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 According to the banners and the chants when Mr Wenger left and a new manager was found the fans wanted and expected to get “our Arsenal back”. Quite what that Arsenal was, was never made clear, but the chants of the away support at Fulham suggested that was the Arsenal they wanted …
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by Bulldog Drummond Mr Emery has been talking about the evolution of Arsenal under him and the way in which the game against Liverpool showed the direction he was taking the club in terms of the power within the team. “Our idea is to repeat matches with this pace over 90 minutes,” he said. “It …
Read More “Arsenal v Wolverhampton team news and the need to avoid corners”
By Bulldog Drummond The terrible injury to Danny Welbeck has highlighted another aspect to the growth in players running down their contracts. Danny, like Ramsey and Cech will be free to leave the club this summer and find themselves a new club to play for. But of course if the player gets a serious career …
Read More “Arsenal v Wolverhampton and what to do after Danny’s injury”
By Bulldog Drummond As we saw against Crystal Palace analayses of home and away team performances don’t give an exact indication of how a match will go, but over time we have found they are one of the very best ways of making predicitons, and are more often right than wrong. So despite the failure …
By Bulldog Drummond As we saw in Gordon’s super-analysis of referee actions earlier this week, Arsenal have inflicted the need for treatment on the opposition 11 times this season while Wolverhampton have inflicted the need for treatment on opposition players 5 times. So we shouldn’t have too much worry about fouls from them resulting in …
Read More “Which teams are benefitting most from referee decision making this season?”
By Bulldog Drummond Only one place to start the preview series for the Wolverhampton game and that is with injuries; we are virtually top of the list. Danny is of course the latest to go on the list – details from Physioroom as always. Who? What? Back? So? Playing? Welbeck Ankle Injury No Date “Significant …
Read More “Danny’s out, but how does that affect our immediate chances?”
By Tony Attwood At the heart of the story that has been revealed by the hacking of emails concerning Financial Fair Play, Manchester City, PSG and Uefa, is the involvement of Gianni Infantino who is now the head of Fifa. It is a story that many, I suspect, will choose not to believe. But before …
Read More “How Infantino, now head of Fifa, fixed FFP on behalf of PSG and Man City.”
Game Day 12 – The Rememberance Day weekend. by Gordon Haverland Largely in rememberance of WWI and WWII. Matic has memories of a Balkin war that bothers him. Game Day 12 takes place over 2 physical days (Saturday and Sunday). On Saturday there is one early game, 4 games running in the middle time slot, …
Read More “Which clubs inflict the need for treatment on others, the most? The weekend fixtures.”
By Bulldog Drummond Time to confess to an error – if Arsenal do win tonight they will win the group, because Europa league groups are decided on head to head results if points are equal. Really, I did know that but somehow, completely forgot when writing the last piece. And yes if you’d like to …
By Tony Attwood There is so much pouring out from the leaked documents concerning Uefa and Manchester City it is getting hard to follow it all. But if we thought the complexity was why a lot of the English media has stopped running the story, we were wrong. The media have been directly complicit …
Read More “How the media was persuaded not to follow Man City / Uefa corruption story”
By Bulldog Drummond To begin with the injuries, we have five of them, while just three teams are above us on six. One of them might not be an injury at all but is normally formally classified as a “slight doubt”. The man What’s up Return? Read all about it Sokratis Ankle Injury November 8 …
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By Bulldog Drummond There are so many stories queuing up for publication at the moment (including one about what the FA does with its charity money, a subject which Untold has been campaigning on for years) that it is hard for me to book a space to do the regular previews. But here we go …
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by Tony Attwood The latest round of suggestions of wrong doing by Manchester City takes us into an area that not only concerns Uefa and Financial Fair Play but also that rather tenacious leg biting dog: Revenue and Customs – the British tax collector – and a complaint from Spain to the EU. It’s all …
Read More “Yet more Man City allegations, Etihad financial problems, La Liga puts complaint to EU”
By Nitram Regarding the debate about the relative spends between Arsenal and Liverpool here they are running from Arsenal’s last Premier League win back in season 2003/04 up until last summer, season 2018/19. I have divided the review into two periods. Basically Arsenal’s 10 years of austerity from season 2003/04 through to season 2012/13. Then …
Read More “The relative spending of Arsenal and Liverpool: across the decades”
By Tony Attwood This article continues from my earlier piece: Did Uefa collude with Man City in an FFP cover up across the last four years? Both articles continue from the investigation we did four years ago which resulted in a series of articles, the last of which was Man City decides to take on Uefa; the …
Read More “FFP, Man City and Uefa. Some of the new allegations that are being reported.”
by Tony Attwood Now here is a turn up. The Untold Arsenal Editorial Board (also known as that bunch in the corner of the Toppled Bollard public house, on the Rutland / Northants border, along with our friends in Switzerland and other exotic places) was very much of the opinion that “Financial Fair Play” …
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By Tony Attwood We have had a number of correspondents object to my view that Liverpool has spent more than Arsenal. Two arguments generally have been raised. One says our spending has been similar, and the other says that even if my claim that Liverpool spent a lot more than Arsenal that would be no …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Apparently it is all known and all sorted. Because Tony Cascarino has claimed Unai Emery will dispense with Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan because they don’t suit the new-look Arsenal. It’s possible although Cascarino has always puzzled me. Being Irish I thought his name should be O’cascarin, but somehow the O got transmuted. …
Read More “Arsenal Transfer News: the weird and wonderful, and the tales of loanees”
by Tony Attwood It is quite hard to draw a breath at the moment what with Arsenal doing quite well and the media besides themselves trying to bury their Arsenal visions of the summer and forget everything they previously said. And indeed as the top teams apparently consider a breakaway, and the British government tries …
Read More “How the superleague is being presented, and Koscielny to Barcleona”
By Tony Attwood Paul Merson has, in recent weeks, become ever more frantic on Sky Sports, telling anyone who would listen that Arsenal are a complete shambles and that Liverpool would beat Arsenal by scoring at least four goals. This statement on last weekend’s Sky TV presentation was made amidst an outpouring that was one …
Read More “If Merson had any level of integrity he would now immediately resign”
by Bulldog Drummond In the run up to the match today it is nice to see some commentators finally getting to grips with Aubameyang. You will recall that during the time of the signing itself we were treated to article after article about how badly behaved he was and by implication that this was going …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool: that Auba magic is just what we need”
By Bulldog Drummond Before we start, sad news about Nicklas Bendtner. A player of great potential (in my opinion) but with a very troubled personality, has apparently been convicted of assaulting a taxi driver and sentenced to 50 days in jail. He has appealed and is thus out of release pending the hearing. Nicklas plays …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool; injuries and past matches, plus Nic Bendtner”
By Tony Attwood According to Der Spiegel Arsenal has been invited to be a founding members of a new European Super League which will launch in 2021. Of the other PL clubs that gained a place in European competitions this season, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City are also invited, but Tottenham Hotspur and …
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by Bulldog Drummond Liverpool’s away form this season is (given that like Manchester City they have powered away at the top of the league) iobviously very good. They have won four and drawn one. Eight goals scored and three conceded. Arsenal’s home form thus far is won four lost one. Ten goals scored, four conceded. …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool. How to spend lots of money and not win trophies.”
By Tony Attwood We have been pondering whether there are any regulations at all in the Premier League about the quality of the pitches the PL matches should be played on. Judging by Tottenham’s game against Manchester City the answer is an extremely big “no”. You can play on gravel if you like. Or sand. …
Read More “Uefa takes more care than the Prem Lge, plus more rule changes proposed”
