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 you have been reading Untold just recently you will know we have a technical problem. I am trying to fix it but in the meanwhile if you would like to help please read this short article and post a comment. Here’s a quick summary of what’s going on at the moment. …
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By Tony Attwood UPDATE AT 1223 BST I have made a number of changes to the way comments are handled on the site and I am hoping with all fingers crossed (which explains the twerping errors) that I might have fixed the problem we have had in the last few days of comments not appearing. …
Read More “Your help is needed with Untold Arsenal – urgently.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Bart. One year ago we started this as a bit of a joke – listing every single player that some semi-sober journo in a pub suggested was about to join or leave Arsenal. We ended up with well over 100 joiners – with only 3 of which were correct. The …
By Tony Attwood In my piece earlier today I pointed out that the Conservative Party’s proposal to introduce huge restrictions on what people can post, share and publish online in the UK, and so allow Britain to become “the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet”, is not being …
By Tony Attwood How we react to events is the key to everything. How we reacted at Wembley in supporting Arsenal in the semi-final and final, certainly made a difference. . Likewise how we react to the threat to bring the internet in the UK under central government control will make a difference – at …
Read More “Why Untold might be reaching the end of its time, and how we can influence the future.”
By Tony Attwood In the days when the Guardian can simultaneously run an article that says, very positively “Arsenal fans must consign factions to past” and a second which announces “Wenger’s contract unlikely to break negative cycle” there is the slight hope that the paranoia that is at the heart of the newspaper industry might …
Read More “Arsenal fans appear to be ready to cull a huge part of the current squad.”
by Tony Attwood Last year there was a lot of celebrating as it was announced that overall Premier League clubs made a profit of £113m in the 2014/15 season. Now in the complete analysis of club finances made by the Guardian and published today for 2015/16, 12 clubs are shown as making a profit totalling …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. And so we enter the next, and probably final, Wenger era. And to commence the new coverage I saw this on the jolly old interweb thing Trophies won since Arsène Wenger came to English football: Arsenal – 16 Tottenham – 2 Spurs fans – “We want you to stay…” …
Read More “Arsenal signing complete as players queue to join Arsenal now the contract is announced.”
By Menace What difference does half an inch make? Some say size does not matter but when a ball bounces off the inside of a goal post & does not end up in the net it makes millions of pounds difference. The half an inch in size of goal post (cross bar to ground- not …
By Tony Attwood If the reports are true and Mr Wenger has his two years contract then the issue does arise – what will the anti-Wengerians do, knowing that Mr Wenger will retire after two years and that their protests are unlikely to make him leave sooner. (After all, one of their complaints is always that …
By Tai Emeka Obasi Arsenal fans all are still celebrating the FA Cup triumph over League Champions, Chelsea FC. For three times in four seasons, Arsene Wenger has delivered the world’s oldest trophy to his dear Gunners. Past two deliveries were achieved via beating Hall City and Aston Villa, both supposed underdogs. But the …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Right, I think we’ve done the old FA Cup malarky, except to note in passing that it is good to see that as always 160 seats are reserved at Wembley for the honourable gentlemen and their ladies of the Shire of Rutland FA. Indeed I was of course able to take …
Read More “The Arsenal Transfer Index: the players we are signing and those we’re letting go”
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 …
Read More “It is such a shame that the FA Cup is not a trophy, because…”
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 …
Read More “Chelsea vs the absolute total and complete all-time underdogs”
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?”
