Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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We need to talk about Granit By Tim Charlesworth There is a lot of bizarre hysteria in the Goonersphere at the moment about why Granit Xhaka is not playing (why spend all that money on a bench-warmer etc. etc.). It makes me wonder what team some people have been watching for the last ten …
Read More “We need to talk about Granit. Is he DM or box-to-box?”
By Tony Attwood This is the team that Arsenal put out last weekend against Hull City. Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Cazorla, Coquelin, Walcott, Ozil, Iwobi, Alexis. On the beach: Ospina, Holding, Gibbs, Elneny, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lucas. And the team against Forest Martinez, Maitland-Niles, Holding, Gabriel, Gibbs, Elneny, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Reine-Adelaide, Akpom, Lucas On the …
Read More “How the transformation of Arsenal applies to both the first XI and the back up team”
By Tony Attwood We have often heard in recent years the stories about how Arsenal is a “selling club” unable to hang on to its youngsters, with the proven child traffickers Barcelona endlessly sniffing around trying to buy back players that they have let go to Arsenal, while using the old “Barca DNA” gibberish as …
By Tony Attwood So just how much impact has the mad money spending of this summer had on the Premier League thus far? To try and get an early view onto what all the expenditure has done I’ve created a league table with three extra columns in it. The “Last Year” column shows where the …
A year on, and how the tune has changed. By Poul Tree. A year ago we met the Tinies in the 3rd round of the League Cup. Our team was Ospina, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Chambers, Gibbs, Arteta, Flamini, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Campbell, Giroud. This time against Forest the team was Martinez, Maitland-Niles, Holding, Gabriel, Gibbs, Elneny, …
By Tony Attwood This morning we came up with our scientific prediction of the team: Oooooospina Debuchy Holding Gabriel Gibbs Elneny The Ox Adelaide Perez Akpom Willock So what has been going on since? The main story about Arsenal seems to be a re-run of last year, that Bellerin is about to leave. The alternative story …
Read More “Forest v Arsenal updates and Bellerin “has Barça DNA in his blood.””
By Tony Attwood When the transfer doorway creaked closed once again we published a table of the players in the 25 and the leading youth players who could also play. In the old days this was irrelevant with league cup matches when groups of youngsters some of us had hardly heard of appeared on the …
Read More “Nottingham Forest v Arsenal – the scientifically selected Arsenal line up.”
By Tony Attwood A lot of people got very exercised about the Arsenal need to buy another striker or three during the summer. We bought one, and in this weekend’s game he came on, on the 88th minute. Last season Giroud was our top scorer with 16 goals. So far in the league he …
By Tony Attwood Just back from London, following attendance at the wonderful wedding of Blacksheep and Dru – and for me an overnight stay at the Highbury Hotel on Seven Sisters. Looking at the results yesterday and catching up on the football I missed, what struck me very much (and my only evidence is Match …
By Bulldog Drummond This is part two of our preview – for the team and the earlier bits please click here. Hull City caretaker manager Mike Phelan has not got too carried away with his opening results, saying, “There is a bit of belief now and hopefully we can cement our place outside the bottom …
Read More “Hull v Arsenal – the great Hull / Arsenal competition, and an Untold wedding”
By Bulldog Drummond So the marauding Twatters have been busy this week, calling for the manager to go, and it was nice to see Untold fighting back with #CurseTheStar #CurseJackWilson. I await news of the demise of both the paper and the journalist. In August it was reported that Hull City could soon be yet another …
Read More “Hull v Arsenal: a guess at the team, injury news, bits and stuff…”
By Tony Attwood Over their past two editions both New Scientist and the Economist (two of the most respected and serious weekly magazines published in the UK) have both run editorial comments on the fact that we are now in the era of Post-Truth. In the era of Truth, the truth was the fundamental from …
NEWER AND LATEST MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND TREATMENTS DISCOVERIES By The Brickfields Gunners . “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you’ll die of a misprint.” – Markus Herz . After the success and great reception of the first article of the series here, titled Latest Medical Discoveries and Treatments for “them” at http://untold-arsenal.com/archives/55550#comment-889540, and …
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By Tony Attwood One of the more unexpected things that comes with publishing this site is the regular stream of emails from people who claim that they have been reading for a long old time, but because we have published x or have mentioned y too often, they are stopping now. Unexpected because in my …
Read More “Hello hello. A tiny sighting of the return of Financial Fair Play. Let’s hope…”
……..Don McMahon Following up on recent posts by our resident psychiatric adviser Dr. Billy the Dog McGraw and by Tony, et al, I came to the conclusion that there is a definite correlation between what the aaa, the discontented fans and the media seem to be suffering. As an actual certified psychologist, I know that …
Read More “Cognitive dissonance, coercive persuasion and the Arsenal…….”
By Tony Attwood “We trained today with the Champions League balls and the bibs with the Champions League on, and it’s difficult to describe the feeling,” said Mr Pochettino the latest in a long line of Tottenham managers. I suppose it gets easier and less exciting for Arsenal, year after year after year playing in …
Read More “Rubbish keeper, wrong selection, hopeless tactics. Oh look we drew.”
By Bulldog Drummond. Amazingly Ibrahimovic scored 113 goals in 122 games over four seasons with PSG – the sort of figures you normally only find recorded during Chapman’s management of Arsenal. These days they look like the sort of figures Messi and Ronaldo get. He could get them of course because he was very good, …
Read More “PSG v Arsenal. The teams, the tactical options, and the loss of Ibrahimovic”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, head of psychology at the University Hospital of the North Circular Road. In psychology we have a term called “identity fusion” – something that brings together and holds together members of gangs and other groups. It is a curious thing because it can make groups and organisations that are beaten and …
By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger has confirmed that he was has offered the chance to manage Paris Saint-Germain multiple times, in the interviews leading up to tonight’s game. PSG has long been thought to be after Mr Wenger and L’Equipe said yesterday that Mr Wenger was offered the job in 2011, 2013 and 2014. …
Read More “Arsène Wenger admits he turned down PSG in build up to tonight’s game”
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By Bulldog Drummond. Last year on 13 March, Paris Saint Germain won the French Ligue 1 title for the fourth successive time. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored four on that day as they beat bottom club Troyes 9-0 and became the first team to win the championship after 30 matches. By this time PSG were 25 points ahead …
By Tony Attwood There’s an increased focus on referees this season – which is rather interesting after the years and years of work that Walter and his team has put into looking at refereeing from every possible angle which has been utterly disregarded by all and sundry. We saw the first hint of this new …
By Tony Attwood As you will know if you have been paying attention 115 players were linked with Arsenal as transfers into the club between April and the end of the transfer market. 22 players were said to be leaving. 99% of the stories were untrue. These stories were made up all over the …
By Tony Attwood The club formally known as West Ham United have got for free (or as near as damn it when compared with the cost of the Emirates) a stadium. It has a 60,000 capacity, compared with the 35,000 capacity of Upton Park. They had a bit of teething trouble – some of the …
By Tony Attwood To get into the Emirates for each home match I have to go through two security checks. Fair enough, these are troubling times. But if I, a season ticket holder of advancing years have to go through two security checks, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING AT THE AWAY END????? Yet again …
