By Tony Attwood I was in Cambridge last night – a small city on the border of East Anglia and the East Midlands, packed with amazing buildings from the 13th century onwards. Multiple students, ten thousand bikes, endless restaurants – one of which I was in with a business colleague. We had a nice meal …
By Tony Attwood I was pleased to publish Fishpie’s piece Arsenal season ticket holder issues his own press statement – as I have said many times, if I am offered a coherent article which argues against my own views, of course I’ll publish it. The reason that there are few such pieces is because I am …
ARSENAL SEASON-TICKET HOLDER ISSUES HIS OWN PRESS STATEMENT By Fishpie Following the news that Arsene Wenger has signed for two more seasons and in response to the statements issued by Mr. Keonke, Mr Gazidis and by Mr Wenger, an Arsenal fan has issued his own statement to the press: “I view the Club statements …
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, senior psychologist, University Hospital of the North Circular Road. When I have occasionally read a Gabriele Marcotti article or heard him broadcast I’ve generally thought he brings a new perspective to whatever is being discussed perhaps because of his international heritage. He can be funny and is knowledgeable in …
By Tony Attwood Following my little piece about how the Conservative Party manifesto speaks of taking the internet in the UK under government control, and how that part of the manifesto is not mentioned by the mainstream media (except for the Independent, which is no longer published in a print edition but just appears on …
By Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold just recently you will know we have a technical problem. I am trying to fix it but in the meanwhile if you would like to help please read this short article and post a comment. Here’s a quick summary of what’s going on at the moment. …
By Tony Attwood UPDATE AT 1223 BST I have made a number of changes to the way comments are handled on the site and I am hoping with all fingers crossed (which explains the twerping errors) that I might have fixed the problem we have had in the last few days of comments not appearing. …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Bart. One year ago we started this as a bit of a joke – listing every single player that some semi-sober journo in a pub suggested was about to join or leave Arsenal. We ended up with well over 100 joiners – with only 3 of which were correct. The …
By Tony Attwood In my piece earlier today I pointed out that the Conservative Party’s proposal to introduce huge restrictions on what people can post, share and publish online in the UK, and so allow Britain to become “the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet”, is not being …
By Tony Attwood How we react to events is the key to everything. How we reacted at Wembley in supporting Arsenal in the semi-final and final, certainly made a difference. . Likewise how we react to the threat to bring the internet in the UK under central government control will make a difference – at …
By Tony Attwood In the days when the Guardian can simultaneously run an article that says, very positively “Arsenal fans must consign factions to past” and a second which announces “Wenger’s contract unlikely to break negative cycle” there is the slight hope that the paranoia that is at the heart of the newspaper industry might …
by Tony Attwood Last year there was a lot of celebrating as it was announced that overall Premier League clubs made a profit of £113m in the 2014/15 season. Now in the complete analysis of club finances made by the Guardian and published today for 2015/16, 12 clubs are shown as making a profit totalling …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. And so we enter the next, and probably final, Wenger era. And to commence the new coverage I saw this on the jolly old interweb thing Trophies won since Arsène Wenger came to English football: Arsenal – 16 Tottenham – 2 Spurs fans – “We want you to stay…” …
By Menace What difference does half an inch make? Some say size does not matter but when a ball bounces off the inside of a goal post & does not end up in the net it makes millions of pounds difference. The half an inch in size of goal post (cross bar to ground- not …
By Tony Attwood If the reports are true and Mr Wenger has his two years contract then the issue does arise – what will the anti-Wengerians do, knowing that Mr Wenger will retire after two years and that their protests are unlikely to make him leave sooner. (After all, one of their complaints is always that …
By Tai Emeka Obasi Arsenal fans all are still celebrating the FA Cup triumph over League Champions, Chelsea FC. For three times in four seasons, Arsene Wenger has delivered the world’s oldest trophy to his dear Gunners. Past two deliveries were achieved via beating Hall City and Aston Villa, both supposed underdogs. But the …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Right, I think we’ve done the old FA Cup malarky, except to note in passing that it is good to see that as always 160 seats are reserved at Wembley for the honourable gentlemen and their ladies of the Shire of Rutland FA. Indeed I was of course able to take …
By Tony Attwood If we do nothing, next season will be like this: the anti-Arsenal and their media allies shutting up during the good runs, and then coming out and attacking the manager viciously and remorselessly after any defeat or perceived poor performance. Yes, the media and the aaa’s combined propaganda efforts this season were …
By Tony Attwood, floating somewhere in the wide blue yonder… I got a bit of stick for my chart published in the early hours of this morning showing number of victors of the FA Cup and not including Arsenal. I’ll re do it at the end of this little piece with Arsenal included. One …
by Tony Attwood A shame because quite a few of those people who were at the stadium yesterday rather thought it a jolly experience, and worth going. Anyway, below is a list of wins of the FA Cup. Club Wins First final won Last final won Manchester United 12 1909 2016 Tottenham Hotspur 8 …
By Tony Attwood It happens sometimes, but not that often, that the media and their bloggetta camp followers make out that the cup final is so obviously a one-sided affair that it is hardly worth even writing a preview of it. Of course what they forget each time is that occasionally the underdogs come out …
Does a player acquired as a big-money transfer perform well in the first season? Let’s look at recent history. By Zuruvi There is school of thought shared by some Arsenal fans here on this Forum that says that big-money transfers don’t work in the first or second seasons after the transfer has taken place. …
By Tony Attwood As I guess we all know, no club has won the FA Cup three times running since Blackburrn Rovers in 1886. Before them, one team, Wanderers, also did it three times in a row. In the past 131 years (or to be more accurate 122, to account for the war years) no …
By Tony Attwood Jack Pitt-Brooke of the Independent recently wrote an article in which he said, “…it was impressive and surprising that Wenger’s reaction on Sunday evening, in his post-match press conference, was to take all the blame on his own shoulders. By admitting that his season of silence over his own future had damaged …
By Tony Attwood What we do seem to know (although I use the word “know” in its footballing sense, meaning “according to reports” Gabriel will not be playing. He has been ruled out until August with the medial knee ligament injury. Danny Welbeck is reported to have said, in relation to his injury, “It’s just …