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 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”
By Tony Attwood I recently wrote a little piece trying to show how journalists create a piece of fantasy transfer news ahead of a transfer window, and did this by looking at our goalkeeping situation, the insane tales from last summer relating to keepers, and then adding in what I thought would actually happen. A …
Read More “The antidote to transfer rumours: real insights into who we are signing in January”
By Tony Attwood . There’s been a bit of annoyance spreading in the world of football of late. First off we had “the inability to confirm the time and date of the Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United Premier League fixture in late December is both unacceptable to fans and symptomatic of a deeper problem …
Read More “Contempt: the prime way in which broadcasters and clubs and the FA treat football fans”
By Tony Attwood I knew before I started the three hour journey from my home to the ground that I shouldn’t have gone. Not because I feared for the result – I had hoped we could win, or at the very least take a draw – but because I had been coming down with a …
By Bulldog Drummond And so after the usual visits around the houses we come to the teams, and just as we have discovered this wonderful effective front three, one of them looks like dropping out, although as one report said, actually Lacazette is going to play. I think not, but you never know. If he …
Read More “Arsenal’s front three have revitalised the team. Now can they do it with a change?”
By Bulldog Drummond It is interesting to note that Manchester U have lost two and won three of their last five matches. Date Game Res Score Competition 05 Nov Chelsea v Manchester United L 1-0 Premier League 18 Nov Manchester United v Newcastle United W 4-1 Premier League 22 Nov FC Basel v Manchester United …
Read More “Arsenal v Man U. Prognostications, Ozil vanishes and injuries”
By Tony Attwood As a lot of people have noted Arsenal have won every game when Alexandre Lacazette, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez have started together, so there’s a worry with the news that Lacazette will miss out against Man U. On the other hand most of the destruction of Huddersfield was done without Lacazette …
Read More “Arsenal v Man U. Who plays instead of Lacazette? The options. And stuff.”
By Tony Attwood It is in a lot of the English papers; the Premier League is about to see the first billion-pound game on Saturday with Arsenal against Man U. This claim is a rather spurious one in that it not actually based on anything to do with the game itself, but on the fact …
Read More “Arsenal v Man U. 3 days of the entire NHS rolled into one match”
Arsenal is of less interest than moaning tweets while football journalists need to take lessons from horoscope writers. By Tony Attwood Normally of course I normally see the games Arsenal play; at the Ems because I have a season ticket, away, by watching the match on TV, or occasionally going to games. I even managed …
Read More “It’s official; Arsenal is of less interest than moaning tweets from WHU fans”
By Tony Attwood By a tragic twist of fate the Arsenal v Huddersfield match happens when I am rather more up in the air than normal; I’m flying from Cyprus to Manchester, and then driving south. So I regret Untold’s normal coverage of events is going to be rather more curtailed than normal, but here’s …
Read More “Arsenal v Huddersfield: the teams from 30,000 feet”
By Tony Attwood Raul Sanllehi is to join Arsenal as head of football relations: part of the player recruitment team. This follows the appointment of Sven Mislintat as chief scout last week. Details of this and other changes in the senior staff at Arsenal are given in All change at Arsenal as the background revolution continues and …
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By Tony Attwood I am going to try an experiment, and see if it is possible to write a series of articles about the next window’s transfers (ie Jan 2018), with commentaries that are not based on rampant negativity (“Arsenal must plug this gap now!!!”) and outright fantasy. An antidote to the make-believe gossip. Of …
Read More “The real Arsenal transfer news: who we are actually signing in January.”
by Tony Attwood Arsenal’s league performance at home thus far this season is everything those of us lucky enough to have season tickets could ask for… In terms of home matches only the results look like this… Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Manchester United 7 7 0 0 20 …
Read More “Huddersfield at home: what the facts and figures tell us”
By Sir Hardly Anyone, Herbert Chapman, very famously railed against what he call the “boo boys”: the men who attended Highbury matches and hurled abuse at the players if they failed to live up to the standards that these “fans” had created in their own minds. But the great man’s denunciations of such behaviour did …
By Bulldog Drummond In approaching this match we must concede that by and large on home against away form through the season, Burnley are the superior side. In the current league form overall we see six wins, two defeats and a draw in the last nine for Arsenal although we have to note all the …
Read More “Burnley v Arsenal. A fairly easy line up to predict.”
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 …
Read More “Barcelona source reveals the club’s vision for Ozil, plus snippets of team news.”
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.”
