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 Billy “le chien” McGraw, visiting professor of psychology at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Dijon, Dijon, France. Well mes amis here I am at the University of Burgundy (I chose it because of the wine) and yet still keeping up with the ins and outs and roundabouts of the world of football. And casting my …
Read More “We cannot have a situation like the Summer of 2015”
By Tony Attwood Whatever the scenario there is always someone worse off than you. (Ok, not always, like, not when you are having your head eaten by a wolf, but most of the time). Not that I think we are that badly off. I know there are a lot of people around who are tearing …
Read More “Are Arsenal fans the only fans who are endlessly miserable? It seems not.”
By Tony Attwood “The trouble with this club is that it has no plan B.” We must have heard that so many times over the years about Arsenal. They always play the same way, no matter what the opposition are up to, no matter what the referee and assistants are doing. “Arsenal have no plan …
by Tony Attwood Olivier Giroud has scored 20 goals in 42 games this season, and that is clearly not enough. I know this because everyone tells me so. But this week an article turned up on the Goonernews blog that suggested that maybe this wasn’t so bad at all. It showed me that in 1998 …
Read More “The figures that show that a 30+ goalscorer is not always the answer.”
By Tony Attwood My company rents an office block and behind it, a warehouse block. In each case we pay the landlords a fixed rent, and every three years the landlords have the right to put the rent up. They do this in accordance with the rents that are being charged elsewhere in the …
By Tony Attwood Well, I have tried, I have really tried, to explain what I mean by evidence. And I have failed. Yet I still think my point is simple: there are opinions and there are facts. Opinions are interesting, although if one hears the same opinion over and over, that is a bit …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Of course it has been a great honour indeed to be awarded the right to publish the regular Official Arsenal Transfer List each week. Being “official” doesn’t in any way mean that the list is actually “official”, any more than a “£50m centre forward deal done, contract signed” headline means …
Read More “Exclusive: The Official Arsenal Transfer Rumour List”
By Tony Attwood Danny Karbassiyoon, the ex-Arsenal player, the Arsenal scout who discovered Joel Campbell and Gedion Zelalem, the occasional columnist on Untold Arsenal, and the author of the book “The Arsenal Yankee” will be the special guest at an Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association meeting in central London on Monday 25 April. The meeting is …
Read More “Come and meet ex-Arsenal player and Arsenal scout Danny Karbassiyoon on 25 April”
By Josif . This article continues from yesterday’s article The task facing the next manager, what he has to achieve, and how can he do it? . 8. At the same time as this we need tactical flexibility. How is that to be introduced at the same time as everything else? When you add a real …
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By Josif Arsenal FC have had quite a few great managers but Mr Arsene Wenger will have a special place in the history of the club regardless of when he is going to wave goodbye to all Arsenal fans at the Emirates. He has been our manager for almost 20 years which means that he …
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By Tony Attwood On 29 April 1995 Arsenal and Tottenham drew 1-1 at Highbury. An Ian Wright penalty gave him 18 for the season and left him top league scorer for the club. I’m sure he was pleased. But in the league Arsenal were 10th, 36 points behind a team that had not won the …
Read More “36 points behind the leaders. More wishes to be wary of.”
. By Blacksheep Yesterday’s disappointing draw – disappointing mainly because we seemingly threw away a 2 goal lead by allowing a clod hopper like Andy Carroll to score a hat-rick – led to the display of 2 banners at the Boleyn Ground. One read: Love Arsenal / Hate Kroenke and the other (sadly) had the …
Read More “If you love Arsenal, be careful what you wish for”
By Bulldog Drummond And thus and so, verily, it comes to pass forsooth The last ever venture to the Boleyn Ground invariably wrongly known as Upton Park by those silly people in the media. Next time around we shall play at the Tax Payers Stadium, funded by those of us who live in the UK, …
Read More “State Aid Utd v Arsenal. Lots of stuff that might happen and some that won’t.”
Arsenal and The Quest for the Holy Grail By Jerry In my opinion, Arsenal have not been awarded a penalty in 2016 (last time Dec 13, 2015) due to a comedy of errors by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) men in the middle. Instead of just listing the multiple missed penalty opportunities and …
By Tony Attwood To put people into boxes, there are broadly three types of football fan. Those who look at all the issues considered in the previous article about possible corruption in the Premier League and think, “this looks odd, there should be an investigation,” those who really don’t care about such matters and just like …
By Tony Attwood I’m sorry you’ve read it all before, but somehow I feel that if I give up now, all the stuff I’ve written before will be a bit wasted. The argument is still the same: that Uefa and Fifa are so utterly hopelessly corrupt that Football Associations around the world should withdraw, …
. . After receiving 7 million LIKES so far ( nb – each AKB’s LIKE is equal to a million!), for the first part of this Fantasy Football series, I’m suitably moved to present the next instalment of our sincere endeavours to clear the site, stadium, the Arsenal Universe and the world of those vermin, …
Read More “The Brickfields Gunners Blog – Fantasy Football Series Part 2.”
by Tony Attwood Vicki Hodges in the Telegraph yesterday wrote “Atletico Madrid defender Filipe Luis accused Uefa of “protecting” Barcelona after their Champions League quarter-final first leg defeat at the Nou Camp and even questioned what it would take for a referee “to send one of them off”.” “Barcelona are protected. When you play against …
What is Wenger saying to us? By Tim Charlesworth It is always wise to take the words of football managers with a pinch of salt. When they talk to the press, they know that players and opponents are listening to what they say. Passing on accurate information may not be their top priority. I always …
Read More “What is Wenger saying to us through his team selections?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Continuing the week by week guide to fortune telling which exists in order to give economics forecasting a good name. First off its The Guardian, and this is so good they needed two writers for it: David Hytner and Fabrizio Romano. Welcome guys. Henrikh Mkhitaryan is a summer transfer target for Arsenal. …
Read More “Arsenal announce first transfer of the summer window, and it still only just spring!”
INTRO . Nearly every other day either a new and juicy scandal breaks or some allegedly well kept secret is revealed . How does this impact Untold Arsenal ? Well , UA and its inner core of reporters /investigators have been exposing the wrong doings going on in football for years . . As its …
Read More “The Brickfields Gunners Blog – Fantasy Football Series Part 1 .”
by Tony Attwood It has become fashionable to knock Arsenal in general terms – with occasional reference to the fact that the club is not making progress. We’re not buying the right players. Wenger won’t spend. Every player who goes to Chelsea, Man C, Man U, Tottenham, and God help us even Liverpool! is …
Online betting on games like football and other games now a days is very huge and worth of millions or billions in the online industry. When it comes to get the betting odds in your mind it would be so hard to invest in any sport. In past few years fast access to the …
Read More “Understanding betting odds online to be a good investor”
By Tony Attwood Over the past couple of days I’ve been working on an article about Leicester City and whether there is any link between the club and suspected match fixing. And then bang – out of the blue comes another set of scandalous financial revelations, and wouldn’t you know it, football seems implicated …
Read More “Football and the Panama Papers; you’ll never guess who’s in the mire (actually you will)”
By Tony Attwood President Barack Obama recently stated,“The appetite for information and data flowing through the internet is voracious”, yet “we’ve seen newsrooms closed. The bottom line has shrunk. The news cycle has as well.” He said that this resulted in pressure, “to fill the void and feed the beast with instant commentary and Twitter …
