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 What the newspapers don’t say has these days become more interesting than what they do say. For example, the Independent is currently running the headline “Arsenal should look at United to see dangers of transfer failure” which might lead one to think that, at least in passing, they might consider the …
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By Billy “the Dog” McGraw August: the headlines continue to be dominated by “Arsenal lose out to” in relation to the transfer market. No comparison is made between the amount spent by clubs and their league position. Stories abound in relation to Arsenal trying out “untried rookie” defender / midfielder / winger”. The media …
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By Jacko Jones Now here is something Untold hasn’t covered before: fantasy football. But we are doing it now, because after a lot of looking around and courtesy of some awfully nice people at DraftKings, your fantasy footy experience is about to be transformed. Daily fantasy football from DraftKings offers the opportunity to win big …
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By Ima Counter, Professor of Numerological Sciences, University of UnCertain Things, Shetland. The BBC has the Gabriel story: “Arsenal defender Gabriel has been ruled out for six to eight weeks, increasing the likelihood of a bid for Valencia centre-back Shkodran Mustafi.” Meanwhile the Index of every player Arsenal has been linked with this summer sits …
Read More “Gabriel injury news as total number of players noted as coming to Arsenal reaches 98.”
THE BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS ‘ LIFE’S LESSONS 101 FOR ‘them’ – After posting a funny piece on the comment pages of UA at http://untold-arsenal.com/archives/54947#comments,re : LIFE SKILL CLASS – HOW TO SPEAK TO WOMEN and followed it with one about LESSONS FOR ‘them’ as to how they should behave towards AKBs, it felt incomplete somewhat for me, so …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone. “If people get new information that is in contrast to what they believe then they tend to neglect this new information for as long as possible.” Yes my little ducklings, it is getting close to the sharp end of the sharp ended thing. Which means we need just eight …
By Don McMahon While surfing Arsenal.com, I was struck by a statement that Wenger said when asked about paying high fees for a striker or other transfers. He said, ¨The money is never a problem if you have to pay what is requested. The price of a player is down to four ingredients. One is …
Read More “Past, present and future: how Wenger’s approach to transfers is bearing fruit”
By Bulldog Drummond Talk of the new season being just around the bend means talk of injuries – but this time not so much of Arsenal injuries but of Manchester Airport. For quite amazingly, in the few days after Untold’s complaints that the media are still banging on about Arsenal’s side being decimated year after …
Read More “Manchester Airport vs The Arsenal, and that means a lot of talk about INJURIES”
By Tony Attwood You can be forgiven for either a) not knowing that the player loan system has changed or will change, or b) thinking it has all been by-passed by a crafty FA outsmarting Fifa. But new regulations there are, and as far as I can see the story that England would not be …
By Tony Attwood It was just over a month ago that Untold published the first article in what became (somewhat to my surprise) a long running series. The headline was “Why so much hate?” and it reflected upon the language used in football. In a later article we picked up on the phrase “toxic rhetoric” …
Read More “Why so much hate and angst about Arsenal? We’ve found the answer.”
By Tony Attwood There’s a big problem with pre-season friendlies. Win easily and those people who very sadly (for them) are unable to find joy and happiness in football (or perhaps in life) denounce it as only a friendly. Unexpectedly lose, and all hell breaks loose as suddenly instead of it only being a …
By Bulldog Drummond Article corrected at 6.40pm; the original line ups got mixed in editing and one team got placed inside another. Sorry. So here is where we have got to. Two fixtures over the weekend and then its downhill all the way, at least according to those with emotional contagion. I think that phrase …
Read More “The Vikings vs The Arsenal. They have Thor and the longboats. We’ve got the gunpowder.”
By Tony Attwood I’ve been trying to unravel the issue of why football journalists and pundits constantly publish or say either misleading or on occasion wholly untrue statements about football and in doing this I’ve given a range of examples. But yesterday I was reminded just how far away I am from explaining to many readers …
Read More “Why the notion that Arsenal desperately need to buy a centre forward is nonsense.”
By Richard Morgan Arsene Wenger divides opinion among Arsenal fans, with those who want him out and those who support him. The real question should be: what has Wenger done for Arsenal football club? In this piece on Wenger I will outline what Wenger has achieved and put them side by side with those …
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By Tony Attwood Here is the story published by the Telegraph on 3 August 10.30pm UK time. It was written by Jeremy Wilson Deputy Football Correspondent of that august newspaper. Alexis Sanchez and Aaron Ramsey rushed back by Arsene Wenger in bid to make Arsenal’s opener v Liverpool The story below reads… “Arsene Wenger is preparing …
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By Jacko Jones The transfer market is getting into full swing as the Premier League advances towards opening day. As seems to be an annual theme, Arsenal are staring down the barrel of a new season with a number of squad requirements unfulfilled. Speaking after the match against the MLS All-Stars Wenger confirmed he is …
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. Surely it can’t be hard for Xhaka to top Shaqiri? Ok, so we all know about our huge summer signing and his potential to be the best thing to happen to the Gunners’ midfield since Patrick Vieira. It was frankly about time for Arsene Wenger to splash the cash on a recognised world-class …
By Florian This article concludes the series covering Arsenal’s visit to the U.S. Due to reasons that would take more than one article to explain, I was only able to attend Arsenal’s match vs. Chivas de Guadalajara. Here is the trip’s story. After posting in the match preview (Arsenal vs the Goats) a beauty sleep …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone. Welcome to the all new approach for the last month of the jolly old fenêtre de transfert. Today we introduce the amazingly new and unprecedented episodic approach as the event horizon draws ever closer. For what we now have is the The ever dependable rumour list The not getting him, not a chance …
Read More “This transfer now goes completely beyond a done deal.”
By Tony Attwood Head on over to Free Betting Online if you want to put money on any of these transfer rumours.” When you think about it, it is utterly bonkers. 92 players have been put forward as either having been transferred, or are about to be transferred to Arsenal, and the club has actually …
. By Andrew Crawshaw The Durban Cup is turning out to be a tournament that it is really difficult to keep in touch with. The main mention of it so far on arsenal.com has been of a social visit the players made to a local school. There is the shortest of reports on the game …
By Ima Counter, Professor of Numerological Sciences, University of UnCertain Things, Penzance. Hi and welcome to the totally reformed Arsenal Transfer Index. Two big changes you will see now I’ve taken over: Last time around we had a competition in which the idea was to use the letter S P U R S in …
Alexandre Lacazette: the title-winning, world-class striker that Arsenal are missing Without a shadow of a doubt, Arsenal have one of the strongest and most complete squads in the Premier League. From reliable veteran goalkeeper Petr Cech to assist king Mesut Ozil, the Gunners have talented players in more or less every position and many believe …
Read More “Alexandre Lacazette: the title-winning, world-class striker that Arsenal are missing”
By Bulldog Drummond I know that in the past, previews have been written either on the day of the match, or at earliest the night before, but now it seems they have to be written weeks ahead of the game. So as that is what the media are playing at, that’s what we will do …
Best Sites to Place a bet on Arsenal By Dave Jackson With the season so close at hand, it’s hard to think about anything else than watching football and placing some bets, especially now when it’s so easy to do it with all the mobile bookmakers around. With so many betting choices, it finally feels …
