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 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 …
Hi Walter and Tony, I hope you’re both doing well. Some things recently came to thought whilst looking at other websites.I was shocked by the extreme anger and the spectre of fascism in peoples posts. And its relentlessness. Firstly the Anti-Arsenal-Arsenal (AAA) are very much present, but on closer inspection there is also the …
Read More “THE CASE OF THE EWOB. A SPECTRE HAUNTING ARSENAL?”
BY THE BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS . As a medical practitioner I daily come across some weird conditions and weirder patients , very much like the weird shit and some weird ‘them ‘ that we get on UA . And just as the AKBs on here give ‘them’ their justly deserved treatment with such candour and humour, …
Read More “Latest Medical Discoveries and Treatments for “them””
By Sir Hardly Anyone As we know, given the fact that we have been keeping records, 105 players have been linked to Arsenal through this summer. We’ve signed only a few of them – and it is noticeable that with the exception of Holding it was only in the couple of days before the …
Read More “The media’s ways of responding to their utter failure to predict Arsenal’s transfers”
By Tony Attwood There is an interesting comment going around on certain bloggettas to the effect that it would be good if Arsenal were relegated this year, so that Mr Wenger would get the sack. These comments are written by people who, it seems, class themselves as Arsenal supporters. In the reality inhabited by these …
Read More “There are people who call themselves Arsenal fans, who want Arsenal relegated”
By Tony Attwood “Arsenal fans watching the limp 0-0 draw with Leicester City on Saturday, another game with yet another wrong result, were no doubt crying out for the passion and leadership of Patrick Vieira and his team of Invincibles as they demanded that Arsene Wenger opens his chequebook. “The Frenchman has offered his own …
By Tony Attwood There’s a lot of talk around about Arsenal have the highest ticket prices on the planet and yet won’t buy the players “need” to help Arsenal win the league. As with so much in football, such a statistic is misleading – both in terms of ticket prices and in terms of overall …
By Tony Attwood Of course in the end the main thing that counts is the result. But sometimes results alone don’t give a full indication of where things are going. They tell us the score, 0-0 yesterday, and no one can disagree with that, and one can look at the game and say “that was …
By Bulldog Drummond So the complaints against Arsenal and Arsene Wenger rattle on and are utterly lapped up by the media which publish them all without any investigation into the truthfulness or otherwise of the allegations. And of course pointing out that factual errors and disinformation (which has now soared to unprecedented heights) combined without …
Read More “Leicester v Arsenal: two possible Arsenal line ups”
ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR , PHOBIAS , DISEASES AND AILMENTS OBSERVED ON UNTOLD ARSENAL – PART ONE . The Brickfields Gunners Having been a regular reader , poster and now a regular contributor on Untold Arsenal , I have observed some very disturbing behaviour exhibited by ‘them’ on this site . As a medical doctor of more …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone The problem with the central defender isn’t money of course, it is the reality of game time. Arsenal’s regular centre backs will return in due course, and there are four of them – so whoever comes along is likely to be battling it out with them for game time after his …
By Tony Attwood Indeed because of the fact that I doubt that many, if any people have been converted by the arguments we have had of late, I wonder what the point is. That is not to say I wonder why I publish Untold, but rather I wonder why people who believe that everything that …
Read More “I doubt if anyone has ever had their mind changed by arguments on this site”
By Walter Broeckx Continuing from my previous commentary Arsenal never spend anything much on transfers. Or do they?… Yes Arsenal has to be silent about their transfer dealings. If Arsenal were to go public on who they are talking with the other big money spenders might step in and outbid us. For those who have paid …
Read More “The Sound of Silence: Arsenal in the transfer market”
By Tony Attwood I’ve introduced the topic of DraftKings before, and it is interesting to see how things are working out. Many DraftKings players had expected Alexis Sanchez to be one of the stars of the show – he was the highest owned Arsenal player in the day’s biggest contest for the opening fixture and …
Read More “So who exactly was the king of the show against Liverpool?”
By Tony Attwood During the summer of 2016 Untold set out a number of findings from research into such matters as the success of transfers, the impact of having a top scorer in the team, the efficacy of changing managers, and so on. The aim was to examine some of the potent myths propagated by …
Read More “Why the evidence of your own eyes does not reveal what is happening with Arsenal”
By Sir Hardly Anyone One might have imagined that with over 100 players now having been strongly linked with Arsenal transfers this summer just about every name has been used up. But now we have no name players arriving via a source known as @AFCArsenalHorse which is said by bloggettas to be a reliable Arsenal source. Although …
Read More “Transfer announcement imminent as no less than nine new targets emerge”
By Ima Counter, Professor of Numerological Sciences, University of UnCertain Things, Shetland. Two winners from last week’s Chelsea competition. OMG Arsenal gave us Calamitously Hopeless Eccentric Lackees Slavishly Enduring Abramovich While Jerry supplied Couldn’t Help Eden Lost Seeing Eva Around This week the competition is Man Utd – just think of a six word phrase where the letters start with the six letters M A N …
By Tony Attwood For the predictors of doom, always circling on the first day of the season, it was a godsend. Not that I particularly mean the result, but the fact that increasingly people do judge everything by the last couple of hours. And of course by the fact that increasingly even when faced with …
Read More “It’s that déjà vu thing all over again; why Kos was not rushed back.”
By Bulldog Drummond Thus, and therefore, it starts again, with nothing changed in the mind of the robots who write most of the football columns these days, although sadly, as we shall see Amy Lawrence, a highly respected and normally excellent writer has joined the majority in making assertions about Arsenal by utilising a wholly …
By Tim Charlesworth 2016/17 is going to be a fascinating season in so many ways, so before we begin I thought I would have a look at some the things that it might tell us. Of course, my primary interest is in answering the question: will Arsenal win, but I think there might be …
Read More “The cult of the manager: thoughts as the season begins.”
By Tony Attwood This is the time when the newspapers publish their summary of their predictions, and by and large they are all going with the same story. This is the season when Arsenal will drop out of the top four for the first time in 20 years, and will come below Tottenham for the …
Read More “The predictions for this coming season: and rather cheery ones they are too.”
By Tony Attwood It’s simple: spending money on players is supposedly a good thing which will take clubs up the league. But I am told, the figures Untold has been producing are misleading, because they only took in one season. It is spending over time that is important. So let’s see how it worked over …
By Tony Attwood So, now the papers are picking up one story. “Arsenal have agreed to buy Germany defender Shkodran Mustafi from Valencia, according to the player’s agent.” That is pretty much what each one is saying. There are still some finer points and details to be resolved however “according to reports,” like the fee. Valencia …
Read More “Finally agent says the deal is done. So maybe it is. But others are demand to leave.”
By Tony Attwood I do take pleasure in the fact that over the years Untold Arsenal has uncovered a number of issues in football which, had it not been for us, would probably have remained undisclosed, at least for a while. Walter’s work on refereeing is a perfect example: a major step forward in the …
Read More “Five Steps From Reality. Everything you need to know about today’s football transfers.”
By Jacko Jones Ever wondered what the full VIP experience at the Emirates Stadium feels like? Well it seems that one lucky fantasy football player will get the full red carpet experience courtesy of Arsenal’s Official 1-Day Fantasy Football Partner DraftKings. The Ultimate Arsenal Fan Experience includes two tickets in the luxury of an executive …
