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 I can’t think when the last time was that I quoted the Daily Mirror – certainly not quoting the Daily Mirror for doing something innovative and interesting which the rest of the media had not done. But they have done it. Up to a point. The article in question was by John …
Read More “Is Alexis really a bad influence? Or just a bad player (some of the time).”
By Tony Attwood OK so you don’t want Mr Wenger to continue in his job. Maybe you want Ivan Gazidis to go as well. Perhaps you want Silent Stan to sell – he’s got Mr Usmanov always waiting in the wings so why not. Which raises the question, what are you going to do about …
Read More “What is the most effective way of bringing about change at Arsenal?”
By Tony Attwood Anyone with a mind to look at such things would have seen the perfect “before and after” pattern in the game against Bayern. Before the match BBC Radio 5 held a mid-afternoon interview with a man described as an Arsenal fan who spoke about how upset he was about the club’s current …
By Bulldog Drummond There was one really interesting and barbed comment that most of the media failed to analyse (well actually most of the media fail to analyse most stuff but this was a particular one upon which they faileed to turn their gaze). Mr Wenger’s statement that, “You have to accept that a team …
Read More “Arsenal v Bayern. The teams, the multiple personalities and the return of Per”
By Bulldog Drummond The injury league still looks completely unbelievable, and so the media are not believing it, by not mentioning it. Arsenal are showing 3 “injuries” – although we are told that Ozil’s injury is an illness of some sort. Looking down the list however he is not the only player with an illness …
Read More “Arsenal v FC Bayern München: Cech frustrated, lucid rage and total commitment”
By Tony Attwood I read the comment that I have put in the headline the other day. I thought it a strange comment at the time, but knowing how I am not averse to making awful cock-ups when I rely on my memory I decided to look again at the figures. But it turns …
Read More “Arsenal clearly should do better, because the club is so wealthy.”
By Tony Attwood The story of Arsenal losing a highly talented player is not new. It has happened regularly, as the media is now telling us over and over. Robin van Persie, Cesc Fàbregas, Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry, Samir Nasri, Gael Clichy, Thomas Vermaelen, Bacary Sagna, Alex Song, Emmanuel Eboué, Andrey Arshavin, Emmanuel Adebayor, Aleksandr Hleb, Ashley Cole… But it is interesting that …
Read More “The flaw in Alexis Sanchez’ make up may make this the moment to move him on.”
By Tony Attwood Although neither the anti-Arsenal-Arsenal of the bloggettas nor the Arrogance, Amnesia and Assumption approach of the mainstream media ever look back to the past with a sense of insight and understanding, history reveals that there was, and still is an Arsenal Way of doing things. Originally there was the notion that Royal …
By Tony Attwood I see that the current President of the United States has accused the former President of the United States of tapping his telephone. It has also been suggested that President Obama is attempting a coup against President Trump. Some media outlets report this as serious news, others are highly sceptical. If …
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 …
Read More “What will happen when Arsène Wenger leaves Arsenal?”
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”
