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, still in Australia. Of course they would have to wait until I was in Australia to get back to form, but I’d settle for a fine win against a Milan team that has improved greatly of late, even if I was on the outer moon of Pluto – which incidentally I am …
Read More “It’s all too easy to be a fan after a win. It’s being a fan ALWAYS that really counts”
by Bulldog Drummond Milan has multiple attractions: the San Siro stadium, La Scala, and Cimitero Monumentale di Milano – the cemetery. If I had to nominate which one stays in my memory it would be the latter. If you have ever been there you will know why. If you haven’t, you just can’t imagine what it …
Read More “An away day in Milan: time to pop into the cemetery.”
World Cup 2018 – a focus on the three favourites After suffering through the regularly frustrating four year wait, another World Cup is almost upon us, and it’s time to consider who looks like the most likely candidate to be crowned tournament winners. The World Cup is such a gigantic competition, where even those who …
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By Tony Attwood Recently I read the story that a junior referee was “badly let down” by FA officials after he reported being verbally abused by adult coaches. In this report (one of many of the type) a campaigner for better refereeing reported that Max Ormesher, a 15 year old brave enough to take on refereeing, …
Read More “Why is refereeing in England so different from rest of Europe?”
By Bulldog Drummond Milan have had a resurgence of late and after an unbeaten run lie seventh, just outside next season’s Europa positions… # Team Pl W D L F A GD Pts 1 Napoli 27 22 3 2 62 19 43 69 2 Juventus 26 22 2 2 63 15 48 68 3 Roma …
Read More “Milan v Arsenal. What it is like under new management?”
By Tony Attwood It has taken one hell of a time to reach a decision, but it looks like a decision is almost there. And it is a decision of importance, because it will tell us whether The City Group – the conglomeration of clubs across the world that includes Manchester City, New York City, …
Read More “Who exactly controls law and order in world football? We might be about to find out.”
By Tony Attwood Just how low do you need to go, how many tall tales do you need to tell, how many downright lies do you need to publish, in order to knock Arsenal? These are not the questions most people interested in the club are asking, but even so they are indeed questions that …
Read More “How to invent history: blog uses disgraceful tactics to undermine Arsenal”
By Sir Hardly Anyone I’m certainly not going to turn Untold into a political forum, but if you can spare me one minute I’d like to show you what to me is an interesting parallel. So if you don’t have a minute to spare, and can’t bare to read anything other than football for the …
By Jerry Jones The Gunners have spent £105m this season on two centre-forwards of real world-class quality. Alexandre Lacazette finally secured his move abroad after leaving Lyon in the summer, before being joined by Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in January. The only issue now is how to get the best from both players at the same …
Read More “Can Wenger fit two world-class strikers into one effective first eleven?”
By Tony Attwood Watching the newspapers and UK media outlets discuss VAR while I am in Australia has been illuminating to say the least. Two days go the BBC announced that the Premier League clubs were not expected to announce that VAR is being introduced next season. The next day the Daily Express announced that …
By Tony Attwood My headline above is not meant to suggest that I think there is a conspiracy of some kind – I certainly don’t think that people are plotting in dark corners how to attack Arsenal, how to undermine the club, how to do damage to its manager or anything like that. …
Read More “Arsenal’s decline offers a real chance to see what’s going on”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have played Brighton just 16 times across the centuries, so for once I can give the complete run down. Date Match Result Score Competition 12 Jan 1935 Brighton and Hove v Arsenal W 0-2 FA Cup 18 Aug 1979 Brighton and Hove v Arsenal W 0-4 Division One 30 Oct 1979 …
Read More “Brighton v Arsenal: the games gone by and the team today”
By Sir Hardly Anyone The media always knows when it is on to a winner, and that is certainly the mood at the moment with the feeling that with enough pressure Arsenal can be laid to waste in such a bad state that it will take a decade for the club to recover. This is …
Read More “Who believes he could outsmart the media and become the next Arsenal manager?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone We’ve had one clear piece of proof of the imaginary nature of transfers for quite some time, after discovering that if all the transfer rumours of the summer are added together then it turns out that only three in every 100 rumours actually manifests itself in a transfer. A figure that …
Read More “Why in terms of Arsenal, the transfer rumour has become a thing of the past.”
By Tony Attwood When the media en mass ignores a particular point of view (such as the one that asks why our refereeing system is so secretive, and is organised in a way that is different from most of the rest of Europe) I am on safe ground. I know where I stand. For …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. These are indeed tough days for the media as they desperately try to find more and more problems that are inherent in Arsenal. Take for example 1: The huge problem that scuppers everything or doesn’t depending on forgetting what you said last time around. The Star tells us that Arsenal want THREE …
Read More “Arsenal in confusion. No money and the canon has come loose.”
Into by Tony Attwood I left England as the Beast from the East was a few scattered snow showers, the motorways were clear and there was no disruption to air traffic. I’ve read there might be a threat of disruption to this game – you’ll know better than I since I’m about as far from …
Read More “Arsenal v Man City: the comparison of results and the teams”
By Tony Attwood And now, something of a first. This little piece comes from Seoul, Korea, as I await a flight south. I know it’s a first because although I generally write as I travel I ain’t been to Korea before so it must be a first. (Just checked, yes it’s Wednesday, so it is …
Read More “A howling comes across the sky. Reworking the past and laughing at Arsenal fans.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Interesting note from Tony, who is at Heathrow airport awaiting his plane. Apparently the Virgin Media internet connection has barred Untold from public viewing throughout Heathrow Airport as not being suitable for those passing through the airport. Anyway, he’s smuggled a note to me, asking me to take over for a …
Read More “Why Thierry Henry won’t get the Arsenal manager’s job”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Three sections are now up and running in our list of summer transfers as highlighted by the ever accurate national media and their hangers on. First off we have the incoming manager section which is today dominated by a Daily Mail list of four, now reproduced on several other sites… Brendan …
Read More “The complete amazing Arsenal transfer news including the new manager & 32 players”
By Tony Attwood So now we know two things. First, most removals of managers by league clubs in all four divisions result in failure to improve and instead result in another manager and another. That we’ve known for a long old time and this season just proves it. Indeed even where vast amounts of money …
Read More “At least when Mr Wenger goes we won’t have a complete change of backroom staff.”
by Tony Attwood It’s fairly clear that the concept of asking the question of “why and how is it helpful to the club for fans to join with the media and the anti-Arsenal gangs in criticising the manager or the players?” is one that does not take the debate any further forward, most of the …
Read More “Turning the remorseless criticism of Arsenal to the club’s advantage”
By Bulldog Drummond So let’s have the big big news from the Daily Star to begin with… David Ospina reveals big Arsenal dressing room change following Olivier Giroud’s departure This piece tells us that Oooooospina is now “the designated dressing room disc jockey.” Also, we are told he is the “tune selector”. But perhaps not as …
By Bulldog Drummond I was just doing my usual meander around the history of the Arsenal v Manchester City fixture and was looking up the runs of matches on the usually very accurate 11v11 web site when I noticed something rather strange. They quite rightly have the first game between the two clubs listed as …
Read More “Arsenal play Man City again but this time we will have a goal keeper”
By Tony Attwood We published yesterday two little pieces that in essence asked why criticising the manager and players was a good thing to do. Many answers came back to the effect that the performance of players and manager against Osterstunds was awful. If you see that there is a non sequitur there, then you …
Read More “With Arsenal logic and communication become more and more remembrances of times past.”
