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 Bulldog Drummond Because for most of their life Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic (now renamed AFC Bournemouth even though they still play in Boscombe) has played in the Third Division (south) and the Division III, the number of games between Arsenal and Bournemouth is small. They joined the Football from the Southern League in 1923, …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal: FFP, scorpions and recent results”
by Bulldog Drummond It seems forever since we had a real match to look forward to, but now we do, and we can return to the issue of home and away form. This is not an absolute way of predicting results but it certainly can work – and seems to work as well as, if …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal, predictions based on the home and away form.”
By Bulldog Drummond. So what’s new? Arsenal do not have the worst starts of any team in Premier League games this season, contrary to some suggestions. In fact if we take the first 30 minutes as the “start” there are three teams who do worse than us: Man U, Wolverhampton and Leicester. In the middle …
Read More “Are Arsenal the worst openers this season, the foreigners and the injuries”
by Tony Attwood The problem with accepting sponsorship from a state sponsored entity, when the state is a dictatorship and human rights denier are obvious, and we have touched on them many times before. Untold tended to call the stadium the Ems (which was the name of a sandwich bar on East Midlands Trains) and …
Read More “Arsenal’s sponsorship deal with the Emirates was bound to explode one day”
By Tony Attwood Jordi Osei-Tutu, our 20 year old defender, who first grabbed attention in the pre-season games this past summer but who then got an injury, is back playing, and has been training with the first team. Other youngsters who have been signed up include Charlie Gilmour who has been playing with the under …
Read More “Arsenal youngsters join three old timers in training but one absentee is noticeable”
By Tony Attwood It is quite hard to remember an interlull that had so much happening on the football front. We have had the new president of Uefa and some clubs unhappy with Manchester City over the way they were able to spend the money they did, Fifa unhappy with Chelsea and Manchester City and …
Read More “The FA is trying to impose a major shift in the Home Grown regulations”
By Tony Attwood Well actually I don’t know what the headline proves, other than the fact that even with my devotion to statistics, I too can find stats that don’t actually tell me much. The same set of figures (from the Guardian) tell us that it is the centre backs who do the least running …
Read More “Arsenal have run further than any other PL team this season. And this proves that…”
by Tony Attwood It is certainly not the most well-followed trophy among those that Arsenal are engaged in, but it is there, the fifth competition on the agenda, and having seen one of our games thus far I can confirm for those who do go, it is good fun. For below the Permier League, FA …
Read More “Zelalem returns as Arsenal progress and the Man U game that never was (but was paid for)”
By Tony Attwood There is a strange stat that truly is worth of Ron Manager doing the rounds to the effect that Arsenal hasn’t been ahead at half time this season in the League. In a Sky Sport piece that is titled “Your PL season in a stat” that is the headline story. And yet …
Read More “Crazy stats, junk headlines, upcoming youngsters and the return of Ron Manager.”
By Tony Attwood Many objections have been raised, mostly but not exclusively by supporters of Manchester City, to our coverage of Financial Fair Play, which has been our main topic of conversation during this period without any men’s football (although it has been wonderful to see how great the women’s team has become – boosted …
Read More “Is FFP legal or could it be challenged in the European courts?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It seems we live in interesting times, and as the Chinese saying would have i,t that is not always a good thing. For we are told by those who claim to be in the know that Manchester City are getting close to being given a one-year transfer ban from Fifa. This …
Read More “The unsavoury face of youth transfers raises its head. Enquiries are being made.”
by Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychologist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. As regular readers will know I am usually called in when we have a spate of mind readers writing to the site telling anyone who cares to read just what someone else is thinking. Checking with the …
Read More “Tottenham advertising stopped, new delays, Arsenal bribery allegations”
by Tony Attwood Breakaways, breakaways, everywhere we look are breakaways. But not it seems involving Arsenal. Arsenal has become the first (or if I missed it while arguing with Man City fans, one of the first) clubs to put out a statement saying that they are not interested in the notion of the European Super …
Read More “Arsenal not interested in Euro league but there is a breakaway brewing”
by Tony Attwood A while back I saw a survey on why some people in the UK voted to leave the EU. As we all know, fewer than half the electorate voted to leave the EU, although just over half of all those voting did vote Leave and that is taken as the definitive statement. …
Read More “Football after the UK leaves the EU. The FA remains in total denial of the research.”
by Sir Hardly Anyone These days, even when the news report seems to have some semblance of reality within it, and comes from a decent enough source, the headline invariably has to be written to give a different impression. Take for example this headline from This is Futbol: “BBC expert: Arsenal have tabled loan-to-buy offer …
Read More “Football headlines and the strange stories that follow them. (The two are not connected)”
By Tony Attwood The Manchester Evening News has evolved a staunch defence of Manchester City in an article under the headline “Man City Football Leaks revelations are missing a key piece of information” The article is by Stuart Brennan who is best known to many of us who watch the ducking and diving of journalists …
Read More “A defence of Manchester City appears in the press, and it is very worrying”
By Sir Hardly Anyone One story says that Arsenal are losing money (largely because of two seasons out of the Champions League), and the owner has no intention of putting any extra money in to fund further purchases. A second story says we are buying everyone imaginable. In the midst of all that we have …
Read More “The 7 top players Arsenal are signing this January (you can count them).”
By Tony Attwood There is a simple point at the heart of the scandals and allegations so far and that is that Man City and PSG, according to the released documents, have broken Uefa rules and threatened to elminiate Uefa from the landscape unless Uefa is complicit in covering up the affair. And while we …
Read More “And now another major set of football allegations. Who’d have thought it?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Two interesting tales emerging this day: one that Fulham asked Mr Wenger if he fancied being the manager and the other, positive sounds from Reiss Nelson. Plus a load of tattle and some tittle, which I will come to in a mo. To take your Reiss first, I was fearing that …
Read More “Reiss Nelson looks to Arsenal return, Arsene Wenger turned down Fulham”
By Tony Attwood There is a lot being said and written about Unai Emery and the changes he is making to Arsenal in relation to the style of play and his methods of training. And of course the result of this so far – as with the way the team doesn’t score in the …
Read More “What are our chances of getting top four this season?”
by Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold for a while you may well have picked up on the fact that one of our bêtes noires is the Football Association, largely because of its willingness to spend public money without accounting to the taxpayers who give it, while ignoring the fact that the House of …
Read More “How much money raised by the FA in the names of charities goes to charities?”
By Tony Attwood The Premier League has said it will take action in the Manchester City case if any of its rules have been broken. Uefa (now under new management since the Manchester City scandal was initiated) has said that it could go back and look again at the 2014 FFP investigation. This is a …
Read More “The whole football system seems to exist only to protect and enlarge itself”
by Tony Attwood Let’s open with a nice piece of news: Reiss Nelson has scored six Bundesliga goals this season. No non-German player has ever reached six Bundesliga goals at a younger age. Actually it wasn’t a bad weekend for our loanees: Matt Macey played for Plymouth as they won 1-0, David Ospina played for Napoli …
by Tony Attwood According to Amnesty International, Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi owners are “brazenly trying to “sportswash” their country’s “deeply tarnished image” by pouring money into the Premier League club.” And indeed given the level of support that Manchester City has, their success in the league, and the utter reluctance or perhaps inability of any …
Read More “Renaming Manchester City to make it sound more in keeping with its sponsors’ activities”
Arsenal Women’s Nobbs wins October Women’s PFA Bristol Street Motors Fans’ Player of the Month Award Arsenal Women FC’s Jordan Nobbs has been voted the October Women’s PFA Bristol Street Motors Fans’ Player of the Month by football fans across the country. In a tightly-contested vote, run by fan engagement experts Snack Media, the England …
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