By Tony Attwood Bloggettas – blogs with average articles of around 100 words – sometimes fewer – often published by their operators several times an hour, with the prime interest in getting negativists to click on adverts, usually by mistake. Many are owned by newspapers desperate to find a way to make money in their …
by Bulldog Drummond The latest name in the frame for Arsenal tonight is Josh Dasilva. He’s what is known on the Arsenal.com profile as a “Dominating mid elder” (all the young midfielders on Arsenal.com have been listed as “mid elders” for reason that have never quite become clear). “Josh proved his worth at both …
by Bulldog Drummond Just when you might be thinking it couldn’t get any worse it gets worse as along comes the headline “Arsene Wenger dealt injury blow ahead of Everton clash”. “Blimey”, you may be thinking if your mind encapsulates such quaint 20th century expletives. “Blimey. We haven’t dealt with things in Serbia yet, and …
By Robert Staples Paris Saint-Germain’s elite winger, Julian Draxler, made it to the headlines after rumors about his possible transfer to Arsenal surfaced. All of this started when Draxler posted a photo of his friend Kolasinac’s shirt in social media. Because of this, netizens, specifically those found on Twitter, can’t help but expect the …
By Tony Attwood As far as I can work out (and I must admit I am only an amateur historian) fake news was introduced into English newspapers as a method of filling their pages during the first world war at a time when the government imposed a strict censorship on the war news. If you …
By Bulldog Drummond Yesterday’s meander around the possibilities of who might play against Red Star Belgrade on Thursday gave us this range of possibilities Ospina, Holding, A, B, Nelson, …
by Tony Attwood The FA, like all national associations, allies itself utterly and totally to Fifa, an organisation known to have used, and quite probably is still using, corrupt methods in its running football. And an organisation known to being working hand in glove with a country that uses slave labour to build its …
by Sir Hardly Anyone Part 1: Sign the wonderkid When we have the Metro quoting the Mirror and the Mail for a story whose origin is “according to reports” you know that reportage has got just about as low as it is going to go. But for the sake of the record, let’s give it …
by Bulldog Drummond And so off we go again into foreign parts, primarily with a different team from that which played at the weekend in the League. Just so you know what to expect here is a picture of the stadium. It is a 2 hours 40 minutes flight, and there is also a …
By Tony Attwood Ever since the organising countries for the world cups in 2018 and 2022 were announced questions have been asked. Russia, because (to give just one tiny example) it undertook all of its application work and correspondence on computers that it hired, and then gave back to the company it borrowed them from. …
By Tony Attwood The little piece yesterday afternoon giving the reasons why it is logical to expect there to be corruption in Premier League football, brought a larger than normal amount of vitriol and a larger than normal number of commentaries that had little if anything to do with the post, or contained no evidence …
By Tony Attwood There are, it seems, many people who don’t or won’t believe that the Premier League has been corrupted in way. And I have begun to wonder why they believe that there is no corruption. After all, one only has to look around the UK to know that corruption is everywhere. Indeed …
By Bulldog Drummond You might have thought that one or two journalists might have learned the lesson from Untold’s long-running criticism of Amy Lawrence over her comment about Arsenal having only two players who scored in double figures the season before last. The point was, it was true, there were two such players. But the …
by Bulldog Drummond For a year or two now I have been reading about clubs being on “High Alert”. Apparently at the moment Manchester City are on “High Alert” because they might be able to buy Alexis in January. For a year or two now I have been reading about clubs being on “High Alert”. …
By Bulldog Drummond “According to Nick Ames in the Guardian Arsenal will keep enjoying false-dawn months like September, batting away Bournemouth, Brighton and BATE before coming undone when in-form opposition from the top five bowl up.” An interesting thought. I suppose it might be meant to be funny, but humour either needs to be based in …
A lot of the criticism levelled at Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal board over recent times has been for their lack of ambition or skill in taking the club into its next era. From the outside looking in it seems Wenger has always controlled most things, if not them all, as manager of …
Sir Hardly Anyone. Try this one for size: “Arsenal Fans Lose Their Sh*t After What Arsene Wenger Has Just Said” Now first off we need to work out what that little asterisk means. Is it an a, e, i, o, or u? I think we can all guess, which raises question one. Why not write …
By Tony Attwood International football. Isn’t it wonderful! Don’t you want more? Of course you do!! So let’s have not just one international tourney (the World Cup, or WC as its known in the Untold Penthouse) or even two (adding the Uefa European Championship.) Any idiot can see that is nowhere near enough. After all …
By Melissa Hart At 28, Theo Walcott should be coming into his prime, but like many players who made the step up to the first team at such an early age, he looks on the wane. Now, don’t mistake that for affirmation that we need to sell, but it’s the proverbial elephant in …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes, here’s a new whizzo wheeze: take a look at the wild ravings of the bloggettas and newspapers, with their amazing 3 out of 100 rating in terms of prediction accuracy, give them a rating for each rumour, and then come back and see, were we right or were they or …
By Tony Attwood So Brazil beat Chile 3-0, Alexis doesn’t seem to have been injured and as a result of other games, Chile are not now playing New Zealand in a two leg world cup play off. So we get Alexis back for a while. The sad news is that some other team is likely …
By Bulldog Drummond You may have thought that the international type of games were all over, but far from it. There’s another game tomorrow (Wednesday) morning between Brazil and Chile – which means Alexis is playing. Brazil have qualified for Russia. Chile will be going to Russia if they beat Brazil – but the …
By Tony Attwood The current youth academy system for English football was designed in 1997 by Howard Wilkinson, the man who took Leeds United from the lower reaches of the second division to be the final winners of the old First Division, using an interesting squad complete with Vinnie Jones. Now in an era when …
by Tony Attwood In June 2010 I filled up an otherwise rather boring day researching what it was that made some international sides better than others. Was it the number of players who played in their own country’s league? The size of the country? Or something else? It turned out to be something else: the …
By Tony Attwood Oh yes oh yes oh yes, the injury crisis is back and the bloggettas are knocking each other over in a desperate bid to get the absolute ENORMITY of the crisis registered. Because MAKE NO MISTAKE this is the big one. It is “horrible for Wenger” according to the quaintly named 101 …