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 psychiatrist at the university hospital of the North Circular Road. . A number of changes are needed I think. First off, the number of club psychologists needs to be enhanced, as judging by commentaries on some blogs there are a number of people around who find it very …
By Bulldog Drummond Per Mertesacker and Gabriel are fit, which is quite a relief. Aaron Ramsey is out with a thigh problem that will keep him out for maybe a month. Laurent Koscielny is not ready for this match, but might make Barcelona away, but failing that will be ready for Everton away. Watford …
Read More “Arsenal v Watford, the teams, the beach, the injuries, the fair play league. Etc.”
. #By Bulldog Drummond As we already know we are the best club ever in the FA Cup. The semi final table, excluding the smaller clubs that have not made the 20+ appearance level looks like this… Team Appearances Won Lost Arsenal 28 19 9 Aston Villa 21 11 10 Chelsea 21 11 10 …
Read More “Arsenal aiming to be the greatest Cup achievers ever.”
. By Jerry Premier League teams participating in the Champions League in the last few years appear to struggle during the knockout phase of the competition highlighted last year with no PL team surviving the Round of 16 (Chelsea, Manchester City, and Arsenal). This year, Manchester United was knocked out in the groups, Chelsea have …
Read More “Why are the FA/PL sabotaging English teams in UCL?”
. By Tim Charlesworth Human beings talk a lot of nonsense. And nowhere is this more true than football (hello Robbie Savage). We are basically ‘pattern seeking-apes’. We are genetically programmed to look for causes and effects. This is actually our finest feature. It drives things like curiosity, reflection, imagination, and ambition. Basically, these are …
Read More “Nonsense, imagination, form, Theo, fragility and hope”
By Tony Attwood Ten reasons why I remain sweet and serene in relation to Arsenal and don’t want Wenger to leave was published this morning. And so the other side of the coin. The ten things that make me really, really, totally flaming mad and red faced about football. 1: The personal view leading to the …
By Tony Attwood OK sweet and serene might be a bit much, but even so, I am fairly calm, I smile quite a lot and enjoy my life, including Arsenal. Here’s why. And to some degree how. 1: I didn’t come here to win things. As you might have realised I’m old. My dad took …
. By Fishpie Ok, gotta admit the third quarter of the 2015/16 season did not, in any way whatsoever, turn out like the script. Much anger, abuse and “told you so’s” have been hurled at our team, and mainly by us. And really Untolders, who can blame us? I know that every single one of …
By Tony Attwood One of the key points about Untold Arsenal is that we try and look at football by considering the evidence. Unfortunately we are rather on our own in doing that, and as a result when a dozen or so supporters make one of their banners and hold it up at the end …
Read More “It’s time for positive supporters to take on the clowns”
By Bulldog Drummond In an interesting snub against Arsenal, the Guardian refused today to publish a match preview of the FA Cup game tonight, on its web site. At least there was nothing there at 1630GMT. Following their lead the Independent has done the same. The Telegraph however is running Is Arsene Wenger guilty …
To HULL and back By Proud Kev So tonight we are on the trail of our third FA Cup on the spin. A remarkable achievement, despite what those who seem to object to Arsenal winning games make out. The FA CUP win against Hull City in 2013/2014 broke the long spell without a trophy, a …
. By Tim Charlesworth I am starting to reflect on how lucky I am in life. I am blessed with a wonderful family, living in a world without war (my bit of it anyway), my health, the privilege of education, living in an age of prosperity, absent of pestilence, famine etc. This is not usually …
By Tony Attwood You might remember the old tales that Arsenal were never serious contenders for winning the league because they didn’t beat enough of the other teams in the top four. In this argument beating other top four clubs was defined as a clear indicator of the club’s power and progress. This year’s …
By Tony Attwood Investors are being urged to put money into building networks of football coaching academies across the country. That opening sentence may have taken you by surprise. Unfortunately this is not in England, where investment in grassroots football is now in total terminal decline due to FA bankruptcy and government starvation of …
Read More “How football could be part of the solution of a nation’s ills.”
By Tony Attwood At 1653 GMT yesterday Jason Burt, the Deputy Football Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (an English newspaper) published a story on the paper’s web site with the headline How did Arsenal escape with a draw at Tottenham and does Arsene Wenger have a discipline problem? It was a totally pro-Tottenham piece of …
By Tony Attwood As you will know if you are a regular Untolder, Walter normally does a post match report, generally within about 15 seconds of the match ending. But Walter is today becoming a TV star, being called upon to work for Belgium TV, so what with me not being at the game in …
Read More “The Tiny Totts v Arsenal. As it happened, and indeed as it didn’t. And stuff like that.”
The following is a press release from Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association, of which I am a member, and which I am happy to pass on. Tony. ———— Ahead of the coming weekend’s North London Derby, organisations representing supporters of both Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal are making an unprecedented move to speak with one voice …
Read More “Arsenal and Tottenham supporters share a rare moment of unity”
By Tony Attwood The Sun ran it first. The Big Clubs around Europe are planning to break away. A new Euro League. Shock horror. Evil money grabbing swine. Etc etc, you know how it goes. Or maybe they were just talking about the International Champions Cup series, the pre-season competition in which clubs fly to …
by Blacksheep Pressure drop – we’re feeling it One of my favourite genres of music is Jamaican ska and reggae and one of the best exponents of this I’ve had the privilege to see live are Toots and Maytals. Arguably their breakthrough song was Pressure Drop, recorded in 1969. The Clash have covered this, and …
By Tony Attwood Earlier today Untold received a comment which began, “This site is pathetic, the moment someone dares to have an opinion that is different from yours you jump on them like spoilt little children!” There was nothing special about this comment – we get a few of them a day, with a range …
Read More “So here we are at Article 6000 on Untold Arsenal. What have we learned so far?”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold you’ll know about my interest in the way that football is portrayed in the media. While of course like every other supporter of Arsenal I wanted a stunning victory on Sunday and was disappointed, there is one tiny crumb of comfort from the …
Read More “Why the next Arsenal manager has to be the best the club has ever had.”
Jilted John, the lightbulb moment, & the football risk assessment (Part1) By Proud Kev I recently replaced a lightbulb in my office. The one I fitted was round old fashioned bayonet fitting type which gave off a lovely, bright 100 watt glow. I found it in an unopened box in my garage at home. It was …
Read More “Jilted John, the lightbulb moment & the football risk assessment (Part1)”
. By Bulldog Drummond It’s been a few days of the media falling over themselves in an attempt to examine Arsenal’s accounts. Typical was the statement in the Telegraph that “Despite the large reserves [£159m], the club did make a relatively small loss of £3.4 million for the six month financial period until Nov …
By Tony Attwood Gianni Infantino has moved from being the General Secretary of Uefa, a position he has held since October 2009, to being President of the most corrupt sports organisation that the world has ever seen: Fifa. He was associated with Financial Fair Play, and has seen the expansion of Euro 2016 to 24 teams …
Read More “Fifa survives, Infantino wins. Arsenal make a loss.”
By Tony Attwood As people interested in football, we have a choice. We can Support our club no matter what Support the club but grumble about the way things are currently going Get angry and say I’m not supporting this club if they don’t change their ways Get angry and go and support another club …
