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 If we do nothing, next season will be like this: the anti-Arsenal and their media allies shutting up during the good runs, and then coming out and attacking the manager viciously and remorselessly after any defeat or perceived poor performance. Yes, the media and the aaa’s combined propaganda efforts this season were …
By Tony Attwood, floating somewhere in the wide blue yonder… I got a bit of stick for my chart published in the early hours of this morning showing number of victors of the FA Cup and not including Arsenal. I’ll re do it at the end of this little piece with Arsenal included. One …
by Tony Attwood A shame because quite a few of those people who were at the stadium yesterday rather thought it a jolly experience, and worth going. Anyway, below is a list of wins of the FA Cup. Club Wins First final won Last final won Manchester United 12 1909 2016 Tottenham Hotspur 8 …
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By Tony Attwood It happens sometimes, but not that often, that the media and their bloggetta camp followers make out that the cup final is so obviously a one-sided affair that it is hardly worth even writing a preview of it. Of course what they forget each time is that occasionally the underdogs come out …
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Does a player acquired as a big-money transfer perform well in the first season? Let’s look at recent history. By Zuruvi There is school of thought shared by some Arsenal fans here on this Forum that says that big-money transfers don’t work in the first or second seasons after the transfer has taken place. …
By Tony Attwood As I guess we all know, no club has won the FA Cup three times running since Blackburrn Rovers in 1886. Before them, one team, Wanderers, also did it three times in a row. In the past 131 years (or to be more accurate 122, to account for the war years) no …
Read More “Which is the most successful team in the FA Cup and in FA Cup/League doubles?”
By Tony Attwood Jack Pitt-Brooke of the Independent recently wrote an article in which he said, “…it was impressive and surprising that Wenger’s reaction on Sunday evening, in his post-match press conference, was to take all the blame on his own shoulders. By admitting that his season of silence over his own future had damaged …
Read More “Will anything change at Arsenal next season? Sadly it seems unlikely”
By Tony Attwood What we do seem to know (although I use the word “know” in its footballing sense, meaning “according to reports” Gabriel will not be playing. He has been ruled out until August with the medial knee ligament injury. Danny Welbeck is reported to have said, in relation to his injury, “It’s just …
Read More “Arsenal cup final team news – it is all looking a bit grim”
Does Arsenal have good players or great players? Is the current Arsenal squad good enough? By Zuruvi Arsenal is a great club. Arsene Wenger has proven over the years that he is a great manager. Arsenal has two or three great players. Arsenal however has too many average players. Arsenal also has a number …
Red Shirts White Sleeves: A Song for Arsenal fans by Fishpie I haven’t submitted anything to Untold in recent months and this piece is, I admit, a bit of a shameless plug. So forgive me. I am very grateful to Tony for agreeing to publish despite this. I guess I haven’t written for the site …
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By Tony Attwood I guess like most people, especially like most people who have children of their own, the notion of child abuse is ultimately incomprehensible to me. But it is there, and it has deeply entrenched itself within British society, and thus also within football. And from the off I have been extremely uncomfortable …
By Sir Hardly Anyone But first, before I get down to basics, since in order to write this column I am forced to look at the stuff the newspapers are producing, I wish to give you a spot of context, just so you know how difficult my job is. Here is a headline from the …
Read More “There is one Arsenal transfer that everyone is discussing, so maybe this is the one…”
By Tony Attwood You may recall – since I have mentioned it about 2000 times – last year the Guardian printed the comment that Arsenal had only two strikers who finished 2015/16 in double figures – in terms of goals. I took exception to the “only” in that comment since it implied that most other …
Read More “Who did the most this season for Arsenal and how much did it cost?”
By Tony Attwood As always Arsenal had a number of players out on loan through the year, and it has become quite common across the years for one or two of the loan players to come back to the club and make something of an impact. This time round the player who is being tipped …
Read More “Now it’s over, how did our players out on loan do?”
By Tony Attwood It has taken a while, but finally the move was made away from endless sniping at the manager and instead turning on a target, the removal of which could indeed open up a new era in the history of Arsenal. If there were banners and protests and aeroplanes flying over the trailing …
By Bulldog Drummond As we approach the time for the train to London here’s a quick look at the home and away form. Arsenal’s home form looks like this… Won 13, drawn 3, lost 2. Scored 36, conceded 15. Not as perfect as it might be, but still, not too bad. Everton’s away form …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton the teams, last minute injury update, top scorers, recent form”
By Bulldog Drummond Continuing the tale of the approaching events of Sunday, as we all know, Arsenal have to do better than Manchester City or Liverpool. A win while Liverpool draw or lose would do it, and a win by three goals while Man City lose by two goals would do it. Otherwise we end …
By Bulldog Drummond As I mentioned at the end of the last article, I asked psychologist Dr Billy “The Dog” McGraw about what drives people not only to protest, but what drives them to protest in particular ways. Why, I wondered do some indulge in violence, some march, some hold up banners, and some just pull …
By Bulldog Drummond In what the media would have called a “long-winded rant” if it came from anyone else, Ian Wright finally came out and backed the notion of a boycott of Arsenal matches by those who don’t like the current regime, rather than protests in the ground. “Something has to change, whether it is …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: Usmanov bids, Ian Wright backs boycott, why only absenteeism works.”
By Tony Attwood And so it goes on and on and boringly on. Press conference time and the silly nutters who sit their supposedly on our behalf asking probing questions to reveal hidden truths instead ask the manager if he is going to stay, and/or when will his future be decided. I think we’ve been …
Read More “Tony Adams does himself no favours as the Wenger, Wenger, Wenger fixation goes on.”
By Tony Attwood The FA, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, have decided, very late in the day, to introduce the possibility of retrospective suspensions for players who dive or feign injury. The maximum punishment would be a two-match ban, with the arrangement starting next season. It is the copy of a punishment already in force …
by Tony Attwood We live in a world where there is a great drive to simplify anything and everything. It happens everywhere from the President of the United States, who said today, “No politician in history has been treated more unfairly,” through to Untold Arsenal where, if we make a point about referee errors, …
By Tony Attwood In recent months, Fifa has considerably accelerated the testing of the video-assistance to referees (known as VAR) procedures, which, as the chairman of Fifa (who is an awfully nice and upright fellow) has annouced, will be used during the World Cup 2018. Now Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of the Fifa Referees Committee, and …
Read More “How the PGMO could try to get around the use of video assistance for referees”
The curious case of the wrath of penalty Gods on Arsenal! By Sam If you watch the Premier League, or any league for that matter, you might have at times been baffled by the refereeing decisions. Of course, Referees are human beings and deserve sympathy for not getting decisions right all the time. There is …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone There are only 74 days left before the transfer window falls back into place with everything all over and done, and the glass shattered on the floor, and so far we only have 39 players listed who are going to join Arsenal this summer. …
Read More “Arsenal Transfer Index Edition 6. 39 players joining the club; 13 players leaving.”
