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 Continuing on from yesterday’s rummage around the news relating to today’s game, we might note that in the early part of the 20th century Newcastle twice had runs against us where they were not defeated in seven games against Arsenal, but nothing really prepared anyone for the two runs this century. Here’s …
Read More “Arsenal v Newcastle: an amazing run of results, and the teams”
By Bulldog Drummond Just before we go any further perhaps I could mention the best headline I saw as I looked around for any real news ahead of the match tomorrow It comes from a website called “Devonlive.com” and reads thus “Super 6 predictions: Arsenal and Chelsea to win, draws for Newcastle, West Ham and …
Read More “Arsenal v Newcastle, updates, wild speculation and the best headline of the day”
By Bulldog Drummond Now here’s a quaint idea: a match at Arsenal on a saturday at 3pm. How weird. But us supporters like to take advantage of the new so we’ve got a little get together of the London, Northants and Antwerp branches of Untold for the game which will be rather nice. But what …
Read More “Arsenal v Newcastle: the data predicts 2-1 or maybe 3-1 home win.”
By the Honourable Sir Hardly Anyone MP. Yes this really is the moment for the bloggettas to come out and show that they can foretell what will come to pass, so that we will believe all they tell us in terms of transfers that they absolutely know will happen, absolutely certainly, definitely, and for sure. …
Read More “Latest transfer news as bloggers reveal extraordinary ability to predict events”
By Tony Attwood So what do we make of all this? Last season was dubbed by the media, (always anxious to find some new depth to which Arsenal have slipped), as the worst in 21 years. So the keyboards of the pub based scribblers are prepared to make this the worst in 22 years, with …
By Bulldog Drummond Rather interesting that a quick flip around the more “serious” newspapers at noon, such as the Telegraph and Guardian, reveal no on line match preview for West Ham against Arsenal. We do have the usual interesting stuff such as The 20 fiercest rivalries in English football – where does Arsenal v Tottenham …
Read More “WHAM v Arsenal: the formation, the teams, the guesswork.”
By Bulldog Drummond Yes it is always rather nice to go along to the so-called “London Stadium” and think “I paid for this through the taxation I paid the state year after year.” It gives me that extra bit of ownership, although my experience there has been that the stewards never quite realise that I …
Read More “State Aid United v Arsenal at the Tax Payers Stadium. The sacrifice of many for the few.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Just as I was about to take a couple of weeks in the south of France with the jolly old yacht being airlifted from Rutland Water to Monaco (which of course I know isn’t in France but I’m not one for details), so I am asked to write another column because …
Read More “Suddenly the transfer scene has woken up with an explosion of stories. We have names!”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal will play Ostersund in the next Europa Cup round on February in Sweden and at the Ems on February 22. It is, I suspect, a dream draw for the club, although let me say at once I don’t have a Swedish correspondent to check this with. If I have made mistakes in …
Read More “Ostersund v Arsenal. Welcome to the most wonderful fairy story in football.”
by Tony Attwood Bayern Munich have won the German league five times in a row. In fact they have won it 27 times, which is a record. And they are currently eight points above their nearest rival at the top of the league, so that might well be six times in a row, come next …
Read More “As the Premier League embraces the Euro model, competition is more or less deceased”
By Sir Hardly Anyone I am sure it has nothing to do with it, but the little series we’ve been running on the real transfer news (see the links at the end of this piece) – looking at the players Arsenal are actually likely to sell and therefore which replacements are needed – has coincided …
Read More “Arsenal transfer market revived with amazing transfer reports.”
By Bulldog Drummond Flipping through the tittle tattle this morning, one of my favourite lines comes from “101 Great Goals” which tells us With less than a month to go until the January transfer window opens, it’s no real surprise to see rumours in the tabloids. Given that the tabloids, the bloggettas that they …
Read More “Southampton v Arsenal the teams amidst the threat of snow”
By Bulldog Drummond If you are a really, really long term reader of Untold you might recall that one of our first campaigns to was expose what we called Rotational Fouling. It was a notion that the media ignored, and commentators laughed at us in relation to. We were out on our own (how often …
Read More “Southampton v Arsenal; modest home v modest away, but WHU lurking.”
By Bulldog Drummond Our recent (and on going) series on what will really happen in terms of transfers next month has already suggested that goalkeepers and wing backs are not on the agenda. But when it comes to centre backs (or as we used to say in the ancient days, centre halves) there could be …
Read More “Southampton Arsenal: a chance to test the theory that we don’t need a new centre half”
by Tony Attwood It was, I think, about five years ago that Blacksheep, Walter and I drew up a list of ten reforms that between us we felt could make Premier League football much more enjoyable all round, and one of these was the live TV broadcasting of all matches with a return to all …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal II – that second team of Mr Wenger’s has had a fair run of games in the Europa and the League Cup, and that has no doubt benefited a lot of the squad who by now are used to playing together. It also allows them to make a claim for a …
Read More “Arsenal II hit six as the sneering and sarcasm from the Guardian drones on and on”
By Tony Attwood A Prize to the Football Forecast website for noticing that if BATE actually beat Arsenal and Red Star and Cologne draw, then BATE could qualify for the knock outs. Here’s the table to prove it Group H Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 5 3 1 1 …
Read More “Arsenal and the Tractor Boys: the final instalment.”
By Tony Attwood It has been interesting to read the media’s response to the little tiff that occurred when Match of the Day presenters got rather miffed at being called out over alleged bias against Arsenal. The Guardian and the Telegraph handled the event in slightly different ways. The Telegraph responded with “To those lambasting …
by Sir Hardly Anyone The Metro on 26 August this year told us “Arsene Wenger is ready to green light a late exodus to raise funds for two massive January arrivals.” Explaining who they thought would be leaving the club the paper said that Arsenal risked “losing a number of players before the window slams …
Read More “The real January transfer news and the signing of a new centre back”
by Don McMahon In his most recent article, Tony quite accurately reviewed the seriously flawed logic of Mr.Clattenburg and his rather bizarre public revelation about how he manipulated a game to achieve a personal end. Some people posted criticisms of UA’s concerns but there are many other issues that Tony didn’t mention and I’d like …
By Johnny Foreigner Every now and again at UA an idea crops up, either suggesting that somebody somewhere is an ‘original fan’ or that someone else is a ‘foreigner’. Unfortunately both ideas have implications which are impossible to verify once we start to scrabble around a bit under the surface. The idea of being …
by Tony Attwood The trouble with home and away ties against teams that we don’t know too much about is that one tends to use up all the information available in the first leg. When it comes to the second leg there then isn’t too much to say. But rather than offer you a blank …
Read More “Arsenal v the Tractor Boys – the final part of the Europa League part one”
By Tony Attwood It must be fun to be Paul Merson’s scriptwriter, coming up with ever more crazy things to. say each day. But also a worry given that everything said then has to be outdone, and always in comparison to that masterstroke about Olympiakos: “I could win the league with Olympiakos. I am not …
By Tony Attwood Context, logic, breadth of analysis, overview and detail, evidence… the sort of things I learned when studying science and the scientific method, and then later psychology. I wasn’t a particularly brilliant student, and certainly not a brilliant scientist, but I think I got the thread. You know things by gathering evidence, making …
Read More “Wright and Shearer lose the thread, Wright apologises, but neither really gets it”
By Tony Attwood A major part of the argument that suggests that referees are not following the laws of the game but are following a different set of rules has come from Mark Clattenburg in relation to the notorious Chelsea v Tottenham game near the end of the 2015/16 season. In an interview he has …
Read More “Clattenburg confirms what we feared: referees are making up their own rules”
