By Sir Hardly Anyone This summer is clearly going to come out with the all time record for the number of players tipped to be coming to Arsenal by the all-seeing, all-knowing media. And to be clear these are not the players that pundits are saying Arsenal “ought to sign” – if we included those …
By Tony Attwood There is no doubt that lockdown has changed things. Since the League returned without crowds in stadia, results have reversed, as indeed happened in Germany, with home wins now being the least likely, rather than the most likely result. It is more than likely that referee bias has a significant part to …
by Bulldog Drummond As we saw in yesterday’s piece, Wolverhampton have been on a fine run of form, both before and after the break. Date Game Res Score Competition 01 Mar 2020 Tottenham Hotspur v Wolverhampton W W 2-3 Premier League 07 Mar 2020 Wolverhampton W v Brighton and Hove D 0-0 Premier League 12 …
By Bulldog Drummond Fox Sports is reporting that Arsenal have been fined around £50,000 and warned about its future conduct regarding transfers after the club inserted restricted sell-on clauses in transfer contracts. This news follows the release of Fifa legal documents which have been seen by The Associated Press and relate to the departure of …
By Tony Attwood Christophe Jost spotted a comment by Bixente Lizarazu after Arsenal’s last match which intrigued both of us. Lizarazu, as you may know played for Bordeaux and Bayern Munich and got 97 caps for the French national team. So one might think he is a man who most certainly has earned the right …
By Bulldog Drummond We know from all the research we have been able to unearth just how ghost games influence the referees. Now with teams having played several games since the resumption of football after the lock down phase of the season, we can start looking at just how the experience of playing ghost games …
by Tony Attwood and Christophe Jost Arsenal winning 4-0 at the Ems…. no boo boys (as Chapman called them), no insults… That undoubtedly helped us. Indeed it is possible that Arsenal might be one of the few teams that sees their home results go up during the lock down, simply because the players know how …
By Tony Attwood On 11 December 2019 the table looked like this… Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Liverpool 16 15 1 0 40 14 26 46 2 Leicester City 16 12 2 2 39 10 29 38 3 Manchester City 16 10 2 4 44 19 25 32 4 …
By Bulldog Drummond Physioroom is not showing much change in terms of injuries with eight players out. Player Reason Further Detail Potential Return Condition Status Calum Chambers Knee Injury Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury – ACL Injury 29/08/2020 None Ruled Out David Luiz Knee injury “Right knee. Being assessed ahead of Norwich City.” 01/07/2020 Late fitness …
By Bulldog Drummond It has been so long since Arsenal played a home game that going back to the Arsenal Stadium will probably feel like an away game to the players. And since we have won the last two away games that could be a help. But since it is technically a home game let’s …
By Tony Attwood In the article Is Arsenal a dysfunctional club as Mislintat suggests? I tried to look at what Sven Mislintat had said about Arsenal after his departure. He came to the club as an acclaimed talent spotter and recruiter, but left after 14 months full of very bitter talk about Arsenal and how, …
by Tony Attwood The Daily Mail recently admitted in a headline that “The media play a massive role in the perceptions of players… it is subliminal”. That was a pretty important statement, but it took the Guardian to come out with the unwholesome reality with its headline: Groundbreaking report reveals racial bias in English football …
By Tony Attwood It all began in March when the Daily Mail ran the headline “FA set to make £20m loss”. That wouldn’t have worried too many people – after all an organisation the size of the FA might make occasional losses one year and then pick up the next year. And we know that …
By Tony Attwood Before during and after the quarter final match involving Arsenal, Talk Sport which had the licence to broadcast the radio commentary for the game could have mentioned that a win for Arsenal would keep them at the top of the semi-final appearances table. They might have noted that Arsenal have won the …
By Bulldog Drummond. There’s an amusing preview to this match on the BBC website in which “Lawro” says “Sheffield United do not look like they have got a goal in them at the moment” and then goes on to predict a scoreline of 1-1 with Sheffield winning on penalties. Rather quaintly Lawro (not his real …
By Bulldog Drummond. The early news is that David Luiz is obviously available having taken a two match ban and we know that Cedric Soares is fit. Tierney seems to be ok, but Torreira isn’t match fit. Leno, Chambers, Pablo Mari and Gabriel Martinelli are all out for the rest of the season. What psychological …
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is many of long month since I have ventured towards the Toppled Bollard public house – denizen of the dead beat deadwood and the basically dead, who act as so-called “football journalists” to the world at large. But called upon to show my nephew Percy Passage from ‘tup norf (ie …
By Tony Attwood Of course one can’t begrudge Liverpool fans from having their celebrations for the last couple of nights. True, they might have spread the virus somewhat, but it will only be between themselves, and those people all chose to gather in a group after the club celebrated their thirty year trip to win …
By Tony Attwood “‘An absolute mess’: Inside Arsenal, a ‘dysfunctional’ club desperate for a reset.” So reads the headline to an article in the Independent website. And it continues, “The very structure of the club is in question with problems mounting for head coach Mikel Arteta as he bids to return them to where they …
By Tony Attwood You may recall the hatred piled upon David Luiz because of two errors that led to goals. And the view expressed that it showed how awful Arsenal were not only in taking him on but also playing him. But if you read English blogs and newspaper columns you might have read that …
By Bulldog Drummond As you may expect our record against Southampton across the years is not bad, but we did have a bit of a blip in 2014 to 2016 losing four out of seven games. Date Game Res Score Competition 23 Sep 2014 Arsenal v Southampton L 1-2 League Cup 03 Dec 2014 Arsenal …
By Bulldog Drummond These are not the best of times for Southampton at home or Arsenal away. Indeed in terms of Southampton at home we are looking at the bottom of the league. Club P W D L F A GD Pts 16 Aston Villa 15 5 3 7 19 26 -7 18 17 AFC Bournemouth …
By Tony Attwood As I tried to show in the last article, the media is being incredibly selective in its reporting of what seem to me to be the key footballing issues of the day. My article on this issue (When it comes to Arsenal we are being totally misled) is of course still on …
By Tony Attwood Just imagine for a moment that you were a football journalist and there were several issues in football that it was simply not done to talk about. And by “not done” I don’t mean that you were told not to present articles on these subjects, but rather it was just taken as …
By Tony Attwood Aside from running Untold Arsenal, I also run a non-football blog – Untold Dylan – which (as you might guess) covers the music and writings of the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Normally I keep the central topic of Untold Arsenal and Untold Dylan separate without much difficulty. One is about a north London …