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 Tony Attwood Paul Heckingbottom signed a new rolling contract with Barnsley last Friday. Leeds United sacked their manager Thomas Christiansen last Sunday. Paul Heckingbottom’s new contract had a release clause in it. Leeds offered him a job, he accepted it and so on Tuesday Heckingbottom has gone to Leeds, four days after signing a new …
Read More “The managerial musical chairs. Where does it get anyone?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone For the last two years we’ve done a review through the summer of the wild and wacky transfer gibberish that passes for news in many of our national newspapers and on the bloggettas. Each of the last two summers have had just over 100 players rumoured to join Arsenal, and of …
Read More “Transfer window moved, 10 big rumours, Nketiah & Willock go beserk and bonkers awards”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Apparently there was an anti-Wenger protest at the Arsenal on Saturday evening… but very people turned up because of the rain. At least that is what one of the bloggettas says, with pictures of a few guys hanging around Arsenal tube station. Which is a bit odd because I used the …
By Tony Attwood It was rather sad in a way to hear Alan Greene on Radio 5 doing the Liverpool Tottenham match and being utterly restrained in what he said about the refereeing in the game. Even if he thought all the decisions near the end of the match were completely right, in the good …
Read More “Premier League is now only second to Germany in lack of competitiveness”
by Andrew Crawshaw and Tony Attwood (all mistakes are Tony’s fault – two earlier problems have now been fixed). We now have a list of all the players aged over 21 (by the League’s definition of qualifying dates). As you’ll know of course, only 25 such players can be listed – but all registered players …
Read More “The new squad: who has left, who is in the 25, and what happened to the youngsters.”
By Tony Attwood Here’s a little stat that amused me yesterday evening. As the media had told us a thousand times over this, was the 500th Premier League match as a manager of a famous large man with a dubious character. He’d been involved in 2006 in allegations of corruption against him and his son. …
Read More “Arsenal/Everton: bonkers officials and a prediction we got right”
By Bulldog Drummond It is difficult to get a firm fix on how bad the illness affecting Aubameyang and Wilshere is, or was, which makes the thoughts of predicting the team for the match this evening even more difficult. Everyone being fit I would go with Cech Bellerin Koscielny Mustafi Monreal Ramsey Wilshere Ozil Aubameyang …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton. Three possible line ups, the illnesses, and the future”
By Bulldog Drummond According to Physioroom, Aubameyang is ill, and will have a late fitness test. Jack Wilshere is also ill and likewise will have a late fitness test, and Danny Welbeck is out with a muscular injury. Everton are reported to have four injuries: McCarthy – broken leg Baines – muscle strain Stekelenburg – …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: one of the most astonishing runs of all time”
by Bulldog Drummond Of course it was too good to last, all this anti-everyone else and laying off the Arsenal, and within a few hours of our piece about a change in the way the newspapers see Arsenal we were back to the snarling norm with “Mesut Özil, Yaya Sanogo and Arsène Wenger’s ticking doomsday …
Read More “Arsenal & the new guys v Everton and Theo. What’s gonna happen?”
By Josif Ahead of our first chance to see Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Emiliano Francois Aubameyang for the first time at a home game, we take a look at our two new players, and bid them welcome. Henrikh Mkhitaryan is only 29 but it is safe to say he is the greatest Armenian player of all times. …
Read More “Welcome Henrikh, Welcome Pierre-Emerick. The complete review of our new players.”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw Something odd is going on. The mainstream upmarket media appear, for the moment at least, to have gone soft on Arsenal and are picking on everyone else. The bloggettas however, oft written by robots as they are, are staying with their long term objective of knocking. Such is their …
Read More “Why has the upmarket mainstream media changed its tune over Arsenal?”
By Tony Attwood In the early days of Uefa’s Financial Fair Play there was a bit of a battle on this site between those of us in favour of FFP’s aims and some Manchester City supporters who argued that FFP was illegal and would be thrown out by the courts. It wasn’t and nothing happened, …
Read More “FFP set for a return, Big Sam stumped, Miki/Aub friends, under 23s squad, Zelalem back.”
By Tony Attwood It’s not often that I find Amy Lawrence in the Guardian writing an article that I can agree with wholeheartedly, but it has happened today. Annoyingly hers is not only written in a much better way than I could ever do, but she got there first. The issue is one about movement, …
by Tony Attwood So by and large, and give and take a few that I have probably missed and the odd one or two I have got wrong, this is by and large what happened… First, the buying and selling for the current top six clubs in the league… Club Player in Cost Player out …
Read More “Which of the top 6 club spent the most, and what did Europe get up to this month?”
This article by Jambreck initially appeared in the comments column of Untold Arsenal following a discussion of why Arsenal seem to get more negative publicity than Tottenham. I was reminded of it by the discussion on Radio 5 on Monday night which included clips of multiple Liverpool supporters calling for their manager to be …
Read More “Why Arsenal seem to get more negative publicity than other teams”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has joined Arsenal for £56m. You might recall that this is transfer deadline day, but I thought I would mention it again, just in case you nodded off. There is still the expectation that Olivier Giroud will go to Chelsea and Michy Batshuayi from thence to Borussia Dortmund. The transfer …
Read More “Aubameyang joins Arsenal, Ozil signs new contract”
By Tony Attwood It is often said, both in football and in other areas of life, that the time senior management really earn their money is when things go wrong. Planning for the future when things are going right is less difficult because at such moments top management has time to consider, discuss, and evolve …
Read More “When the group performance declines, what is to be done next?”
By Bulldog Drummond The only news of late is that Jack Wilshere missed training this morning, although there is a suggestion he might still play. And it is said that Rob Holding is going on loan to Burnley so he won’t be in the squad but we are told Giroud is. Meanwhile the issue we’ve …
Read More “Swansea v Arsenal: the team, the possibilities, the options, and the transfer”
by Bulldog Drummond So now we have established after endless errors on my part that Swansea City won the Football League trophy and not the FA Trophy. They are altogether different things. Glad we got that sorted. But I often wonder why there are people who want to tell me I’m wrong but don’t give …
Read More “Arsenal: The 7 biggest transfer stories of the hour, and recent games with Swansea”
By Bulldog Drummond As pointed out before I made a mistake in analysing Swansea’s trophy cabinet, giving them two League Cup wins by reading the wrong column on Wiki. What they won twice was the FA Trophy in 2006 and 1994. They have of course only won the League Cup once and that was in …
Read More “Arsenal v Swansea: home & away form, lowest goals, wacky rumours, injuries, everything.”
by Tony Attwood OK so maybe we are about to sign Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and maybe Chelsea really do want Giroud. Maybe as GiveMeSport says, “Liverpool fans on social media are far from happy at news that Arsenal are closing in on the £56m signing of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.” But what does the situation look like in Germany; …
Read More “Abuameyang transfer starts to make sense in German newspapers”
By Bulldog Drummond Actually I wanted to call this, “Just how good does a new manager have to be; just how bad does an old manager have to be?” but it was too long to fit in the subject line. And I wanted the long title because it is a relevant question here. Carvalhal has …
Read More “Swansea v Arsenal: Just how good does a new manager have to be?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes I know it is hard to believe, and yes it has taken years of hard work, but finally scientists have now produced a translator that translates from journalistic gibberish to English. So without ado further here and forthwith are the current top transfer tales, complete with an approximate realisation in …
Read More “UNIQUE! All the latest transfer rumours translated into normal English”
By Tony Attwood A couple of us were having a little debate about Mr Wenger’s comment concerning teams that had not won anything for 25 years, and this led us into all sorts of funny areas such as: When exactly did Liverpool and Tottenham last win anything? and which clubs have been the most …
Read More “The top six is just an imaginary concept from an overexcited brain”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Could you be a football headline writer or a footie journo? Here is a little test whether you should aspire to that august line of work. You then have to consider how you would turn each of the following stories into a bloggetta or Daily Mail / Daily Star headline. Here …
Read More “Do you have what it takes to be a football journalist? Find out here.”
