Author: Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood 1: The attempted robbery of Ozil and Kolasinac. I think it shocked every member of the team,   Of course their hearts went out to their colleagues and friends, but there was more, because this made it clear that given the incredible increase in knife crime on Britain’s streets, following the dramatic cut …

Read More “The ten reasons why Arsenal’s campaign has gone wrong this season”

By Tony Attwood The German Football League has a motto: “Football, as it should be.”   In its publicity materials it talks about the league being stable, reasonable and innovative. And in many ways the German footballing authorities have a very good reason for feeling rather pleased with themselves.   By investing properly at grass roots level, …

Read More “Football in England: something seems to have gone terribly wrong”

By Bulldog Drummond The always entertaining (if extraordinarily eccentric and flat-earth like) Football is Fixed website seems quite sure that matters involving Leicester also involve match fixing.  Sadly their policy of not telling us how they have reached such a conclusion makes it hard to spot any reasoning or logic in their drawing of conclusions …

Read More “Leicester v Arsenal: recent games, the team and yet more media bias”

By Bulldog Drummond So it is third against fifth, and we are the club in fifth. Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Liverpool 11 10 1 0 25 9 16 31 2 Manchester City 11 8 1 2 34 10 24 25 3 Leicester City 11 7 2 2 27 8 …

Read More “Leicester v Arsenal: not fixing our away form is the biggest problem”

  Following the rejection of his plans to buy first Greenland and then the Isle of Wight, the American President has put in a bid for PGMO.  Fortunately, Sir Hardly Anyone, our man on the spot, was on the spot.  Here is his report of Mr Trump’s words in a press conference in Smackover, Arkensas. …

Read More “Donald Trump puts in bid to buy PGMO [report may not be 100% accurate]”

By Tony Attwood Today, with nearly 30% of the season gone, the league table is not a very enticing thing to look at from an Arsenal point of view.   But if you are a regular reader here you may recall that from time to time I do like to have a look at how we …

Read More “Is this the closest we have been to relegation after 11 games?”

By Tony Attwood In the last two years of Arsene Wenger’s time at Arsenal there was a campaign by some supporters to get rid of him; a campaign amplified by the professional and amateur media to such a degree that it became the norm – the daily news story. There was an assumption among many …

Read More “Why no quality manager would touch Arsenal with a barge pole”

By Bulldog Drummond The big news about today’s game seems to be why it can’t be played on Thursday, and that’s because  Braga, who play just down the road from Vitoria are playing in the Europa on Thursday, and we can’t play in the evening because the game can’t clash with the champs league.   So …

Read More “Vitoria v Arsenal, Europa league, Wednesday afternoon. Teams etc.”

By Sir Hardly Anyone Much of the fun of visiting the Toppled Bollard, (public house of choice for the London based journalists and bloggers), is the feeding of invented stories to half baked reporters, knowing these self-same bonkers comments will instantly turn up on blogs and in newspapers, and even on the radio, the following …

Read More “When each Arsenal story is a speculation published as the truth where can we go next?”

By Tony Attwood Reasons to be cheerful?   At a time when… Some Arsenal supporters have recently behaved appallingly in my opinion, booing the captain, and writing articles which seem to have the premise that the manager is a dodo who is as good as gone and the only debate to be had is Mourinho or …

Read More “8 reasons to be really cheerful and positive as an Arsenal supporter”

By Tony Attwood It seemed to be all over the blogs and cheap-seats newspapers too: Mourinho was in a secret meeting with Arsenal top bosses. Football.London got so excited about it all that they even ran a computer program to find out how well Mourinho would do as Arsenal manager. Then Arsenal put out a …

Read More “Mourinho meeting Arsenal, and the stadium is still not paid for”

By Sir Hardly Anyone Let’s face it, with a crowd like that at Arsenal the next manager is going to have to be immediately successful, and either very popular with the crowd, or a person who does not care one jot what others think of him. For the situation, we have now is similar to …

Read More “There are only two viable candidates to replace Emery at Arsenal”

by Tony Attwood As Mourinho is the man that the media say is coming to Arsenal as the next manager, I thought I would look at Mourinho and his record with the clubs he has managed – and indeed look at what happened after he left (generally following a mega-falling out with the club). Because …

Read More “If Emery is forced out of Arsenal and Mourinho comes in, what happens next”

by Tony Attwood One of the great things about running a blog like Untold Arsenal which for over a decade has been digging into issues that everyone else ignores is the fact that people who are kind enough to read what’s here then often come up with other information, or even supporting evidence. So, if …

Read More “Further evidence to support Uefa claim that match fixing is out of control”

By Bulldog Drummond Managerless Arsenal?   Well, to a degree, since the mainstream media and the bloggers  have always been against Emery (just as they were against Mr Wenger, but he managed to smile it off), and now the dominant discussion is not about when he is going to be sacked (it is simply assumed that …

Read More “Managerless Arsenal v Wolverhampton, and the miracle of Martinelli”

By Tony Attwood As you may know, there has been a long term link between Untold Arsenal and the official Arsenal Belgium supporters club.   Our good friend and regular correspondent Walter Broeckx has been associated with the Belgium group since its foundation, and as a referee himself has often written on Untold Arsenal on matters …

Read More “Supporters club speaks out strongly against the booing of Arsenal players”

By Tony Attwood Why did the Premier League introduce VAR a year later than most other leagues? And why is its introduction in England causing so much dissent even though the officials had so much more time to get it sorted than most of the rest of Europe? Two perfectly reasonable questions it seems to …

Read More “Why is the footballing media are so petrified of the word “why”?”

by Bulldog Drummond Kolasinac is said by Football.London to have been injured in the match against Liverpool, and was noted limping out of the stadium “with Ainsley Maitland-Niles and Joe Willock also struggling.” As for past matches between Arsenal and Wolverhampton we have played them 114 times, winning 57, losing 30, and drawing 27. The …

Read More “Arsenal v Wolverhampton; past games, injuries, Europe, yellow cards, scorers”

By David Clarke Arsenal are in turmoil following captain Granit Xhaka’s confrontation with fans at the Emirates Stadium following a below-par performance against another London side in Crystal Palace. The Gunners were tipped by most football experts to collect three points at home to The Eagles, but they made heavy weather of what should have …

Read More “Who can replace Xhaka as Arsenal captain if needed?”

By Tony Attwood The penalty shoot out could have gone either way – as is so often the case.  But Arsenal lost and that is enough for the negativists who now effectively run Arsenal’s future. Arsenal for Life blog summed up the situation with the headline “Arsenal collapse once again in Unai Emery’s last game”, …

Read More “With the attacks on Arsenal rising by the hour the future of the club looks grim”

By Tony Attwood We saw it of course last weekend for the match against Crystal Palace.   The crowd were moaning about the way a two goal lead was thrown away, and about the lunatic situation over VAR, in which we were unable to see anything on the screen, save that the referee and his PGMO …

Read More “When the Arsenal crowd fights the Arsenal players, Arsenal never wins”

By Bulldog Drummond It is quite possible that Arsenal will put out something of a reserve and under 23 side while Liverpool! using very few under 23 players.   This will be because having been banned from signing new junior players because of their behaviour towards a young player and his family not surprisingly they have …

Read More “Liverpool v Arsenal league cup, the past and the team”

By Tony Attwood What role does the media, from TV soap operas like Match of the Day and Gillette Soccer Saturday, to the tiniest bloggetta, play in how we understand football? None whatsoever, according to the media operators who endlessly pedal the myth that they just report the news, they don’t create it. But their …

Read More “The myth of media neutrality over Xhaka and match fixing can’t be maintained”

By Tony Attwood At the weekend I mentioned the failure of the UK media to report Uefa’s admission that match fixing has now reached such a high level that they can’t cope any more and want outside agencies to tender for the chance to study match fixing and report it back to Uefa. This is, …

Read More “Why is the UK media utterly ignoring Uefa’s declaration on match fixing?”

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Read More “From ground access to VAR and the booing of Xhaka, it is total chaos at Arsenal”