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 Bulldog Drummond It is rather amusing that in the days of the forced selling of RVP and others, everyone moaned that we sold. Now there are some who cannot grasp the fact that Arsenal don’t want to sell and can hold on to the players. Having Alexis for another season on his …
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By Bulldog Drummond There are many reasons why Arsenal have no chance. We’re rubbish in that we couldn’t beat Stoke, we’re 11th in the League behind the mighty West Brom, Watford and Huddersfield, and Liverpool are already five places ahead of us. Plus there is total shock and horror that Arsenal “will start against Liverpool …
By Tony Attwood I spent part of Friday evening travelling the Midland Motorway system (or car park as it is often known) making the journey from East Midlands (where I live) to West Midlands (where a dance was being held). Fortunately the traffic was flowing fairly easily for a Friday (I got up to 10 …
We did the speculation, and now here is the result hot off the little balls (as it were). Our group is Arsenal Red Star Belgrade BATE Borisov Cologne We’ll have background and details later today. But in the meantime if you want to give some insights on any of those teams please feel free. Tony
By Billy the Dog McGraw, our Europa correspondent and expert on clubs we have never played before. Billy will be accompanying Arsenal on all their matches as reserve pilot, guide, translator and chief psychologist. The Europa League group stages like the Champs League has Four Pots none of which are Pol Pot who led the Khmer …
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by Tony Attwood . The Guardian has provided its own lists of the 16 best deals across Europe done so far in this transfer window. I’m not by any means an expert on players across Europe, so I will restrict myself to listing the three out of the 16 that involve a player moving to …
By Tony Attwood I started the summer thinking I might run four indexes this summer (see note at the end) one of which tracks all the players going out on loan from PL clubs, but the numbers grew so rapidly, and included so many players I hadn’t heard of (meaning I had to keep double …
By Tony Attwood A central theme that I have tried to evolve in the nearly 10 years we’ve been doing our thing on Untold, is that there are problems with the organisation of football. Problems that are to quite a large degree ignored by the media, but the multiplicity of which suggest something is seriously …
By Tony Attwood There are two types of football supporter Type A and Type B. And two types of manager, Type A and Type B. Oddly there is only one type of football journalist. Type Zzzzz. Type A people know by looking. You just have to look at Arsenal to know that you they …
Read More “Referees go wild on red cards, Jack sent off, but somehow the media miss the statistics.”
By Tony Attwood During the summer we debated the decision of Tottenham to play their home games at Wembley this season – an obvious topic for us as Arsenal tried out a similar venture with their Champions League games across two seasons. For Arsenal the experiment was pretty much a failure – I’ve never spoken …
Read More “Changing to Wembley and moving to the Ems hurt Arsenal. So how did Tottenham do?”
Passengers of the beautiful game…. ARSENAL 13 “Uwot? 18/08/2017 at 2:06 pm Listen to pundits? Never have,never will son.just beleive what my eyes tell me & if you don’t’ think ” ozil” is a passenger most of the time(.that is certainly when the going gets tough.)i suggest you save yourself a lot of anguish …
by Tony Attwood Some things change, some don’t. That of course is how it goes. Mr Wenger’s criticism of Granit Xhaka was unusual for him – and in not staying positive the manager has distanced himself from the standard line of Arsenal managers through the ages. I can well remember the joke we had about George …
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by Bulldog Drummond. Now this is something I did not know: “Stoke City’s recruitment of Jesé Rodríguez on a season-long loan from Paris Saint-Germain means Mark Hughes now has five Champions League winners in his squad, more than any other Premier League club.” Goodness me, that puts the Champions League in a new light. Anyway, I had …
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By Bulldog Drummond According to today’s media Sea Kolasinac is the strongest player Arsene Wenger has in his squad, and perhaps the strongest player he has ever worked with. Which must make him good at playing wugger or whatever that game is called that they play in the Potteries. So they immediately dig up the …
By Bulldog Drummond First off, Ladbrokes are sponsoring Arsenal Fan TV. If you have any thoughts that perhaps Arsenal Fan TV is not something that you like, and you fancy a bet, you might care to avoid Ladbrokes. Totally up to you of course, but just a thought. Moving on Untold Arsenal confirmed this …
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By Tony Attwood Let me admit from the off that in answer to that question, I don’t know. But I think I ought to be able to find out. And I ought to be able to find out when the families who suffered as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire got their money. Not …
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By Tony Attwood “Why are so many Premier League teams so bad in defence?” You’ll know, if you have read my meanderings across the years, that I rather like evidence. Not “The evidence of my own eyes” but actual numbers. So when someone rages in a bloggetta that “Xhaka is clearly not up to …
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By Tony Attwood We’ve been trying to keep tabs on all the transfers that have gone through this summer involving the top ten clubs from last season buying players in. The latest table is below. In terms of the number of new players coming in the table reads Everton: 13 Manchester City 6: Chelsea: 5 …
By Tony Attwood There is no doubt things have stalled. The number of new players and new rumours in the last week has been virtually nothing – all we have had is the rehashing of the same old same old. It is by and large a pretty poor show. We’re only on 89 and …
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By Don McMahon Once I had digested the entirety of the Arsenal Leicester game, I decided to write a review based on wearing two hats; a referee’s viewpoint and a certified coaches’ viewpoint, so here goes. I will describe or break down the key elements of the game as follows: Team lineup, Fitness levels, Tactical …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone It is really important to stay in touch with the bloggettas these days so that we know exactly where we are. Football London for example today tells us that The end of August is edging ever closer – You can just imagine the panic in and around the training grounds …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal under 23s went two down to Derby County, and then came back to win 3-2. That’s rather gratifying but the basic fact hides a few other interesting details. For a start, Nelson scored two – carrying on where he left off last season when he scored in the home draw …
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By Tony Attwood FC Barcelona’s former defender, Rafael Márquez – the man known as “Emperor of Michoacán” is a national hero in Mexico. And a pretty big hero to Barcelona. But now the US authorities are investigating him. And they are doing this for one simple reason: Márquez is said to have been involved …
By Tony Attwood Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe’s largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of 840,000. And on March 18 this year they wrote: It is often said that taking performance enhancing drugs makes no sense for soccer players. Then why …
By Tony Attwood Oliver Holt in the Mail got rather exercised this week claiming, “The seven minutes and 16 seconds encounter with Usain Bolt, Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman shows athletics has lost its drugs battle” His sub editor then gave us some headlines… A journalist asked Usain Bolt, Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman why …
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