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 Tony Attwood I was very pleased to receive Fishpie’s article “Arsenal 2015/16: A Faltering Season with a Flattering Finish,” and to have the chance to publish it on Untold. Not because I agree with what is said (I don’t in full, as I will explain below) but because it was a well argued piece …
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Arsenal 2015/16: A Faltering Season with a Flattering Finish. By Fishpie And so another season comes to rest. Sleep gently 2015/16. We had high hopes for you. And indeed you will go down in history as a season of great miracles, when the apparently impossible happened and improbable dreams were answered. A saint of a …
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By Tony Attwood In one way Untold seeks to turn the world upside down. The media’s view is that the thing one should do is attack Wenger and the club, and throughout the season they have been going into this BIG TIME. Our view is that we should not be attacking the manager, …
By Tony Attwood The Telegraph, now in its hour of desperation at seeing the Tinies demise, quickly got Arry the Red on the blower, and out of his vague ramblings concocted this headline today… Arsenal are lucky to finish second – they need to spend this summer to get anywhere near Spurs Arsenal were lucky, …
HINDSIGHT OR BLINDSIGHT …………..Don McMahon Recent posts by certain moaners and negative fanboys have displayed a perfect 20/20 hindsight that covers the last 12 years or so. However I would not call what these fanboys display, hindsight, but rather BLINDSIGHT. Here is the definition of this optical disease: It is a cognitive disorder in …
by Tony Attwood The “606” radio programme on BBC Radio 5 Live is not a particular favourite of mine, but I do listen occasionally while driving back to the Midlands from the Arsenal. However I don’t think I have heard Mr Savage ever insult a supporter who has taken the trouble to phone in, quite …
A return to voodoo By Bulldog Drummond. Yes, it is indeed the ninth season that Untold Arsenal has been around to cover the end of the season. Our first ever final match of the season was a 0-1 away win at Sunderland, and the main comment was that the team put out for that …
Read More “Arsenal v Villa. Only half the teams in the Prem next season were there 10 years ago.”
By Tony Attwood Who holds the power in football? In one sense one could argue that much of this season has been about just that topic. The club owners, the players, PGMO, the fans, the mainstream media, the FA, Fifa, Uefa, and even unfunded blogs like Untold, who when ranged against the previous groups …
Read More “The bid for power in football is becoming confused, complicated and uncertain.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone and a friend. Indeed once more it is the Great Transfer Index – the listing of all the players linked with Arsenal since somewhere around the middle of March. The previous edition of the Index appeared here but that was pretty poor fare compared with what we have now, for we …
Read More “Arsenal to change whole squad: 44 in, 8 out, 4 promoted from youth”
POSITIVITY IS CONTAGIOUS…………………………Don McMahon The recent internecine conflict between Wenger must go and Wenger should stay supporters prompted me to take a closer look at the psychological impact and roles negativity and positivity play both in life and specifically in the football world. One could be excused, based on the constant media attacks, negativism of …
Read More “Positivity is contagious and in the end always wins through.”
. IT ALL EVENS OUT IN THE END……………………. By Goonermikey Following on from the superb special ref review of the Chelski v Spuds game by Usama and Walter, I was prompted to have a basic look at how different teams and players might get treated. Now before I start, let’s be clear….yet again….. I AM …
Football as Opera, tears all round By Tim Charlesworth Last weekend provided us with the moment that posterity might deem to be the iconic moment of the season. Leicester’s triumph is remarkable in so many ways, but its not easy to pick an on-pitch moment that sums it all up. There have been a few …
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 …
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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”
