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 Yes those rumours just keep on rolling rolling rolling. The Daily Mail, the 19th century newspaper with 18th century attitudes is running the old story that Emery has just £45m to spend, although it could be more if we end up in the top four this season. Wow, haven’t heard that …
Read More “15 transfers to Arsenal this summer and 3 players who are leaving”
By Bulldog Drummond Since the first leg of the Uefa cup tie against Arsenal, Napoli have played one game – a 3-1 away win against Chievo. The result left them in second place in the league Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Juventus 32 27 3 2 65 22 43 84 …
Read More “Napoli v Arsenal: this last weekend, tonight’s team, and as it is Naples, the security”
By Tony Attwood Last night was a moment when anyone listening to BBC Radio 5 would have heard them go apoplectically berserk about Arsenal. Before the game they were saying Arsenal were awful. Terrible. Shocking. After the game by way of variation Arsenal were shocking. Terrible Awful. Oh yes but Emery had made …
Read More “After 33 games, how is Emery doing compared with Wenger? And a media meltdown”
by Bulldog Drummond I am interested to see that finally, after about 2 years of commentary on the subject from Untold Arsenal, some of the media are actually waking up to the fact that the easiest way to think about Arsenal’s next game is to consider whether it is home or away. Of course in …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: media reveal why they haven’t tackled the home/away issue before”
By Tony Attwood Before this season began Untold made a series of predictions as to who would win certain European Leagues. Those predictions were… England: Manchester City Spain: Barcelona Scotland: Celtic Italy: Juventus Germany: Bayern Munich France: PSG My point here was not to suggest that I was particularly clever in coming up with these …
Read More “How are our predictions doing for who will win the top European leagues”
by Sir Hardly Anyone We have done it for the last three years and it gained some interest. Plus it made a point: 97% of all transfer rumours are gook. Not gobbledegook but just plain gook. So can the media johnnies raise their inventive game and get it up to 98% of their tips utterly …
Read More “The great transfer race. 10 players Arsenal already tipped to sign this summer”
by Bulldog Drummond We know that Arsenal results can be more or less predicted by simply looking to see if Arsenal are playing at home or away. So it is worth looking to see if we can gain a similar perspective from Napoli. Here are their last six away games. Date Home team Score Away …
Read More “Arsenal v Napoli: what Napoli have been up to, and the team for tonight”
by Tony Attwood Of course as a regular football supporter who is not a criminologist I can’t give you a definitive answer to that question in the headline. But I can raise a point that I think is sometimes missed in the debate. At the moment racism in football in England is big news. “Resurgent …
Read More “Why we can’t stop racists in football in England?”
By Tony Attwood There is a sponsored article being advertised on one or two newspaper sites which tells the tale of the richest players who have played in the Premier League. These sponsored pieces are generally not very exciting – the whole point is to get you on the site in order to sell something …
Read More “From the beloved Ashley Cole to outraged footie journalists getting all worked up”
By Bulldog Drummond After a poor run of form in January, Everton have picked up of late… Date Game Res Score Competition 02 Feb 2019 Everton v Wolverhampton W L 1-3 Premier League 06 Feb 2019 Everton v Manchester City L 0-2 Premier League 09 Feb 2019 Watford v Everton L 1-0 Premier League 26 …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal: the predictions, the stats and the teams”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal are the most fouled team in the Premier League – by quite a way. At least that is “most fouled” when the count is taken of fouls awarded by the referees. The table that shows this is provided by Footstats.co.uk. I’ll comment a little on the sources of the data in …
Read More “Three of the 15 most fouled players in the League are Arsenal men. Why?”
by Tony Attwood In the last article – Why Arsenal and Tottenham will end up with identical points this season – I started to outline the idea that one can use home and away tables in order to predict final outcomes for the season. Continuing the theme here are the home and away results of …
Read More “How the table will look come the final day of the season”
By Tony Attwood Take a look at Arsenal’s remaining league fixtures and what do you find? Away to Everton, away to Watford, home to Palace, away to Wolverhampton, away to Leicester, home to Brighton, away to Burnley. Nothing too frightening there surely. At least no other top six clubs to worry about. And there is …
Read More “Why Arsenal and Tottenham will end up with identical points this season”
By Tony Attwood (part way through packing for the journey across the world tomorrow) It struck me, peering at the league table from the far side of the planet, just how the league has divided itself into groups in a way that it has not done before. I might be wrong in that memory and …
Read More “What missing out on the top four would mean to Arsenal and the rest”
By Tony Attwood The Guardian newspaper, in common with other British newspapers, is not known for criticising referees, obeying, as it does, the dictates of PGMO that commentary on referee errors should be kept to a minimum and always considered as individual referee mistakes. Analyses of how many “errors” referees make, and what types of …
Read More “When the media comments on a referee BEFORE a match maybe things are changing”
By Tony Attwood This is going to be another match I’ll miss what with being in Australia for a few more days before flying home. But of course it is still possible to see how our prediction system of analysing the home and away performance of each club comes up with a result. And it …
Read More “Arsenal v Newcastle Utd: the prediction based on this season’s analyses.”
By Tony Attwood In terms of reporting on football, by and large I doubt that anyone has much expectation that we will ever be better informed about what is actually going on than we are now. Jounalists, bloggers and newspaper editors choose what is and what is not news, and report it in their own …
Read More “How come England are getting better at football all of a sudden”
By Tony Attwood It was on one of my earlier trips to Australia to visit my daughter that I heard the news that Harry Redknapp had been found not guilty in a high profile court case. Now, with myself being in Oz doing the visiting once again I find Arry is also in the news …
Read More “There is no football news – only a choice of stories. Arry the Red and other affairs.”
by Tony Attwood The directors of Dreambox, Dreambox TV Limited, and Digital Switchover Limited, have now been jailed in England for offering illegal access on TV of matches involving Premier League clubs. The League might be feeling a bit jolly about that, but is perhaps less happy knowing that BeoutQ is still broadcasting Premier League …
Read More “When you deal with countries with different values, you can expect different values.”
By Tony Attwood I have written many times before about the child sex abuse scandals in English football, and my dismay at the way that the media has been handling them. If you want a quick re-run there is an article at https://untold-arsenal.com/archives/61818 – there have been a fair number since. Football doesn’t want …
Read More “Why are the scandals involving football so often removed from most of the media?”
By Tony Attwood When I see the words “super computer” used in a football blog I tend to shy away from the report, simply because I have no idea what “super computer” means in terms of anything, let alone football. I mean, the little laptop I am using to write this while in Australia is about 1000 …
Read More “Computer predicts final league placings, but how good is the computer?”
By Tony Attwood Following Arsenal from the far side of the world (Sydney, Australia to be precise) is something of an odd affair. The games don’t appear to be shown live (at least not in the bars that I can find) and anyway does one really want to follow football in the middle of the …
Read More “Arsenal and Napoli: it is going to be very close in the Europa League”
By Tony Attwood If you have been with us for a year or more you may recall that each spring I take a break from UK and head to the other side of the world wherein lives one of my daughters. Depending on all sorts of complexities which I won’t bore you it can be …
By Tony Attwood I am about to toddle off to the other side of the world so I may not be able to clear all the comments that come in – more on that in the next post. But first here is a little thought that popped into my head. Mr Emery is mostly very …
Read More “The curious issue of what managers say about their players”
By Tony Attwood “This topsy-turvy season continues to confound,” says the Guardian in an article today in relation to Arsenal. Which I’d say isnt really totally accurate. For the last couple of years we’ve been focussing on the difference between Arsenal’s home and away form, and for quite a few games making predictions of matches …
Read More “Arsenal continue to confound: it is not Arsenal that is in chaos.”
