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 Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw According to a comment in the New Scientist, “Nine of out ten people hold a delusional belief.” Now holding delusional beliefs is what Untold Arsenal has been accusing journalists and their fellow travellers of doing through most of this summer. Assuming that just writing down the name of …
By Tony Attwood The deep rooted corruption and disregard for the rules by the three largest Spanish clubs and the Spanish Football Association has been confirmed yet again after Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid had their appeals against transfer bans rejected by Fifa, much to the embarrassment of the mainstream UK media who seek to talk …
Sir Hardly Anyone considers what the bloggettas do now the window has slammed and the glass is lying on the floor. Indeed, what do the bloggettas do when the window has cracked and all the transfer rumours have been put to bed for another few weeks, before the fever of the January opening breaks forth? …
By Tony Attwood Although Untold is known by some as being the pro-Wenger blog, it has also always been a campaigning website, arguing as strongly as it can for change in certain areas, as well as pointing out where evidence is being ignored or misused by journalists in their own commentaries on football. As an …
Read More “Oh look, a newspaper has discovered the reason why England teams are rubbish. Again.”
By Tony Attwood One thing is absolutely certain; Arsenal will get injuries this season. And when they come along the people who really do nick a living in football – the journalists – will be there with their Arsenal Injury Crisis. Indeed I am surprised they haven’t been at it today, given that Arsenal are …
Read More “Arsenal near the top of the injury list, so which back up players do we have?”
By Tony Attwood For years and years Tottenham have gloried in making a profit overall on transfers. They haven’t always spent that money well, but they have made a profit. But not this year. For years Arsenal were known for selling players at a profit, even if they didn’t want to, but not this …
. By Fishpie Last season Untold was good enough to publish a series of my posts which tried to measure and assess our progress during the campaign. The basic idea was that Win, Draw, Loss and Points data from the previous 10 years had given us a pretty consistent picture of what it had taken …
by Tony Attwood The first thing to note about Perez is that he is on the up, and was having his best form at Deportivo, playing in a team that was struggling to score goals. He got 17. So at the most basic level the idea is probably that with Ozil pushing through perfect balls, …
By Tim Charlesworth As we head deep into the interlull with the transfer window closed, it finally feels like the football season is ready to start. The first three games had a curious ‘pre-season’ feel to them, with summer weather, lots of teams missing players following the Euros and everyone looking a little …
Former Premier League referee Mark Halsey claims he was told to say he’d not seen incidents by refereeing body That is the headline from the Daily Mirror and it is popping up in quite a few newspaper web sites now, originally mostly finishing with a pompous statement about how the newspaper has contacted (ie sent …
Read More “Mark Halsey claims he was told to say he’d not seen incidents, by PGMO”
By Tony Attwood If you have been paying attention you will know that recently Andrew has written a series of detailed articles on Arsenal’s players, including the “25” list of registered players, the loanees, and what is going on with the under 23 and under 18 teams. Top of the league and bottom of the …
Read More “Arsenal Under 23 and under 18, what on earth is going on”
By Sir Hardly Anyone 115 incoming transfer rumours – almost all of them wrong 22 players who were about to leave Arsenal – most are still with us. Total failure to spot the actual transfers ahead of activity – except in one case. So here it is, although sometimes it seemed it would never get …
By Tony Attwood As you may have noticed, Uefa has approved changes to the Champions League from the start of the season after next. A new company is being set up, equally owned 50/50 by Uefa and the European Clubs Assn to run European competitions. This has been done to stop a European breakaway by …
By Tony Attwood In the end, the preliminary figures from the transfer window show Arsenal spent the fourth largest sum in the league, behind Man U, Man C and Chelsea in that order. The figures below only reflect the summer transfer window. Spend pos Club 2015 spend Lge Position 2016 spend 1 Manchester Airport £153.0m …
By THE BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS With nearly everyone going digital and talking and communicating in computer lingo and binary bullshit , the average young fan is not able to understand the beauty and the richness of the written word, and is now limited only to reading SMSes or Texting; Wassupp? messagings; moronic Twatting, chirppings and Fakebooking …
Read More “The Arsene Wenger operating system made easy for dummies.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone The problem is not so much your actual news but removing the exclamation marks and question marks from internet reports and finding the large woman who will apparently open her mouth and warble in order to bring it all to an end later today. So here is your deadline day shock …
Read More “Arsenal transfer shock; one more player on the way”
By Max Kerr 56 years ago Vance Packard published “The Waste Makers”, in which he analysed the notion of ‘Planned Obsolescence’. He coined the terms “obsolescence of function”, which is when a product is manufactured to last less time than it needs to, and “obsolescence of desirability”, where marketing persuades us that the newer version …
Read More “Waste Makers: how Planned Obsolescence entered the world of football.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yesterday we noted that Mr Wenger had told the press that they might be surprised at what will happen at the end of this window, and that every club still had transfers to do before the closure of the transfer market on wednesday night. Now we see the story, which is …
Read More “More indicators that Arsenal are going to buy another player before tomorrow’s deadline”
By Tony Attwood The Guardian today has its normal “Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action” and for the first time in I don’t know how long it makes no mention of Arsenal. Normally there’s a bit about how disappointing it is, how the club are doomed, or the anger of the fans, …
Read More “Mediocrity is now defined as coming second. So how do you define coming third?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the great things about the transfer rumours is that they take no account of reality. We already have a fair number of players in a position, we clearly don’t need any more, and the rumours keep on rolling. We’ve already had 111 players we are signing and 22 leaving, …
Read More “Wenger hints at one more big transfer before the end of the Window.”
By Ima Counter, Professor of Numerological Sciences, University of UnCertain Things, Shetland. The last competition brought in a bumper crop of brilliant commentaries on the name Man Utd. I personally loved Mischievous Arsenal not Arsene Not Unlike Tiny Dumbo not least because it followed a typical comment from an aaa and was the best response …
by Bulldog Drummond. A cheeky football journalist (you know the type – asks a stupid question and the writes down something the respondent never said) asked Mr Wenger this week if he thought that, given the fact that transfer doorway (or “window” as it is often known) expenditure had already exceeded last summer, and we …
By Sir Hardly Anyone You can always tell when the national press think they are on to a true story rather than the meandering gibberish they feed us most days, in that they get one of their own people to write it up, with none of this “according to the Daily Star, reporting that Y …
Read More “Transfers: the two long awaited deals are done as we do the hi-jacking and the splurge.”
We know that Arsenal have a company that looks for footballing talent all over the world, and we also know that Arsenal on occasion will bring in players as young as six. So what do they see when the look at a youngster? I haven’t got a film of a six year old by I …
By Jacko Jones We’ve introduced the topic of DraftKings before, and it is interesting to see how things are working out. Arsenal Stats Week Two Arsenal’s top three players v Liverpool 1: Theo Walcott (8 fantasy points) 3 shots, 2 shots on goal, 2 tackles won, 2 passes intercepted 2: Nacho Monreal (12 …
