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 We live in a world in which it is commonplace to see problems as simple, and thus open to one solution, rather than seeing problems as caused by multiple issues. In short there is a problem, and there is a single cause of that problem. And yet history suggests over and over …
Read More “Changing Arsenal’s fortunes could take a lot more than is imagined.”
By Bulldog Drummond So now we see the PGMO fighting back against VAR – undoubtedly the first assault of many. An article has appeared in the Guardian including these lines Refereeing decisions are not the real problem here. The real problem is the ludicrously disproportionate attention devoted to discussing refereeing decisions. The number of actual …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal: the team, an honest bloggetta and a multiplicity of line ups.”
By Tony Attwood 14 January, 2018. You’ll know, if you have been paying attention, that we are celebrating Untold’s 10th anniversary. Well, to be more precise, I’m celebrating Untold’s anniversary, I am not sure what you are doing. Now if you also occasionally take a look at the Arsenal History Society web site you’ll know …
Read More “Untold Arsenal is 10 years old today. A thank you to some special friends.”
by Bulldog Drummond As we saw in the last piece, Arsenal are in what one might call “modest” form away from home and this really should start picking up now. Bournemouth have been having a poor run with just one win in the last 12 games, although the last four matches that one win (against …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal – Arsenal’s form of late: must do better.”
by Bulldog Drummond And so to the seaside, where Bournemouth have been given a £7.6m fine for breaching Football League Financial Fair Play rules after accruing losses in their season en route to Premier League promotion. The rules were instituted specifically to stop clubs running up such debts with the idea of paying them off …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal: the illegal activities, the fines and the form.”
By Tony Attwood We probably all know about what Graham Rix got involved in post-Arsenal, and it’s not something I’ve particularly wanted to re-visit. Many of us watched Rix, enjoyed his work for Arsenal as a footballer, and then, well… everyone can have their own views. But at the same time I’ve tried to do …
Read More “Perhaps the most horrific report I have ever read in 10 years of running Untold”
By Tony Attwood One of the criticisms Untold has repeatedly made of the TTT (transfer tittle tattle) that is so beloved by the newspaper websites and their bloggetta coat-tail hangers on, is that none of the rumours take any account of a simple known fact – how much space each club has in its 25 …
Read More “The real transfer story: How much space does each team have in its squad?”
by our Anglo-French revolutionary team. It is part of the cleverness of PGMO that no one – mark this my friends, no one – oversees the body. It is independent, separate, complete in itself and above all laws. Now of late there has been some debate to whom the PGMO answers. Certainly in a sport …
By Bulldog Drummond If we take a look at the last 10 games between Arsenal and Chelsea this is what we find Date Game Res Score Competition 25 April 2015 Arsenal v Chelsea D 0-0 Premier League 02 Aug 2015 Arsenal v Chelsea W 1-0 FA Community Shield 19 Sep 2015 Chelsea v Arsenal L …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal, the teams, the transfers, and that 100.6% accuracy from the referee.”
By Bulldog Drummond We’ve been reporting of late how the newspapers have stopped doing Arsenal match previews, perhaps in an attempt to suggest that Arsenal are no longer of any interest to the public at large. But now suddenly they have a chance of some scandal there’s megaloads of coverage, with the denigration being heaped …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal; with one defeat in 10 Arsenal are in meltdown.”
By Bulldog Drummond Although all attention will be on the referee’s assistants back in the PGMO Bunker there is also a football match on tomorrow – the first leg of the league cup semifinal. My guess is that having put the kiddies out in front of Nottingham Forest Mr Wenger will return to the mainstream. …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal in the League Cup. Is anyone fit and not in disgrace?”
By Tony Attwood On 13 August 2013 the Daily Mail ran a piece on referees which says, “According to the Premier League, 99 per cent of offside decisions are correct, for the third season running. They also claim that 98.6 per cent of decisions made in the penalty area are accurate. “The assistant referee makes …
Read More “Referees will be over 100% accurate in matches with VAR according to PGMO figures”
by Tony Attwood I have written a little on the Arsenal History Society website comparing today’s AAA and wondering how they would have got on in the time of Herbert Chapman. Chapman, as we know railed against the antics and jeering of the “boo-boys” as the anti-Chapman gangs were called, and they took the FA …
Read More “Just how bad is Arsenal II? Nottingham Olympiakos set for the future.”
By Bulldog Drummond So as we now know, the end of last season was all a myth and Arsenal did not win the FA Cup (see FA insist that Chelsea are the current holders of the cup). So we move onto today’s little outing to try and overcome not just Forest, and the raging media, …
By Tony Attwood Before we finish our round up of the forthcoming match with Nottingham Forest I thought I would offer a little insight into the workings of the FA in relation to the FA Cup, and its relationship with Arsenal. The Emirates FA Cup web page is a page which promises us “A complete list …
ByBulldog Drummond The constant attempts at undermining Arsene Wenger have now geared up to another level as the bloggettas and their feeder newspapers are now tending to ignore the fact there is a game coming up and instead focus on attacking the manager. The Guardian has been doing this for months, and now others are …
Read More “Forest v Arsenal: bloggettas attack Mr Wenger and home and away form and recent games”
Sorry for the delay in publication of this article this morning; my car was involved in an altercation with a fox in the early hours of the morning over who had the right of way on a particular country lane. No one hurt except the fox (although amazingly it still managed to run away – …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Hello again my dear pals and chums, and welcome to another round up from the wild, crazy and one might say semi-skimmed world of transfer stories. Yes, we have signed one player, two more about sure to come (I know that cos I read it on the bloggettas) and everything is …
Read More “Arsenal in danger of ending right back where they started as transfer chaos deepens”
. How the Flat Earthers took over football journalism at the Guardian. By Tony Attwood From my perspective one has to be either fairly silly or rather desperate to dismiss a proposition as “ludicrous” without giving any reasoning or evidence, especially in a newspaper that prides itself on the quality of its journalism and ability …
By Blacksheep In the last week Arsene Wenger has been the focus of much press attention on account of what he has had to say about the standard of refereeing in the Premier League. In the last decade Untold Arsenal has ploughed a sometimes lonely but determined furrow in highlighting the ineptitude of some of …
By Bulldog Drummond What all the teams in the top section of the league do is touch the ball more than the other teams. Here’s the table of touches this season Position Club Touches 1. Manchester City 20,085 2. Liverpool 17,233 3. Arsenal 17,212 4. Tottenham Hotspur 16,168 5. Chelsea 16,116 6. Manchester United 15,371 …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea: the teams, a match fixing update and the latest from Paul Merson”
By Bulldog Drummond As we often do with these games, we can have a look at the results Chelsea and Arsenal have had in playing matches against each other and against Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United. Here to start us off are Chelsea’s games… Date Match Result Score Competition 06 Aug 2017 Arsenal …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea; top six comparisons and the growing injury list”
by Bulldog Drummond Throughout this season we have been comparing the home and away form of the clubs we’ve been playing, and it has proven to be one of the most straightforward and reliable indicators of what might happen. Not perfect of could – we would need to factor in the referee at the same …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea: the indicators that tend to be the best predictors of the result”
by BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS As the new year begins I look back a rather good year personally as well as for the Arsenal. A third FA Cup win in 4 years is a great record, and that too against the Champions of the EPL . I like to think that we have progressed in many ways …
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By Bulldog Drummond This will be match number 140 between these two teams, the first such game being 23 February 1901, a 0-1 home defeat for Woolwich Arsenal in the FA Cup. Since then Arsenal have won 71 of the games, West Brom 38 and 30 have been drawn. The bulk of the WBA victories …
Read More “WBA v Arsenal. Past events, match overload, present team, have a great party.”
