by Ian Ladyman that says, “Mikel Arteta would finally appear to be moving Arsenal forwards. It has taken a while and his team are still short of where they need to be, but there are signs of progress.” That sentence symbolises all that …
Read More “Arsenal’s progress is utterly stunning – and here is the absolute proof.”
By Tony Attwood With the African confederation now being run not by African officials who have an understanding with the European Leagues where their best players play, but by Fifa head office in Switzerland, and with Fifa in ceaseless war with the club associations such as Uefa, it is not surprising that after a one-off …
Read More “How will we cope without Aubameyang during the Africa Cup of Nations?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone When it all happens at once the football media invariably has one response: ignore it all and say Arsenal’s manager is in trouble. It really is laughable… Prior to yesterday’s match the Daily Mirror – owners of Football.London, ran the headline Mikel Arteta in danger of repeating Unai Emery mistake as pattern …
By Tony Attwood There was a huge amount of publicity concerning the opening three league games of the season, with the media particularly enjoying ranting at Arteta and demanding his removal from the club, Some alleged Arsenal supporters went along with this, and comparisons were made between those three games and Arsenal throughout their history. …
Read More “Have Arsenal truly recovered from those opening three defeats?”
