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 . 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?”
By Tony Attwood Last night, in a most magnificent setting by London Bridge, overlooking the Thames, ex-Arsenal player, Arsenal scout and Untold columnist Danny Karbassiyoon spoke to members of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association about his life in football – from being a wonderkid with the Gunners to making a faux pas at Burnley by mentioning …
Read More “Why don’t clubs take care of their prize assets?”
By Tony Attwood I got interested in how the media works way back in my late teenage years when I started playing with various rhythm and blues bands. Rather obviously (since my name is not known in musical circles) my attempt to make the big time (or come to that even the little time) failed …
Read More “The endless assault on Arsenal. Now it is started I doubt it will ever end.”
By Tony Attwood You’ll recall that Dinamo Zagreb’s Arijan Ademi failed a drug test after playing in the team that beat Arsenal in the Champions League group stage. Despite the fact that he played the full game nothing was done to the club that employs him and nothing was done about the result. Dinamo …
Read More “Arijan Ademi got four years ban for failing a drugs test. So what will Sakho get?”
By Bulldog Drummond . Well now it seems like only Thursday when we were playing a game and here we are once more. 12 goals in our last five games, three wins and two draws – not so bad overall. . Sunderland’s home record is not that magnifico – in fact in the tables helpfully …
Read More “Sunderland v Arsenal, the teams, what will happen and other stuff.”
By Tony Attwood It was last month that the Guardian ran its article “Why are Premier League referees silenced – even into their retirement?” – an article which picked up on a lot of the work by Untold and by Referee Decisions, although they didn’t credit either site. What would the rest of the media …
OH GOD FORGIVE ME WHEN I WHINE………….Don McMahon Recently I came across a poem, whose provenance I could not trace, but which, for me summed up the aaa’s perfidy and those plastic fanboys who sport homemade banners, tear up their season tickets and in general make fools of themselves when they whine about the Arsenal, …
By Tony Attwood Before the match four writers of Untold gathered in the Swimmer for a pre-game chit-chat and the occasional noggin. (Tim joining regulars Blacksheep, Andrew and myself). We were, I think it is fair to say, in lively, positive mood, despite the awful car crash, the aftermath of which Blacksheep and I had witnessed …
By Bulldog Drummond. Arsène Wenger stands firm but Arsenal are standing still and close to meltdown shouts the Guardian and of course alongside it is another very tatty banner held up by a very tatty supporter, or at least he would be if we could see him. So since the press won’t ever acknowledge that some of …
Read More “The media don’t recognise there is an Arsenal game tonight. Fortunately we do.”
By Zuruvi The season is coming to an end and it is time for some introspection and reflection. Why didn’t Arsenal win this league title or any trophy this year? Wasn’t this league title there for the taking? Will the present squad provide us the fans with confidence that we will do better next season …
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is extraordinary to think that no one has ever put together a cumulative list of players who, according to the bloggettas and their chums in the rapidly declining newspapers, have signed for Arsenal this summer – or at least are very close to doing so. [Incidentally, before going on, vis …
Read More “The 29 players signed by and linked to Arsenal 10 weeks before the transfer window!”
This is the third in our occasional series about the next manager at Arsenal. The first two articles were… The task facing the next manager, what he has to achieve, and how can he do it? The task facing the next manager: tactics, referees and candidates review Now we move on to Group 2 of our …
By Blacksheep If you live and work in Britain (and much of the English speaking world in fact) then you will probably know recognise Thursday as the 4th day of the week. It comes after Wednesday and before Friday. I associate several things with Thursday: it is my heaviest teaching day during term time, it is …
Read More “The importance of Thursdays (and not playing football on them)”
By Billy “le chien” McGraw, visiting professor of psychology at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Dijon, Dijon, France. Well mes amis here I am at the University of Burgundy (I chose it because of the wine) and yet still keeping up with the ins and outs and roundabouts of the world of football. And casting my …
Read More “We cannot have a situation like the Summer of 2015”
By Tony Attwood Whatever the scenario there is always someone worse off than you. (Ok, not always, like, not when you are having your head eaten by a wolf, but most of the time). Not that I think we are that badly off. I know there are a lot of people around who are tearing …
Read More “Are Arsenal fans the only fans who are endlessly miserable? It seems not.”
By Tony Attwood “The trouble with this club is that it has no plan B.” We must have heard that so many times over the years about Arsenal. They always play the same way, no matter what the opposition are up to, no matter what the referee and assistants are doing. “Arsenal have no plan …
by Tony Attwood Olivier Giroud has scored 20 goals in 42 games this season, and that is clearly not enough. I know this because everyone tells me so. But this week an article turned up on the Goonernews blog that suggested that maybe this wasn’t so bad at all. It showed me that in 1998 …
Read More “The figures that show that a 30+ goalscorer is not always the answer.”
By Tony Attwood My company rents an office block and behind it, a warehouse block. In each case we pay the landlords a fixed rent, and every three years the landlords have the right to put the rent up. They do this in accordance with the rents that are being charged elsewhere in the …
By Tony Attwood Well, I have tried, I have really tried, to explain what I mean by evidence. And I have failed. Yet I still think my point is simple: there are opinions and there are facts. Opinions are interesting, although if one hears the same opinion over and over, that is a bit …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Of course it has been a great honour indeed to be awarded the right to publish the regular Official Arsenal Transfer List each week. Being “official” doesn’t in any way mean that the list is actually “official”, any more than a “£50m centre forward deal done, contract signed” headline means …
Read More “Exclusive: The Official Arsenal Transfer Rumour List”
By Tony Attwood Danny Karbassiyoon, the ex-Arsenal player, the Arsenal scout who discovered Joel Campbell and Gedion Zelalem, the occasional columnist on Untold Arsenal, and the author of the book “The Arsenal Yankee” will be the special guest at an Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association meeting in central London on Monday 25 April. The meeting is …
Read More “Come and meet ex-Arsenal player and Arsenal scout Danny Karbassiyoon on 25 April”
By Josif . This article continues from yesterday’s article The task facing the next manager, what he has to achieve, and how can he do it? . 8. At the same time as this we need tactical flexibility. How is that to be introduced at the same time as everything else? When you add a real …
Read More “The task facing the next manager: tactics, referees and candidates review”
