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By Tony Attwood How do farcical transfer rumours start? – the video First a health warning. If you believe that one can prove anything with statistics, and that the money spent by clubs buying in data from Opta is a pathetic waste of cash which could be spent on buying more players, then this is …
Read More “How a club can commit the most fouls, but get the fewest yellow cards”
by Tony Attwood In Germany, the public service broadcaster, ARD has just brought out a documentary and it is causing a spot of interest, because it is a piece all about the referee Deniz Aytekin, looking at this job in detail. Now I know you are going to find this hard to believe, because in …
Read More “The openness of German referees raises the question, what have PGMO got to hide?”
How do farcical transfer rumours start? – the video By Tony Attwood Arsenal by and large have done little (at least little that I have seen) concerning the protests of fans in the last three years or so. Before 2015/16 there were some fans who expressed dismay about the progress of the club, as the …
Read More “Is Arsenal’s openness better than West Ham’s dictatorial whitewashing?”
Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look For advertising enquiries contact Snack Media at 0207 272 7582 or email Tom@Snack-media.com For all other issues please contact Untold Arsenal at Tony@schools.co.uk =============== By Tony Attwood One of the many odd consequences of the way in which football journalism works in England …
Read More “The 8 key questions that football journalists simply won’t ever ask”
Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look by Tony Attwood I’m following up the recent debate about fouls, tackles and yellows with the table below which shows data across the PL after 24 games. The aim here is to look for statistics that look slightly odd or outside the …
Read More “Stats show something very odd going on in the PL that the media won’t discuss.”
by Tony Attwood Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look It is rare for journalists to be banned by football clubs. It has happened in a few cases in the old days when local newspapers held sway in provincial towns, and could often have sports sections that were …
By Tony Attwood A few days ago I spotted a comment from “Sammy the snake” (who was, some years back a much valued writer for Untold) noting with sadness that while Untold used to be utterly supportive of the club and the team, this was no longer the case. Which is true from one perspective, …
Read More “Just 6 wins after 25 games. Has Arsenal ever been worse?”
by Tony Attwood Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look Over the weekend I used some of the findings we had on the relationship between fouls and yellow cards; you may recall the data that shows some clubs have to commit many, many more fouls than others to …
Read More “Burnley’s tackling is three times as dirty as Leicester’s! Really???”
by Bulldog Drummond To avoid the dangers of match fixing, Arsenal need to get into an early lead and show Burnley that they are wise to their multiple fouling tactics. Then if our analysis is right and the referee will be giving more yellows against Arsenal as opposed to against Burnley, it won’t matter so …
Read More “Burnley v Arsenal: what can Arsenal do to overcome the stats?”
By Bulldog Drummond. As our recent analyses of games from the perspective of fouls and cards has suggested there are reasons to believe that some games in the PL are edged in favour of certain clubs. Not all of course, and not every game for certain clubs, but the various articles published here do push …
Read More “Burnley v Arsenal. We need early goals and then shut up shop, but no fouls”
by Bulldog Drummond If you want a game that highlights everything that is wrong with English refereeing in the Premier League, and indeed everything that is wrong with the PL and its referees, here you have it. Burnley have committed 270 fouls this season, Arsenal 259. Not that much in it. Burnley the slightly dirtier …
Read More “Is Burnley v Arsenal fixed even before kick off? Here’s the evidence.”
And for your three minute insight, there’s The Untold Arsenal video By Sir Hardly Anyone 42 players tipped to be coming to Arsenal who did not. Two players tipped to be coming, who did actually arrive. Was that successful journalism? Presumably yes since no one apologised, no one mentioned the gross failure of the …
Read More “All the 44 players Arsenal were tipped to sign in January, and the two we finally got.”
By Tony Attwood OK I don’t mean the headline seriously, but Blacksheep came up with what I thought was a really funny idea, of identifying the constituencies of football clubs and then seeing whether those constituencies voted remain or leave. And then saying that to be democratic the club should abide by the referendum result …
Read More “Clubs in areas that voted Leave should not sign foreigners after today”
By Tony Attwood In recent years the league table at the end of January has given us a rough guide as to where Arsenal will end up by the end of the season, as the table below shows. The second column here shows us the position of the club on 31 January for each year …
Read More “End of January: what does the league table today tell us about the end of the season?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Sometimes the media find the whole notion of transfers a little difficult to grasp. Take Sport Witness who report Edu flew to Brazil in their report to escort Pablo Mari back to London amidst “widespread confidence a transfer was sealed.” And here we pause. “Widespread confidence” among whom? I imagine they …
Read More “44 players moving to Arsenal. Only 1 arrived so expect a busy day at the airport”
By Sir Hardly Anyone You might have thought that since it is around three and a half years since the UK voted to leave the EU that by now we might have worked out what it means for football, but seemingly not. For there is still no agreement as to whether UK clubs will be …
Read More “After Brexit, how many foreigners can play in a Premier League team?”
The latest video: Untold Gooner News on injuries By Tony Attwood I have been arguing for some time that just as changing managers is not a guaranteed recipe for taking a club up the league, nor is buying lots of players. In fact figures presented here recently show that the six clubs that spent …
Read More “Does spending money on new players take a club up the league? The eastern experience”
The latest video: A radical new direction for Arsenal The Athletic, the troll, the errors, the comments: the story so far by Tony Attwood I’ve been critical of The Athletic for the way it has presented itself as being “The New Home of Football Writing”. “New home” seems to imply a centrality and superiority, …
Read More “The games football fans play in an attempt to put their point across”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Strangest headline of the day: after months of knocking Mustafi at every turn Goal gives us this one, “Arteta confirms Arsenal looking for reinforcements after Mustafi injury blow”. Two weeks ago an injury to Mustafi would have been hailed in the media as a bonus for Arsenal! Now it seems to …
Read More “The 42 players tipped by all-knowing journalists to be signing for Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood How will Brexit affect the Premier League? See the video When it comes down to it, there are a lot of things wrong with football. There’s the big debate on gambling (and yes I am neither blind to the problems that gambling causes nor to the fact that in order to keep …
Read More “Football: With reporting like this no wonder corruption is rife”
By Bulldog Drummond Follow the video on Untold Gooner News Arsenal’s injury list ahead of this FA Cup game – the last game to be played before the replays start, is at the upper end of the scale. He is the table modified from details on the Physioroom web site Player Reason Further Detail Potential …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal FA Cup. The line ups and Arsenal injury news”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Follow the video on Untold Gooner News According to the latest gossip Pablo Mari is on the verge of a move to Arsenal after the Spanish defender flew into London to complete the formalities of a £7million transfer from Flamengo. So says the Telegraph. Is it true? At the moment, I’ve …
By Tony Attwood If you create a magazine which boasts that it is the “New Home of Football Writing” then all it needs to be is a little bit better than the football journalism that exists elsewhere. Which you might well think is not that difficult, given the lunatic inaccuracies that we see and hear …
Read More “Is a new Arsenal club being born? Actually, probably not.”
By Bulldog Drummond Since 1 December Bournemouth have had two victories, one draw and three defeats at home – a modest record that most certainly should be giving Arsenal hope for a straight victory in this game… Date Game Res Score Competition 07 Dec 2019 Bournemouth v Liverpool L 0-3 Premier League 21 Dec 2019 …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal. A tiny flicker of light at the end of a negative tunnel”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Of all the dubious headlines on offer “Arsenal need new recruits – perhaps more so than any other traditional Big Six side” is the most misleading, given that the top six spenders of last summer are all doing worse (or very occasionally a little better) with their new recruits this season …
Read More “Arsenal ready to sign dangerous Mexican amidst airport chaos.”
