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 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 …
Read More “Arsenal v Sporting: how the opposition have been doing of late”
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” …
Read More “Did Uefa collude with Man City in an FFP cover up across the last four years?”
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”
by Tony Attwood 1: The AAA are moving from player to player The Anti-Arsenal Arsenal – those fans who pretend to be Arsenal fans but actually just spend their time criticising the club, the players and the manager are moving on from player to player. At the moment they are having a go at Ramsey. …
Read More “The ten things we have learned about Arsenal ahead of the Liverpool game/”
By Tony Attwood Here’s the premise. Fifa is a corrupt organisation which enables fraud and money laundering to be at the very centre of international football. Pathetically, national organisations such as the Football Assocation bow down to Fifa, throw millions of pounds at it, and no matter how often they are humiliated continue to want …
Read More “You know the one about Fifa doing something bonkers? Well, try this…”
By Tony Attwood It has taken Arsenal.com quite a long time to realise that it is a website used by Arsenal supporters in a media environment in which everything Arsenal does is considered to be appallingly awful, mismanaged, stupid and quite often pathetic. The media achieve this of course by focussing on Arsenal slips and …
Read More “Arsenal v Blackpool, being there and pondering the next round.”
By Bulldog Drummond It is surprisingly hard to pick up definitive team news at the moment. The latest story is the Elneny has a thigh injury that will keep him out for a couple of weeks, and we know that Cech is going to play in goal. Other than that we can expect a mix …
By Bulldog Drummond I have left the issue of the crisis at Blackpool FC until now in the vague hope that I might be able to discover a definitive report or two but I’m struggling to know exactly what’s what. So if there are errors in this, please do put me right, ideally with some …
Read More “Arsenal v Blackpool: the current state of Blackpool FC and its owners”
By Bulldog Drummond We are now back up to third in the injury league table with five men reported down and out. Top of the league are the tax payer funded West Ham with nine, Watford with six, and then a whole bunch of clubs including us with five. I have a thought about West …
By Bulldog Drummond Well, my famed analysis of home and away form to give a prediction of the result didn’t work out against Palace, where everything pointed to another Arsenal win. But I like to take a broader approach to things, and just because that prediction went wrong it doesn’t mean I am going to …
Read More “Arsenal v Blackpool: team selection thoughts and our opponents”
By Tony Attwood Whenever I start chattering away about matters other than at Arsenal we always get a few people writing in telling me to shut up and focus on my own club. I write back and say that for getting on for 11 years the banner at the top of the blog has …
Read More “Funny ol game, funny ol pitch, and why don’t we have a say in how Wembley is used?”
By Tony Attwood To many people the art of commenting on football is the art of picking one or two incidents out of the tens of thousands that take place across 90 minutes and then draw conclusions from those. Indeed one can always find a few events that will support a conclusion, not matter how …
Read More “Context is nothing; how football reports are biased towards individual events”
‘By Bulldog Drummond Quote of the day: “It’s about what we do on the field.” Roy Hodgson. First a spot of news about a player definitely not playing: Maitland Niles played for the under 23 on Friday so wont be in squad. But that could well put him into the team for the game next …
Read More “Palace v Arsenal. Hodgson v Arsenal. The teams & Auba’s incredible record,”
