by Tony Attwood Finding out about players who Arsenal have signed and who are not already super starios can be difficult. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of websites with the same headline “Matteo Guendouzi: all you need to know about Arsenal’s new signing” and they don’t tell me anything like I need to know. Like …
by Tony Attwood There used to be a programme on TV in the UK called the Fast Show which featured Ron Manager the TV commentator on football. In case you never came across him here he is And amazingly Premier Sports 1, which is showing the current pre-season tournament in the UK brought him back …
By Bulldog Drummond Ahead of Arsenal’s game which kicks off shortly we now have the first league table to emerge out of the ICC tournament thus far and it reminds us of the special arrangements being made in this competition. Indeed it makes rather interesting, if occasionally bemusing, reading . For what it brings home …
By Sir Hardly Anyone So here we are again, with the top ten tales from the “outlets” as they call each other. And I’m back with Albert Blizzard of the The Buzzard who was bemoaning a complaint from his editor. “He told me,” Albert announced after tucking into his pint and whisky chaser, “that my last …
By Don McMahon My heart is heavy and my mind in turmoil after having read Mesut Ozil’s scathing attack on racism in German football and in Germany itself. I lived in Germany for two years and really enjoyed being there, especially for the football. However, after reading his exposé about mistreatment and bigotry on the …
by Tony Attwood How could changes in tactic lead to each club’s tactics will affect their position in the top six? As always with analyses of tactics, we need to consider the effect of actions. For example goal kicks or throw ins being intercepted by the opposition are frustrating, and can be called “errors”, but …
By Tony Attwood Sports Keeda today say, “The Gunners start their campaign on August 12 against reigning champions Manchester City at the Emirates, before making a short trip to London rivals Chelsea a week later. If Wenger was still in charge, most supporters would have expected precisely no points from these two fixtures.” This is either realistic …
by Tony Attwood OK let’s try and weigh this up. My view is that we are not going to buy any more players because a) the budget was £70m and that has gone. b) Arsenal have far too many players to fit into the artificial “17” and “25” limits, and so need to sell or …
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is a most curious coincidence that when a big story (such as Mesut finally having had enough of racism in Germany) breaks, it always happens just at the moment when the transfer tales dry up. I mean it couldn’t be that these fellas down the public house are actually making …
By Tony Attwood Football is instant – players, clubs and managers are only as good as their last result – or for those with a long term memory, the last three results. Which has been rather damaging to Arsenal across the last ten years if we look at the results. Season W D L Pos …
By Tony Attwood And so Mesut Özil has removed himself from international football. I’m glad he has and can only wish he had done it earlier. Mesut is one of those players who not only has a choice of which team to play for, but also which country to play for and he chose the country …
The Arsenal anniversary series appears daily on the Arsenal History Society web site – except it can’t this weekend as we’ve been upgrading that site from http to https – and something has gone amiss. So until we get that fixed, I’m posting the daily list of anniversaries on Untold. Hopefully the History Society, both …
By Sir Hardly Anyone The figures show we need to sell or loan seven before we should be buying any more, but still the pundits urge the club ever more forward with desperate cries for more and more buys. Indeed you know things are desperate when players are not longer spotted at the airport but …
By Sir Hardly Anyone As appropriate to one of my name, there are hardly any rumours to report anymore. The media is seems have given up on Arsenal and are now focused on Tottenham, where such mongering of rumours is easier given that they have signed no one as of the last time I looked. …
Every day on the website of the Arsenal History Society, there appears a list of Arsenal (and a few non-Arsenal) anniversaries for that day. We are currently in the process of converting that website (blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk) from http:// to https// which is a technical thing I don’t understand but those people who charge me lots of …
Bulldog Drummond So now we know what’s what. For the International Champions Cup Arsenal have these hearty young men representing them… Monreal is still not back from the world cup whatnot, so we’ll have to do without him. But otherwise the list is nearly complete. Here’s the list… In Goal: Cech, Leno, Martinez At the …
by Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw. University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. Arsenal have appointed Mikhail Zhilkin as a data scientist working under the direction of the director of high performance Darren Burgess. Allegedly his remit will include analyzing injury data. And as the newspapers get around to covering the story so we …
By Tony Attwood The International Champions Cup has been kicking around for six years in what has often appeared to be a fairly incomprehensible format which leads to confusion as to who, if anyone, actually won the trophy each time it is played. This summer, it is held in the USA, Singapore and parts of …
By Roger Miller Arsenal could be shorn of the services of fan favourite Nacho Monreal after he was heavily linked with a move back to Spain. The left-back was one of the few Gunners stars to emerge with any credit from a dismal 2017/18 campaign as he impressed with some solid displays. He has been …
by Tony Attwood While we have been trying to work out how Arsenal are going to get the squad numbers down to the requisite 25 players with no more than 17 non-HGs, most of the media has been continuing talking about who is going to be bought, without any regard for the regulations. And this …
By Tony Attwood We have, to the best of my knowledge, four tour matches coming up… 26 July Atlético Madrid (National Stadium, Singapore) 28 July Paris Saint-Germain (National Stadium, Singapore) 1 August Chelsea (Aviva Stadium, Dublin) 4 August Sevilla (Friends Arena, Stockholm) That’s not the most of any club, as Liverpool and Man U play six such games, but …
By Bulldog Drummond There are secrets and there are secrets, and there is Crawley Town vs Arsenal. Attempts were made by the media to do a preview as with the headline from Football.co.uk which says “Arsenal vs Crawley Town Complete Head to Head Statistics” The page is full of zeros. But I am sure we …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal are taking part in the Checkatrade Trophy with “Matchday 1” or “the first match as it is known in English” being in the week commencing Monday 3 September 2018. After that there are occasional games played from time to time. The second set of games (known in modern parlance as “Matchday …
According to reports – that old standby – it looks like we have just signed another player –Joel Lopez a man of many ages. As we come to update the list of players linked with Arsenal we find that now we have reached 107 stories during this transfer window. In today’s list we have 12 …
By Tony Attwood Jack Wilshere has gone as we all know, and there has been much talk of others leaving, but few players if any actually seem to be on their way out. Meanwhile there is still constant chatter about more and more and more signings being in the offing. So there’s four things I …
