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 At the moment there are a lot of people denouncing the Kroenke family who own Arsenal, just as for quite a while there were people around who denounced Mr Wenger for not giving Arsenal more than three FA Cup triumphs since moving to the new stadium. And the angst among some Arsenal …
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By Tony Attwood This is a continuation of our regular update on all the players tipped to be in the pipeline for an Arsenal signing but the tale behind one of them, Lucas Vazquez, has caused a little bit of interest among those who study such matters. And this because if the story is right, …
Read More “If the story about Vazquez to Arsenal is true, transfers are in real trouble”
By Sir Hardly Anyone First thing to say is that this list of men going is nothing unusual for the summer. Quite often in a summer transfer window the media end up claiming that everyone is leaving, with each “outlet” citing someone else as the source, while simultaneously ignoring every other junk rumour that is …
By Tony Attwood There always has to be someone to blame and for a number of years it was Wenger. Wenger out! placards were all over the place, and finally the mob got their way, only to find… it didn’t make any difference. Now you might think people could learn a bit from that, but …
Read More “Boreham Wood v Arsenal: the second half and Kroenke out”
By Tony Attwood Problems with my subscription to the Premier 1 Sports channel meant I missed the first few minutes of the game and by the time I did get a picture Arsenal were 1-0 down. Unhelpfully, the Arsenbal players do not hve names on their shirts so I’m struggling to say who is playing. …
Read More “Boreham Wood v Arsenal live match updates: the first half”
By Tony Attwood There is an argument that says that Arsenal should fill up their stadium for every game of the season, and because there are empty seats around that shows that the club is failing and the owner and management are to blame. In fact in terms of seats that are the argument is …
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By Bulldog Drummond A little confusion is happening in the Bulldog household owing to conflicting information. In terms of watching the match against Boreham Wood on TV today, on Arsenal.com there is only one method signified: by signing up with Premier Sports, who are said to have exclusive coverage of every Arsenal pre-season game. It’s …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Arriving at Arsenal The headline “Arsenal mulling over move for Senegal international Keita Balde” in the Daily Mail does take a new twist on the journo lingo that has been causing us some amusement. “Mulling over” indeed. Not ready to buy, not having bought, not “the deal is on” but just …
Read More “Satire: Arry’s weird view of Arsenal, Aubameyang leaving, Bellerin injured”
By Tony Attwood When Ospina came to Arsenal the fee was modest – £3m was the reported sum, and his contract was for a four year deal. He started off playing in the League Cup (a home defeat to Southampton) and the Champions League (at home to Galatasaray after Wojciech Szczęsny was sent off). Although …
Read More “Farewell Oooooooooooooooooooospina; hello new keeper lineup.”
By Tony Attwood One thing is not a secret, nor even a point of discussion at Arsenal is that there is a lot of mumbling about the owner of the club and his apparent restriction on the transfer budget at a time when Arsenal have been making a profit. In 2016/17 the club made a …
Read More “Arsenal has a secret weapon for 2019/20: but will it be enough to make the top four?”
By Brickfield Gunners Having been an avid reader of this blog form almost from the beginning of its inception ; and also being a very occasional contributor of articles, but a regular commentator here , I have observed first hand the gradual mental decline of many Arsenal fans and the anguish and the utter confusion …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes no less than 72 players have now been tipped by the media to be coming to Arsenal this summer, while 22 have been said to be leaving. Here is Untold Arsenal’s unique list of all the nonsense tips. Our own tip is that by the end of the window only …
by Tony Attwood So Arsenal have made a signing: Gabriel Martinelli. That makes it one out of 72 rumoured signings so far in this transfer window that has come true. A success rate for the rumour mongers of 1.4%. Not that good so far. The original claim that Arsenal was interested came from Yahoo Esportes, …
By Sir Hardly Anyone When we run silly stories we try to say so in the headline (not to mention with the name of the author). But not Football.London who have tricked innocent Arsenal fans into reading their stuff with the tale that “Ismael Bennacer has impressed with Empoli in the season just gone, registering …
Read More “The 15 Arsenal players the media have mentioned in the last 3 days”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Today we hear that Arsenal have offered £40m for Zaha and Palace value him at £90m. And the Daily Express tells us that Ray Parlour “wants Wilfried Zaha over Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as Man Utd eye Gunners ace”. The reason is because Abua is now 30 and so, it seems, of less …
Read More “Zaha: the really worrying side about his move to Arsenal”
by Tony Attwood Here are 10 headlines from stories that all appeared within about two hours of each other. All have strong negative connotations. All are about Arsenal. And I wonder why – why are we getting all these stories (most of which are either untrue or highly convoluted with the clear intent of giving …
Read More “Why is the Arsenal news always so negative, minute after minute, day after day?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone As you may have noticed, the Africa Cup of Nations has begun. A little later than planned, but it has begun. What it means is that those players involved will not be available at the start of the season since they won’t have had a proper summer rest. In this case …
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By Tony Attwood I decided to put in this chart of players in last season’s top six clubs who are already noted as leaving, following some blog comments to the effect that the release of half a dozen players by Arsenal for the grand sum of £3.5m showed how disorganised we are in our long …
Read More “The top six clubs are shedding players. Here’s the chart of who has gone”
Research, analysis and constant hiccups from too much time associating with football journalists by Sir Hardly Anyone. Of whom it has been said. Part 1 of the Transfer List: The Players coming to Arsenal this summer We have six new players announced in the past week, with five others having their rumours updated by the …
Read More “SATIRE: 65 players the media say Arsenal are signing, 20 leaving, 1 new director”
By Sir Hardly Anyone So the season ends and as expected Cech went back to Chelsea. And immediately the blogs were reporting Arsenal fans being annoyed – TBR Football was one of many such sites with this story. But the report came with no sense of irony; irony because many supporters had been saying …
By Tony Attwood “Incompetence” has long been a theme of disenchanted supporters of Arsenal, and the bloggers and journalists who love to encourage their moaning, day after day after day. Arsenal are not just poor at football, they are incompetent at management, recruitment, organisation, training, decision making, pitch maintenance… Take these stories across the past …
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By Tony Attwood I guess for many of us who just go and watch the under 23s occasionally through the season, the appointment of Freddie Ljungberg to first team duties as a coach was a bit of a surprise. Not because Freddie is not a good coach and a man who is totally Arsenal orientated, …
By Tony Attwood If you want to know what the media are saying about Arsenal this summer and have been saying since the end of the season it is simple. We need to buy loads of players – particularly defenders. Indeed Charlie Nicholas, increasingly disjointed from contemporary reality, summarises nicely in the rant reported in …
Read More “Arsenal next season: the story the media refuse to reveal”
From Brickfields Gunners Could Hérold Goulon be Arsenal’s answer for the problematic ‘central spine ‘ in our defensive midfield and center back /positions? Who ? You may well ask. Although Goulon has played before in the English league ,the Frenchman has been mostly plying of his trade in the lower leagues for most of his …
Read More “SATIRE: Could Hérold Goulon be Arsenal’s answer for the problematic ‘central spine’?”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal were a different kettle of fish at home and away from home last season. In fact you may have seen me mention it before. At home Arsenal were the third best team in the league in term of points with a goal scoring difference of +26. Away from home Arsenal were …
Read More “Was the difference between Arsenal’s home and away form really that unusual?”
