Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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By a rather smug Tony Attwood Untold is a web site that takes sides. A web site that presents a case. A web site that quite often gets things horribly wrong. But a web site that by and large sticks to its ground. As with the last post – the one about Spanish clubs being …
Arsenal sign Mohamed Elneny while Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid are banned from buying players By Tony Attwood Exactly as Untold has been reporting for nearly a year, two more Spanish clubs have been banned from signing players in the next two transfer windows. This follows on from the year long ban which serial child traffickers Barcelona …
by ARSENAL 13. ARSENAL still sit top of the league equal with Leicester on points, still 3 clear of Manchester City (supposedly our main rival for the title) just as we were before last night’s games. And seven points clear of the little chickens (in the 4th place) who for no obvious reasons finish …
By Bulldog Drummond For most members of the aaa I imagine that Liverpool is their ideal club. They change managers quite regularly, and they buy, buy and buy again, player after player after player. Since they last won the league in 1990 they have had seven managers. Since that last league win in 1990, they …
By Tai Emeka Obasi Wenger’s Arsenal: The Enemy Within. Arsenal is a global institution that extends far beyond the English horizon. Not just on playing turfs but on the stock market terrains of big business empires. A jigsaw of a dream that took one lanky genius a chunk of his productive years of toil is …
By Tony Attwood I’ve done several pieces of late which argue against the statement that “you can prove anything with statistics”. But suddenly I find myself doubting my own argument, as the CIES Football Observatory has published its list of the most valuable players in world football. Their statement is that the list takes into account …
Read More “Özil declines in value but was best attacking midfielder of the year!?!?!”
By Tony Attwood It seems such an innocuous question: who runs football in England? And yet the more I think about it, the more confused I get. (OK I know I am often confused, but on this one I am even more confused.) The list below of the institutions, bodies, groups, and collections of organisations, …
By Tony Attwood Saying stuff without much evidence can be fun, and is of course dead easy. You just say it. Or write it. Although in retrospect it can make the speaker or writer look a little silly at times. Take for example the guy who wrote that headline for Arsenal Report. His opening …
Read More “Ozil was a last minute panic buy in a position we didn’t need to strengthen”
By Tony Attwood I thought I would push Sir Hardly Anyone aside for a moment and do a transfer column of my own. This is based around two players that several “sources” say are most certainly on, and about to go through. One even has the player’s mother spotted talking to Arsenal, so that is …
Read More “Two dead cert Arsenal transfers to follow through and see how they pan out.”
By Tony Attwood One of the things that I’ve always tried to ensure is that Untold lives up to its name and covers issues that are not covered in most other places. Of course over time some other media catch up, which is gratifying, but just re-iterating what other people say has never been the …
Read More “How could anyone write a report of yesterday’s game and not mention the ref?”
By Bulldog Drummond Only four teams have won the FA cup twice running in this or the last century, Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea and Newcastle Only two teams have won the FA Cup three times running and both of these made their mark before even Royal Arsenal FC existed. In fact the last one was …
by Tony Attwood One of the points about Untold Arsenal is that it gives an outlet for those of us who want to explore specific issues with evidence, rather than just opinion. That’s not to say there is anything wrong with opinion, it is just that after a while, opinion on its own gets a …
Read More “If Ferguson had gone to Man U in 2015 he wouldn’t have lasted a season.”
By Tai Emeka Obasi. Wenger, Mourinho Drama – Good Usually Triumphs. As a man who earns his living authoring books of fiction and scripting movies, I may say I’m quite schooled in the protagonist and antagonist world of make-believe. Writers love to play God and if you happen to live within this most-times-alluring fantasy world …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Here are 19 current headlines from bloggettas concerning Arsenal transfers which are causing a bit of a stir today. Each one is followed by a note of the source. All you have to do is guess what each one relates to… Below the list of 19 headlines are those headlines again, …
Read More “Has there ever been a January like this? The 19 transfer stories surrounding Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood It was in August 2012 that I wrote an introduction to the craft of the Vapour Transfer, having in previous articles explored the way that the transfer market was being manipulated by clubs. In that piece I drew a comparison with the activities of companies like Microsoft and Apple, with their pre-announcements of …
Read More “How a phantom transfer got Daniel Levy and the press all in a tizz.”
By Billy the Dog McGraw According to reports in some of the wackier parts or the media. Jack Wilshere has been to the estate agents, and so is undoubtedly leaving Arsenal this summer. Now most of us sell our houses after we’ve got an offer of a new job, but apparently the wild and wobbly media …
By Tony Attwood This season I’ve bored everyone to death with my thesis that transfers and managerial changes can cause as much havoc in a club as they can bring success. Indeed it is very possible to show that transfers and managerial change is actually more likely to bring a decline or stagnation, than it …
By Danny Karbassiyoon Danny Karbassiyoon is a former Arsenal player who was forced to retire at 22 due to recurring knee injuries. Soon after hanging up his boots, he was hired as a scout for Arsenal and spent 7 years scouting the Americas full time before recently moving back to London. I’ve both written and …
Read More “How does an Arsenal scout decide if a player is good enough or not?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It’s called “Ramping up the lingo”, or “Finding a new twist”. Anyway to keep the excitement on the rise everything and anything is on the table. Or at least underneath it. And I have to admit the notion of Arsenal signing two £29m players in the January transfers did persuade …
Read More “Arsenal agree to sign two £29m players in two weeks!”
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN BE A REFEREE……..Don McMahon Recent events have convinced many football supporters that too many officials in the EPL are at the least, incompetent and at worse corrupt and manipulated by a cabal of PGMOL managers intent on preventing their Club from winning. In this post I want to invite UA …
by Brickfields Gunners As Walter goes through his 12 part ‘ Looking back at 2015 ‘ series over the next few days (he’s at present on – part 3. Özil, Alexis, Bellerin, Coquelin,) [actually Brickfields – it was just a three part piece – do try and pay attention – the editor], I on the other hand …
By Tony Attwood Christmas – all done and dusted for another year. So what happened? The teams that did best over Christmas were both in north London – and indeed if Tottenham win or even draw their game in hand this afternoon they will be the most successful club this Christmas / New Year. Tottenham …
Read More “Arsenal were the best performing team over Christmas – at least for the moment”
By Bulldog Drummond May I begin by saying how much I like our “Insult of the Day” today. In case you missed it, we’re delivering a series of insults back to the aaa, after having to take all their rambling nonsense for seven years. But being Untold we do it with class, so every insult …
Read More “Arsenal welcome Newcastle at the start of the Year of the Dangerous Nutters”
Arsenal v Newcastle Saturday 2 January 2016 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Following Usama and Walter’s latest two Referee reviews here is the Table of Shame updated to matchweek 16 Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 19 Red Cards 1 9 Penalties 1 14 Goals 0 5 Total …
By Josif with additional bits culled from the nation’s newspapers Did you know: 1: That Arsene Wenger has won all three titles in even-numbered years (1998, 2002, 2004) 2. That Arsenal have beaten Manchester clubs four times in five attempts in 2015, with a draw that was essentially a victory in the 3rd place battle. …
