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 Bulldog Drummond The video collection series Arsenal v Everton – the historic games on video 241 historic Arsenal videos with more being added each day Support the team The BBC is telling us that Arsenal have kept just three clean sheets at home this season in the Premier League, but then we don’t …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Everton – the historic games on video Due to the long-term connections of both Arsenal and Everton with the top division, the two clubs have played each other in over 200 league and cup games – 216 times to be precise. Of these 199 have been in the top …
Read More “Arsenal never lose on a Friday! Arsenal v Everton, the stats.”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal currently have five players listed in the Physioroom.com listing for the Premier League. Above us in terms of injuries are… Liverpool: 8 Crystal Palace: 7 Everton: 7 Sheffield United: 6 Southampton: 6 West Ham United: 6 Here are the details Player Reason Further Detail Potential Return Status Kieran Tierney Knee Injury …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: the injuries and the tackles / fouls / yellows stats.”
by Tony Attwood It is being reported that the Premier League has demanded that the senior executives from the English clubs involved in initiative should be removed from Premier League committees, having shown themselves untrustworthy by working behind the back of the committee while continuing to attend committee meetings. In practice this would mean Manchester …
Read More “Super League v Premier League: now the real war begins”
By Bulldog Drummond So off we go again – a game of football. A bit of an odd thing to talk about instead of the structure of the league, but there it is. This week it seemed like that was the last thing on anyone’s mind, but well, I though we might as well, …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: the statistics point to Arsenal to win 2-0, or maybe 2-1.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Full marks to the Guardian for acknowledging that “only Arsenal actually apologised for behaviour that, collectively, has been widely condemned as brazenly self-serving.” I think Liverpool came up with a statement a little later after that Guardian comment was written but not quite as fulsome an apology. Winner in the shutting …
Read More “After the apologies, what next for naughty six? And how did they get it so wrong?”
By Tony Attwood “How can we ever work with these people again? They’ve spent years telling us barefaced lies,” was just one comment in the last day or two. And yet nothing is new; we have had problems with untruths in football since the start of football. As I have quoted a number of times …
Read More “Apologies from Arsenal, but not everyone is saying sorry.”
By Tony Attwood Superleague is dead. Messrs Kronke, Abramovich, Levy, Mansour, Glazer, Henry have been shown to be total and utter prats of the first order. Their stock as businessmen will now have reached to somewhere around minus 50 on a scale of 1 to 5. So now we have a question: what will this …
Read More “Superleague. The key question the media utterly refused to ask, let alone answer”
By Tony Attwood The British Prime Minister and senior cabinet ministers are said to be investigating ways of introducing legislation to prevent English clubs entering the European Super League, according to senior cabinet sources. Meanwhile the backlash against the proposals have now reached such proportions that the credibility of those who instituted the plan is …
Read More “Breakaway clubs face largest football PR and political disaster of all times”
AISA (The Arsenal Independent Supporters Association) has issued a statement on the proposed “European Super League” which Arsenal FC has suggested that it will be joining. Untold Arsenal is pleased to reproduce this in full. —————- AISA strongly condemns the decision to create a European Super League and is dismayed and disgusted that Arsenal FC …
Read More “Arsenal supporters issue solid rebuttal of club’s plan to join unwanted new league”
By Tony Attwood There are in fact a number of ways in which the new Midweek Combination can be stopped, and although some of these will undoubtedly fail there is a chance one of them will stop the new League. One of the points the media seem to have missed is that this new league …
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By Tony Attwood Leaving aside all the chatter about the super league, the question now is, how does this situation Arsenal find themselves in, compare with the past? In the table below I’ve set out our position after 32 games first in three difficult years: 1930 under Chapman, 1976 under Mee and 1995 under Graham. …
Read More “After a season like this we became champions. Can we do it again?”
By Tony Attwood The European Club Association, of which Arsenal were a member and of which Vinai Venkatesham was a member, is losing the clubs that have proposed the new independent midweek league. Manchester United have also resigned from the ECA and Ed Woodward has stepped down from his role with UEFA where he was …
Read More “Arsenal leave the European Club Association; Mourinho out, Boris vows”
By Tony Attwood So the richest people in football want to form a super league of their own, beyond the realms of Fifa. What could possibly be wrong with that? “Everything,” scream the people who currently make money out of football – Fifa, the media… Which when you come to think of it is a …
Read More “So what exactly is wrong with having Arsenal in a European Super League?”
By Bulldog Drummond The interesting stat we haven’t covered yet is the last six games table, which really is a good indicator of form and player psychology. Thanks to The Fishy for this one… Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester United 6 4 2 0 8 2 6 14 …
Read More “Arsenal v Fulham: who is going to play? And how many will we win by?”
By Bulldog Drummond Here are the key statistics for the forthcoming game Event Arsenal Fulham Passes per match 520 466 Pass accuracy 84% 81% Crosses 605 590 Cross accuracy 20% 24% Tackles 375* 486 Fouls 150 219 Yellow cards 42 56 Tackles per foul 2.38 2.22 Fouls per yellow card 3.57 3.91 *Lowest in the …
Arsenal v Fulham: the history in videos Watch the video highlights of six different Arsenal / Fulham games from recent years By Bulldog Drummond Just settling down to type up this post and out of the blue Joe Willock scores a cracker of a header for Newcastle. I think that is his third of the …
Read More “Arsenal v Fulham: the injuries and details of all those Fulham victories.”
by Bulldog Drummond As we all know, the season started so well including a nice win against Fulham in the League, as Arsenal meandered through three different competitions winning the first five games. Date Game Res Score Competition 29 Aug 2020 Arsenal v Liverpool W 5-4* Community Shield 8 Sep 2020 Ipswich Town v Arsenal …
Read More “Arsenal v Fulham: how the two clubs have been doing of late.”
by Tony Attwood Studies by social scientists often suggest that in contemporary society it is often the case that a set of politicians can identify a group, and then convince voters that the members of this group pose a threat to the rest of society. Politicians thus gain voter support by having a clearly identifiable …
Read More “How the media work ceaselessly to undermine Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood The media are getting very excited about the idea of clubs pulling out of social media, not least because social media takes attention away from the lies that the media publish about clubs on a daily basis. So they have introduced the notion that Arsenal need six new players. Football Whispers has …
by Bulldog Drummond Nice line on Twitter from Welbeast: “Arsene Wenger would have beat them 7-0 with our under 21s.” Ah a man after my own heart – although perhaps we should not get carried away. 5-0 would have done. And a nice helpful line from Sky Sports today: “With Arsenal needing goals to go …
Read More “Slavia Prague v Arsenal: the team predictions (confirmed or otherwise)”
By Bulldog Drummond After the clean sweep in the six qualifying matches we have had a run of games in the Europa that sees us with two wins, one defeat and two draws. Which by and large is a bit of a disappointment given that we won all six of the opening group stage games …
Read More “Slavia Prague v Arsenal: the recent runs of form and how it’s looking”
By Bulldog Drummond Slavia Prague’s Ondřej Kúdela has been banned for ten matches for racist behaviour. This includes the one-match provisional suspension served in last week’s EL quarter-final v Arsenal. Meanwhile there is no certainty about the fitness of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Martin Odegaard. Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe are however both ready and …
Read More “Slavia Prague find that Chinese money is not always what one might hope”
by Bulldog Drummond Since the first leg one week ago, Slavia Prague, the club run by a subsidiary of the Chinese state, have played one game, as have Arsenal. While we beat bottom club Sheffield United 3-0 Slavia Prague beat their local rivals Sparta Prague 2-0. So the position at the top of the Czech …
Read More “Chinese Prague away: Arsenal injuries, Xhaka’s leadership, Prague at the weekend”
By AKH Bullying: can be regarded in a number of ways and forms. For me, bullying is “the use of force, or coercion, or abuse, in order to to aggressively dominate and intimidate an individual or group of individuals”. I would like to concentrate on the notion of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the use of …
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