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 Sir Hardly Anyone Here is the list of all the Incoming Players for the summer of 2018. Yes we are almost halfway to our target of 110 transfers and the transfer window hasn’t even creaked open yet. Amazing! Here’s the list No. Player From Source Information 1 Yacine Adli PSG Sport Review. Talk Sport …
Read More “51 players tipped to be joining Arsenal this summer. We’re almost half way there.”
By Chayasai . Mesut Ozil , Lacazette , Aubemeyang and Mkhitaryan . Without these four world class players , Arsenal would have been competing with West Brom as to which one of them, in the 2017-18 EPL, would be the first to fall into the Championship. This was the first thought that came to …
By Tony Attwood So the downside is that Mkhitaryan is out for Sunday and the upside is that Ramsey scores goals of quality in important games – although I think we knew that from the FA Cup Final. But as I was driving home last night I thought of something different; of how complex running …
Read More “Reducing football to simplicity says more about those who do it than about football”
By Bulldog Drummond Speaking of the position of Lacazette Mr Wenger confirmed that he felt the club was ready to see the best of him, “because I realise now that he was not himself for a while. That explains why his goals dried out. He was always adamant – ‘I’m OK, I’m OK’ – but …
Read More “Arsenal vs CSKA Moscow: the final roundup and the teams.”
by Tony Attwood The issue of a club being responsible for the behaviour of its fans is one that has been debated by Arsenal and its supporters since the early days of Arsenal as a league club, for as you will know if you follow the reports and anniversary series published by the AISA Arsenal …
By Bulldog Drummond We have risen dramatically up the injury table since I last reported on it… # TEAM How many down Last man to fall What he done 1 Crystal Palace 9 C Wickham Groin Strain 2 West Ham United 8 J Hernandez Illness 3 Watford 7 M Britos Illness 4 Everton 6 I …
Read More “The Russians are coming: and thoughts on the intellectually challenged gym teacher.”
By Bulldog Drummond It seems that a home game cannot come along without there being an in-depth enquiry into the number of people who actually attend, with bloggettas constantly putting up complaints about the “laughable” number of tickets sold – even though there is not the slightest bit of evidence that this number of false. …
Read More “What will the Moscow fans be like, where are the fans, and what counts as success”
By Bulldog Drummond Undoubtedly the best place to start any preview of this game is with the wonderful Calvert Journal which opens its review of Russian football thus: Despite breakneck “Europeanisation”, Russian football hasn’t lost its trademark authenticity: managers still struggle to string words together at press conferences; no one knows any foreign languages, even …
Read More “How have CSKA Moscow been doing of late? And “Give us a P””
By Tony Attwood Suddenly it seems Chelsea is in total chaos and crisis (according to the media, not according to me that is) because (oh my goodness they have just realised) if Chelsea don’t make it into the Champions League that will reduce their income. Now of course Chelsea have had this sort of thing …
By Sir Hardly Anyone At least you shouldn’t believe them because as the last two summers have shown only one in 33 of all such rumours is true and we’ve only got eight here. But still, there ain’t much other news around so let’s do a quick round up. 1: Max Meyer Max is reportedly …
Read More “8 Astoundingly astounding transfer stories you really shouldn’t believe unless paid to.”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychologist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. There are some jolly headlines around on a day which is a public holiday in England, and thus a day without too much news. The Telegraph has “Tottenham would have been reduced to nine men with VAR” …
Read More “Lies, damn lies, and a total lack of concentration and research”
By Tony Attwood “It shows well the state of our society that, when people are generous, we are surprised,” Mr Wenger said after the match. “We are even more surprised when it is footballers and strikers.” He was speaking about Aubameyang giving up the chance of a hattrick with the final penalty, to help Lacazette …
Read More “A pigeon flies across the sky. Why the media employs vegetables as experts.”
By Tony Attwood Driving back from the match today I heard the Stoke City manager, a Mr P. Lambert, state on BBC radio that the first Arsenal penalty should not have been given because his Stoke player had got the ball. The radio interviewer did not challenge or question this interpretation and his silence on …
By Bulldog Drummond It’s an early start for those of us who live outside London so I am writing this piece quite a few hours before kick off, and thus I may be missing some late breaking news in terms of what sort of team we might put out against Stoke Neanderthals. But still the …
By Bulldog Drummond It seems almost years ago that we had the ceaseless, continuous wild ravings of those who took their lead from the frankly deranged Stewart Robson who ceaselessly claimed that all Arsenal injuries were caused by Arsene Wenger’s training methods. Yet there are still aspects of the media that will give him time and …
Read More “Bizarre news for injury prone Arsenal. What will Steward Robson say?”
by Bulldog Drummond The run against Stoke has not always gone as well as we might have wished… for the last ten games (all in the league) have only yielded six wins, and a draw, when we might well have hoped for more. Date Match Res Score 02 Feb 2013 Arsenal v Stoke City W …
By Bulldog Drummond I must admit that I have never once understood how people at Stoke City can boo Aaron Ramsey for “getting himself injured” as I have heard some of them put it. It is something so incomprehensible to me that I can only continue to see those Stoke City supporters who engage …
By Tony Attwood Reputations, like football accounts can be funny things. We’ve had endless arguments on this site about what has happened to the extra money Arsenal have made from having almost paid off the cost of the Emirates Stadium, and why that money hasn’t brought more than the the three FA Cups. Those wins …
Read More “Reputations are not related to reality, but once broken are hard to repair”
By Tony Attwood Are Arsenal’s tickets the most expensive in the Premier League? It is something that is often raised on this site, and I thought it might be time to do one of our regular reports on the issue. If you’ve been with us down this route before you will know that the season …
Read More “Arsenal is not the most expensive ground in the world. Nor even London”
By Tony Attwood Car Thief Week – that regularly returning week in which there are two international matches scheduled for lots of countries, and in which the country managers behave like car thieves who nick your car, run it into the ground and then return it with a demand that you pay for the repairs …
By Sir Hardly Anyone There are all sorts ways of entering the rankings and then become someone who might just make it to the world cup. You can score goals, you can give assists, you can play through balls that no one else in the stadium can see. You can win almost every tackle and every …
Read More “Marvin Plattenhardt: Don’t tell anyone but we think he’s Arsenal’s new left back.”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychologist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. Moaning almost never works. It rarely makes life better. But people still do it, basically because moaning, moaning and moaning again acts psychologically as a way of embedding the notion that “it is not my fault”. It …
Read More “Why Arsenal moaners are, and remain so depressed, while the rest of us are happy.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Interlull news in the UK rarely captures much of the “fun of the fair” type of excitement of normal times, largely because few people in England expect the country to do very much in the WC and Scotland are not there. Nor Wales nor N Ireland. Nor the Isle of Man, …
Read More “Why international football managers are just like car thieves”
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Head of psychiatry at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. Of course not everyone is engaged in crisis talk. The Daily Canon has the headline “Arsene Wenger denies trying to bribe midfielder,” but well, it’s the Canon. However these days they are being rivalled by West Ham’s …
————- By Tony Attwood Bayern Munich thought they had their next coach lined up. But now it seems they don’t. Because although Jupp Heynckes will leave the club in the summer as has been clearly agreed, Thomas Tuchel (the man who was thought to be coming in to replace him) is definitely not going to …
Read More “Arsenal’s next manager puts his head over the parapet”
