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 As you will know if you are a regular reader of Untold, there is a major crisis facing Fifa through the trial happening in Switzerland which pitches Infantino, the head of Fifa against the Swiss state. Now we have had the court decisions in Trinidad and Tobago in which for the first …
Read More “Could Fifa really be stopped? Is the unthinkable now actually possible?”
By Tony Attwood The point is that we have had a transfer window in which we have signed a fair number of players and spent a lot of money. These guys, along with some more of our youngsters, need to be introduced into the squad, and they need to get used to their team mates. …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal are right up at the top of the injury table, and once again I must report that we have spied no articles explaining how Arsenal being top of the injury list (which they occasionally were) was always the fault of Mr Wenger, when here we are again, at the top. Is …
Read More “Rapid Vienna v Arsenal. Everyone’s guess at the team, and the injury horror list.”
by Bulldog Drummond Tonight we are away to Rapid Wien, kick off at the singularly bizarre time of 1755 GMT. It is normal with these previews for newspapers and websites imperiously to headline that “All you need to know” and then tell you the date, time and TV channel. I would never wish it to …
Read More “Rapid Wien v Arsenal: All I’ve managed to find out, and maybe what you need to know”
By Iver Number This season there have been 48 games played in the Premier League. Of those 22 have been away wins, 17 have been home wins and 9 have been draws. In 2018/19 – the last season without any corona virus interruption, 128 games out of 380 were away wins. Looking at both sets …
Read More “We must be clear; it is the referees who have been giving clubs the advantage”
by Tony Attwood As you may well know (at least if you have been paying attention) Untold has a certain interest in the evil doings of Fifa not to mention the work of the arch-demon Mr Infantino (currently engaged in legal proceedings in Switzerland, along with the now disgraced head of the legal system for …
Read More “Fifa, “Guilty As Charged.” This MUST be the turning point for Fifa and CAS”
By Tack Tishan Last season in the league we weren’t that good. We all know that. We came eighth. Other stats back that up. We had the seventh best attack in the league, and the eighth best defence. Over the last two summer transfer windows we have been right at the top trying to outspend …
Read More “We’ve got the defence sorted. Now Arsenal need to shoot more.”
By Bulldog Drummond So now how do we feel? Well, pretty miserable and fed up and all that stuff. No one is actually saying that we spent more than anyone else in the summer because well, the way to improve the team is to buy lots and lots of players, that’s the mantra of the …
Read More “It’s all gone wrong, and we need to tell them NOW!”
By Tony Attwood So this weekend we learned some stuff, such as The refs decision is final except when VAR is involved. The VAR is final except when Liverpool is involved Touching an official is not an offence any more so long as the guilty player is officially designated a nice guy by his manager.. …
Read More “The referees decision is final except for VAR. VAR is final except for…”
By Tony Attwood Obviously we’re not happy, because Arsenal lost. It’s always a downer. But normally for each group of supporters who are down others are on the up. And I guess fans of the four teams above us in the table at the moment, and quite possibly Tottenham, Leeds and Manchester City supporters are …
Read More “Is anyone happy with football any more? And why players need personality tests”
by Bulldog Drummond The BBC as usual give us a score prediction (1-1) but no team predict ion. Today is exactly the same, but they do tell us that “Arsenal could lose seven league matches in a row against the same opponent for the first time since doing so versus Ipswich between 1974 and 1977.” …
by Bulldog Drummond It’s been a while since we were above Manchester City in the table, and football is (I am told) a funny old game, so let’s celebrate the moment by looking at the league table. Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Everton 4 4 0 0 12 5 7 …
Read More “Manchester City v Arsenal: how things are now, and the most amazing result in the past”
By Tony Attwood Although the Premier League plays its games in England, there is little that is English about it. The number of players per club who start a match and who are qualified to play for England is 33% – but not all of these are “English” in the normal sense of the word, …
Read More “How the “big six” got more brazen and more certain of their power”
by Bulldog Drummond You know times are weird when Liverpool start being criticised by the media. As with the Mail that said, “All Liverpool had to do to remain revered champions was not be a self-serving club like Manchester United… they failed by trying to sell English football out for a sack of cash.” Mind …
Read More “Arsenal play Manchester City in the strangest of times”
By Sir Hardly Anyone The window is still open. I know that because I feel the cool autumn breeze on my face. But that’s not to say Arsenal are doing deals with anyone in the Championship or below. Rather deals are being set up now to be completed in January. And the first one is, …
Read More “Apparently the January transfer window starts now”
by Tony Attwood One might have expected that after Liverpool’s win of the league last season they might have been able to bask in the glory of that campaign for a while. After all they did have a very good run especially as by late February this year their league record showed played 27, won …
Read More “After the League reject the Liverpool/Man U plans, what happens now”
By Tony Attwood So this morning I wrote up my little piece on the Liverpool and Manchester United proposals for reforming the Premier League, checked that neither Northamptonshire nor any of its surrounding counties have suddenly been locked down, found they hadn’t, drove through a bit of Leicestershire, into Rutland, into Leicestershire again (the border …
Read More “What are they smoking in the board rooms of the Premier League?”
By Tony Attwood Some Arsenal supporters will, I hope, remember John W Henry, chair of Liverpool, for his infamous “What are they smoking at Arsenal” jibe. Of course the jibe itself didn’t matter – some people do that sort of thing, it becomes a habit and they probably don’t even know they are saying such …
Read More “Bumbling or planning? What are they smoking at Liverpool?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone The argument about a new super-premier league and other arrangements being put forward by Manchester United and Liverpool! should not, in the opinion of the Untold Executive be allowed to go forward unchallenged. So we’ve come up with our own 15 point plan for the longterm good of football. There should …
Read More “How football can be saved from itself: a simple 15 point plan.”
By Tony Attwood You may have noticed that this season we have celebrated 100 years of Arsenal in the top division. This has been achieved by the club on merit. Although many media outlets have alleged that Arsenal somehow were engaged in dubious activities in the past, the exhaustive research published both here and by …
Read More “There is a way out of the current football mess, but is not the super league”
by Tony Attwood The World Cup every two years and the Euros in between? This is what seems to be taking shape in Arsène Wenger’s mind. At least according to the European newspapers which are somewhat more engaged with European matters than the English media, which are currently consumed with the Liverpool / Manchester United …
Read More “The World Cup every two years and the Euro in between?”
by Tony Attwood Around German law enforcement officers and government officials have entered and searched the offices of the German Football Association (DFB), in around half a dozen locations, as part of their investigation into corruption in football. The key reason, according to the media outside the UK (as ever media within the UK will …
Read More “Another football scandal looms as law officers raid the German FA’s offices”
By Tony Attwood This story broke in the Daily Telegraph and then was re-run by Football.London. Both “outlets” claim the plan has been proposed by Manchester United and Liverpool FC. In essence it says that 1: The Premier League should have fewer clubs The Premier League could be reduced to 18 teams from the current …
Read More “Man U & Liverpool come up with new plan to “rescue football””
by Tony Attwood What to do with football? The youngsters playing in under 14s leagues and the like are still struggling to find decent pitches to play on, largely due to FA mismanagement of Sport England funds. The championship clubs are either keeping their books balanced and struggling to keep up, or are spending far …
Read More “Football is teetering on the brink, but no one will admit it’s their fault”
By Tony Attwood The Swiss prosecution service has called for prison sentences against the president of beIN and the ex-number 2 of Fifa, Jérôme Valcke. You might recall that Untold, alone among UK publishers has been following these various stories, while the UK media utterly refuses to acknowledge that these cases are even happening. The …
Read More “Swiss prosecutors demand prison for beIN & PSG president and ex-Fifa No 2.”
