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 Sir Hardly Anyone First, the comment of the week, possibly the month, maybe the decade. I am grateful to the Daily Canon for this one. “People that understand football very well know that this project is a project that is very exciting because we are not a club that are going to buy trophies, …
By Tony Attwood, currently 35 miles from North Korea. (A first for Untold!) You may recall that over the years Untold has regularly reported on issues relating to the transfer of youngsters between clubs and the issues surrounding child exploitation. We also did a lot to cover the technicalities and legalities of the FFP regulations …
Read More “Fifa’s war with Manchester City is deepening but much depends on how CAS react.”
Stories are only appearing occasionally at the moment as I am travelling. A more regular service should be established by mid-week By Tony Attwood Florian recently provided us with an example of how real debate and argument works. In case you missed it, I have reproduced the illustration at the end of this piece. …
Read More “The hierarchy of debating the Arsenal; why some arguments work and others don’t.”
By Tony Attwood “The omnipotent broadcasters who bestride English football often seem to reserve as much regard for match-going supporters as McDonald’s do for their cows.” I like that comment. The fact is that in Spain if clubs allow TV cameras to show empty seats the club is fined – so it is encouraged to …
Read More “Now that us spectators are the product, we actually do have some power.”
By Tony Attwood As a simple one liner I thought it was brilliant. I don’t know what the journalists did in response but the follow up line from Mr Wenger wasn’t really needed. He’d made his point. “Your job is to get everybody to suffer,” he said, adding, “Our job is to get as few …
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By Bulldog Drummond. Who would have thought it? Instead of being seen as a dire warning as to where a club should not go, the anti-Arsenal attacks on the club and Mr Wenger are being seen as a model that can be transferred to other clubs. Likewise the mainstream media’s constant attacks on Arsenal are …
Read More “Milan at home. An empty stadium? But is the media finally changing its tune?”
By Jacko Jones Germany, Switzerland and France. Three European teams with lofty ambitions ahead of the World Cup in Russia this summer. While Switzerland have considerable opposition with the likes of Brazil and Serbia in Group E, France and Germany will be looking further ahead in the tournament. Both countries have groups they are expected …
Read More “Three Arsenal Players who Could Light up the World Cup this Summer”
By Tony Attwood Let’s start with headline of the day: Arsenal vs. AC Milan: Be Weary of These Rossoneri AC Milan Offside Now you do need to know the difference between “weary” and “wary” to get this one, but once you do, it is rather amusing. However let’s move on… Fake News is odd. I mean …
Read More “Fake News: Extraordinary Stories surround Arsenal and the bonkers headline of the day”
by Tony Attwood Had Per Mertesacker been English I doubt very much whether he would have done the interview that he recently gave concerning the pressure he felt during career. Indeed he said he was glad that his playing days were coming to an end. Exactly the sort of thing that people who have never …
Read More “The pressures of being a footballer and the unremitting fear of getting it wrong”
By Tony Attwood Following events from overseas as I shall be for one more week, it is interesting to look out for signs of perspective in the media. The Guardian did it with “The Manchester City manager’s support for jailed Catalan leaders does not extend to political prisoners in Abu Dhabi, home of City’s owners.” And …
Read More “If working for the media always remember: never mention the context”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Of course on the day when we have the headline that “Greek football match stopped after team owner invades pitch with a gun” things seem to get a bit fuzzy. OK I don’t go to matches in Greece, but even so. This is getting a bit unnerving. First West Ham after …
Read More “The laziness of the long distance myth maker and beware managers with guns”
By Tony Attwood I wanted to pick up on the story that Mauricio Pochettino claiming that Juventus are “specialists in football’s dark arts” and that they manipulated the refereeing in their Champions League game with Tottenham, when it happened, but being on the other side of the world, having an 11 hour time difference and wanting to …
By Bulldog Drummond Our piece about West Ham fans and the way they were seen by the media as being split, while Arsenal fans are treated as a unity of anti-Wengerianism, seems to have been apposite as the news broke of violence and protest at the so-called London Stadium. So the story rattles around the …
Read More “Arsenal v Watford, trouble at the London, and the home and away comparisons”
by Tony Attwood It is interesting to note from afar that West Ham have been having a little local difficulty with different fan groups attacking and fighting each other. True they have had a fairly grotty run of late… Date Game Res Score Competition 27 Jan Wigan Athletic v West Ham United L 2-0 FA …
Read More “How curious that the media reflect a split in the fan base at WHU but not at Arsenal”
by Sir Hardly Anyone The attacks on Arsene Wenger continue of course. The guy says that he has had a hard time personally over the recent defeats, and the response of The Transfer Tavern web site is to publish a handful of tweets abusing him. That’s probably par for the course these days. As Tony …
Read More “Arsenal transfer rumours: another 10 unbelievable stories (literally).”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Our man who counts the numbers… Here is the update on players coming and going… and we know it is all true because every single one of these stories has been verified by a football journalist. Those who are leaving No Player Going To Source What’s the story Update Bellering Barcelona …
By Tony Attwood, still in Australia. Of course they would have to wait until I was in Australia to get back to form, but I’d settle for a fine win against a Milan team that has improved greatly of late, even if I was on the outer moon of Pluto – which incidentally I am …
Read More “It’s all too easy to be a fan after a win. It’s being a fan ALWAYS that really counts”
by Bulldog Drummond Milan has multiple attractions: the San Siro stadium, La Scala, and Cimitero Monumentale di Milano – the cemetery. If I had to nominate which one stays in my memory it would be the latter. If you have ever been there you will know why. If you haven’t, you just can’t imagine what it …
Read More “An away day in Milan: time to pop into the cemetery.”
World Cup 2018 – a focus on the three favourites After suffering through the regularly frustrating four year wait, another World Cup is almost upon us, and it’s time to consider who looks like the most likely candidate to be crowned tournament winners. The World Cup is such a gigantic competition, where even those who …
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By Tony Attwood Recently I read the story that a junior referee was “badly let down” by FA officials after he reported being verbally abused by adult coaches. In this report (one of many of the type) a campaigner for better refereeing reported that Max Ormesher, a 15 year old brave enough to take on refereeing, …
Read More “Why is refereeing in England so different from rest of Europe?”
By Bulldog Drummond Milan have had a resurgence of late and after an unbeaten run lie seventh, just outside next season’s Europa positions… # Team Pl W D L F A GD Pts 1 Napoli 27 22 3 2 62 19 43 69 2 Juventus 26 22 2 2 63 15 48 68 3 Roma …
Read More “Milan v Arsenal. What it is like under new management?”
By Tony Attwood It has taken one hell of a time to reach a decision, but it looks like a decision is almost there. And it is a decision of importance, because it will tell us whether The City Group – the conglomeration of clubs across the world that includes Manchester City, New York City, …
Read More “Who exactly controls law and order in world football? We might be about to find out.”
By Tony Attwood Just how low do you need to go, how many tall tales do you need to tell, how many downright lies do you need to publish, in order to knock Arsenal? These are not the questions most people interested in the club are asking, but even so they are indeed questions that …
Read More “How to invent history: blog uses disgraceful tactics to undermine Arsenal”
By Sir Hardly Anyone I’m certainly not going to turn Untold into a political forum, but if you can spare me one minute I’d like to show you what to me is an interesting parallel. So if you don’t have a minute to spare, and can’t bare to read anything other than football for the …
By Jerry Jones The Gunners have spent £105m this season on two centre-forwards of real world-class quality. Alexandre Lacazette finally secured his move abroad after leaving Lyon in the summer, before being joined by Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in January. The only issue now is how to get the best from both players at the same …
Read More “Can Wenger fit two world-class strikers into one effective first eleven?”
