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 There is something of a feeling of elation after the win against Manchester United, as indeed there should be. For after five games without a win and indeed just one win in 16, a win against a traditional “top six” club was very welcome indeed. After all it stopped what seemed an …
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Sir Hardly Anyone And so it seems that with no one noticing much, the window is actually open. So who are we buying. 1: Firmino Talksport are so excited they seem to think that he has actually signed. Or at least in their headline they ask “Has Firmino signed?’ In fact it is a typical …
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by Tony Attwood It started on 19 December when Nitram’s article on this site noted that “Three sources suggested in the post-match comments after the Man C game that Arsenal could learn a lot from how the opposition approached the game with their approach to fouling.” “We might perhaps remember,” Nitram continued, Man C staff, …
Read More “Why is the issue of the number of fouls that lead to a card, being kept secret?”
By Tony Attwood This article continues from the articles two days ago relating to how many cards each team gets. This table below shows the number of cards per game involving different clubs. The club with the most cards per game is Arsenal with 4.90 cards on average. The lowest is Manchester City with 2.40 …
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By Bulldog Drummond Looking at the last 10 games between Arsenal and Manchester United we find Arsenal have won three and Manchester United have won four. And indeed it is possible to see something rather positive here in that in the last three league games we have had two draws and a win. Date Game …
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By Bulldog Drummond Man U’s away form puts them at number 8 in the away league with three wins, three draws, and four defeats. Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Liverpool 9 8 1 0 20 5 15 25 2 Chelsea 10 7 0 3 24 18 6 21 3 …
Read More “Arsenal v Man U: how the referees have been treating each club this season”
Data and analyses from Andrew, and from Footballcharts.co.uk Commentary from Tony We have been discovering huge variations in the number of fouls per card given by referees and how these might be explained by the severity of the fouls, or the leniency or otherwise of the referee. But also there is another possibility here – …
Read More “Refs and yellow cards: is each club treated the same? Definitely not.”
This article follows from “If Premier League matches were fixed, how would we know?” Data and analyses from Andrew, and from Footballcharts.co.uk Commentary from Tony In the last article we saw that huge variations exist in the number of fouls it takes in games to get a card. But of course such figures as …
Read More “How can we know that strange “fouls per card” figures don’t come by chance?”
Data and analyses from Andrew, and from Footballcharts.co.uk Commentary from Tony. This is part one of a three part series on data that suggests match fixing might be happening in the Premier League, which is being published through the course of today. I started by asking myself a simple question: if something dubious was …
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By Tony Attwood A little while ago I reported on how much of Europe was discussing the admission by Uefa that it was unable to cope with match fixing and needed to engage outside help. The story was in many European papers but not in the UK. Indeed I wasn’t able to find any UK …
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By Tony Attwood Jonathan Liew is a journalist who I must admit, used to annoy me a lot when he worked for the Telegraph, for he appeared to have a brief of knocking Arsenal on a fairly regular basis. Then I think he worked on the Independent. Now he is back big time on the …
By Tony Attwood I don’t do many match reports these days; I’m at the games to watch and support my team, be with my mates and hopefully have a jolly time, and I’m certainly not making notes on how it goes. Indeed I often don’t remember the match accurately, as for me the emotion gets …
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By Bulldog Drummond In theory this should be a game of goals since we have two of the top three scorers in the Premier League on view. Rank Player Club Goals 1. Jamie Vardy Leicester City 17 2. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Arsenal 12 3. Tammy Abraham Chelsea 11 Also we can be helped by the fact …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea: the teams, the promise of goals and what happened in history”
By Bulldog Drummond The last ten games against Chelsea include a Cup Final, the Community Shield, two league cup games and the Europa League Final Date Game Res Score Competition 04 Feb 2017 Chelsea v Arsenal L 3-1 Premier League 27 May 2017 Arsenal v Chelsea W 2-1 FA Cup 06 Aug 2017 Arsenal v …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea the recent games and injuries and our drop towards relegation”
By Bulldog Drummond It is indeed a long old time since Arsenal were below being even a mid-table club in terms of home form but that is certainly what the table shows now as we lurk below Newcastle, Burnley, Palace, Wolverhampton, Sheffield Utd and even Aston Villa. Yep, two promoted teams are doing better at …
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By Tony Attwood I have recently run a couple of pieces expressing my dislike of AFTV (see for example here), and although many readers have agreed with my view, as is always to be expected some disagree. Normally I’d leave things at that and carry on with Untold’s message of supporting the team and the …
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By Tony Attwood It is interesting that in following up the issue of racial abuse by some Tottenham supporters in the recent match against Chelsea there has been very little commentary in the media about the history of racial abuse and nothing much on the failure of the authorities to take any action. What for …
Read More “Racism: football is just packed solid with excuses, so why don’t we admit we do nothing?”
By Tony Attwood This article is about AFTV. In contrast to AFTV, Untold Arsenal has its own occasional set of videos. If you would like to see how we do it, do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews This article has raised a number of questions about freedom of speech and as a result a …
Read More “Yes we are getting under AFTV’s skin. Let’s keep it up”
By Bulldog Drummond If you have been reading all the bloggettas with their tattle and their tittle (that’s tittle tattle if you have only just woken up after a rather fulsome Christmas – but do try to keep up, there are likely to be 700 words or so in this piece) you will know that …
Read More “Arsenal v Bournemouth: oh look all the newspaper tittle tattle was wrong”
By Bulldog Drummond Trying to guess who Arsenal will put out for Arteta’s first game is virtually impossible – he may have seen something interesting among the youngsters, he may have an idea for surprising the opposition, he may want to say to the established crew, “show me what you can do”. And as a …
By Bulldog Drummond So it is Mr Arteta’s first game as complete manager – his first pick of a team. And he comes to the game knowing that our away form is indeed modest, with the draw being the favoured result of the team… Away games only Team P W D L F A GD …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal, and the strange case of the clubs with the least yellow cards”
by Tony Attwood Happy Christmas, and thank you. Supporting Arsenal is never easy because of the remorseless criticism that the club gets from the media. But of course being a positive supporter it is easier in the good times rather than the hard times. And this year we have had some hard times indeed. Not …
Read More “A very sincere thank you to everyone who has supported Arsenal this year”
By Tony Attwood The media, self-evidently needs something to report, so if there is not much to report, it has to make up an issue. One of the recent issues that they have devised of late, to occupy the time when there is nothing else to write about is the cult of the manager. Most …
Read More “The future of Arsenal under the management of Arteta”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Untold Video Updates: We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Oh yes. We have a new manager so now we have a list of all the players that we are going to buy. And here, right before your very eyes, we have …
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By Tony Attwood So how did it all go so right? Arsenal Fans TV and its camp follower Piers Morgan have been making fun of Arsenal, its players and its loyal Arsenal supporters for years. Outrageously proclaiming on its web site that “AFTV is the No.1 Fan Channel on YouTube” it was set up with …
Read More “AFTV get out of our club. Where did it all go so right?”
