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 Had Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Vitoria in Germany, Arsenal would have finished second in their group in the Europa League and been faced with the prospect of meeting the best Champions League dropouts in the next round of the Europa League. But it didn’t happen and so we’ve got a slightly easier draw …
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by Tony Attwood So at the start of the week we got three goals in nine minutes and then on Thursday it was two goals in three minutes. Which rather suggests that for supporters the trick with Arsenal under Freddie it seems is to find the right ten minutes to watch. The trouble is, what …
Read More “Arsenal: the team that scores in bursts and bursts the scores”
By Tony Attwood So we got a draw, and were somewhat lucky to end up top of the group – but that’s how it can go. The table ended up looking like this: Pl W D L F A GD Pts Arsenal 6 3 2 1 14 7 7 11 Eintracht Frankfurt 6 3 0 …
Read More “We won group F and the bloggers go wild… with vindictiveness and bloody minded anger”
By Bulldog Drummond And so on to the final game in the Europa group stages in which we play Standard Liège away. And what we will find in this match is an illustration of a key point that we have been making on Untold for the last couple of seasons. Some clubs have crowds that …
Read More “Standard Liège v Arsenal: the return of the prodigal?”
by Tony Attwood Prelude: If this article looks to be in a strange format, my apologies. We are trying to get rid of a bug in the system to ensure that Untold looks ok on all devices, and for the moment there appear to be problems throughout the site. I live in a country in …
Read More “Why the media’s unified view of Arsenal is so utterly dangerous”
By Adam Up Untold Gooner News video: A lesson in how to silence the critics The Daily Mirror has done an update of the list of men said to be “in the running” for the job of Arsenal coach, and what do you know. Although the list is remarkably similar to the list …
Read More “The 14 men tipped to be Arsenal’s next manager (although hopefully not all at once).”
by Tony Attwood Untold Gooner News video: A lesson in how to silence the critics One of the things that footballers tend not to do is to respond to abuse from fans, no matter what is said. The theory seems to be that if one engages in the debate then it legitimises what …
Read More “Racism and homophobia are always wrong, but can any abuse of players be justified?”
by Tony Attwood Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. If you would like to have a look at how far we’ve got visit Untold Gooner News An Arsenal win is of course the last thing the journalists and bloggers wanted since their whole narrative is that Arsenal are appalling, every player …
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By Bulldog Drummond It is curious that at this time Arsenal is doing badly in matches we are doing far better than in the Wengerian days when we were criticized for having more injuries than anyone else. Maybe that means we are not getting stuck in enough. In fact we never did have more injuries …
Read More “West Ham v Arsenal: a variety of team selections and “AFTV Out!””
Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. If you would like to have a look at how far we’ve got visit Untold Gooner News By Bulldog Drummond Once upon a time we played league games on Saturdays at 3pm. Funny old idea that was. It meant you could have lunch with the …
Read More “West Ham v Arsenal; result prediction, a minus one all draw.”
We are developing our own video channel. If you would like to have a look it is at… Untold Gooner News By Sir Hardly Anyone. Beware: your mind is being played with. The aim of many blogs and newspapers is simple: to generate Arsenal stories that cost nothing to research or create, but …
Read More “The ten craziest things the media have said about Arsenal in last 48 hours”
by Tony Attwood Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News We recently published research that showed that only 20% of clubs in the PL that have changed managers in the past 18 months are now better …
Read More “Do we want Arsenal to wait 30 years to recover. Or is there a shortcut?”
Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News By Tony Attwood I suppose one of my biggest gripes about football journalists is that they treat their audience like little children who will gobble up anything that …
Read More “The journalist code: Treat the audience like children, treat the players as worthless.”
Watch our latest video at: Untold Gooner News: By Tony Attwood “If you have a long nose, you’re offside these days,” said Aleksander Ceferin in a recent interview. It didn’t get much coverage in England (not even the Daily Mirror ran it and it was said in an interview with them), perhaps because historically it …
Read More “VAR is a mess says Uefa chief, which I suspect most of us would agree with”
By Tony Attwood And so now we know. Just as our ancestors allowed the Hill-Wood family and their allies to force out Henry Norris – the man with the vision of a club owned by its members, and with the best manager in the land – so our generation has allowed that combination of journalists …
Read More “And so now we know what their victory looks like”
by Bulldog Drummond Any chance that we might be able to get a manager who has not been rubbished by the media BEFORE we get him is now gone. According to the scribblers our next manager is a failure before he gets out of the taxi. So onto the teams… Football Fan Cast go with …
by Bulldog Drummond Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News Of course something has to give sometime, and it would be nice if it happened in a positive way to Freddie. But Freddie knows that …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton: media shows that honeymoon period for manager is about 15 mins.”
By Tony Attwood The book “What you think you know about football is wrong” is itself so wrong and so flawed it ought to be withdrawn and an apology issued to everyone who has bought at copy. If you have read any of the work we have published across the last ten years …
Read More “New book “exposing” Arsenal’s cheating is itself pure fantasy and lies”
by Tony Attwood Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News On a thursday? At 8.15pm? OK, the company that sells stuff online has bought the rights and with it the right to change everything around. …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton and Hove Albion and the latest media gibberish”
By Tony Attwood Here is a list of the Premier League clubs that have won the Premier League, plus two that are conventionally included in the “big six” list but who have not won the Premier League at all. In the second column we see the number of managers they have had, then how many …
Read More “Why Arsenal might consider Eddie Howe as the next manager”
By Tony Attwood Having been hyper active in knocking Arsenal morning noon and night, the mainstream media with their chums in the AAA writing the anti-Arsenal blogs under the guise of being Arsenal supporting blogs, there is a sense of arrogance growing in the anti-Arsenal. And this is growing to such a sense that the …
By Tony Attwood Vivianne Miedema scored six and provided four assists (itself an all time league record) as Arsenal beat Bristol City 11-1 this past weekend – having been 9-0 up within the hour. It was the biggest victory in the Women’s Super League’s history. The previous record score was recorded by Liverpool – currently …
In my last piece I looked at the four players that had come in of late that I cannot imagine the next manager, whoever he might be, would want to sell. Here is the list from that article 1: Matteo Guendouzi 2: Gabriel Martinelli 3. Bernd Leno 4: Lucas Torreira So moving on, we come …
Read More “The Arsenal men the new manager might want to sell”
by Tony Attwood All managers bring in players they rate and want to work with – and that leads to a fairly full squad. Which means Arsenal’s next permanent manager will have to get rid of some before he can bring in more. Which many supporters might feel is ok except that there is also …
Read More “The problem with sacking the manager: which players do we keep?”
By Bulldog Drummond Of course no one really knows what Freddie will do with the team line up today but the media are already telling him what he should do, and also predicting disasters to come, because Arsenal need another four players. Out with the old, on the with same old complaints, whinging, whining, moaning, …
Read More “Norwich v Arsenal: Freddie’s first team and the satisfaction of supporters”
