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 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”
By Tony Attwood On 20 October 1990 Arsenal beat Man U 1-0 at Old Trafford. In the second half, Anders Limpar (who scored the goal) tangled with Irwin. Winterburn then got embroiled with Irwin, and there was what the BBC used to call a bit of argy bargy but which now some call a melee …
By Tony Attwood The media never fails to surprise me. Just when I thought that the anti-Arsenal pro-Liverpool! hate/love in would last forever, suddenly voices arise to suggest a moment of change. Will it last? Could the media turn and knock the exclamation out of Liverpool’s self-perception? Could they actually admit that P. Morgan Esq …
. By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes it is the ever growing Great Transfer Index – the absolute list of all the players already linked with Arsenal – which you can only read here. Or maybe somewhere else if they have nicked it. The one “done deal”, according to “reports” remains the same: Granit Xhaka. But …
Read More “One player in, three to leave, one coaching deal. All Arsenal’s summer transfers”
By Tony Attwood Sitting in the north bank always made me feel part of the action – being at the heart of Arsenal support. But this season being in the front row of the East Upper, facing the 18 yard line at the North Bank end, I get a panoramic view of what the North …
By Bulldog Drummond I recall a time when (I think I must have been around 13) I learned about Matthew Hopkins. He was originally from Great Wenham in Suffolk, but moved on to Norfolk spending a fair amount of time in Norwich during the Civil War. He was responsible for the deaths of over 200 …
Read More “Arsenal v Arsenal. Welcome to the Witchfinder Stadium.”
. By Tim Charlesworth The world of football is full of talk of, ‘the good of the game’ and other meaningless epithets. Football is mostly, however, what economists describe as a ‘zero sum game’. Every winner creates a loser. If you get together a group of Arsenal devotees and a group of Tottenham devotees and …
. From The Brickfields Gunners Blog . . I started writing this at work as a comment to Blacksheep’s fine “Don’t shoot the messenger but we’re in a funk” article, but it mutated and became this . And in the meantime Tony had posted his article on the same subject . So without further adieu …
By Danny Karbassiyoon I’ve had a bit of a crazy past couple of weeks. With the book finally launching, I’ve been on an endless run of podcasts and have spoken to a good number of journalists about the story, my time as a player, and of course my time as a scout. The AISA event this …
By Sir Hardly Anyone . According to the newspapers and the bloggettas, the transfer window is full steam ahead, while the wheels that have come off the bus are going round and round. Or something like that. When it comes to transfers it is rarely a piece of cake.However amidst the inevitable turmoil of rumour …
Read More “Arsenal’s good name secures first transfer but two top stars may have had enough”
By Tony Attwood A recent article by Harry Pearson in When Saturday Comes came with the headline “If you think referees can ‘ruin’ matches, perhaps you’re not watching them right”. Much of the article isn’t about referees or refereeing as such but towards the end it does get there, and asks, “Why everybody in English professional …
Read More “When Saturday Comes the enquiry line is switched off.”
By Tony Attwood I didn’t intend to cover the end of the court case relating to the Hillsborough tragedy on Untold, not out of any lack of compassion or respect but rather because I couldn’t think of anything to say that hadn’t been said a thousand times, and said much better, by others. But then …
Read More “What the papers don’t want to say, what they can’t bring themselves to admit”
By Tony Attwood Last week I was doing some research on an Arsenal player from the 19th century – Stanley Briggs. It turned out he was an amateur player who played for Tottenham, then for Woolwich Arsenal in the League, then for Tottenham. Several Tottenham web sites mention the player and speak of him as …
Read More “Be like Chelsea only more so? Is that what the lynch mob want?”
By Tony Attwood Last night, in a most magnificent setting by London Bridge, overlooking the Thames, ex-Arsenal player, Arsenal scout and Untold columnist Danny Karbassiyoon spoke to members of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association about his life in football – from being a wonderkid with the Gunners to making a faux pas at Burnley by mentioning …
Read More “Why don’t clubs take care of their prize assets?”
By Tony Attwood I got interested in how the media works way back in my late teenage years when I started playing with various rhythm and blues bands. Rather obviously (since my name is not known in musical circles) my attempt to make the big time (or come to that even the little time) failed …
Read More “The endless assault on Arsenal. Now it is started I doubt it will ever end.”
By Tony Attwood You’ll recall that Dinamo Zagreb’s Arijan Ademi failed a drug test after playing in the team that beat Arsenal in the Champions League group stage. Despite the fact that he played the full game nothing was done to the club that employs him and nothing was done about the result. Dinamo …
Read More “Arijan Ademi got four years ban for failing a drugs test. So what will Sakho get?”
By Bulldog Drummond . Well now it seems like only Thursday when we were playing a game and here we are once more. 12 goals in our last five games, three wins and two draws – not so bad overall. . Sunderland’s home record is not that magnifico – in fact in the tables helpfully …
Read More “Sunderland v Arsenal, the teams, what will happen and other stuff.”
By Tony Attwood It was last month that the Guardian ran its article “Why are Premier League referees silenced – even into their retirement?” – an article which picked up on a lot of the work by Untold and by Referee Decisions, although they didn’t credit either site. What would the rest of the media …
OH GOD FORGIVE ME WHEN I WHINE………….Don McMahon Recently I came across a poem, whose provenance I could not trace, but which, for me summed up the aaa’s perfidy and those plastic fanboys who sport homemade banners, tear up their season tickets and in general make fools of themselves when they whine about the Arsenal, …
By Tony Attwood Before the match four writers of Untold gathered in the Swimmer for a pre-game chit-chat and the occasional noggin. (Tim joining regulars Blacksheep, Andrew and myself). We were, I think it is fair to say, in lively, positive mood, despite the awful car crash, the aftermath of which Blacksheep and I had witnessed …
By Bulldog Drummond. Arsène Wenger stands firm but Arsenal are standing still and close to meltdown shouts the Guardian and of course alongside it is another very tatty banner held up by a very tatty supporter, or at least he would be if we could see him. So since the press won’t ever acknowledge that some of …
Read More “The media don’t recognise there is an Arsenal game tonight. Fortunately we do.”
By Zuruvi The season is coming to an end and it is time for some introspection and reflection. Why didn’t Arsenal win this league title or any trophy this year? Wasn’t this league title there for the taking? Will the present squad provide us the fans with confidence that we will do better next season …
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is extraordinary to think that no one has ever put together a cumulative list of players who, according to the bloggettas and their chums in the rapidly declining newspapers, have signed for Arsenal this summer – or at least are very close to doing so. [Incidentally, before going on, vis …
Read More “The 29 players signed by and linked to Arsenal 10 weeks before the transfer window!”
This is the third in our occasional series about the next manager at Arsenal. The first two articles were… The task facing the next manager, what he has to achieve, and how can he do it? The task facing the next manager: tactics, referees and candidates review Now we move on to Group 2 of our …
By Blacksheep If you live and work in Britain (and much of the English speaking world in fact) then you will probably know recognise Thursday as the 4th day of the week. It comes after Wednesday and before Friday. I associate several things with Thursday: it is my heaviest teaching day during term time, it is …
Read More “The importance of Thursdays (and not playing football on them)”
