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 Tim Charlesworth A season of gambles All managers have to take risks with the way that they put their squad together. It is not possible to have two or three world class players for every position. As well as being prohibitively expensive, world class players will not tolerate long periods on the bench. …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Well, it has been another amazingly over-the-top week for what we are now learning to call the Early Stage Concrete Hacks, the gentlemen of the press whose arrested intellectual development allows them to develop a whole range of extraordinary tales about who is coming to Arsenal this summer and who is …
Read More “Seven new players coming in, one more leaving as Arsenal’s transfers hot up.”
By Tony Attwood This summer and into next season there will quite a bit of talk about stadia and stadia extensions, particularly in relation to State Aid Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham. State Aid have their stadium and the British tax payer has paid for it. They have also qualified for the Europa League via …
Read More “What will happen to the three Premier League clubs with their new grounds.”
By Tony Attwood The article Can possible reasons for unsupported opinions be understood, explained and contribute anything to Untold Arsenal? gained considerable praise on Untold, and quite rightly so in my view, because it opened up an issue that has long puzzled quite a few people who are kind enough to spend time on Untold. And that …
By Sir Hardly Anyone We were hoping to publish part three of the series of articles on the way journalists and fans see football, and how they are fixed in “concrete thinking”, (See Can possible reasons for unsupported opinions be understood, and following that Does Arsenal still need Klopp or Pochettino to make the final breakthrough? if …
An observation by AKH Untold Arsenal is a website which uses the important notion of evidence based research and argument to outline a position, viewpoint or idea. For this current season I have been observing that a number of opinions have been given on the website, some even overtly aggressive, without reference to …
By Tony Attwood You might remember that there was a lot of fuss last September when the transfer window closed and the idea was written down and then copied over and over that Arsenal was the only major club in Europe not to sign an outfielder in the summer. Following that Untold started to run …
By Tony Attwood It is central to the agenda of the media that Fifa should be seen to be reformed, so that they can support England in the next round of World Cup matches. For there to be continuing outright corruption, means that the FA is implicated ever more fully in supporting a totally corrupt …
Read More “Media in hiding as Fifa undoes all its reforms and returns to total corruption”
By Sir Hardly Anyone And so, and thus, and forsooth, after a couple of months of pre-phony transfer news, we have at last made it into the phony transfer news era, which leads to the window banging open and then two months later, slamming shut again, with huge amounts of glass tinkling on the ground …
Read More “Arsenal have chosen, and the £50m player (or £51m players) is/are almost at the airport”
Its Happened Again! by Tim Charlesworth What a day. The joy, the sunshine, the happiness, a fond farewell to loyal players, it was almost perfect. Nobody will put this season down as a great success, but at least it has given us one very happy memory. This season will always have a little place in …
Read More “It’s Happened Again! (And now, let’s remember we are all Arsenal fans).”
By our special correspondent i/c colour co-ordination. Arsenal’s 2005/6 Season was Quite a Purple Patch Looking back on the heady days of 05/06, Arsenal look like the team that almost won it all but kept falling just short. Runners-up in the Champions League. Fourth in the Premiership. Out of the League Cup in the semis …
Read More “Why changing Arsenal’s shirt in 2005/6 was not such a terrible idea. Maybe.”
By Tony Attwood I was very pleased to receive Fishpie’s article “Arsenal 2015/16: A Faltering Season with a Flattering Finish,” and to have the chance to publish it on Untold. Not because I agree with what is said (I don’t in full, as I will explain below) but because it was a well argued piece …
Read More “A step back or a great leap forwards? What exactly happened in 2015/16.”
Arsenal 2015/16: A Faltering Season with a Flattering Finish. By Fishpie And so another season comes to rest. Sleep gently 2015/16. We had high hopes for you. And indeed you will go down in history as a season of great miracles, when the apparently impossible happened and improbable dreams were answered. A saint of a …
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By Tony Attwood In one way Untold seeks to turn the world upside down. The media’s view is that the thing one should do is attack Wenger and the club, and throughout the season they have been going into this BIG TIME. Our view is that we should not be attacking the manager, …
By Tony Attwood The Telegraph, now in its hour of desperation at seeing the Tinies demise, quickly got Arry the Red on the blower, and out of his vague ramblings concocted this headline today… Arsenal are lucky to finish second – they need to spend this summer to get anywhere near Spurs Arsenal were lucky, …
HINDSIGHT OR BLINDSIGHT …………..Don McMahon Recent posts by certain moaners and negative fanboys have displayed a perfect 20/20 hindsight that covers the last 12 years or so. However I would not call what these fanboys display, hindsight, but rather BLINDSIGHT. Here is the definition of this optical disease: It is a cognitive disorder in …
by Tony Attwood The “606” radio programme on BBC Radio 5 Live is not a particular favourite of mine, but I do listen occasionally while driving back to the Midlands from the Arsenal. However I don’t think I have heard Mr Savage ever insult a supporter who has taken the trouble to phone in, quite …
A return to voodoo By Bulldog Drummond. Yes, it is indeed the ninth season that Untold Arsenal has been around to cover the end of the season. Our first ever final match of the season was a 0-1 away win at Sunderland, and the main comment was that the team put out for that …
Read More “Arsenal v Villa. Only half the teams in the Prem next season were there 10 years ago.”
By Tony Attwood Who holds the power in football? In one sense one could argue that much of this season has been about just that topic. The club owners, the players, PGMO, the fans, the mainstream media, the FA, Fifa, Uefa, and even unfunded blogs like Untold, who when ranged against the previous groups …
Read More “The bid for power in football is becoming confused, complicated and uncertain.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone and a friend. Indeed once more it is the Great Transfer Index – the listing of all the players linked with Arsenal since somewhere around the middle of March. The previous edition of the Index appeared here but that was pretty poor fare compared with what we have now, for we …
Read More “Arsenal to change whole squad: 44 in, 8 out, 4 promoted from youth”
POSITIVITY IS CONTAGIOUS…………………………Don McMahon The recent internecine conflict between Wenger must go and Wenger should stay supporters prompted me to take a closer look at the psychological impact and roles negativity and positivity play both in life and specifically in the football world. One could be excused, based on the constant media attacks, negativism of …
Read More “Positivity is contagious and in the end always wins through.”
. IT ALL EVENS OUT IN THE END……………………. By Goonermikey Following on from the superb special ref review of the Chelski v Spuds game by Usama and Walter, I was prompted to have a basic look at how different teams and players might get treated. Now before I start, let’s be clear….yet again….. I AM …
Football as Opera, tears all round By Tim Charlesworth Last weekend provided us with the moment that posterity might deem to be the iconic moment of the season. Leicester’s triumph is remarkable in so many ways, but its not easy to pick an on-pitch moment that sums it all up. There have been a few …
By Sir Hardly Anyone (and a friend) So that’s it. Despite the fact that his brief appearance against Man City made it look like he had recovered his notion of how to be … well, Theo, it seems the deal is done and dusted. “Theo Walcott ‘on the verge’ of sealing £20m West Ham …
Read More “Theo to WHU, as Wenger buys Bundesliga megastar duo as Chelsea run into problems.”
By Tony Attwood Once upon a time newspapers were there to print the news on paper (the clue is in the name). Now their prime purpose (at least in terms of football) seems to be to insult. Take this as an example… Thought Manchester City fans were bad? Sheffield United supporter lays into players on …
Read More “State Aid Utd does something odd at Tax Payer Stadium while the media looks elsewhere.”
