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 I must say I was singularly surprised by the large number of comments Untold received from Manchester City supporters after I commented negatively on the ownership of that club. Most of these comments were to my mind of very little merit being simplistic and/or crude, and so did not get published, and …
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By Andrew Crawshaw My recent look at squad values using data from the website transfermarkt.com indicated a total value of the City squad as being well in excess of £900m whilst that of Arsenal was virtually £500m. To put this discrepancy into perspective mere are the stated values of the two squads starting 11s broken …
Read More “Manchester City’s two nil win should have come as no surprise to any Gooner”
By Tony Attwood Quite why some of the Manchester City supporters felt like singing “Only one Arsene Wenger” during this game, I am not too sure although I’ve never understood northern humour. Perhaps it was not a recognition that one could win the League and FA Cup across a number of years without the input …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester City: how the media continues once more to have no idea”
By Bulldog Drummond. This is the hardest game to select a team for, as we have not yet seen the manager in action when not testing out the players in the pre-season matches. Maitland Niles is the obvious replacement at left back, and I suggest Monreal will not even make the beach so he is …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester City Hoovers. Opening day blues for us and the champions”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal ended last season with a mixed collection a results Date Game Res Score Competition 08 Mar 2018 AC Milan v Arsenal W 0-2 Europa League 11 Mar 2018 Arsenal v Watford W 3-0 Premier League 15 Mar 2018 Arsenal v AC Milan W 3-1 Europa League 01 Apr 2018 Arsenal v …
Read More “Arsenal v Man City: How it went in the past, and the new comers”
By Bulldog Drummond Coming back to the list of injuries after not having followed the details since the end of last season is something of a shock. And unless you’ve been following the details I think you might be shocked too. Ready? As before I am using the Physioroom list. And I would warn you …
Read More “Arsenal v Man City: the injuries and recent games between the two.”
By Lady Market Dominance In English culture, and maybe elsewhere, the domestic vacuum cleaner is often known as the Hoover, the Hoover being a dominant make of the product dating back to the early 20th century. So dominant did it become in the market that the word passed into the language as meaning “to take …
Read More “Arsenal v the Hoovers. Background to Sunday’s game at Arsenal Stadium”
By Tony Attwood By the end of course it was getting truly ridiculous. Indeed as Short Fuse announced, “Arsenal’s transfer window descends into farce as structural problems remain.” What they didn’t realise was that the farce was created by the media as time and again they told us deals had been done, and were confirmed, when …
By Sir Hardly Anyone We’re almost there it is almost done – at least in terms of the buying. And as you probably expected, despite all the frantic suggestions by the People Regularly Engaged in Spurious Stories (or PRESS for short) nothing is happening thus far concerning Arsenal in terms of buying, although Perez looks …
Read More “Transfer remnants: What exactly are Arsenal doing, and what is a Spurs fan saying?”
Sir Hardly Anyone reflects on another wasted night at the bar. I have generally thought most “reporters” who cover transfer chit chat to be half baked, but some of those I have met in this fenêtre de transfert don’t seem even to have made it into the oven. And to hear the silly little people …
Read More “The final night of transfer rumours: Sir Hardly Anyone in the home of the half baked”
By Tony Attwood There has, I think, not been a transfer market quite like this one, and that for two reasons. One is that the Premier League summer market gets crazier every year, first because each year the media tries to do more and more to outdo whatever crazy things they got up to last …
By Sir Hardly Anyone What happens to the bloggettas owned by newspapers when their computers get overheated in the, well, err, heat? This morning, Wednesday 8 August, we find out as Foot Lond, the Daily Mirror’s endlessly automatic computer generated churning bloggetta, runs the story, “There’s less than a week left of the transfer window – …
Read More “Arsenal bid £100m for player in transfer rumour untouched by even The Hollow Men.”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, head of pyschology at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. According to the Daily Telegraph, “Arsenal’s new head coach Unai Emery could be an unmitigated disaster or a phenomenal success. We do not really know, and that alone is a radical departure from the past decade when …
Read More “How strange that Emery and Wenger should be so alike”
by Tony Attwood So Mr Kroenke has made an offer to buy the shares of Mr Usmanov in Arsenal, and it seems Mr Usmanov is willing to deal. Mr Kroenke will then own just over 97% of the shares. At this point, under English law all the other shareholders must be offered the same deal. …
Read More “What is the difference between Stan Kroenke and Henry Norris, and who’s to blame?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone And so as the word “slammed” is taken out of its cupboard and prepared to be given a massive overdose of multiple use by so-called journalists, we approach the last mile, the final furlong, the extra yard and the finish line which is not so much about to be passed with …
By Tony Attwood During the last 10 years as you well know we have won 3 FA Cups, and this obviously was not good enough for some people who attended matches. And of course was wholly unacceptable for the media who jumped on this, as they often do with their perceived negatives when reviewing Arsenal. …
Read More “What has been Arsenal’s best period in history, and can Emery replicate that?”
By Tony Attwood As you will know, if you are a regular reader, the media and their tail coat hangers on, have created more transfer rumours in terms of players joining Arsenal, than ever before. (We’re not keeping a record of rumours of leavings since we had that summer two years ago in which every …
Read More “Predictions agree (!), attacking Bellerin, Chambers going, fighting the media”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes it is true, there have been more transfer rumours concerning Arsenal this summer than in any of the previous transfer windows we have measured. Not by much but we have got there. 116 players have been tipped to be coming to Arsenal (or in the case of Jack Wilshere, signing …
Read More “This summer’s Arsenal transfers reach an all time record!!!”
By Tony Attwood Ten years and a bit ago – in April 2008 to be exact, I wrote an eight part series on Reasons to be Cheerful. It’s not the only “Reasons to be Cheerful” series on Untold – I did another three in 2009 and there have been several since. I’m not going to …
Read More “Arsenal: Eight reasons to be cheerful ahead of the new season – and then some.”
By Bulldog Drummond In my youth, on hearing that “the season starts today” (as it does for the championship etc, and of course Scottish football) old timers would say “it gets earlier every year”. To my utter dismay, on realising that the we were now only one week away from the Manchester City match I …
by Sir Hardly Anyone. It is, of course, most important to eat only in the best restaurants where one meets the right people and so the dinner which involved Ousmane Dembele and his chums at Arsenal has produced the wagging of tongues and the moving of mouths. For there was our new superhero Mattéo Guendouzi …
Read More “Aubameyang’s dad sets the transfer market alight”
By Sir Hardly Anyone These are confusing times in the transfer market, and indeed as my old chum and informant Sir Jasper Fish III said just last night in the Toppled Bollard public house off the Old Kent Road, as I pointed out yet more confusing reports of the comings and goings, “It just shows …
By Billy “the dog” McGraw Our weird news correspondent. And Trends Editor. With all the bits and pieces about who Arsenal are and are not signing, it is easy to lose track of some of the other events around football at the moment. But they are still worth taking a look at because individually and …
Read More “Nine weird stories, rows, twists and turns as the transfer window closure get closer.”
By Tony Attwood Here is a line up for the coming season that in popular among journalists and bloggers… Bernd Leno; Hector Bellerin, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Shkordran Mustafi, Nacho Monreal; Lucas Torreira, Aaron Ramsey; Alex Iwobi, Mesut Ozil, Henrikh Mkhitaryan; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. And a variant Petr Cech; Hector Bellerin, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Shkordran Mustafi, Sead Kolasinac; …
Read More “How Arsenal will line up in the coming season, and being a trends editor.”
Aubameyang leads the line Ramsey, Guendouzi and Elneny start in midfield Sokratis partners Mustafi at the back Cech (c) Bellerin Papastathopoulos Mustafi Kolasinac Guendouzi Elneny Ramsey Ozil Mkhitaryan Aubameyang Substitutes Leno, Chambers, Mavropanos, Holding, Maitland-Niles, Iwobi, E. Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Nelson That’s the confirmed line up. Chelsea’s team W. Caballero, Azpilicueta (c), David Luiz, Rudiger, Marcos …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea in the ICC. The teams, the game, the commentary. ARSENAL WIN”
