By Bulldog Drummond Although it was largely missed due to the mass hysteria of Chelsea winning the league, there was another match last night: Everton beat Watford 1-0. Rather amusingly Statto has made a mistake in its calculations and have Everton above Arsenal in the league, but just in case that is where you started …
By Bulldog Drummond. . “Arsenal injury blow as key duo missing from training ahead of Stoke clash” screams the Excess. And yes they must have a story because they go on with “ARSENAL are likely to be without two key stars for their clash with Stoke City at the bet365 Stadium on Saturday.”But who …
By Tony Attwood Unfortunately Andrew is away on holiday and can’t do his normal referee preview, and I certainly don’t feel qualified to stand in his shoes. So all I can do is pick a highlight or two from the fact that the referee is Mike Dean. As you will probably know the Untold team …
By Bulldog Drummond. As one or two people began to realise just around the time of the Southampton match, Arsenal have gone across to wing backs, and started winning. OK, all the media attention was on Tottenham finishing above us for the first time since the Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066 but rather the …
By Tony Attwood The league table according to goals scored is a funny little thing especially as it shows Bournemouth above Man U Pos P W D L F A GD Pt 1 Chelsea 35 27 3 5 75 29 +46 84 2 Liverpool 36 20 10 6 71 42 +29 70 3 Tottenham Hotspur …
By Tony Attwood Way, way back, before the dawn of time (well, March 2015 actually) Untold published its article Football for the fans: the visions of three Arsenal supporters Within days the Guardian rushed out its article Reclaiming football for all: presenting the manifesto for a better game by David Goldblatt. From the length of the recommendations, …
By Tony Attwood Have you heard the one about Fifa reforming itself? It’s a story that is much liked in the English media as it encourages the thought that the world cup in Russia is going to be a jolly good thing, with no violence, no corruption, and beautiful football throughout. Which makes it rather …
By Bulldog Drummond It has proven interesting in recent weeks to consider the league table as it was last season and as it is now. Last year at this moment, with 33 played, here it is. Last since in the last six at this point we had won 2, drawn 3, lost 1. 9 points. …
By Bulldog Drummond . And so as we approach the game lets have a quick look at a few stats that tend to get lost amidst the generalised chit chat and three line bloggettas. These first sets of figures are derived from stats on WhoScored.com . These figures are for Arsenal away games, with p/g …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsene Wenger has revealed that Laurent Koscielny and Granit Xhaka could miss the game with Southampton on Wednesday night. But even so, and even with the newspapers now in desperation to hold onto their fantasies by printing claims that Arsenal have had the most men injured in the last 10 years (they …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. The Director of Football story is back on the agenda after at least a week without it coming up. And so are the stories about the new manager. This time it is Borussia Dortmund man Michael Zorc who has been approached about taking a job in London – and the usual …
By Tony Attwood It is interesting that when the level of corruption within Fifa became clear at the highest all the English newspapers rush in to condemn the Association, all claiming to have been keeping a close eye on the situation. But the rest of time, when Fifa just becomes embroiled in normal run of …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal, as we know, have not done well against Manchester United of late, and no result (not even a gigantic win) is going to gain positives in the media at the moment. The rule is “knock Wenger knock Wenger knock Wenger” just as in almost every newspaper in England the standard approach …
By Bulldog Drummond Following on from the last article Man U’s fine run of away form, and Totts lose on a big pitch here are some more details of what Man U have done away from home… Manchester United are unbeaten since 23 October, a run of 28 games. but what is hidden in these figures is …
By Bulldog Drummond Who would have thought it? Tottenham, it seems really don’t like big pitches, and so lost to West Ham, where we won 5-1. Our victory of course doesn’t count for it was one of those in which the referee managed to give us a goal we shouldn’t have and so cannot …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Taking all the rumours we have seen so far, here is the list of players that Arsenal are most certainly going to sign this summer according to the English newspapers. They got 3 right out of 110 tries last year. Can they improve their rating this time around??? …
By Tony Attwood For West Ham, it was a dream deal. A stadium built by the tax payer, given to the club on a tiny rent, in which the club didn’t have to pay most of the match day activities. And as a bonus, if the club’s status in the league declined so would …
By Tony Attwood My question, as you might have guessed, relates to Barcelona particularly, although recent developments in the UK suggest that it might also relate to some English and Scottish clubs too. But we know that Barcelona has been found guilty of child trafficking, and now we find that Neymar is indeed to stand trial …
By Tony Attwood “Expensive flop Granit Xhaka the personification of Arsenal’s problems” That is the headline on a blog today. Granit Xhaka is a flop. We know it. We don’t have to give evidence. That’s it. What of course is never taken into account is the fact that the majority of players (around 75%) …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. 58 days to go til the window creaks open and the glass falls out, and already we are on course to beat last summer’s amazing total number of 110 players who are coming to Arsenal. Of course you might think that last summer’s abject failure by the assembled bunch of geezers …
By Tony Attwood Back at the start of this season a few of us involved in Untold Arsenal raised eyebrows at one particular transfer: Mario Balotelli to Nice. And this for two reasons. One was because Balotelli had had such a troubled time at Liverpool, after having been such a quality forward (not to say penalty …
WHAT CHANGES DO WE REALLY NEED? … Don McMahon The anguish, whining and prognosticating that has occurred after our loss at WHL and our declining fortunes this season are truly Shakespearean in the extreme. The press are overjoyed with their hyperbole against AFC and the aaa are jubilant at the prospect of having one more …
By Tony Attwood A comment on Untold yesterday got me thinking. It was the one about having “owners who care”, and the problem with Arsenal being that we don’t. Of course as soon as one looks at a statement like that it opens a can of worms because “caring” is difficult to define. The current …
By Tony Attwood There is an article in the Telegraph today that says, “Once the butt of every joke, now Tottenham are laughing at complacent Arsenal’s expense.” It is an approach which is replicated in many newspapers and on many blogs; Tottenham are on the way up and Arsenal are on the way down, and …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes it has been a big and important moment for Tottenham as they achieved the their dreams over the past 20+ years by finishing this season above Arsenal. And Tottenham’s aim is now clear – to emulate and then overtake Arsenal in terms of the number of times they have …
