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 These are, to say the least, strange times in football. ZZ has just resigned as Real Madrid manager, which is quite a turn up – true he didn’t win them the title this season, but he did last season, and his contract still has time to run. Something about finances maybe? And …
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by Tony Attwood Here’s a fun game to play. Take a look at the Arsenal squad and nominate the players that you think might be the stars of next season – the players in the current squad who will really lift the club in 2021/2. And if you are of a negative disposition and …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone As Untold has been showing over recent days, the Arsenal statistics have been sensational of late, leaving the rampant raging negativists with nothing to do except say you can prove anything with statistics. But as we have seen, even they are getting desperate, with the Guardian reduced to quoting a blog …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone I rather think Untold should publish “Turnip of the Day” and pick a journalist for the award each day, with total number of awards by newspaper and individual reporter each week. Maybe we can start tomorrow; I shall put this to the Untold board tonight, and hopefully tomorrow we can. And we …
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By Tony Attwood Here’s the view from the Daily Mail… “It’s been such a miserable year again for Arsenal, you do genuinely wonder whether they’ll now be mired in mid-table mediocrity for years to come. There will be no European football at the Emirates Stadium next season for the first time in a quarter-century and …
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By Tony Attwood The prime call of journalists, bloggers and many fans is for Arsenal to buy new players. It’s an interesting thought although one that lacks a certain amount of logic. For the claim is also that the players Arsenal have bought are not good enough. Why there is the hope that next time …
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By Tony Attwood If you have been been reading Untold of late you perhaps will have noted the simple theme that is being expounded: That Arsenal has performed brilliantly since Christmas in turning itself around and rising up the league table. Alongside that we have been highlighting the work of the enemies of the club: …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone, Untold’s Head of Certain Things The Guardian, ahead of the final match of the season published a fan’s eye view of the season past and the season to come. It is an article which shows one of the big problems that Arsenal face at this particular moment, and highlights one of …
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By Tony Attwood As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader, Arsenal had an absolutely fantastic last two-thirds of the season. Look at a league table of that period and Arsenal were the third-best team – in fact, second-best if you account for the fact that Man U played one more game than us during …
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By Bulldog Drummond How to understate the bleedin’ obvious: “Arsenal have finished the season strongly.” That comes from Who scored and it doesn’t quite bring across what has happened. We’ve won our last four games scoring nine conceding two. In ten of our last 23 games we have scored three or more goals. In our …
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By Bulldog Drummond It is interesting just how volatile the injury league table from Physioroom.com has been this season. Here’s the league table before the final match of the campaign – the number at the end of each row is the number of men reported by Physioroom as being out this weekend. Newcastle United: 11 Crystal …
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By Bulldog Drummond And so almost for the last time this season, the analysis of tackles, fouls and yellow cards. Not quite the last time because after this final game we’ll go back and have a look at every club in the League and see how Arsenal managed to break out of the noose that …
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By Bulldog Drummond Recently we have not only been looking at the league table to compare the two clubs involved in a game but also their comparative results over a key number of matches. Of course our favourite starting point for such a table is Christmas Day, but let’s be fair and include all the …
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Arsenal face four huge dangers as they stand again on the edge of greatness The four dangers that could stop Arsenal’s rise next season. 2: The journalists The four dangers that could stop Arsenal’s rise: Part 3; returning to the tackle Part 4; The Rabble Rousers. False beliefs and fake logic. In a statement, the …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal face four huge dangers as they stand again on the edge of greatness The four dangers that could stop Arsenal’s rise next season. 2: The journalists Point three, don’t disrupt the style There have been some complaints about the way the team has been managed – and yes I’ve had a …
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by Tony Attwood In my last article Arsenal face four huge dangers as they stand again on the edge of greatness I pointed out the problem and challenge the newly regenerated Arsenal face from the Arsenal Supporters Trust with their ceaseless demands for involvement in the club, coming after their endless attacks on the …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal have had an utterly brilliant last two-thirds of this season. Put another way, since Christmas Day the club has created a superb, and for many unexpected, return to the form that Arsene Wenger regularly created until 2015/6, when we came second. (It’s not exactly two-thirds, I know it is 61%, but …
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By Tony Attwood There was a most amusing incident in the BT Sport commentary on the Palace v Arsenal game as the commentator began to talk about how nice it was to have a crowd in the ground. For the crowd, he said, could really give the home team a boost, and give them more …
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By Bulldog Drummond Sports Mole have as ever obliged with a clearly laid out lineup, published early on. No Lacazette for them, although he normally does rather well in scoring against the Palace. Leno; Chambers, Holding, Mari, Tierney; Partey, Elneny; Saka, Odegaard, Smith Rowe; Aubameyang The Standard predicts that Palace will win 3-2 and …
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By Bulldog Drummond We are told by the BBC that Crystal Palace have never lost their final home league game in their previous 11 Premier League campaigns (W8, D3). Their last such defeat was in 1980-81. But as so often happens such statistics hide a bit of fun – as with last season for example: …
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Arsenal v Crystal Palace: a history in videos By Bulldog Drummund The games against Crystal Palace go back to 1934 – an FA Cup match, while league games started in 1969. Arsenal have won 28, Palace have won five and 15 have been drawn. However since the end of the 2016/17 season they have become …
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By Bulldog Drummond Videos of some of our games against Crystal Palace can now been found on Arsenal v Crystal Palace, a history in videos. Now here are the stories of Arsenal and Crystal Palace since Christmas Day. I’m including this because of all the investigations recently into just how Arsenal turned themselves around, and …
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By Bulldog Drummond We’ve been talking about Arsenal, referees and fouls for years, and in the past two seasons we have added some new statistics to the analysis. Among these we have shown that Arsenal get penalised far more per foul than any other club in the League. We suggested that the only way out …
Read More “How Arsenal became the cleanest club in Europe but still got the points.”
By Bulldog Drummond As ever we’ll take a peek at the very simple comparison table that has been shown to give one of the better forms of prediction for forthcoming matches – the recent games taking into account where they were played and what competition they were in. Of late Arsenal’s away form has been …
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by Tony Attwood TransferMarkt web site has done one of its estimations on how the price tag of various players has changed this season – and as you would expect Saka is high up on the list with a new valuation of £56m. Of course all such valuations are totally speculative, but I would certainly …
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