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 When one reads an article that opens, “Over the past couple of seasons, there have evidently been two hugely dominant sides in the Premier League — Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City and Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool,” there’s no need for an eyebrow to be raised. Last couple of seasons – well yes. Manchester City …
Read More “A prime example of the extraordinary bias in the media against Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood As matters stand, in something like 160 Premier League games in the early part of this season there will be no live TV coverage and no chance of anyone paying to go to the ground to watch the game. These are the games that fall outside the pick of Sky, Amazon and …
Read More “We might get to see all Arsenal’s opening games after all”
by Sir Hardly Anyone… How well were you watching? All the questions here are about last season. The answers are below, followed by a second quiz in case you are feeling emboldened by the first… 1: Four players started over 20 first team games but didn’t score. Who were they? 2: Also, four players made …
Read More “Were you watching last season? Here’s a little quiz to find out.”
The Arsenal History Society is now publishing a video of an Arsenal match for this day in history, each day. To access the current video, or ones from earlier days please click here. _________________________________________________________________________ By Tai Emeka Obasi. Mikel Arteta inherited a team completely lacking in self-belief. What he did with that stuttering Arsenal …
Read More “Who should be in this season’s Arsenal squad, and who should leave…”
The Arsenal History Society is now publishing a video of an Arsenal match for this day in history, each day. To access the current video, or ones from earlier days please click here. _________________________________________________________________________ By Andrew Crawshaw The WSL starts this Weekend, a week before the Men’s PL. This season, as last year, there are 12 …
The Arsenal History Society is now publishing a video of an Arsenal match for this day in history, each day. To access the current video, or ones from earlier days please click here. _________________________________________________________________________ By Tony Attwood When Untold runs a story which is not in any of the media, I always like to keep a …
By Tony Attwood. Research by Mike Mcfarlane Goodness knows how many times the point has been made that the UK media deliberately censors football news, so that it meets its agreed and established agenda. (If you want a few examples see The ten big football stories that the media won’t cover.) By way of a …
Read More “The Swiss government is fighting Fifa. And now so is the USA!”
By Tony Attwood ‘The perfect appointment’: Everton name Carlo Ancelotti as manager” That was the full-on, top of the range, up-and-at-em headline in the Guardian when Everton changed their manager – just about at the same time that Arsenal appointed their new man. A certain Mr Arteta as I recall. By a strange coincidence, the …
Read More “Ancelloti v Arteta. They changed clubs together, but which club got the best deal?”
by Tony Attwood In 2018/19 Arsenal had the fifth highest match day revenue of any football club in the world, behind Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man U and PSG. That Arsenal have maintained this position, despite falling out of the Champions League and having a supporters’ revolt going on around them, along with massive antagonism in …
Read More “Arsenal’s financial problems were clear a year back, and now are worse.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is interesting that the level of promised signings continues to rise without any consideration of money, or sales or indeed fitting the team together. In fact it was only a short while ago that Arsenal announced a series of redundancies among the recruitment staff, which was widely interpreted in the …
Read More “These purchases for Arsenal make no sense financially or logically”
Top-flight games will be played in empty stadiums and the PL refuses to broadcast almost half of them. The reason of course is because between them, the clubs and the broadcasters failed to come up with anything in the contracts that worked out what to do in the case of a national emergency. Now the …
Read More “PL games will be played with no TV coverage, and no fans in the ground”
by Tony Attwood The purchases So, as we know, we have purchased four players. A number of others are being discussed, but for the moment let us work with these four… Willian: Winger — from Chelsea, free Pablo Marí: Defender — from Flamengo, £14m Cédric Soares, Defender — from Southampton; free Gabriel Magalhães; Defender — from …
Read More “Arsenal currently have 27 players to fit into the 25 list. Who should we lose?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone As you will know if you have been paying attention 134 players have now been tipped to be coming to Arsenal this summer. And having reached that number, the wild and wacky inventors employed by newspapers and blogs have pretty much run out not just of ideas but also of players. …
Read More “Arsenal’s next transfer: one of these five (plus five youngsters tipped)”
Mikel Arteta wants to create new opportunities in his midfield. In the course of this, Arsenal FC is interested in Amadou Diawara. Its advisor confirms the London efforts.Recently, Arsenal’s alleged interest in Amadou Diawara popped up for the first time. There was talk of a possible swap deal with AS Roma, which could receive …
Read More “Amadou Diawara: Agent confirms Arsenal FC interest”
By Tony Attwood First off, Gabriel Magalhães has joined Arsenal from Lille for £27m, signing a five-year contract. The delay in the signing has simply been because of the lastest covid restrictions, which mean he is still in isolation having travelled from France on 24 August. There has of course been a lot of talk …
Read More “Five signings, not one, for Arsenal, and the Arsenal man with 9 Wembley appearances”
by Tony Attwood From NBC Sports to the Guardian, the scribblers are out doing their guesswork as to where various clubs will finish in the League. To remind ourselves this is what the BBC gave us this time last year. This is Phil McNulty’s prediction showing the predicted position on the left and the actual …
By Tony Attwood and Christophe Jost These days it is not so hard as it used to be to knock up appearances at Wembley Stadium since FA Cup semi-finals and the Community Shield games are played there as well as the final. But even so what Mikel Arteta and Arsenal have done of late really …
Read More “Arsenal’s record breaking cup final run and Arteta’s amazing Wembley record”
By Tony Attwood As if one total and absolute explosion in Switzerland is not enough it now looks as if the federal prosecutor is re-opening the case that saw Blatter and Platini kicked out of Fifa in the first place. In December 2015, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were each given eight year bans by …
Read More “Another legal case involving Fifa, yet more silence in the UK media”
By Tony Attwood In one way I suppose Stan Kroenke the owner of Arsenal FC must be quite pleased about the past two years of unmitigated chaos. He is, after all, a man who has donated $1m to the Donald Trump election campaign, and Trump is the President par excellence who revels in chaos. One …
Read More “Arsenal finally back on track after 2 years of avoidable chaos”
by Tony Attwood There was something astonishingly satisfying about that win against Liverpool. It wasn’t just the media’s overwhelming assumption that Liverpool would in fact be Liverpool!, the team that would swat Arsenal aside with a mere flick of the wrist. It wasn’t just the media’s belief that Arsenal’s winning of the FA Cup was …
Read More “Arsenal’s victories in cup and shield were predictable, for anyone who wanted to look”
By Bulldog Drummond Since Liverpool beat Arsenal in the 2001 FA Cup final, Arsenal have appeared in the Cup final seven times and won the lot. Which means we have quite a feeling for Wembley. As for the Charity Community who knows where the money goes Shield Arsenal and Liverpool are equal second in the …
Read More “The “Community” Shield line up, Arsenal CS history and a four word commentary”
By Bulldog Drummond My goodness how time passes ever more quickly when one gets older. Seems like only yesterday that (etc etc). But it is good to see the wonderful headlines are still with us, such as Sports Mole with “Who will win the 2020 Community Shield?” The answers when I looked were… Arsenal 0.0% Liverpool 0.0% …
Read More “Top of the league Arsenal with no chance in the Community Shield (analysis)”
By Tony Attwood As you may have read, a number of clubs are reporting that players are going down with the coronavirus, or have been close to people who have. So they have to isolate. And yet the government of the UK announced on 20 May that a “world-beating” system to test, track and trace …
Read More “How the FA is helping corona virus spread through football via 54 unnecessary games”
by Sir Hardly Anyone One of the constant tricks by the media is for the newspapers and broadcasters to make up a story, and then when it turns out to be utterly untrue, present that, not as “we got that one wrong” but either by a) ignoring their previous commentary b) claiming that Arsenal has …
Read More “How Arsenal has taken on the media, and the club is winning”
By Sir Hardly Anyone If it were “all go” on the transfer front I’d say it was all go on the transfer front, but it isn’t, so I won’t. Even though in the blogs and the newspapers and TV stations, it is. Mind you it is fun watching Barcelona at the moment. Looking at their …
Read More “Arsenal don’t do swaps. They have just found a money tree.”
