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 There are some newspaper and blog headlines that are so bonkers it is hard to know if they are deliberately funny or just the result of a bot going haywire. Take this for example Arsenal v Watford preview: Gunners can leapfrog high-flying opponents Now this whole notion of leapfrogging the high-flyers raises …
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By Bulldog Drummoind Here’s a commentary from a newspaper reporter about Arsenal. “Things are not quite clicking with the ball and for now they may have to be grateful for flourishes like Alexandre Lacazette’s super goal against Everton or Granit Xhaka’s free-kick at Newcastle. Watford will hope their run of good fortune does not last; …
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by Bulldog Drummond So let’s have a look at Watford’s flying start that got all the chattering bots chattering away with much excitement. Date Match Res Score Comp 11 Aug 2018 Watford v Brighton and Hove W 2-0 League 19 Aug 2018 Burnley v Watford W 1-3 League 26 Aug 2018 Watford v Crystal Palace …
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By Bulldog Drummond Watford, as you may recall if your long term memory is still functioning in this hyper-active full speed non-stop go-go-go world, started off with a real flourish this season, winning four league matches and a League Cup game all in a row. As they roared towards the top of the league (“roared” …
Read More “After the Bees, the Hornets. Arsenal v Watford and that home and away thing”
By Walter Broeckx As the chairman of Arsenal Belgium supporters club I had the honour of visiting the Arsenal training ground at London Colney. Our liaison person at the club had organised this trip in order to give the official supporters clubs a bit of a bonus for all their hard work. I cannot thank …
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By Tony Attwood Trying to get to Arsenal during a Piccadilly Line strike is fortunately not to hard for us since Blacksheep lives near one of the overground stations on the line into Finsbury Park. But what we did spot which was interesting (if you are a long time Londoner and remember these things), was …
by Bulldog Drummond Sometimes the morning headlines are just so depressingly predictable, it seems impossible to know what to say. Take this morning with the statement “Qatar migrant workers are still being exploited, says Amnesty report. Charity says promised government reforms to ‘kafala’ system have not taken place.” You’d have to be blind and ignorant …
Read More “Arsenal v Brentford: the team, the news from Qatar, and the issue of moving seats”
By Bulldog Drummond Last season as you will recall we toddled through to the final of the league cup and then fell over at a time when we couldn’t win our away games. Playing the billionaire champions at the home of Tottenham Nomads all proved a bit too much. Date Game Res Score 20 Sep …
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Arsenal Women v West Ham – Post match review and a look forward By Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women played West Ham with a 14:00 kickoff on Sunday at Borehamwood prior to the Men’s first team game at the Emirates with a 16:00 kickoff. That gave me a quandry – which of the two games would …
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By Tony Attwood Here’s one to give you a laugh… “Arsenal sensationally in the running to re-sign Manchester United star Alexis Sanchez.” Oh these journalists! What wags they are! Always there with their jolly japes. Although I can’t believe that anyone programmed a bot to write that. That looks like a spanner in the works. …
Read More “The seven phases of Arsenal, plus PSG and some funny financial doings”
By Bulldog Drummond Of course you don’t actually need to know anything about Brentford ahead of the Arsenal v Brentford game but since no one is writing much about the match I thought I’d jump in a bit early and add a few comments before the “all you need to know” articles start being plastered …
By Tony Attwood Now here is a surprising statement. “Two-thirds of Arsenal fans are urging the club to take the unprecedented step of rescinding the season tickets of those who regularly fail to attend home matches.” Surprising because it seems a fairly draconian measure. And surprising to me because none of the people I asked …
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By Tony Attwood The media in general has an approach to refereeing which runs like this. On occasion they will spot an offside decision that is not given, and make a fuss about it. That’s it in one line. They don’t ask why. They don’t ask if it happens against one team more than another. …
By Bulldog Drummond After our array of bits and pieces about the game, we’re now on the road to the game, and here are out last bits and pieces. One interesting snip is the number of tackles by each club before this weekend’s games. Pos Club Shots so far 1. Watford 105 2. Huddersfield Town …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: the shots so far and the team and the beach”
By Bulldog Drummond Today of course we have the return of Theo who has been talking about his move from us to them… “I’m not going to lie, I fell out of love with football for a little bit. Because I had some good performances, but then just didn’t get the chance to play on. Scoring …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton. Theo’s goals at the Ems, the injuries and the latest boty-bots”
by Bulldog Drummond We have played 210 games against Everton over the centuries, starting with them on 5 April 1905 which we lost. Two weeks later we got our revenge and beat them in Plumstead. Since then we’ve come out on top winning 105 to their 60, and of late we’ve been doing rather well …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton – the games between us, the form, and some remarkable scoring form”
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Senior psychologist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. If everything wasn’t going swimmingly for Everton this season, they were at least keeping their head above water… until the last game… Date Match Res Score Competition 11 Aug 2018 Wolverhampton W v Everton D 2-2 Premier League …
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By Tony Attwood It is something of the newspapers’ own making: we get so many stories from the media that are just plain wrong, it is hard to know what to believe. But when we read in a specialist magazine about things going wrong in a club, I tend to take a bit more notice, …
Read More “The interesting story of the construction work at New White Hart Lane”
By Tony Attwood Yes it was fun; fun to see just how we know how to deal with a team with far fewer resources than we are privileged to have, but none the less beat a team that needs to be beaten. Fun because, although there are many some season ticket holders choose not to …
Read More “Vorskla, the road trip: mostly fun except for the road, plus it’s tough breaking the law”
By Tony Attwood My little dig against the Evening Standard for its headline “Arsenal did not build the Emirates to play Vorskla on a Thursday night” may not have been the cause, but that headline has been changed between then and now, for now it reads… “Arsenal v Vorskla shows it takes more than bricks, …
by Bulldog Drummond There is something very odd happening in Europe. Manchester City 1 Lyon 2, for a start. Plus a headline in one of the usually Tot supporting papers that says that Tottenham need forward momentum to make the system work. And there I was thinking that they had God’s great gift to footballing …
Read More “Arsenal v Vorskla. All you want to know and some stuff you probably don’t.”
by Bulldog Drummond We have some more information on who might be playing on Thursday. Dominic Thompson now seems to be our prime choice either for left back or back up left back. And the reason for this is that in addition to the injuries to Sead Kolasinac and Ainsley Maitland-Niles, that we highlighted in the …
Read More “Arsenal team news, we’re back in 2006, and a translator is needed, but not for Vorskla”
By Josif Broz Those who still watch the car-theft-like international tournaments may still have fresh memories of World Cup 2018 hosted by the human right’s role model, Russia. One of the biggest upsets at the competition was Germany going out after the group stage. They lost 2-0 to South Korea but only few people could …
Read More “Is Europe sliding back to 1930s? In football the answer looks worrying.”
By Tony Attwood On 23 June 2017, the Daily Mail ran the headline “Grenfell Tower: £1.25m Community Shield proceeds pledged” On 18 August 2017 Untold Arsenal wrote “What happened to the Grenfell Tower money collected from the Community Shield Match?” We published that because in the two months since the announcement in the Mail, there …
By Tony Attwood The long and the short of it is that with the manager quite reasonably speaking in generalities, and the media quite typically suggesting that Mr Wenger’s team selection for the Europa was chaotic, we are not really sure who is going to play this Thursday. By and large there is a general …
