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 In answer to that question, obviously none of us knows. None of us knows anything of the future. But we can make a few guesses based on what happens at the moment and what has happened in the past. If we take the “big six” as they have become known in the …
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By Bulldog Drummond There is an article in the Daily Telegraph today by Chris Bascombe headlined “The inconvenient truth for Liverpool: world class players no longer want to move to Anfield.” It represents a remarkable shift in media attitudes, for although it is not replicated in every media outlet by any means, it does in …
Read More “Liverpool v Arsenal: how the world has changed for Liverpool in recent years”
By Bulldog Drummond Shall we begin with the injuries, since Arsenal are always pretty nearly top as you will know if you listen to TalkSport. And yes it is pretty much still true – if you hold the list upside down. # TEAM TOTAL INJURIES LATEST PLAYER INJURED INJURY 1 Hull City 12 D …
Read More “Liverpool! v Arsenal: the facts, the figures, and the other bits that we made up.”
By Tony Attwood The chief executive of BT has said that the endless price rises for the cost of TV sports rights must come to an end, and he has suggested that the place that this decline should begin is with the Champions League – for which TV bidding has just opened. It is a …
Read More “The details of how the crash in English football will happen, and when it will happen.”
An Untold exclusive interview. Jürgen: Hans, Hans, have you heard, I have a new job – a really important football job in England! Hans: Wonderful Jürgen, which TV station are you working for? Jürgen: Don’t be silly! I’ve got a job as a manager. Manager of Liverpool! no less. Hans: Sorry I thought you said you …
Read More “Arrogance, amnesia and assumptions: how the football media deals with Liverpool”
Weird News By Sir Hardly Anyone If you want to measure the impact of Untold in recent years consider this. Four years ago you would struggle to find analysis even of the most rudimentary kind about refereeing in any blogs or mainstream media sources. Now such analyses are becoming commonplace. Yes Commonplace. I mean, …
By The Brickfields Gunners Tony, I have been mulling in my head, for quite sometime now, a fictitious sports story that could be a great book, a play or even a movie or mini series screenplay, Or all of them, It could either be a serious, sentimental and heart wrenching tale ; a lighthearted, feel …
Read More “A potential, great Untold Arsenal original sports novel.”
by Tony Attwood It is something I’ve raised a few times – why the media and its camp followers don’t ask “why?” It is an important question I believe, because asking “why?” and following the answer can quite often lead to discoveries that those involved in the issue under discussion may want left hidden. …
by Tony Attwood Gianni Infantino is of course the head of Fifa, the new broom coming in after the corruption ridden old guard. He has written and spoken about his mission being to “protect football’s integrity” and “change the face of the organisation”. As part of this mission he has just been to Zimbabwe for an audience …
by Don McMahon In answer to Dr.Billy’s excellent question in his most recent post, (Why do some football supporters get so angry?) here are a few points I’ve discovered over the years of treating mental health issues in angry supporters like DG (aka; something’s rotten in Denmark) and other aaa/WOB cheerleaders: 1) The internet is mostly …
Read More “Football’s greatest malaise and what we can do about it”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Having established that fewer than three in every 100 transfer stories about Arsenal actually come to pass (and those generally only emerge as the player really has travelled to London for a medical) we all thought it would be a jolly jape to see what the fake news industry (which of …
By Tony Attwood It cannot have escaped your attention, unless you really have no interaction with the media whatsoever (other than Untold, obviously) that Tottenham Hotspur have been getting a good press just as much as Arsenal have been getting a bad press, this season, last season, and indeed most seasons. We know why – …
by Tony Attwood The news that the President of the USA has started to remove various news organisations such as the BBC, the Guardian and the New York Times from press conferences is interesting in its own right, of course. But it is also interesting in the light of the campaign that Untold has …
Read More “Trump banning the media; the media being selective with reality. There’s a difference.”
by Quiet Quentin It has been a curiously muted build up to this game with Mr Wenger being particularly tight lipped in response to, it must be said, what was some untypically muted questioning from the world’s media at the pre-match press conference. Indeed at times one wondered if there was anyone there at all. …
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychologist, University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. I have long been fascinated by the anger and aggression that is expressed on Untold – not so much the anger that you will read in the comment columns, but the anger, aggression and threats that Untold chooses not …
By Tony Attwood Of course, we all know that what the media and the bloggettas say has nothing to do with reality when it comes to football, but interesting to note (returning, as I have, to England after 3 weeks in Australia) that the press have got a bit fed up with Arsenal bashing and …
Read More “The one gigantic question the football media refuse to ask, let alone answer”
By Tony Attwood “Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re trying to be so quiet?” That opening line from one of Bob Dylan’s most famous songs (Visions of Johanna) seems in a way to sum up where things are with Arsenal at the moment. Dylan’s song is in many ways …
Read More “Arsenal in the future: it is just a sense of perspective”
By Tony Attwood I write this having had my final swim in the Pacific (at least for this holiday) while preparing for my final meal out with my daughter this time around. I’ve had the most stunning, amazing time (thank you for asking) and I really would love to stay longer, but the tickets …
By Tony Attwood Being in Australia, as I still am for a few more days, I am fairly dependent on news from Untold and the newspapers on line to follow football. Today, I read in the Daily Mirror “After Lincoln and Millwall upset the odds in Saturday’s cup ties, the internet’s many comedians turned their …
Read More “Sutton v Arsenal part 2: the teams, the gibberish, the snippets and injury news.”
By Tony Attwood Of course there was a time when Arsenal were regularly knocked out of the FA Cup by teams from lower leagues: Chapman’s league champions were knocked out by Wallsall, in 1933. Later the club was undone by Northampton Town in 1958, Sheffield Utd in 1959, Rotherham Utd in 1960, Sunderland in 1961, …
Read More “Sutton v Arsenal: greatest giant killers and a look at non-leaguers of the past and”
By Tony Attwood Going away from everyday life for a few weeks gives one a chance to reflect, and given that Untold Arsenal is now over nine years old and by the time I get back from Australia will have published almost 7000 articles, on this subject alone I find I have a lot of …
Read More “Being upside down: seeing football from a completely different perspective”
By Tony Attwood As we all know Mr Wenger has kept us in the Champions League every year. Arsenal (from 1998–99 to 2016–17) have participated in 19 consecutive campaigns which is second only to Real Mad. In essence we have been in the top four for 19 years, our lowest position by definition is of …
Read More “Who needs context when we have a right to win the league now?”
The astonishing depths to which the Premier League has sunk, And 10 things the next Arsenal manager must consider by Tony Attwood English – not to say European – football is at a very low ebb. Here we have a team that managed to win its Champions League group unbeaten and so qualify for the …
by Tony Attwood Remember Portsmouth. Cup winning team with a long proud history? Remember Leeds being torn to shreds? Or Cardiff? Or if you really keep your eyes on such things, and to prove it is not just Britain, remember Malaga? Or if you really, really follow football how about Chester City, Darlington, Hereford Utd., …
By Tony Attwood How are Bayern doing this year? They are of course top of the league as the constitution of the federal republic demands, but the feeling is that they are not the sophisticated team they used to be. They are seen this year as not stylish, not the Barcelona of the north, …
