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 It was only a few weeks ago that Arsène Wenger suggested that a European Super League was on the way. In saying that he made the point that one way for the Premier League to respond might be to cut itself to 16 teams. That would leave Manchester City as champions for …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone The news that is being splashed around is that Arteta will get the Arsenal manager job and will invite Santi Cazorla to be his assistant. Meanwhile the ever knowledgeable Arsenal Youth website gives us a list of the youngsters likely to be let go. These includes Aaron Eyoma Chiori Johnson, Jay …
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Lacazette Can Use Arsenal Form to Fire France to World Cup Glory “Alexander Lacazette” by Chelsea Debs (CC BY-SA 2.0) The World Cup this summer will feature many Arsenal players and the one that looks to have the best chance of winning the World Cup appears to be Alexander Lacazette. He has been in …
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By Tony Attwood Transfer rumours concerning Arsenal have been continuing apace since Arsene Wenger announced he was leaving at the end of the season, without any question being raised about who the new manager is and what he wants. If that is actually happening it is a major change of policy for the club, and …
By Tony Attwood It is fashionable these days to pick on a player, describe him as useless and then say the manager is an idiot for playing him. When TV, blogs, radio and newspaper columnists all join in, the opinion becomes the truth, and it can take quite a bit of individual analysis and determination …
by Tony Attwood Of course not everyone buys into the remourceless rampant low-level abuse this club suffers on a daily basis. David Wagnar of Huddersfield Town, for example, said of Mr Wenger, “I can’t imagine that this can happen again, so this only shows he has done something extraordinary. Words don’t describe enough how big …
Read More “Mr Wenger’s final farewell. Our last match preview with Mr Wenger in charge.”
By Tony Attwood Thus we approach the end of days: the very last Wengerian game. Let’s see where he left the injury list # TEAM No. down Last man fallen What he done 1 Watford 9 A Gray Knock 2 Leicester City 9 D Simpson Groin Injury 3 Everton 7 W Rooney Knee Injury 4 …
by Tony Attwood We’ve played Huddersfield Town 75 times so far, and beaten them 34 times, drawn 25 and lost 16. Of course the most interesting historic period is what happened when Herbert Chapman left Huddersfield and came to Arsenal as manager in 1925. Chapman managed Huddersfield from 1 February 1921 until the summer of …
Read More “Huddersfield v Arsenal. How the Huddersfield manager transformed Arsenal.”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Here’s a nice one to start with… “For 22 years, what this guy has done not just for Arsenal, but for English football, people should remember. I think they came to a moment where people just want to see someone else. It’s not a matter of if you win the Europa …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone and R.E. Ports. The team of intrepid opinionators at Sky Sports have told us that Arsenal need to replace the entire team if the club want to escape relegation next season, which makes Craig Burley seem positively modest in believing that that Arsenal need to sign just six new players this …
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By Tony Attwood It was a sad way to say a personal farewell to watching Arsenal coached by Arsène Wenger last night, but even so I’m glad I went to see just one more Wenger game and reflect back on 22 years of the Wenger teams I’ve watched. And indeed to try and remember what …
Read More “Farewell Arsène; that was my last match with you. I sure am going to miss you.”
By Bulldog Drummond So we’re off to Leicester tomorrow for our own personal final farewell to Mr Wenger. And this means looking again at the rather gruesome away record we have. It really has been a truly horrible away season, and it must be a great relief all round that Arsenal don’t need to get …
By Tony Attwood In November 2016 we ran the story “Arsenal in November. Exactly how bad are we year after year?” It was a piece that examined one of the regular adages that had become beloved of lazy football journalists – a simple explanation as to why Arsenal are so awful as a football club. …
Read More “The fixture list is fixed: finally a little bit more of the truth comes out.”
By Bulldog Drummond A few of us are lucky and we’re going to at least one of the away games – in our case Leicester City. But for most today is the end of the era, and it is pleasing to note that not every journalist has lost it, themselves, and everything else at this …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley. “English football is losing a beautiful mind”. Jonathan Pearce”
By Bulldog Drummond “Confusion reigns over future of £30m Arsenal target” Thus sayeth Football 365 which adds, “Arsenal are set to beat Bayern Munich to the signing of centre-half Caglar Soyuncu. Or maybe not.” Hence revealing that the confusion which reigns is actually primarily in the minds of those who invent fantasy transfers and indeed most …
By Bulldog Drummond (I know that headline is a bit odd, but just read on to see what nonsense the media is stating today). As we have seen in the last article on the basis of current form and home and away results in the season, this looks like an 3-1 win to Arsenal. The …
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By Bulldog Drummond And so to the final game at home for Mr Wenger with his side in an unfamiliar position. Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester City 35 30 3 2 102 26 76 93 2 Manchester United 36 24 5 7 67 28 39 77 3 Liverpool …
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by Tony Attwood There is a web site I rather like – The Sack Race – which provides details of managers and how often they are sacked. For example they show us that only 11 out of the 20 Premier League managers have been at their club for MORE THAN ONE YEAR. Only eight have …
By Bulldog Drummond And so the negativity and the put downs continue as the media seem to be going on an all out binge to tell anyone who will listen that Arsenal are in terminal decline: “A year long absence can happen to all the giants but a second season would begin to look like …
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By Fishpie In essence, I am somebody who wanted Arsène Wenger to go a few years back. My head told me it was the right time for him to leave but now that time has arrived, I find my heart is reminding me just how much I owe him. Untold, more than any other …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone I suspect, from a reading of the blogs and the runes, that if that axis of evil, the combination of Sky Sports commentators and anti-Wengerian bloggers, who appear to lead most commentary these days, were to be asked who should leave Arsenal this summer along with Mr Wenger, leaving aside the …
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By Tony Attwood As we await the big game on Thursday and all serious transfer talk is on hold until we know who the new manager is going to be we are dealing with scraps from the table. Important scraps but nonetheless not the main news about a) who the manager will be and b) …
By Kirsten A couple of weeks ago, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger announced his decision to leave the club at the end of his 22nd season at the Emirates. The 68-year-old Frenchman is without question the most decorated manager in the history of the club. While he’s reportedly leaving on his own terms, one would imagine …
Read More “Wenger to take time off before making decision on future”
By Sir Hardly Anyone We have no manager for the summer, so logically we can’t do any transfer deals. But then, what has logic got to do with anything in football? Because, at least if you believe the media, Steve Mislintat is out there on his own setting up deals for the next manager. And …
By Tony Attwood I made a prediction a year back that Tottenham would struggle at Wembley this season, on the basis that all teams struggle when they move grounds. And I was completely wrong. They didn’t. So it is with burned fingers that I venture cautiously back into the issue of Tottenham’s new ground. I’ve …
Read More “That pesky business of building a new stadium and the ever rising costs…”
