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 That table of course is the injury table, which according to bloggettas and pundits, of which Arsenal are always at the top. Pos Club Men down Last man to fall What he got 1 Everton 9 J Kenny Illness 2 Liverpool 7 D Lovren Back Injury 3 Watford 6 K Femenia Knock …
Read More “Burnley v Arsenal: the injury table, Wenger on Burnley, home and away form.”
The view from America, by Don McMahon Recently, while surfing a few AFC websites and blogs, I noticed that some bloggers were writing the most insane and non-sensical irrationalities I had ever seen on a website. During my regular sorties onto the net, I have had the opportunity to engage with alt-right gun-toting Christians and …
Read More “The Trump illness and football: Arsenal seen from the USA.”
By Raj Sapkota The Indian Super League (ISL) is well and truly into its fourth season, following a monumental opening ceremony and an interesting first few rounds of matches. What makes this season of the ISL even more exciting is the addition of two new teams and the added incentive of making the AFC Cup …
Read More “5 former Arsenal players who have played in the ISL”
By Tony Attwood The bar was very accommodating, the beer was cheap, and as the teams lined up we were two Arsenal fans, two Cologne fans and ten people who seemed to have got lost and just come in for a drink. It was all very friendly and chatty of course, and the bar even …
Read More “Arsenal II through as group winners, State Aid United recorded as Boxing Day losers”
by Tony Attwood The really, really big news is that I have found a bar on the outskirts of Pafos which has promised that they will be showing the match against Cologne. The barman even went to considerable lengths to point out to me that Cyprus is two hours ahead of the UK, and thus …
Read More “Cologne v Arsenal II. Discontent in the hotel, and the team news.”
By Tony Attwood I was hoping to write a little piece summing up the whole of the team selection for the Cologne away game, but it is proving a trifle difficult to find all the news. It seems that Calum Chambers is in the squad for tonight’s match and Mr Wenger has said we will …
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By Tony Attwood Well, here I am in Cyprus, just getting ready for the first dance of the holiday, having had the opening meal with the assembled gathering of dancers, and a greater consumption of alcohol than I would ever normally have before dancing. Falling over could be one of the new dance steps that …
Read More “Cologne v Arsenal II; teams and other snippets. The vision from Cyprus.”
By Tony Attwood . I suppose it is right that Arsenal have announced their new head of recruitment just as one of the bloggettas starts running the story that we are about to sign Karim Benzema. If the new man sees that “news” he will realise exactly what sort of background noise he should …
Read More “All change at Arsenal has some interesting implications”
By Tony Attwood Apparently the social media team at Arsenal sent an animation of Mesut Özil to Daily Mail journalist Adam Crafton. The tweet related to a feature in the right wing newspaper in which their journalist did the usual thing that papers seem to do when they have some space and nothing much to put in …
Read More “Making fun of Daily Mail journalists, and calling 999 when the team loses.”
By Tony Attwood As I am sure you will know by now a draw of any type will send us through to the “Round of 32” knock out part of the Europa, and will make us top of the group. Which is not only nice in itself, but also rather pleasant for Arsenal II, the …
Read More “Cologne v Arsenal II; the cause of Cologne’s woes and video of their one amazing win.”
Two unrelated stories by Josif When AC Milan signed Leonardo Bonucci from their rivals Juventus last summer, it was seen as the final statement of intent from the new owners of the Italian and European giants. Bonucci, one of the best central defenders in the world and a member of famous BBC-trio in the …
Read More “Things don’t always work out as expected… From AC Milan to Everton”
Arsenal’s golden triangle provides plenty of optimism Arsenal’s golden triangle provides plenty of optimism It’s been a varied few years for Arsenal, despite lifting three FA Cup titles in the past four years and making cup history in the process, and missing out on a top-four spot for the first time in Arsene Wenger’s tenure …
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by Tony Attwood Quite often, when a manager moves on, his background team are also removed, and the new manager brings in his own men to work alongside him. For example, when David Moyes took over at West Ham to deliver them from the reduction in the cost of running the London Stadium (their rent …
Read More “All change at Arsenal as the background revolution continues”
By Tony Attwood “It is not just Tottenham that struggle to compete with the big sides away from home. We need many things – we need to win trophies, we need to build the new stadium, we need to build a good squad, we need to play young players.” Thus sayeth the Tottenham manager in …
by Tony Attwood Mauricio Pochettino announced after the match that it was referee Mike Dean who did it all, with two mistakes. Although, as Walter pointed out in his post-match review, only one of the goals could have been offside, Mr P wanted to go further and say that the free kick involved in the othergoal …
Read More “Arsenal didn’t beat Tottenham, it was the referee’s fault, according to Mr Pochettino.”
By Tony Attwood Having had the exhilaration of being at the Emirates this afternoon, followed by the push and shove to get on the Underground, the walk back to the car and then the tedium of the drive home (85 miles up the M1 in case you are interested) broken only slightly by the tedium …
Read More “Arsenal 2 Tottenham Hotspur 0. Even the tiny details of commentary can be misleading”
By Bulldog Drummond It is interesting that with the first team seemingly fixed on three at the back, with two full backs helping them, the under 18 side is playing with a back four in a 4-2-3-1 formation – or at least that is how it seemed as they were beating Norwich 3-0. However there …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham: The teams, and the need to kill off under performing players”
By Tony Attwood It is now six Premier League games since we beat Tottenham, a pretty shocking run. In fact as far as I can see it is the worse run that Arsenal has ever had in either the PL or the 1st division in terms of playing Tottenham. Of course the figures are a …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham: the tragedy of a journalist’s pathetic lack of knowledge”
By Darren Stinsman Arsenal go into a crunch North London derby on Saturday lunchtime knowing that defeat would leave them seven points behind their bitter rivals. Tottenham are in fine form at the moment and will be full of confidence following their recent 3-1 victory over European champions Real Madrid at Wembley. Arsenal were in …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham: return of the triumvirate, the battle of the midfield.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Sincere apologies for the lack of posts through some of today. We suffered another attack, and it took a while to recover. This time it was different – the site was still visible and comments could be posted but we were unable to put up new posts for a while. If …
Read More “Apologies for our down time and here’s some tittle tattle”
By Bulldog Drummond It seems many of us have different definitions of fairly ordinary words. “Objectivity” I take to mean working hard to take out any sort of bias. “Perspective” I think means in the context used, “a point of view”. Which is how one person can say to another, “You’re approaching the problem from a completely different perspective.” It is …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham. Objectivity and perspective, not quite the same thing”
By Bulldog Drummond I don’t have any difficulty in admitting that Tottenham have been doing well of late, not do I try to deny the utterly obvious. That, for example, last season for the first time in a number of years (quite a large number of years in fact) Tottenham came above Arsenal in the …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham: a little bit of perspective”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes it was in June 2015 that we first pronounced upon the fact that Nabil Fekir was about to sign for Arsenal, and we knew that because the bloggettas were full of it and full of it and full of it again. He turned up again in the following month, but …
by Tony Attwood Imagine your ran a business. You were trading with a company and suddenly you find a whole stream of its senior people being hauled into court and charged with corruption in general and taking millions of pounds worth of bribes in particular. One after another they are charged and they eventually plead …
by Tony Attwood Whenever we cover the dodgy doings by football clubs on this site, we get emails saying “your club is just as bad” and “why don’t you just write about your club” and then a few things that are not really repeatable. So we’ll take those as read, and remind everyone that …
Read More “Leicester City; the sound of chickens coming back to roost”
