by Tony Attwood The directors of Dreambox, Dreambox TV Limited, and Digital Switchover Limited, have now been jailed in England for offering illegal access on TV of matches involving Premier League clubs. The League might be feeling a bit jolly about that, but is perhaps less happy knowing that BeoutQ is still broadcasting Premier League …
By Tony Attwood I have written many times before about the child sex abuse scandals in English football, and my dismay at the way that the media has been handling them. If you want a quick re-run there is an article at https://untold-arsenal.com/archives/61818 – there have been a fair number since. Football doesn’t want …
By Tony Attwood When I see the words “super computer” used in a football blog I tend to shy away from the report, simply because I have no idea what “super computer” means in terms of anything, let alone football. I mean, the little laptop I am using to write this while in Australia is about 1000 …
By Tony Attwood Following Arsenal from the far side of the world (Sydney, Australia to be precise) is something of an odd affair. The games don’t appear to be shown live (at least not in the bars that I can find) and anyway does one really want to follow football in the middle of the …
By Tony Attwood If you have been with us for a year or more you may recall that each spring I take a break from UK and head to the other side of the world wherein lives one of my daughters. Depending on all sorts of complexities which I won’t bore you it can be …
By Tony Attwood I am about to toddle off to the other side of the world so I may not be able to clear all the comments that come in – more on that in the next post. But first here is a little thought that popped into my head. Mr Emery is mostly very …
By Tony Attwood “This topsy-turvy season continues to confound,” says the Guardian in an article today in relation to Arsenal. Which I’d say isnt really totally accurate. For the last couple of years we’ve been focussing on the difference between Arsenal’s home and away form, and for quite a few games making predictions of matches …
By Bulldog Drummond I’m having to write this some way in advance of the match, because of my convoluted travel arrangements to the game, but even though there will have been a result on saturday evening after my writing of these notes the general point still applies. While Arsenal and Manchester United remain one point …
By Tony Attwood The headlines revealed in the aftermath of the Arsenal defeat in the Europa league tell a story of their own. They include… Arsenal are out of Europa League because of one player – fan theory Daily Star Arsenal flops abused at airport by their own fans after Rennes defeat Metro.co.uk Ben Arfa: …
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you might remember that over four years ago we ran the story, Man City decides to take on Uefa; the result will finally decide who runs football. We’ve come back to that from time to time until back in November last year we ran …
By Bulldog Drummond Previously we had a look at the recent form of the two clubs involved in this game in Rennes v Arsenal: the predictions Now here’s the update on what the journalists report as the issues – and the teams. There has been quite an attempt to get Mr Emery to suggest that …
By Tony Attwood There was a general feeling of disappointment following the draw with Tottenham last weekend, obviously so given the nature of the Tottenham goal and the missed penalty at the end. But if we look at Arsenal’s recent record in the league, things are not too bad Date Game Res Score 19 Jan …
Here’s a quick run down of how Rennes are doing in recent matches Date Competition Home Score Away 14/02/19 Europa Rennes 3 – 3 Real Betis 17/02/19 League Reims 2 – 0 Rennes 21/02/19 Europa Real Betis 1 – 3 Rennes 24/02/19 League Rennes 1 – 1 Olympique Mars… 27/02/19 Cup Rennes 2 – 0 …
By Sir Hardly Anyone As a rule, the football journalist doesn’t do anything which might be considered by the general population to be related to the concept widely known as “thinking” during the hours of daylight. Upon waking he or she will stroll to his or her favourite public house, order up a few short …
By Tony Attwood The Daily Mirror is today publishing a story about Denis Suarez which makes particularly interesting reading. I am most grateful to my pal Steve who sits next to me at Arsenal Stadium for picking up on this story and alerting me to it today. The story attempts to get to grips with …
By Tony Attwood There is an interesting paragraph in a report on the Tottenham v Arsenal match in the Daily Telegraph website that says “There were a number of contentious incidents with replays showing Harry Kane was offside in the moments before Skhodran Mustafi barged him over for Spurs’ second half penalty. The referee Taylor …
By Bulldog Drummond On 8 February Arsenal were ten points behind Tottenham. A win in this game would leave us just one point behind them. In terms of injuries both Koscielny and Lichsteiner are thought to have a chance of being available for selection for the Tottenham match. Otherwise it is just our three long …
By Bulldog Drummond The key issue we have been debating of late, of course, is the home / away difference, and it is particularly interesting in relation to this game. Here’s the home league table… Home games only Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester City 15 14 0 1 50 …
By Tony Attwood The fact that there is nothing wrong with Arsenal as a team is not something that you will read in many publications. What you will see over and over again is that there is something wrong with Arsenal as the main theme, and things need to be changed. But, let me take …
By Tony Attwood In the affterglow of last night’s lovely victory for Arsenal, I want to turn to something different, not because I didn’t enjoy last night, but because this is Untold, and we like to cover stories no one else will cover. And what we consider here is a perfect example of the creation …
By Bulldog Drummond The key thinking ahead of this game as far as the media is concerned – or at least the media that bother to look at such things – is that Bournemouth have a host of injuries and Arsenal don’t. There’s not too much on exactly how this is going to help Arsenal, …
by Bulldog Drummond The good news is that this is a home game – not just so that we can go and see it, but also because we can go into the game with a really good track record at home… Home games only Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 …
By Tony Attwood The central question is a simple one: are we doing any better this under Mr Emery than previously under Mr Wenger? The reason for asking is that the campaign to oust Mr Wenger was also very simple, consisting just of the message, “Wenger Out”. It didn’t talk about how much money might …
By Bulldog Drummond As we all remember, I am sure, it was a defeat away to Southampton that started Arsenal on the downward turn earlier in the season after the unbeaten run. Here is what has happened from the last Southampton match onwards Date Game (all PL except as marked) Res Score 16 Dec 2018 …
By Tony Attwood So the word is that Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo known to us ordinary folk on Monchi, is going to be our new technical director. He is Spanish, so can talk to our manager, is 50 years old, and played in goal being one of those goal keepers who spent most of his time playing …
