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 There was a general feeling of disappointment following the draw with Tottenham last weekend, obviously so given the nature of the Tottenham goal and the missed penalty at the end. But if we look at Arsenal’s recent record in the league, things are not too bad Date Game Res Score 19 Jan …
Read More “Arsenal’s form: we’re closer to the top four than you might think”
Here’s a quick run down of how Rennes are doing in recent matches Date Competition Home Score Away 14/02/19 Europa Rennes 3 – 3 Real Betis 17/02/19 League Reims 2 – 0 Rennes 21/02/19 Europa Real Betis 1 – 3 Rennes 24/02/19 League Rennes 1 – 1 Olympique Mars… 27/02/19 Cup Rennes 2 – 0 …
By Sir Hardly Anyone As a rule, the football journalist doesn’t do anything which might be considered by the general population to be related to the concept widely known as “thinking” during the hours of daylight. Upon waking he or she will stroll to his or her favourite public house, order up a few short …
Read More “Pub talk: Stoke imitate Arsenal, the summer window shuts, Petit lashes out.”
By Tony Attwood The Daily Mirror is today publishing a story about Denis Suarez which makes particularly interesting reading. I am most grateful to my pal Steve who sits next to me at Arsenal Stadium for picking up on this story and alerting me to it today. The story attempts to get to grips with …
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By Tony Attwood There is an interesting paragraph in a report on the Tottenham v Arsenal match in the Daily Telegraph website that says “There were a number of contentious incidents with replays showing Harry Kane was offside in the moments before Skhodran Mustafi barged him over for Spurs’ second half penalty. The referee Taylor …
Read More “We get every statistic imaginable about players, but why no stats about referees?”
By Bulldog Drummond On 8 February Arsenal were ten points behind Tottenham. A win in this game would leave us just one point behind them. In terms of injuries both Koscielny and Lichsteiner are thought to have a chance of being available for selection for the Tottenham match. Otherwise it is just our three long …
Read More “Tottenham v Arsenal; the injuries, the media picks the team and recent runs.”
By Bulldog Drummond The key issue we have been debating of late, of course, is the home / away difference, and it is particularly interesting in relation to this game. Here’s the home league table… Home games only Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester City 15 14 0 1 50 …
Read More “Tottenham Nomads v Arsenal; what the statistics tell us.”
By Tony Attwood The fact that there is nothing wrong with Arsenal as a team is not something that you will read in many publications. What you will see over and over again is that there is something wrong with Arsenal as the main theme, and things need to be changed. But, let me take …
Read More “The dramatic decline in Arsenal’s away form and what we can do about it”
By Tony Attwood In the affterglow of last night’s lovely victory for Arsenal, I want to turn to something different, not because I didn’t enjoy last night, but because this is Untold, and we like to cover stories no one else will cover. And what we consider here is a perfect example of the creation …
Read More “Another serious misuse of football statistics by those who should know better”
By Bulldog Drummond The key thinking ahead of this game as far as the media is concerned – or at least the media that bother to look at such things – is that Bournemouth have a host of injuries and Arsenal don’t. There’s not too much on exactly how this is going to help Arsenal, …
Read More “Arsenal v Bournemouth: team selections from around the media and the form guide”
by Bulldog Drummond The good news is that this is a home game – not just so that we can go and see it, but also because we can go into the game with a really good track record at home… Home games only Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 …
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By Tony Attwood The central question is a simple one: are we doing any better this under Mr Emery than previously under Mr Wenger? The reason for asking is that the campaign to oust Mr Wenger was also very simple, consisting just of the message, “Wenger Out”. It didn’t talk about how much money might …
Read More “How are Arsenal doing this season compared to previous years?”
By Bulldog Drummond As we all remember, I am sure, it was a defeat away to Southampton that started Arsenal on the downward turn earlier in the season after the unbeaten run. Here is what has happened from the last Southampton match onwards Date Game (all PL except as marked) Res Score 16 Dec 2018 …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton: three versions of the teams and what’s happened lately”
By Tony Attwood So the word is that Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo known to us ordinary folk on Monchi, is going to be our new technical director. He is Spanish, so can talk to our manager, is 50 years old, and played in goal being one of those goal keepers who spent most of his time playing …
Read More “Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo to Arsenal. What will it mean, and will it work”
By Tony Attwood We’ve been here before, and before and before: the issue of the transfers of young players, and the way English clubs treat them. There have been warnings and fines for several clubs over time – Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City – I won’t go through it all again, as we have covered …
By Bulldog Drummond OK – three possible outcomes tonight… 1: We win easily and go through without any worries This implies a couple of early goals and then a third which means that even if an away goal emerged, it would be of no immediate significance. The reaction from the media would be Arsenal scrape …
Read More “Arsenal v BATE: three possible outcomes – and the reactions that will follow”
By Tony Attwood There is an article in the Daily Star which basically says that if Arsenal do not get off to a good start next season, supporters will be calling for the manager to be sacked. I don’t know if that is true at any level. A terrific run this season, after the …
Read More “Will Arsenal fans turn on Emery if next season starts badly?”
Sir Hardly Anyone takes a look at the latest gibberings from the media. Steve Sidwell says he is shocked at how events have unfolded at Arsenal since he left the club, with the expected progress having never materialised. That is interesting since after he left the club, Arsenal had an unbeaten season while winning the …
Read More “Arsenal a selling club, Freddie backs Eddie, next season’s team, Tottenham’s nickname”
by Bulldog Drummond Since the run of unbeaten games ended at Southampton on 16 December Arsenal have played 14 games. Seven have been lost, six have been won and just one has been a draw. Date Game Res Score Competition 16 Dec 2018 Southampton v Arsenal L 3-2 Premier League 19 Dec 2018 Arsenal v …
by Tony Attwood We have a national curriculum in schools in England which sets out the subjects all students have to study up to the age of 16. In that list of subjects is “science.” Now if you were taught science reasonably well, you might recall that included in that subject is something called “the …
Read More “Why won’t the media ever investigate the cause of referee errors?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the key things to remember with football blogs is that a number of correspondents who, well, not to put too fine a point on it “correspond” with the blog, don’t actually read the series of articles on which they are commenting (nor even all of the most recent) as …
Read More “Sir Hardly Anyone’s update on Arsenal’s director of football quest and other tales”
By Tony Attwood We’ve been looking at different aspects of the new reign of Mr Emery at Arsenal and trying to see where it leads. Articles thus far include How to kill a player: the issues of Ozil So should we be supporting Emery, given the way things are going? Is Mr Emery getting …
by Tony Attwood I suspect that anyone who was present when Patrick Vieira came on as a substitute for his first appearance for Arsenal at Highbury, will never forget the moment. Young and inexperienced though he was, and with his manager on the other side of the world still working in Japan, and with a …
Read More “Is Mr Emery the right man for the job? The worrying signs…”
by Tony Attwood Yesterday Walter in his article How to kill a player raised the issue of how the club is treating Ozil, which itself raises the question, how does the issue of Ozil fit with our long-running banner headline “supporting the club the manager and the team.” It’s something I have been becoming increasingly uncomfortable …
Read More “Is Mr Emery getting Arsenal right, or is he leading us down the wrong path?”
by Blacksheep Hello everybody, I doubt you’ve missed me but it has been a very long time since I wrote anything for Untold. This is mostly because I’ve been busy writing non-football stuff but also because I’ve not really had anything to say. Like Tony I was initially quite encouraged by the recruitment of Unai …
Read More “So should we be supporting Emery, given the way things are going?”
