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 Bulldog Drummond Traditionally Premier League clubs don’t put out their first team squad to play in the league cup, as they did in days of yor, so working out what is going to happen in tomorrow’s game is going to be somewhat difficult. There having been no draws in the Premier League thus far, …
By Tony Attwood Looked at so far the season has been a rather jolly affair… Date Match Result Score Competition 29 Aug 2020 Arsenal v Liverpool W 1-1 (5-4) Community Shield 08 Sep 2020 Ipswich Town v Arsenal W 1-2 Football League Trophy 12 Sep 2020 Fulham v Arsenal W 0-3 Premier League 19 Sep …
Read More “Video of the recent game for Arsenal’s youngsters, ahead of the Leicester match”
By Tony Attwood What crisis? How can there be a crisis? Just look at the money being spent, and the transfer window still has two weeks to run (and you know what the last night before the window “slams shut” is like – at least on TV). Currently the net spending (ie the amount spent …
Read More “There is a crisis in football and PL adopts different rules from Europe”
By Tony Attwood The story so far… Self-evidently Untold Arsenal does not have its “man in Switzlerland” with inside knowledge of the multiple issues facing Fifa at the moment. All we do is look at Swiss, German and French newspapers and report (with the help of our European friends) what they are saying. And this …
Read More “Fifa starts to implode, and the strange case of lack of UK interest in events”
By Tony Attwood A UK exclusive for Untold! Back in the old days ex-US Justice Minister Loretta Lynch and the Swiss Federal Prosecutor Michael Lauber worked together to tackle corruption. As Attorney General of the USA, Loretta Lynch was keen on this idea of a united approach to fight the corruption that was obviously endemic …
Read More “Amazing unbelievable development in the Fifa battle; sadly not on UK news”
By Tony Attwood Today the Talk Sport web site says “A week on from their public bust-up at Fulham, Dani Ceballos and Eddie Nketiah combined to earn Arsenal victory over West Ham. Nketiah tapped in a goal late on – from Ceballos’ pass – to seal a 2-1 win for the Gunners at the Emirates …
Read More “It’s tough being a football journalist: what are they to say when Arsenal win?”
The actual team is Leno Bellerin Gabriel Holding Tierney Xhaka Ceballos Saka Willian Lacazette Aubameyang Talk sprout led the way approaching the game with their prediction of Leno Holding Gabriel Tierney Bellerin Elneny Ceballos Maitland Niles Willian Lacazette Aubameyang It is the first prediction from any of the so-called professionals that has actually managed …
Read More “Arsenal v WHAM: the team and who predicted it right…”
By Bulldog Drummond The end of last season saw Arsenal go through what was, by any measure, a very decent run of results in which we scored 21 goals in the last 11 games, those games running up to and including the cup final. We scored in every game except the Aston Villa away match …
By Bulldog Drummond The start of the first campaign under Mr Emery seems such a long time ago. Two defeats in the opening games against Chelsea and Manchester City, and those who had clambered for years for Mr Wenger to be kicked out, still blaming him for the results. Then along came 12 straight wins. …
Read More “At last it is Arsenal who are settled, and today’s visitors who are in a mess”
By Bulldog Drummond In their final match before the lock down West Ham lost away to Arsenal – a result which meant they only won one of their last ten pre-lockdown. Thereafter they won three, two of which were against fellow stragglers in the league, lost three and drew three. Date Game Res Score 20 …
Read More “WHAM BAM how are they doin’? WHU v Arsenal: the prelude”
By Sir Hardly Anyone According to the Daily Mail, home of the truth and purveyors of all things real, “Arsenal agree £1.6m deal with Dijon for goalkeeper Runar Alex Rúnarsson with Iceland international due in London for his medical… but why are they interested in a shot-stopper who has let in 61 goals in just …
Read More “Arsenal reportedly sign utterly useless Wenger-hating goalkeeper”
By Bulldog Drummond Yes this is the world of post-fact football. A world in which facts are just irrelevant, unnecessary and so last-century, because now we have OPINIONS. As all football journalists now openly acknowledge, facts get in the way of the free flow of beautiful prose. Facts are too complicated for football supporters to …
Read More “West Ham Untidy v Arsenal in the world of post-fact football”
by Tony Attwood The huge Fifa trial currently running is important, I believe, because the FA is a member of Fifa, and pays funds into Fifa. The FA gets its money from the government, which gets its money from the tax payers, like me. Mugs like me who live in England and pay their taxes …
Read More “The Fifa court cases continue, more corruption, more scandals and the FA says…”
By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a story in circulation that says that nine players in the BVB Dortmund squad are aged under 21 and all are serious members of the squad. Which is interesting given that while it is written into the German constitution that Bayern Munich win the league each season, BVB Dortmund …
Read More “Should Arsenal be using more youngsters? And Aouar”
by Tony Attwood Last season we looked at the inter-relationship between fouls, tackles and yellow cards in Premier Legaue clubs. Untold did it because, as with so many other topics, this is something that is an absolute no-go land for the media and football commentators. Even after we showed how bizarre and extraordinary the Leicester …
Read More “New figures show a third of all referee decisions were wrong before last season”
by Tony Attwood We have been highlighting the negativity of the media against Arsenal which prior to the opening game was bubbling over at near 100% agreement that without some more serious work on transfers we had not got much hope of even staying in the top 10. So it was interesting because of this …
Read More “Premier league hope and misleading expectations: the fans’ view”
by Tony Attwood As we have seen of late, English journalists don’t have a clue what is going on in football. As a result they make things up. They could do some research, but they don’t. Instead they just read what each other writes, take that as the normal, and write some more about that. …
Read More “The football media just follow each other; how they miss Elneny”
By Notme Guvna Bellinzona is a historic Swiss town, and the capital of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The town is famous for its three castles that have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2000. It is beautiful, it lies at the foot of the Alps, it stretches along the river valley, and unless you are an intrepid …
Read More “How Fifa is finally falling apart in the courts (but the English don’t want to know)”
By Minze A’duble This article continues from How Fulham 0 Arsenal 3 was a total disaster… for journalists If that is the case, the journalists have the perfect way of making us doubt ourselves and believe in them, since they all stand together, making the same allegations, taking the same route. Never explaining, always complaining, …
Read More “Fulham v Arsenal: how the journalists got it wrong. Part 2”
This article continues from How Fulham 0 Arsenal 3 was a total disaster… for journalists and “How the journalists got it wrong” By Minze A’duble It is this sort of appallingly lazy and misleading journalism that I have tried to illustrate in the previous two articles today, that really does frustrate. I often take the …
Read More “Why football journalism is both misleading and making no sense at all.”
By Minze A’duble As we were told in the build up to the Fulham game, “Arsenal’s squad is an incoherent mess.” That was the phrase conjured up by Sam Dean, a man with a whole two years experience as a football writer now working for the Telegraph. Of course not everyone was quite so ludicrously …
Read More “How Fulham 0 Arsenal 3 was a total disaster… for journalists”
By Tony Attwood In the preview of this game Untold said, “Elneny is certainly one of those players the pundits and bloggers like to ignore – he doesn’t fit with their image, and yet as the manager showed by playing him in the two games of this season so far that we have been able …
Read More “Them: nothing. Us: three. Player prediction: spot on. Result: perfect. Arsenal win.”
By Bulldog Drummond Last season we began the campaign under a different manager. The general feeling put about among the all-unknowing media is that it was a disastrous start but was it? Date Match Result Score Competition 11 Aug 2019 Newcastle United v Arsenal W 0-1 Premier League 17 Aug 2019 Arsenal v Burnley W …
Read More “Fulham v Arsenal: the injuries, the team… and time to forget the journalism”
By Tony Attwood And so we get to the end of the club by club preview in the papers we find that “Arsenal in chaos, may make fifth, no money without selling lots more” is the summary of it all. Elsewhere “Manchester City will push Liverpool all the way, Jose Mourinho CAN deliver Spurs a …
Read More “Fulham v Arsenal and Auba about to sign…. according to “reports””
By Tai Emeka Obasi. A very significant thing one must have noticed since Mikel Arteta arrived at Arsenal is that the English press have not been as ruthlessly against Arsenal as it used to be, particularly during the Arsene Wenger era. . Give it to the Spaniard – he has been spotless in his conduct …
Read More “The fact Arteta needs to be reminded of – Football is an emotional game! “
