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 These last few years have seen the implementation of the policy of the anti-Wengerians; get rid of Wenger and spend a lot of money on players was the battle cry of most of them, as far as I could understand it. As a result of the Board following their demands, the old …
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by Bulldog Drummond Mesut Ozil and Lucas Torreira were both missing from the travelling party on Wednesday; Ozil’s wife is due to give birth while the Uruguayan has been struggling with illness. Again set to start at left-back however is teenage starlet Bukayo Saka. Arsenal chiefs are hoping to tie him down to a new …
Read More “Olympiacos v Arsenal: the team, the rows, the droppings and other stuff.”
by Tony Attwood Olympiakos v Arsenal is the tie drawn for us in the round of the last 32 in the Europa League in 2020. And of course, as ever, if we think of Olympiakos and indeed Greek football, we think of corruption, so I thought I would try and update the occasional articles we’ve …
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By Tony Attwood I’ve mentioned from time to time that I am a member of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, a supporters group recognised by Arsenal, which aims to work constructively with the club to improve supporters’ experience, rather than criticise the club over its activities, strategies and so on. Obviously anyone can join AISA …
Read More “Working with Arsenal: how supporters are influencing the club. The Fans’ Forum.”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Sir Hardly Anyone Even by the standards of football on the internet the website HITC’s recent concerted full-on attack on Arsenal through a series of stories about cock-ups and disasters has been extraordinary. And it is worth …
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Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Sir Hardly Anyone We all know that Granit Xhaka gets yellow cards. All the time. Which means that he spends most of his playing time being doubleplus extra careful, hardly daring to do another tackle because he’ll …
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By Tony Attwood Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look Classifying the travails of Manchester City at the moment as a battle between Man City and football’s regulators actually answers the question in the headline: from the off, Untold Arsenal has concerned itself with the …
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Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Tony Attwood In an earlier piece about Manchester City and FFP, I asked: “How could they have got it so wrong?” Meaning, given the size of Manchester City and their obvious financial clout, how could the club …
Read More “If Man City thought things were this bad, why didn’t they join us in the fight?”
by Tony Attwood Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look The first rule in business, for many people who run companies, is “treat complaints seriously”. The second rule is “deal with them fully and in a thorough manner”. The reason for this is simple: the …
Storm News These days we always have storms. Well in the last couple of weeks we have had two sweeping across where I live in the country and Storm Dennis is doing its stuff on Saturday, with leftover issues on the Sunday, meaning that trains, always dodgy in terms of timekeeping and the like could …
Read More “Arsenal v Newcastle: the team, and “an unwavering sense of worth””
By Bulldog Drummond Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look There is a lot of chit chat about Arsenal having huge numbers of players back from injury and ready for the Newcastle game, but whenever such stories appear the reality always seems to be somewhat …
Read More “Arsenal v Newcastle: Injuries and the problem with scoring 3 (or more)”
By Bulldog Drummond Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look Sadly no one has worked any magic on the league table during the winter break, and we find ourselves in 10th, four points and five goals behind the club above us, and six points and …
Read More “Arsenal v Newcastle: home and away form suggests we could be ok.”
By Tony Attwood I am shocked, amazed, stunned, bemused. For 12 years we have been plodding away, writing up the notion that the reporting of football is warped by the media to suit their own needs and ends, and those of their powerful allies. Among the many examples found are those suggesting that key stories …
Read More “Few journalists ever criticise the state of football… so why is it starting now?”
By Tony Attwood The case between Manchester City and Uefa is one that is likely to be studied in legal circles for many years to come, not necessarily because of who wins (which of course we are still seemingly a little way from finding out) but rather because of the unusual way in which Manchester …
Read More “One of the rules of legal cases: don’t criticise the court. Or the legal system”
By Tony Attwood Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look There is really only one way of securing the future for companies that can’t really tell what the future holds other than the fact that they will need a lot of money, and that is …
Read More “Football clubs are selling their future TV income to pay off transfers and debts”
by Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you might have noted a few little pieces I have been publishing of late which put forward the thesis that the media has created and now propagates an image of football which is in its own interest rather than having much to do with the reality …
By Tony Attwood Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look There seems to be no end of ways in which websites, newspapers and broadcasters can mislead – but seizing hold of comments by two or three supporters which are simply untrue, and then republishing them as if they …
Read More “Deluded Arsenal fans shamelessly exploited by misleading publisher”
By Tony Attwood Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look Of course no one has a monopoly on stories in football, but it always nice to be a little ahead of the game. It is even better to find that in order to argue against my point, one …
Read More “Daily Telegraph presents completely false data to try and bolster FA’s case”
By Tony Attwood If you have been reading this site over the years you will recall my little piece on 22 January 2015: Switzerland take a greater interest in Fifa – at last You’ll remember because ever since I have kept on going on and on about it. It reported a change in the law …
Read More “We predicted Fifa scandal in 2015, no one believed us. Now it starts again.”
by Tony Attwood “Arguing with Zombies” is a book by Paul Krugman in which he points out that many aspects of contemporary debates within the worlds of politics and economics are just based on fallacies. I thought of this because two events in my world coincided. I heard Mr Krugman being interviewed on the radio …
Read More “Arguing with Zombies: how football fans allow the media to control the debate”
By Tony Attwood Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look There is no doubt that the technology is available. The Premier League could easily set up its own streaming service along the lines of Netflix and make all its matches available to view to anyone who wants to …
Read More “What will Sky / BT / clubs do when the PL sells itself direct to fans?”
Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look By Tony Attwood “I hate how they ‘weaponise’ us against each other with lies… Stadiums are now more hateful for it.” Paul Ogden, a Manchester City fan, took a moment to write to Untold yesterday, and he made a point that …
Read More “How supporters are being weaponised by the media; we’ve become their playthings”
Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look By Tony Attwood I am not sure when WeCareDoYou launched its most recent missive attacking the Arsenal owners and board, but I have a date noted of 15 July 2019, which suggests to me it was then. So taking that as …
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by Tony Attwood There is an article in The Atlantic in which a reporter tells how she created a new identity on Facebook, clicked “like” on the official Donald Trump page, and waited to see what happen. Now before you rush away because I’ve posted an article on Untold which should be on some fanatical …
Read More “In football journalism there is no race to the bottom, we’ve always been there”
Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look By Tony Attwood The Premier League and the FA are busy making rules – including one that bans spectators from each other’s grounds for wearing t-shirts demanding the removal of directors. But as we have mentioned, there’s no progress on resolving …
Read More “Clubs impose nationwide ban on supporters wearing t-shirts denouncing the board”
