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 To start with the serious stuff – you might recall that at the start of the season we did a review of the supporters and location of virtually every club in the PL and published it day by day on our Facebook page. The whole list is still on this site, but …
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by Tony Attwood In the Leipzig match against Bayern in the Cup, the referee was Felix Zwayer. The sporting director of RB Leipzig is Ralf Rangnick. Coming up to half time Mats Hummels and Ralf Rangnick come together on the pitch. The ref givs a penalty and then apparently on consulting with the linesmen in the far distance, …
by Bulldog Drummond “There remains a sense of gloom around the Emirates but the Gunners have lost just once in their last 11 matches in all competitions and beat Norwich 2-1 in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night.” So says the Metro picking up on our bit of maths as it gives us the latest …
Read More “Arsenal I v Swansea. Should Xhaka be dropped because of misdirected passes?”
By Tony Attwood First, the draw very much delayed through sheer, absolute, and total incompetence… Chelsea v Bournemouth Arsenal v West Ham United Leicester City v Manchester City Bristol City v Manchester United And so on to the AGM. I have had a couple of meetings with Ivan Gazidis and exchanged emails with him very occasionally, …
Read More “Arsenal play West Ham in the league cup and Ivan Gazidis draws the fire rather well.”
By Tony Attwood Why this story? The argument on Untold, based on our published research, is that well over half of the football news that appears on the newspapers, their bloggettas, radio and TV, are fake. Add this to the deliberately misleading emphasis that the media give even when reporting facts (the Guardian’s notorious “Arsenal …
Read More “How fake news came to dominate the reporting of football in all English media”
By Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold for a long old time you’ll know that the issues of football finances is one that we like to dig into off and on – and not just regarding Arsenal. And there’s a good reason for that, because when we started, nearly 10 years ago, …
By Tony Attwood As we know, football journalists hunt in packs. The one thing they don’t like doing is stepping outside the norm, and coming up with an idea that is different from anything their rivals are saying. If that ever does happen they immediately slap the word EXCLUSIVE on their report, which is a …
By Chayasai 27th August , 2017, Anfield , Liverpool v Arsenal. Liverpool 4 Arsenal 0. That day and date will be remembered for a very, very long time as one of the most important of days in the history of Arsenal F C. That was the day when they played at their worst; …
By Tony Attwood Of course not the greatest win of all time, but anyone with even the gnarled up remains of what used to be a heart, or a micro litre of emotion would surely celebrate what Eddie did last night. Wouldn’t they? Here are a few headlines in the aftermath of the match… Saved …
Read More “9 wins in 11 for Arsenal and never forget, we are not as ill-informed as journalists.”
By Bulldog Drummond So we’ve got the name for this team – not Arsenal Reserves, but “Arsenal II.” Let’s hope we get to use it lots of times. We’ve got three more Europa games for sure and hopefully a few more beyond that, plus maybe some more League Cup games all being well tonight, and …
Read More “Arsenal II v Norwich – the team, the beach and the logic (although maybe not the latter)”
by Tony Attwood Olivier Giroud’s scorpion against Crystal Palace on New Year’s Day won the Puskas Award for the best goal. Below, if I’ve put the right link up (!) you can see not just that goal, but if you stay with the video the ten greatest Giroudian goals. With a bit of luck there …
Read More “Giroud wins the Puskas Award for greatest goal of the season. Of course.”
By Bulldog Drummond Norwich are currently sixth in the Championship, in the bottom play-off place five points off the second spot that brings automatic promotion. Pos Club P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 13 9 2 2 24 13 +11 29 2 Cardiff City 13 8 3 2 18 10 …
Read More “Arsenal v Knor Which Sit Ee. A load of numbers and a bit of a preview”
by Tony Attwood The Everton supporter who, while holding his three year old son, ran or was pushed forward and assaulted the Lyon player has said that he is “ashamed” of his actions. That’s obviously quite right, so he should be. However he also has blamed Everton for not taking the right security measures to prevent …
Read More “There really is something a little odd about Everton especially when they play Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood The figures from yesterday’s game were something else. Arsenal had 65% of possession, 30 shots to Everton’s eight, 14 on target to their three on target, and seven corners, to their none. Of course the mainstream media had hyped up Rooney’s goal against us 200 years ago, and that was indeed a …
Read More “We won 5-2 so what did they say about it? How football commentary is being manipulated”
by Bulldog Drummond Ah Everton. You might remember that we did a review of the home support of most of our rivals in the Premier League before this season began. It is still on the website if you want to see it all, but here is the commentary on Everton. “Everton is one of those …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal. The teams and how the toffee went soft and the media forgave them”
By Bulldog Drummond According to the ever amusingly illogical Sky Sprout discussion Everton are suffering from the pressure of the crowd. The view, we were told is that,”We’ve got the money we’ll have a new ground” and so apparently they ought to be winning. Perhaps we should tell them that building a new ground is …
By Tony Attwood If you have taken a glance at the broader news of football of late you will know that there is an ever deepening scandal surrounding the FA at the moment, a scandal that has swamped Greg Clarke, the chairman, and Martin Glenn, the chief executive. It has shown the FA completely unable …
Read More “Why the government can’t reform the FA, and why the FA will (sadly) survive forever”
By Bulldog Drummond And so Arsenal return from foreign parts having won their last four European away games – which is not bad considering how everyone says we are useless away from home. And we also kept a clean sheet away from home for the first time since beating Olympiakos 3-0 in December 2015. …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal: early team news, player and spectator violence at Goodison.”
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 …
Read More “Just when you thought the Arsenal situation couldn’t get any worse, something very big.”
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 …
Read More “Julian Draxler to Arsenal? Knowing the Truth Behind It”
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, …
Read More “Red Star Belgrade v Arsenal: an alternative approach to the line up.”
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 …
Read More “Every day the FA reveals its corruption and incompetence more fully”
