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’ll know if you’re a regular reader, Arsenal had an absolutely fantastic last two-thirds of the season. Look at a league table of that period and Arsenal were the third-best team – in fact, second-best if you account for the fact that Man U played one more game than us during …
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By Bulldog Drummond How to understate the bleedin’ obvious: “Arsenal have finished the season strongly.” That comes from Who scored and it doesn’t quite bring across what has happened. We’ve won our last four games scoring nine conceding two. In ten of our last 23 games we have scored three or more goals. In our …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton: notes, thoughts, and everyone’s agreed on the team”
By Bulldog Drummond It is interesting just how volatile the injury league table from Physioroom.com has been this season. Here’s the league table before the final match of the campaign – the number at the end of each row is the number of men reported by Physioroom as being out this weekend. Newcastle United: 11 Crystal …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton, the injuries and Brighton’s dodgy finances”
By Bulldog Drummond And so almost for the last time this season, the analysis of tackles, fouls and yellow cards. Not quite the last time because after this final game we’ll go back and have a look at every club in the League and see how Arsenal managed to break out of the noose that …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton: tackles, fouls, yellows and the recent results.”
By Bulldog Drummond Recently we have not only been looking at the league table to compare the two clubs involved in a game but also their comparative results over a key number of matches. Of course our favourite starting point for such a table is Christmas Day, but let’s be fair and include all the …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton (and how we can get into the Conference)”
Arsenal face four huge dangers as they stand again on the edge of greatness The four dangers that could stop Arsenal’s rise next season. 2: The journalists The four dangers that could stop Arsenal’s rise: Part 3; returning to the tackle Part 4; The Rabble Rousers. False beliefs and fake logic. In a statement, the …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal face four huge dangers as they stand again on the edge of greatness The four dangers that could stop Arsenal’s rise next season. 2: The journalists Point three, don’t disrupt the style There have been some complaints about the way the team has been managed – and yes I’ve had a …
Read More “The four dangers that could stop Arsenal’s rise: Part 3; returning to the tackle”
by Tony Attwood In my last article Arsenal face four huge dangers as they stand again on the edge of greatness I pointed out the problem and challenge the newly regenerated Arsenal face from the Arsenal Supporters Trust with their ceaseless demands for involvement in the club, coming after their endless attacks on the …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal have had an utterly brilliant last two-thirds of this season. Put another way, since Christmas Day the club has created a superb, and for many unexpected, return to the form that Arsene Wenger regularly created until 2015/6, when we came second. (It’s not exactly two-thirds, I know it is 61%, but …
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By Tony Attwood There was a most amusing incident in the BT Sport commentary on the Palace v Arsenal game as the commentator began to talk about how nice it was to have a crowd in the ground. For the crowd, he said, could really give the home team a boost, and give them more …
Read More “Arsenal stay 3rd in the league across the last 10 games. But oh poor Tottenham!”
By Bulldog Drummond Sports Mole have as ever obliged with a clearly laid out lineup, published early on. No Lacazette for them, although he normally does rather well in scoring against the Palace. Leno; Chambers, Holding, Mari, Tierney; Partey, Elneny; Saka, Odegaard, Smith Rowe; Aubameyang The Standard predicts that Palace will win 3-2 and …
Read More “Palace v Arsenal: the teams as predicted by the media”
By Bulldog Drummond We are told by the BBC that Crystal Palace have never lost their final home league game in their previous 11 Premier League campaigns (W8, D3). Their last such defeat was in 1980-81. But as so often happens such statistics hide a bit of fun – as with last season for example: …
Read More “Palace v Arsenal: the portents are good but don’t tell the media.”
Arsenal v Crystal Palace: a history in videos By Bulldog Drummund The games against Crystal Palace go back to 1934 – an FA Cup match, while league games started in 1969. Arsenal have won 28, Palace have won five and 15 have been drawn. However since the end of the 2016/17 season they have become …
Read More “Palace v Arsenal: the injuries and their recent years in the PL”
By Bulldog Drummond Videos of some of our games against Crystal Palace can now been found on Arsenal v Crystal Palace, a history in videos. Now here are the stories of Arsenal and Crystal Palace since Christmas Day. I’m including this because of all the investigations recently into just how Arsenal turned themselves around, and …
Read More “Palace lose their manager, and how Arsenal and Palace have done since Xmas,”
By Bulldog Drummond We’ve been talking about Arsenal, referees and fouls for years, and in the past two seasons we have added some new statistics to the analysis. Among these we have shown that Arsenal get penalised far more per foul than any other club in the League. We suggested that the only way out …
Read More “How Arsenal became the cleanest club in Europe but still got the points.”
By Bulldog Drummond As ever we’ll take a peek at the very simple comparison table that has been shown to give one of the better forms of prediction for forthcoming matches – the recent games taking into account where they were played and what competition they were in. Of late Arsenal’s away form has been …
Read More “Crystal Palace away: the stats no other site will give you.”
by Tony Attwood TransferMarkt web site has done one of its estimations on how the price tag of various players has changed this season – and as you would expect Saka is high up on the list with a new valuation of £56m. Of course all such valuations are totally speculative, but I would certainly …
Read More “Starting to prepare for next season’s squad while retaining freedom of speech”
By Tony Attwood Way back in August 2010 Untold published an article by Walter Broeckx, a referee in Belgium who over the years has been a good friend to this site. The article was headed “Football reduced to the survival of the fittest” and it analysed the refereeing for the third game of that season. …
Read More “Two PL clubs are fouled much more than all the rest. Can you guess which?”
By Tony Attwood “Can you do an article on how the media benefits from being Anti Arsenal, as opposed to any other club? Is there an anti-Arsenal secret society embedded in the media?” asked Dublin Gooner. So I will try and answer this in one article. But please note, this is a very quick summary. There’s …
Read More “Why the media is always so negative about Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood Nitram posed the question: “is this imbalance between the 1st and 2nd halves of seasons unusual, or do all clubs by and large experience similar imbalances?” It’s a good question, and one that I had never thought about before. So in this little piece I set out to discover the answer, and …
Read More “Are we unique in doing so well after Christmas, and why 8 goals would sort it”
by Tony Attwood The four reasons why the media are so much against Arsenal are, in my opinion, not at all hard to find. It runs like this… History Arsenal were mistrusted from the start by the press barons because they started out as a club owned and run by the workers, a club that …
Read More “The four reasons why are the media so very much against Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood We’ve been making the point as strongly as we can, that the ceaseless attacks on Arsenal by the Daily Mirror, the Mail and other “outlets” (or drainpipes as I prefer to call them), deliberately misuses data. And in response to that the point has been made – maybe Arsenal are often a …
By Tony Attwood A remarkable report just published suggests that far from being against the SuperLeague, Fifa is actually in favour of the idea as it gives Fifa a chance to grab more power in its battle with Uefa. Also it allows Fifa to open discussions on another front, to distract from its on going …
Read More “Why and how Infantino is still happy to promote the Super League.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone The headline in the Daily Mail today says Arsenal ‘looking to sign at least FIVE players this summer including Max Aarons and Yves Bissouma’ in bid to resurrect club’s fortunes following torrid season… with Mikel Arteta ‘set to prioritise finding midfield partner for Thomas Partey’ Now you’ll notice the use of …
Read More “And so the anti-Arsenal tales continue, but here is the truth…”
By Sir Hardly Anyone This is a piece about how the media is working 10 to the dozen to keep the tale that Arsenal is a club that is run badly, and is never going to revive itself, in the news, no matter what. The example comes from the Daily Mirror, the most extreme of …
Read More “How the media is trying to destroy Arsenal: the perfect example”
