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 Way back in August 2010 Untold published an article by Walter Broeckx, a referee in Belgium who over the years has been a good friend to this site. The article was headed “Football reduced to the survival of the fittest” and it analysed the refereeing for the third game of that season. …
Read More “Two PL clubs are fouled much more than all the rest. Can you guess which?”
By Tony Attwood “Can you do an article on how the media benefits from being Anti Arsenal, as opposed to any other club? Is there an anti-Arsenal secret society embedded in the media?” asked Dublin Gooner. So I will try and answer this in one article. But please note, this is a very quick summary. There’s …
Read More “Why the media is always so negative about Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood Nitram posed the question: “is this imbalance between the 1st and 2nd halves of seasons unusual, or do all clubs by and large experience similar imbalances?” It’s a good question, and one that I had never thought about before. So in this little piece I set out to discover the answer, and …
Read More “Are we unique in doing so well after Christmas, and why 8 goals would sort it”
by Tony Attwood The four reasons why the media are so much against Arsenal are, in my opinion, not at all hard to find. It runs like this… History Arsenal were mistrusted from the start by the press barons because they started out as a club owned and run by the workers, a club that …
Read More “The four reasons why are the media so very much against Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood We’ve been making the point as strongly as we can, that the ceaseless attacks on Arsenal by the Daily Mirror, the Mail and other “outlets” (or drainpipes as I prefer to call them), deliberately misuses data. And in response to that the point has been made – maybe Arsenal are often a …
By Tony Attwood A remarkable report just published suggests that far from being against the SuperLeague, Fifa is actually in favour of the idea as it gives Fifa a chance to grab more power in its battle with Uefa. Also it allows Fifa to open discussions on another front, to distract from its on going …
Read More “Why and how Infantino is still happy to promote the Super League.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone The headline in the Daily Mail today says Arsenal ‘looking to sign at least FIVE players this summer including Max Aarons and Yves Bissouma’ in bid to resurrect club’s fortunes following torrid season… with Mikel Arteta ‘set to prioritise finding midfield partner for Thomas Partey’ Now you’ll notice the use of …
Read More “And so the anti-Arsenal tales continue, but here is the truth…”
By Sir Hardly Anyone This is a piece about how the media is working 10 to the dozen to keep the tale that Arsenal is a club that is run badly, and is never going to revive itself, in the news, no matter what. The example comes from the Daily Mirror, the most extreme of …
Read More “How the media is trying to destroy Arsenal: the perfect example”
By Sir Hardly Anyone So the news is out and spreading. Since Christmas Day Arsenal has been performing as a top four club. That’s a fair amount of time to cover (not a matter of six or seven games that the pundits like). And now we’ve looked at exactly where we would be if the …
Read More “Arsenal are back to being a top four club – so why change the defence?”
By Tony Attwood It was our commentator Seismic who pointed out just how much the club has improved since Christmas Day this season, and I thought it was most certainly worth looking at this interesting observation, in a lot more detail. This first table shows the table on Christmas Day, Team P W D L …
Read More “Arsenal are once again a top four club, and the figures since Xmas prove it”
By Tony Attwood The Daily Mirror is running the headline Mikel Arteta’s explosive rant explained as he insists ‘nothing is broken’ at Arsenal Below is a 52 second video in which Arteta answers in a straightforward and moderate tone the question “What is your response to those who are doubting you this season?” The reply …
Read More “If this is an explosive rant from Arteta I’m a Martian”
By Tony Attwood (in crowing mood). If you are a regular reader you will know that through this very odd season we have been focusing in our match previews on two areas that few, if any, of the other blogs, the newspapers and the broadcast media ever look at, at all. One is the year-long …
Read More “Untold called the Chelsea v Arsenal game right. But how did we do it?”
By Bulldog Drummond Now here is a thought and three quarters. We are rubbish right? We know that. We need to kill off the defence because no one will buy them and send Mikel Arteta to a remote Spanish island for ten years. (Editor’s note: are there any remote Spanish Islands?) Bulldog: La Gomera. I …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal, the Arsenal team and the prognostications”
By Bulldog Drummond As we approach the Chelsea game we are told that Arsenal are trying to get rid of our goalkeeper Leno. This is because, according to the Daily Star, “Despite being a regular starter after joining the club from Bayer Leverkusen, the 29-year-old has conceded more goals that he would’ve hoped across his …
Read More “Leno to leave Arsenal because he’s far too good: the pre-game stats”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Chelsea: the video collection of past Arsenal go into the match against Chelsea with four injuries, as shown on the Physioroom chart. The details have not been updated since before the game against WBA except for the addition of Emile Smith Rowe. Player Reason Further Detail Potential Return Condition Status …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal: how Arsenal have gone from top to bottom of the injury league”
By Bulldog Drummond Chelsea sit third, 12 points above us. They could come second, but most likely it will be third when the season is over. However bolstered by the ravingly anti-Arsenal media they will have been helped to see this game as an easy win against a poor and disjointed team.. And yes it …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal: there’s only three points between us.”
By Tony Attwood When I was studying psychology one of the key issues was memory – how fast could a rat learn, how much could it remember? At the heart of the experiments were the mazes rats were put through and that devilish device, the Skinner box. Could the rats learn to tap a lever …
Read More “The challenge facing Arsenal fans is to disregard the fairytale and follow the facts”
By Tony Attwood Life always feels a little better after a win, and life can also feel a little better after the confirmation of the inevitable. The win you probably saw – Very Large Sam (we are not allowed to use his former nickname for political reasons) sat and sulked in his seat, unwilling or …
Read More “What is the most effective way to bring about change at Arsenal?”
By Bulldog Drummond There is a great reason to defeat West Bromwich Albion today, and that is that it would send them down. Not that I have anything against West Brom at all – and I am sorry they will get hurt by this, but really, that man Allerdyce is not the right sort of …
Read More “Arsenal v WBA: the team according to the various pundits”
by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v WBA is a game we normally win without too much bother. We’ve beaten them 73 times and they’ve got the better of us 38 times. There have been 31 draws. Reducing the games to this century only we have only been done down by them four times – all four …
Read More “Arsenal v WBA – the history and the Arsenal/WBA video show”
By Bulldog Drummond Recently… Arsenal avoid part of the punishment for joining Super League; Barca on the edge of collapse Can “Chaotic Arsenal” manage a win against West Brom? ———- Now I know (because Untold has been running the story in the face of denials on all fronts and endlessly checking the stats) that the …
Read More “Arsenal v WBA. “It’s Arsenal so it must be a yellow” – the statistical proof.”
By Tony Attwood It is being reported that the Premier League clubs which were part of the Super League have now agreed to a Uefa declaration that they will behave in future and not be naughty again. Or in Uefa speak, have signed a ‘club commitment declaration.’ Should they break the declaration they will be …
By Bulldog Drummond In trouble from top to bottom: chaotic Arsenal are failing in all areas screams the headline in the guardian by Nick Ames. Nick Ames in case you don’t know about him is what we call a Super Spreader – he takes a particular vision of football and plasters the written media with …
Read More “Can “Chaotic Arsenal” manage a win against West Brom?”
By Tony Attwood In my last piece Football is not a level playing field, and that should be Arsenal’s starting point I tried to raise the point that solving Arsenal’s problems is not one of simply bringing in a new manager, and maybe half a dozen new players. No, I think that we are going …
Read More “The simple solution to resolving Arsenal’s current difficulties.”
By Tony Attwood According to journalists, broadcasters and bloggers, everything has to be simple in football. We need a new defence (actually we don’t). Nothing is wrong with refereeing (there is now huge evidence to the contrary). Changing the manager helps (mostly it doesn’t – the average tenure of a PL manager is 2 …
Read More “Football is not a level playing field, and that should be Arsenal’s starting point.”
