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 From what I saw, (and as with the commentary about Swansea supporters, people in the ground can only report what they saw), the Red Star fans were what away fans should be. Very positive, very noisy, no fighting among themselves, no flares. They didn’t exceed their ticket allocation in the number of …
By Bulldog Drummond So as we get to our final post before the game (given that it will soon be time to jump in the jalopy and gallop off down the M1, what about the jolly old injuries? Well that website that is having a go at challenging our regular reports on injuries, has now …
Read More “Arsenal v Red Star: the Jack conundrum, injuries, Europa records, teams.”
By Bulldog Drummond Supposing someone could read your mind. More than that, could read what you will be thinking in a few moments time. Would that be spooky? If you think so it is it might well be a good idea to lay off the bloggettas for the moment because one of the pop ups …
Read More “Arsenal v Red Star: Lemar, Mahrez, the atmosphere, and the teams first time we met.”
By Tony Attwood All the latest bits and pieces of the day include the rather exciting news that Jose Mourinho is due to be in court on Friday over the issue of tax fraud in Spain. It relates fairly obviously to his time at Real Madrid. The state claims that he owes them just …
Read More “Jose Mourinho in court on Friday, Lacazette leaving.”
By Bulldog Drummond As pointed out by a couple of correspondents very quickly the table below includes the Manchester City game played at Wembley. Sorry that slipped through in the cut and paste job of listing the games. I think that even without that game, there is still a record in the offing – but …
Read More “Arsenal v Red Star: a record at the Emirates approaches.”
By Tony Attwood Although it rarely makes the news in the British press these days in the United States and Switzerland the issue of the corruption of football on a global scale continues to make the headlines. And much of the time the story is the same: dozens of people and dozens of companies have …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsene Wenger has suggested Mathieu Debuchy could stay at Arsenal and play at centre back, which is a position he will probably take up again this Thursday. Given how much playing time he had missed and the fact that he is a full back not a centre back the performance in the …
Read More “Europa game 4. Early thoughts on the team and comparing with Man U’s approach”
By Tony Attwood Olivier Giroud is known in France for all sorts of things. For example, everyone in the country who follows football will agree it was his goals that were fundamental in getting totally unfancied Montpellier to become French champions for the first time in their history. They were also the launch pad for …
By Tony Attwood Each year I tell myself that I am not going to do another analysis of how much the top clubs in the PL spent on transfers and what they have got out of it – mostly because it seems to prove the same thing each year. And then something comes along and …
Read More “How much does it cost to buy a trophy these days?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone We’re not going to publish it but some of the abuse received by Untold following our various commentaries on the match against Swansea was really a little extraordinary and over the top. I mean, we’re used to getting it from some quarters but this was a little out of the …
by Croxley Rebel A game that will certainly not live long in anyone’s memory. The Swans parked the bus and that was Ki to their strategy. After 15 minutes of solid Arsenal pressure, it didn’t Clucas though the Welsh side would pose any sort of threat to the Arsenal goal, but up popped their ginger …
By Tony Attwood There is a bloggetta headline this morning that says, “Arsenal are now unlikely to finish in the top four and must prioritise Europa League – study”. I’ve read the “study” thing through but really can’t quite see how it is much of a study – it is in fact a computer model …
Read More “What does Arsenal have to do to improve the club’s present position?”
By Tony Attwood The violence that occurred in the crowd during the Arsenal Swansea match was shocking. It must have been particularly frightening for anyone close by who was not minded to be involved, and is always disturbing to see. But is it news? Obviously not for the BBC coverage and various press reporters in …
Read More “Arsenal v Swansea retrospective. Awful crowd violence”
By Bulldog Drummond And so to the final part of the match preview… and in case you missed the story thus far here it is Arsenal v Swansea. Mr Wenger on saints, billionaires and celebrity. Arsenal v Swansea City Saturday October 28 – The Match officials – a ref who makes a fool of …
Read More “Arsenal v Swansea: The injuries, the horrible negative approach, the form, the teams”
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 …
Read More “Arsenal v Swansea. Mr Wenger on saints, billionaires and celebrity.”
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.”
