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 Blacksheep When I was a teenager I used to go to watch the Arsenal with a few mates from school (Christ’s College in Finchley). We’d meet up at the underground and take the northern line south, changing onto the Piccadilly to arrive at Arsenal about 30 minutes before the game. From about 1977-81 Adrian, …
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In the first part of Football Winners and Losers for 2015 I nominated Man U – Loser Jose Mourinho – Loser The Anti-Arsenal-Arsenal – Loser Arsene Wenger – Winner The Premier League – Winner So here’s some more. 6. Mesut Özil – WINNER He was a winner at Real Mad, but now he is up …
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It’s the end of the year, and a good time for looking back at who has down well, and who not. Here’s the first part of the Untold List of Winners and Losers in 2015. 1: Man U – LOSER Man U have had two approaches of late – changing managers (three managers in three …
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By Fishpie So, 19 games gone. The half-way mark has arrived. And…we’re top of the league!! And what more can you ask for? And you know what it means too, don’t you? Well, it means we are now in the coveted position that eight of the last ten Premier League title-winning teams were in at …
By Tony Attwood Before I answer that question (and if you are impatient, the answer is here, but at the end) let me prove our current success. Let’s start with the final table for the 2015 calendar year reads thus… Club P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 38 25 6 7 …
By Tony Attwood In 2014, the Deloitte Football Money League had eight Premier League clubs in the top 30 richest clubs in the universe. Well, ok, in the world. But when the new TV deal comes along, things will change again. The total amount being paid to Premier League clubs for both UK rights and international …
By Tony Attwood Here’s the easiest question of the year. How many players did we sign in the last transfer window and how much did we spend? Answer 1 and £10m But can you count the number of players we bought in 2014/15 and how much was spent? And what about the year before, and …
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By Tony Attwood It is not something I dwell on much on this site, because I know that just because you share my interest in Arsenal, it doesn’t mean you share my interest in music – but there is a second Untold site – Untold Dylan. While this site focuses on “Football news from an Arsenal …
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By Tony Attwood To the best of my knowledge Arsenal have only played Bournemouth twice before. The first was on 26 October 1965 and we won 6-2 at Dean Court. The Arsenal team was Burns, Howe, Storey, McLintock, Neill, Simpson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Baker, Sammels, Eastham. Howe, Baker and Eastham scored, and then John Radford came …
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Arsenal v Bournemouth 28 December 2015 – The Match Officials. by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Roger East Assistants – L Betts and D Cann Fourth Official – D Deadman Roger East, is from Wiltshire. He was appointed to the Elite group for the start of the 2013-14 season, having refereed first on 1 …
By Tim Charlesworth Amidst the joy of the Man City game, (and forgetting the one that followed it) one interesting aspect got slightly overlooked, and that was the influence of the left footers. Left sidedness is an advantage in lots of sports. John McEnroe and Raphael Nadal are the most obvious examples in tennis. Both players …
By Tony Attwood If you are going to have a rough ride in football it can often be better to get it over with in one game. That was the lesson learned in the first double season of 1970/1 in which Arsenal, complete from Wilson in goal and a team of stars up to …
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By Bulldog Drummond The review of recent events, and the league table for 2015 to date appears in the first part of the Southampton Arsenal review. The referee preview also is here. . Now moving on… . The team is most likely to be Giroud Campbell Ozil Walcott Ramsey Flamini Monreal Koscielny Mertersacker Bellerin …
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By Bulldog Drummond Could it be that football is not only taking note of our desire to video refereeing, but also for evidence based commentary? After so many years of attempts to tell us what we will think in the future (as per “Arsenal fans will be angry if…” it seems hard to believe, and …
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Southampton v Arsenal 26 December 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw The Table of Shame – valid to matchweek 14 Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 19 Red Cards 1 9 Penalties 1 14 Goals 0 4 Total 2 46 Possible Cost in Points 0 11 Before …
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By Tony Attwood After the Premier League’s own version of Financial Fair Play was left in its box, never to have the wrapping paper undone, Uefa crumbled from its ideals of bringing football finance under control, and the Football League let QPR off the hook with a fine that didn’t even make the owner blink, …
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In the last article Tim Charlesworth discussed the Birmingham v Arsenal game of 23 February 2008 – surely most fans’ nomination for the “worst Arsenal game ever”. In this piece Tim continues by looking at the aftermath. The devastation was total. Arsenal’s title challenge unravelled over the next few weeks, and we finished third. As the 2015/16 …
By Tim Charlesworth I was sorry to hear that Cesc Fabregas was booed by Chelsea fans last weekend. He may well have deserved it, but the incident reminded me of something sad. Cesc has not, and never will, realise his full potential. I suspect that, like many players who started young, his career may tail …
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By Tony Attwood We’ve had a torrid ten years at the hands of the press, so maybe it is about time they stopped. I reckon it started at the end of the Unbeaten Season – something that shook the media to the core after they had spent five months (after the possibility of an unbeaten …
Read More “Laughing when the press turn on another club is ok, but they’ll be after us again soon.”
By Tony Attwood They’ve all been down the pub. They’ve all supped their glasses of whatever it is that tickles their fancy, and they’ve all agreed: It is now or never for Mr Wenger. This is his great chance to win the league, not because Arsenal are good, but because everyone else is rubbish. Yep, …
Read More “Why the notion that Arsenal will never have a better chance than now is utter rubbish.”
By Kim The other day a friend of mine rang me out of the blue, his voice was trembling with rage, at first I couldn’t understand what was going on. Had something happened to him; his family; friends…? oh God this is the kind of call I dread. He was uncharacteristically incoherent …
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By Tony Attwood Slowly but surely, the wattage of support (if support can be measured in wattage) has risen. Before the game the club now often plays with the lights flashing them on and off in fancy sequences, the sound levels are up and there is a really positive feel about the place. No …
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By Bulldog Drummond Part one of the preview is here. Now onto what we might (in a state of revolutionary fervour) call “part two”. It seems only yesterday that every match against one of the so-called big teams in the League was preluded by a run-down of a big defeat of Arsenal. Defeats at Man …
By Bulldog Drummond We have taken just 11 points out of the last 18 in the league. That doesn’t sound so good. Although we’ve won the last two games. That sounds better. But Man City are having greater trouble. They’ve actually got ten points out of the last 18, including being beaten by Liverpool! Put …
By Tony Attwood Speaking with their regular authority on such matters on September 15 the Daily Express announced the “Liverpool owners will not sack Brendan Rodgers”. And no they didn’t do it then – they did it on 4 October, and immediately the Daily Star said, “Replacing Brendan Rodgers with Jurgen Klopp will not solve …
Read More “Klopp is not making much of an impression at Liverpool, and financially it looks tight.”
