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, senior psychologist, University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. I have long been fascinated by the anger and aggression that is expressed on Untold – not so much the anger that you will read in the comment columns, but the anger, aggression and threats that Untold chooses not …
By Tony Attwood Of course, we all know that what the media and the bloggettas say has nothing to do with reality when it comes to football, but interesting to note (returning, as I have, to England after 3 weeks in Australia) that the press have got a bit fed up with Arsenal bashing and …
Read More “The one gigantic question the football media refuse to ask, let alone answer”
By Tony Attwood “Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re trying to be so quiet?” That opening line from one of Bob Dylan’s most famous songs (Visions of Johanna) seems in a way to sum up where things are with Arsenal at the moment. Dylan’s song is in many ways …
Read More “Arsenal in the future: it is just a sense of perspective”
By Tony Attwood I write this having had my final swim in the Pacific (at least for this holiday) while preparing for my final meal out with my daughter this time around. I’ve had the most stunning, amazing time (thank you for asking) and I really would love to stay longer, but the tickets …
By Tony Attwood Being in Australia, as I still am for a few more days, I am fairly dependent on news from Untold and the newspapers on line to follow football. Today, I read in the Daily Mirror “After Lincoln and Millwall upset the odds in Saturday’s cup ties, the internet’s many comedians turned their …
Read More “Sutton v Arsenal part 2: the teams, the gibberish, the snippets and injury news.”
By Tony Attwood Of course there was a time when Arsenal were regularly knocked out of the FA Cup by teams from lower leagues: Chapman’s league champions were knocked out by Wallsall, in 1933. Later the club was undone by Northampton Town in 1958, Sheffield Utd in 1959, Rotherham Utd in 1960, Sunderland in 1961, …
Read More “Sutton v Arsenal: greatest giant killers and a look at non-leaguers of the past and”
By Tony Attwood Going away from everyday life for a few weeks gives one a chance to reflect, and given that Untold Arsenal is now over nine years old and by the time I get back from Australia will have published almost 7000 articles, on this subject alone I find I have a lot of …
Read More “Being upside down: seeing football from a completely different perspective”
By Tony Attwood As we all know Mr Wenger has kept us in the Champions League every year. Arsenal (from 1998–99 to 2016–17) have participated in 19 consecutive campaigns which is second only to Real Mad. In essence we have been in the top four for 19 years, our lowest position by definition is of …
Read More “Who needs context when we have a right to win the league now?”
The astonishing depths to which the Premier League has sunk, And 10 things the next Arsenal manager must consider by Tony Attwood English – not to say European – football is at a very low ebb. Here we have a team that managed to win its Champions League group unbeaten and so qualify for the …
by Tony Attwood Remember Portsmouth. Cup winning team with a long proud history? Remember Leeds being torn to shreds? Or Cardiff? Or if you really keep your eyes on such things, and to prove it is not just Britain, remember Malaga? Or if you really, really follow football how about Chester City, Darlington, Hereford Utd., …
By Tony Attwood How are Bayern doing this year? They are of course top of the league as the constitution of the federal republic demands, but the feeling is that they are not the sophisticated team they used to be. They are seen this year as not stylish, not the Barcelona of the north, …
By Tony Attwood, still upside down in the land of Oz… The issue that seems to be circulating is whether Mesut Özil should play given his apparent loss of form (so I am told). What the papers are currently saying is summed up in this comment, “Lose, and the season will end at the very …
Read More “Bayern v Arsenal match preview: should Özil play?”
by Tony Attwood There is an advert in the Daily Express for jobs in the Department of Media Culture and Sport. That is the government department that controls the Football Association. The department’s position in supporting moderation and equality is somewhat undermined as it appears alongside the headline “MIGRATION WARNING: 50 million Muslims are …
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw head of Certain Things, Arsenal FC I was recently able to lay my hands on the following confidential memo circulated to members of the board and senior executives at Arsenal. It reveals the difficulties the club are facing in finding a new manger. Introduction: Recent changes to the …
Read More “How Arsenal are being forced to advertise for a new manager”
by Tony Attwood (observing it all from Australia) For all the years of the Wenger regime the media have been pumping out their anti-Arsenal stories, from shadowy fake news references about the manager’s sordid past when he first came to England, through disparaging remarks about him not being English and so “not understanding” English football, …
Read More “We need some failure for a while in order to make the good times feel good.”
by Bulldog Drummond. Hull have a poor away record as this table shows: one win, one draw, and the rest defeats. Overall Away Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD 24 5 5 14 22 47 −25 20 1 1 9 6 26 −20 This is reminiscent of …
Read More “Arsenal v Hull – the home/away analysis and the teams”
By Bulldog Drummond As the pundits punder on and tell us what to think and what to do (ESPN I see are telling Arsenal supporters that they should rise up against the club and that they – the supporters – are weak for not doing so), so the world turns and those of us not …
Read More “Arsenal v Hull: the preview, and a comparison of Gabriel with Héctor Bellerín”
by Tony Attwood. At the start of the year Untold ran the story Could football learn a thing of two from the way games are refereed in rugby? It was a highly speculative piece which arose from discussions with some friends on the topic of just how football might be improved, and how we might …
Read More “Rule changes escalate as sin bins are to be discussed by international rule committee”
By Tony Attwood Being in Australia as I am now, and slowly feeling the benefits of being here (the jet lag is going, and what appeared on day one to be an 8 mile hike along the road to my breakfast bar of choice turns out in reality to be a pleasant 15 minute stroll) …
By Tony Attwood “The worst Cameroon team in living memory.” I suspect there are people somewhere who are talking about this being worst Arsenal team in living memory. I only mention Cameroon because they have just won the Africa Cup and I have seen them so called. Mohamed Elneny scored to put Egypt ahead in …
Read More “Exactly who could be brought in to end Arsenal’s misery?”
By Tony Attwood in Australia I have seen Arsenal on TV in all sorts of somewhat unusual places – including I recall watching the 1971 Cup Final in Algiers – but I don’t think I ever anticipated watching a live Arsenal game eight miles above ground level. But that is what happened with the Chelsea …
By Bulldog Drummond Chelsea, as we will all remember, were thumped by Arsenal 3-0 at the Ems, and although that was good news for us it was pretty bad news for the rest of football as they then went on a whirlwind of winning. Date Venue Opposition Score (h-t) Result 24/09/2016 A Arsenal 0:3 (0:3) …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal part 1: the build up and the preview.”
by Tony Attwood I seem of late to have annoyed more people than usual with my occasional ramblings on this site, so I guess there might be a little bit of pleasure dished into the lives of one or two people when I report that tomorrow (Friday) I am toddling off to foreign parts; to …
By Tony Attwood There is something delightful about watching the nation’s media writers making total idiots of themselves as they respond to an Arsenal defeat – and something inevitable about the way the anti-Wengerian camp followers will pick up on the theme. But the way in which they overtly seek to mislead the public is …
Read More “Senior member of Arsenal’s medical team subject to outrageous attack by journalist”
by Tony Attwood In terms of what we did in the transfer window the answer was not a lot although given the general hysteria of who we were going to sign, that might come as a surprise. But jut to check you didn’t miss anything here’s the list… In Cohen Bramall (Hednesford Town) – …
Read More “What the top teams did in the transfer window and how deep fake news has seeped.”
