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 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.”
By Bulldog Drummond And so we approach the Community Shield, once known as the Charity Shield until the FA were found by the Charity Commission not to be keeping proper records and so were fined and forbidden from using the name “Charity Shield” again. How much money actually went to charities – if any – …
Read More “Which of the “big six” have won the most trophies in the last seven years?”
by Billy “the Dog” McGuire Yesterday’s pre-season game between MK Dons and Arsenal was shown on Arsenal’s web site. The opening was a bit strange with several minutes of water being sprinkled onto the pitch (and no commentary – just think of what some of the chattering journalists could have made of that, contrasting the …
Read More “Those Arsenal matches without crowds and not shown on TV & 4 fantastic tales”
By Tony Attwood A two match pre-season is something one can easily miss, but that’s what we have been offered, so that’s what we have to take. Concerning last season’s “pre-season opener” everyone seemed surprised to find that Mohamed Elneny can and does play well – which is what we were saying before he went …
Read More “So that’s 50% of pre-season done, and those who looked seemed to think it ok”
From the Bickfields Gunners Blog – HOLD THE PRESSES ! Some people see things as they are and ask why ? I dream of things that never were and ask , why not ? – George Bernard Shaw. Is Barcelona unwanted Luis Suárez set to join Arsenal in a shocking move to England, and …
Read More “Hold the presses, new transfer news, and all the latest on tonight’s big game”
By Tony Attwood I was interested in the headline “Arsenal’s sorry state reflected in recent global rankings” in Just Arsenal News. The story included such statements as “Arsenal has been in a state of decline for a long time now and a new ranking has shown how bad it has gotten.” And “Arsene Wenger oversaw …
Read More “What marks out a winning season? Revealing football’s complexity.”
By Tony Attwood You won’t read this in an English paper largely because the only stuff they publish about Fifa comes from official press releases, as we saw last week, and not surprisingly Fifa are not issuing press releases talking about the collapse of the entire Fifa committee structure that Infantino has so carefully filled …
Read More “Infantino is one step closer to the edge of the cliff, but UK media is still silent”
By Tony Attwood Everyday on the AISA Arsenal History Society website we publish a video of an Arsenal match from history along with all the day’s Arsenal anniversaries. Click here for today’s video (Hint: a Brazilian scores one of the four). “Edu instrumental in convincing Gabriel Magalhaes to join Arsenal as he nears £26.4m transfer from …
Read More “Gabriel dos Santos Magalhães makes it 5 Brazilians at Arsenal … but not yet”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Following this morning’s list of all the players we are reputed to have been chasing, and the seven players we have so far signed, here are the details of the clubs who finished above us last season in terms of their buying and selling Club Bought Price Sold Price Total …
Read More “Who’s signing whom: how to big six and wannabes compare in terms of spending”
By Sir Hardly Anyone with special thanks to Ruud the Driver. The total number of players tipped as coming to Arsenal by the all-knowing media is now 134! The signings so far are Salah-Eddine Pablo Marí (£14m) Cédric Soares Willian Tim Akinola Marcelo Flores George Lewis That makes 7 Signed 8 Updated rumours this week …
Read More “Arsenal sign 7 players, plus 5 new rumours, making 134 rumours in total”
