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 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 …
Read More “WeCareDoYou: how has the carers campaign been doing?”
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”
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”
