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 In a year’s time it will cost around £1000 a year to subscribe to the three “outlets” (what a ghastly word) that will divide up Arsenal matches on TV for UK watches: Sky Sprout, BT Moan and now Amazon. I haven’t got a silly alternative name for Amazon Footie yet, but I …
By Tony Attwood As I noted in my last article, for the financial year 2016-17, we have one club that hasn’t filed its accounts and has been threatened with a winding up order (Crystal Palace), two clubs that made a loss (Chelsea and Sunderland) and 17 that made a profit. Clubs don’t have to report …
Read More “Where does Arsenal stand financially in relation to the other top clubs?”
By Tony Attwood It is a total tragedy that the bloggettas and the rest of the media largely ignored last night’s under 21 game between England and Scotland, or else if reporting it hardly registered Eddie Nkehtiah’s contribution of two goals and a perfect assist. The game was life and free on TV in England …
Read More “It’s Eddie Nkehtiah’s day, Villa won’t pay, Palace won’t say, Chelsea lose their way”
By Tony Attwood Eddie is playing and it is on live TV, and better still free. There’s a channel called Free Sports (it is available to Sky customers whether you subscribe to Sky Sprouts or not) and they are starting to pick up some interesting bits and pieces including the Toulon Tournament. The semi-final is …
Read More “Scotland v England live on TV and free. Now. (Eddie is playing)”
By Tony Attwood Yes indeed, he was on the list at number one (largely because the list is by and large in alphabetical order and his surname is Adli) and we have signed him. Making it two players signed. If anything is going to encourage the rumour makers to keep going it is a …
Read More “He’s number 1 on our list of 85 player we’re signing, and he’s just signed”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes we have ten new players added to the list of those coming to Arsenal according to the creators of these tales and three players updated. It takes us up to 85 players, with the target being around 110 players by the time the window “slams shut” as Sky and the …
Read More “The 85 players Arsenal are said by the “experts” to be signing this summer”
By Tony Attwood Yesterday afternoon Blacksheep and spent a while in the British Library, during which we discussed (not for the first time) the fact that the British media, when contemplating football, is generally desperate to avoid any questions starting with the word “Why?” Yet it often seems to me the most interesting question in …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Not everyone has gone bonkers over the story that Arsenal are going to sign Fellaini on a free, but there is quite a bit of that coverage around with agents in discussion, a medical happening and so forth. Maybe by the time you read this the transfer will have happened. Maybe …
Read More “Current rumours reveal Arsenal’s audacious plan: and it might just work.”
By Tony Attwood Liverpool are not just leading the way in this transfer window, in terms of serious business they are completely out on their own. Of course they have the advantage of what might be called managerial non-movement, and so their arrangements were undoubtedly known and planned well in advance. But whether doing the …
Read More “This could be the most difficult transfer window yet for Premier League clubs.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It had to happen in the end. Another website has picked up on the idea of recording a list of players who are said to be on their to Arsenal. So naturally I have taken a look with interest. And at first site it is interesting because this commentary incorporates the …
Read More “Confusion reigns as a new list of all Arsenal transfers for this summer appears”
by Tony Attwood This game was, (presumably for some sort of copyright region), only available in the UK. So not even visible in the Channels Isles it seems, and I’m really sorry that not everyone was able to see the game, as it was great fun. The skill that these older players retain really is …
Read More “Real Madrid 2 Arsenal 1 full time: great Sunday evening fun, but only in the UK”
by Tony Attwood I must admit that I have not seen a legends game before, and so am in the process of watching this one simply because it is free to view on Arsenal.com And 100% applause to Arsenal.com for doing this; it really is fun. Obviously it is not a total commitment, heavy tackling …
By Tony Attwood I wrote a little piece yesterday taking a snapshot of how Tottenham Hotspur are treated by the media in relation to Arsenal, and it raised a little amount of interest so I thought I would have another go today with Manchester United. This piece of course as with the Tottenham jottings is …
Read More “How do Man U get treated by the media compared to Arsenal?”
by Tony Attwood There’s an article on “Just Arsenal” which rails against the criticism that players like Bellerin, Xhaka and Ozil get from a small selection of Arsenal fans. To that one could add Mustafi and Cech who have also come in for continual abuse in the past year. Indeed just as I write this, …
Read More “How do the media treat Arsenal and Tottenham? A simple one day comparison.”
By Tony Attwood Some businesses I’ve come across are indeed in the aforementioned state of turmoil, while others just seem to stumble around a lot and some sail on serenely never troubled by the choppy waters on which they sail. So I wondered, in football is it just Arsenal that is in a state of …
Read More “Why does football always have to be in a state of constant turmoil?”
The eight biggest transfer stories of the moment By Sir Hardly Anyone Since the issue has been raised about Arsenal being slow off the mark, in a moment I shall take us through all the players thus far signed by a Premier League club and you will be shocked, I can promise you that. But …
by Tony Attwood Because I don’t have any real interest in international football except in watching out for dreadful injuries to Arsenal players and wishing such young men had more sense than to put their futures in the hands of car thieves (if you remember the old description) who wreck your vehicle, then hand it …
Read More “It’s all gone quite quiet over there. A few little local footballing difficulties”
By Tony Attwood And so the world moves on. ZZ is leaving Real Madrid at a moment when they are perhaps going to struggle to get exactly the right person to take the club forward. And Chelsea have (at least for a while) abandoned the project of rebuilding Stamford Bridge. It was only a few …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Now the distraction of getting a new manager is over the fantasists (or “football correspondents as they like to be called) are back in operation throughout the public houses of central London and docklands. Below is a list of players were are apparently signing so far, including some interesting recent additions …
Read More “The 75 players (yes really, 75) we are buying with at least 3 NOW (or so I’m told)”
By Tony Attwood In the first of Andrew’s two articles today the point was made that the title winning teams in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, between them had 39 of the 100 top ranked players in the world. As you might recall nowhere was this more extreme than in Germany where Bayern Munich …
Read More “Does having the best players in your team always bring success?”
By Andrew Crawshaw In the last article we looked at the link between winning the league and having the top defenders in the side. The overall figures gave us the number of top players for the top teams in the league. England France Germany Italy Spain Man City – 8 PSG – 7 Bayern – …
Read More “Attacking players: have the top clubs already mopped up the talent?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes the race is on for one player to be the first man to be signed by the new Arsenal management team. Gone are the days in which the media bemoaned how Arsenal were not going to sign anyone, and how Arsenal was too slow and Wenger too mean to pay …
Read More “Arsenal about to make the first Emery signing, and it is certain to be one of these…”
I am aware that some correspondents are finding their comments put into moderation, even though they have been commenting unhindered on Untold for a long time. I think it might be something to do with the new arrangements put in place as a result of the advent of GDPR in Europe, and I am trying …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. So now we know. Or at least we think we know. Or at least some people are saying, the first transfer of the New Era will be Sokratis Papastathopoulos and he will cost £16m from Borussia Dortmund. He’s 29. Quite why Sven Mislintat, the head of recruitment, likes old men we’re …
Read More “Why are Arsenal suddenly getting interested in the older generation of players?”
By Rich Ade-Alao If I may answer the question in the headline, they are not acceptable. A malicious tackle is crude, classless, and an untrue reflection of the game the fans or neutral fans would wish to watch. If real football with true talents and full passion is going to be salvaged from the imminent …
Read More “To What Extent Should Malicious Tackles Be Accepted As Part Of The Game.”
