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 …
by Andrew Crawshaw Following Walter and Usama’s review of the Norwich Game Ref Review : Norwich – Arsenal – these acts of thuggery must be stopped Here is the updated Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 19 Red Cards 1 9 Penalties 1 14 Goals …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Although it is not a topic normally covered on Untold Arsenal I thought I would mention that almost one-third of Republican primary voters believe the US should bomb the kingdom of Agrabah, according to a report released in the US by Public Policy Polling on Friday. This is bad news for …
By Tony Attwood You’ll know by now that it’s my view that the notion that you have to buy players to make a success of a club is thoroughly misleading. But still the bloggettas and their friends in the media love to hype up purchasing as the route to success. How much evidence they …
By Tony Attwood I know Untold doesn’t normally do pre-match stuff until the day of the game, but these snippets from the media suggest one or two old timers have been having a bit of a jolly before rushing back to the company computer to put up their latest thoughts. And I don’t mean the …
By Tim Charlesworth Proudkev recently wrote an interesting article highlighting that a disproportionate number of referees are from the Manchester area. I think this article touches on a much wider point. It is not just refereeing that is biased, but the whole of football in England. I’m not sure that there is a conspiracy here …
By Walter Broeckx With the sacking of Mourinho and as one of our readers linked to an article on the BBC below a previous article I thought it would be interesting to have a look at what some of their experts said at the start of the season. Somewhere at the start of the season …
By Tony Attwood The latest word on Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini is that they are likely to receive suspensions of at least seven years from football related activity in the hearings happening Thursday (Blatter) and Friday (Platini). The specific issue that will cause the ban is the £1.3m payment made to Platini by Fifa in …
By Tony Attwood. Last year it was Chelsea 2 Bradford City 4. It could have been the biggest headline of the century, but the media were not ready to put the boot in at that time, as the identification of underlying problems or accurately predicting problems to come is not exactly their thing. It is …
You can never quite count Arsenal out. The team overcame its struggles in the Champions League to play one of its best games of the year against a tough Olympiacos side and keep its dreams of European silverware alive. Olivier Giroud put in a terrific performance, notching his first hat-trick as a Gunner while continuing …
By Sir Hardly Anyone I’ve been covering the ravings of the bloggettas since the end of the last transfer window, and I thought I had seen it all. But now the dailyfootballblog.com has come up with this Deal Agreed : Club To Announce Signing Of £25m La Liga Star On January 1 – Fans …
By Tony Attwood It is all getting a bit desperate at the Independent this morning as it uses up a whole article on the fact that someone running Arsenal’s official Twitter account pressed the send button three times over the same tweet – making out of that mistake (the sort of cock up that happens …
By Danny Karbassiyoon. Danny Karbassiyoon is a former professional footballer 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. Despite his short-lived …
So the draw is Arsenal v Barcelona Gent v Wolfsburg Roma v Real Madrid Paris St-Germain v Chelsea Juventus v Bayern Munich PSV Eindhoven v Atletico Madrid Benfica v Zenit St Petersburg Dynamo Kiev v Manchester City Our games will be on February 23 and March 16 played at the same time as Juventus against …
By Tony Attwood From “nicking a living” in the Daily Mail to the “complete player” on the BBC today; that is the story of Mesut Özil. As you may well have read or seen on Sky, the recently sacked David Moyes said of Mesut, “I still think the jury’s out on him a bit.” Cue the …
By Bulldog Drummond. Shock headline of the day… “Premier League injuries: Neither Arsenal or Manchester United are missing the most players.” Tony has put a limit on the number of times we are allowed to say “We did that” in terms of what Untold has achieved, but since that limit is 8,354 times per article …
Aston Villa v Arsenal 13 December 2015 – the Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Before I start on discussing referees or the upcoming game I want to pay my own brief tribute to an Arsenal legend who died last Saturday on his way to watch the Sunderland game. Ernie Crouch was 90, supported Arsenal for …
By Tony Attwood In the end it comes down to a simple thought: if Arsenal had bought lots more players in the summer instead of just one first teamer and some junior players, would our position today be better? POS CLUB P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Leicester City 15 9 5 …
What a week! By Tim Charlesworth Well wow! That is as close to a perfect week as you will get as an Arsenal supporter. We all tend to get carried away with wild optimism after a victory, and doom and gloom following a defeat. So let’s step back a bit and have a look at …
By Tony Attwood With the Daily Telegraph you know what you get. A right wing paper written for retired colonels living in Surrey with a wry sense of humour when it comes to obituaries. That it covers football (as opposed to rugby union) has always been bemusing but it does, usually from a pedestal which …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Now you will know, if you have read my erudite enunciations in the past that I have one or two slight issues with the bloggette “goonersden” whose reportage it is my solemn duty to cover. So at this point I treat carefully in case any of it sticks to my …
By Tony Attwood May I start with the Untold prediction. I mean I don’t want to make a big big thing about it, and I know that much of the time if we do a prediction we get it wrong, but in the face of an anti-Arsenal media onslaught the likes of which I …
By Tony Attwood Olympiakos are top of the Greek league. They have played 13 and won 13. Their owner and president is accused of being involved in and directing a criminal organization, aiding and abetting blackmailing, aiding and abetting the creating of explosions, aiding and abetting bribery and fraud. He is currently out …
By Tony Attwood According to the general view, what is happening at Chelsea is a quirk, an oddity, a one-off. Normal service resumes soon. Chelsea have spent over £700,000,000 on transfer fees and had undoubted success both in Europe and at home, including of course being the current champions of England. And …
. They don’t accord us the basic rights that even a murderer gets. By Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold for a while you will know that part of our view is that a lot of information about football that should be discussed and made public isn’t. Hence the name “Untold”. By discussing …
