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 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.”
By Tony Attwood One of the things about protesters is that they are certain of one thing: they are right. In which case they are probably quite certain that they know exactly what will happen if their protests are not taken note of. Which when you come to think of it, is a fairly good …
By Bulldog Drummond. “Let’s go back to the start of this season,” said Mr Wenger. “Predictions were: number one Chelsea will win it again. Number two, Man City. In the end any pundit who would have predicted Leicester would have met the response: ‘Stop your job and do something else’. And that is what can …
Read More “Man City v Arsenal, the match preview, the odds, and the analysis of hindsight”
. Please note we’ve change our approach to how we handle comments – details are at the end. Managerial farewells by Tony Attwood Pep Guardiola accuses dressing room mole of ‘damaging’ Bayern Munich At least that had the merit of being a different type of complaint about a club from a leaving manager – but …
by Tony Attwood When it is time to knock Arsenal in the media (which it is most of the time) then all the standard ploys are used – one of which of course is the fact that all the star players want to leave because they are so fed up with Arsène Wenger. So we …
Read More “Sánchez unhappy at Arsenal reminds us of the others who left”
——————– THE BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS BLOG , PRESENTS RULES FOR ‘them’ ON UNTOLD ARSENAL . “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” ― Nicolas Chamfort After posting this link about THE RULES FOR ALWAYS BEING A GENTLEMAN – on the comments section of Don’s fine article, ‘The Illusion of change,’ it struck me …
Read More “THE BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS BLOG, presents rules for “them” on Untold Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood Much of the time the press work as one. They find an enemy and go for it. Or him. If this can be linked with a solid bit of doom mongering and some praise of Liverpool!!! so much the better. Thus Jonathan Liew of the Telegraph, always one for a good bit …
By Tony Attwood There is something going on that I really don’t understand. Most Arsenal supporters (not quite all, but most Arsenal supporters) want the same thing – for the club to win lots of trophies. And most Arsenal supporters want to achieve this result by changing things. The only difference between us is …
By Tony Attwood The FA, as we all know, has financial problems. In October 2011 it was revealed (through a study of the FA’s accounts) that England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup (for which they got two votes, one of those being their own) cost £21m – £6m more than they had previously, misleadingly, …
Read More “FA set to lose another £30m of state aid as they donate more money to Fifa.”
. By ………..Don McMahon Following recent comical attempts by a few hundred plastic fanboys (mostly kids) to agitate for an alternate reality at AFC, it became apparent to most true Gooners that change for the sake of Russian Roulette style improvements is comical at best and tragically shortsighted at worst! These fickle fairweather, moaning plastic fanboys want …
By Josif We have been running an occasional series about the task facing the next manager of Arsenal, whenever he might take over. First we looked at the overall problem and presented the first group of candidates: Roberto Martinez, Ronald Koeman, Jose Mourinho and Roberto Mancini This was continued in the second article which continued …
By Andrew and Tony Arsenal beat Blackburn 2-1 to progress through to the Under 21 play off final in a game which saw Santi Cazorla make his comeback as Arsene Wenger, Ivan Gazidis and Petr Cech all looked on. Santi was indeed, by a distance, the best player on the pitch even though he was …
Read More “Arsenal under 21’s progress to play off final, Leicester contemplating relegation”
By Tony Attwood On 20 October 1990 Arsenal beat Man U 1-0 at Old Trafford. In the second half, Anders Limpar (who scored the goal) tangled with Irwin. Winterburn then got embroiled with Irwin, and there was what the BBC used to call a bit of argy bargy but which now some call a melee …
By Tony Attwood The media never fails to surprise me. Just when I thought that the anti-Arsenal pro-Liverpool! hate/love in would last forever, suddenly voices arise to suggest a moment of change. Will it last? Could the media turn and knock the exclamation out of Liverpool’s self-perception? Could they actually admit that P. Morgan Esq …
. By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes it is the ever growing Great Transfer Index – the absolute list of all the players already linked with Arsenal – which you can only read here. Or maybe somewhere else if they have nicked it. The one “done deal”, according to “reports” remains the same: Granit Xhaka. But …
Read More “One player in, three to leave, one coaching deal. All Arsenal’s summer transfers”
By Tony Attwood Sitting in the north bank always made me feel part of the action – being at the heart of Arsenal support. But this season being in the front row of the East Upper, facing the 18 yard line at the North Bank end, I get a panoramic view of what the North …
By Bulldog Drummond I recall a time when (I think I must have been around 13) I learned about Matthew Hopkins. He was originally from Great Wenham in Suffolk, but moved on to Norfolk spending a fair amount of time in Norwich during the Civil War. He was responsible for the deaths of over 200 …
Read More “Arsenal v Arsenal. Welcome to the Witchfinder Stadium.”
. By Tim Charlesworth The world of football is full of talk of, ‘the good of the game’ and other meaningless epithets. Football is mostly, however, what economists describe as a ‘zero sum game’. Every winner creates a loser. If you get together a group of Arsenal devotees and a group of Tottenham devotees and …
. From The Brickfields Gunners Blog . . I started writing this at work as a comment to Blacksheep’s fine “Don’t shoot the messenger but we’re in a funk” article, but it mutated and became this . And in the meantime Tony had posted his article on the same subject . So without further adieu …
By Danny Karbassiyoon I’ve had a bit of a crazy past couple of weeks. With the book finally launching, I’ve been on an endless run of podcasts and have spoken to a good number of journalists about the story, my time as a player, and of course my time as a scout. The AISA event this …
By Sir Hardly Anyone . According to the newspapers and the bloggettas, the transfer window is full steam ahead, while the wheels that have come off the bus are going round and round. Or something like that. When it comes to transfers it is rarely a piece of cake.However amidst the inevitable turmoil of rumour …
Read More “Arsenal’s good name secures first transfer but two top stars may have had enough”
By Tony Attwood A recent article by Harry Pearson in When Saturday Comes came with the headline “If you think referees can ‘ruin’ matches, perhaps you’re not watching them right”. Much of the article isn’t about referees or refereeing as such but towards the end it does get there, and asks, “Why everybody in English professional …
Read More “When Saturday Comes the enquiry line is switched off.”
By Tony Attwood I didn’t intend to cover the end of the court case relating to the Hillsborough tragedy on Untold, not out of any lack of compassion or respect but rather because I couldn’t think of anything to say that hadn’t been said a thousand times, and said much better, by others. But then …
Read More “What the papers don’t want to say, what they can’t bring themselves to admit”
By Tony Attwood Last week I was doing some research on an Arsenal player from the 19th century – Stanley Briggs. It turned out he was an amateur player who played for Tottenham, then for Woolwich Arsenal in the League, then for Tottenham. Several Tottenham web sites mention the player and speak of him as …
Read More “Be like Chelsea only more so? Is that what the lynch mob want?”
