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
……..Don McMahon Following up on recent posts by our resident psychiatric adviser Dr. Billy the Dog McGraw and by Tony, et al, I came to the conclusion that there is a definite correlation between what the aaa, the discontented fans and the media seem to be suffering. As an actual certified psychologist, I know that …
Read More “Cognitive dissonance, coercive persuasion and the Arsenal…….”
By Tony Attwood “We trained today with the Champions League balls and the bibs with the Champions League on, and it’s difficult to describe the feeling,” said Mr Pochettino the latest in a long line of Tottenham managers. I suppose it gets easier and less exciting for Arsenal, year after year after year playing in …
Read More “Rubbish keeper, wrong selection, hopeless tactics. Oh look we drew.”
By Bulldog Drummond. Amazingly Ibrahimovic scored 113 goals in 122 games over four seasons with PSG – the sort of figures you normally only find recorded during Chapman’s management of Arsenal. These days they look like the sort of figures Messi and Ronaldo get. He could get them of course because he was very good, …
Read More “PSG v Arsenal. The teams, the tactical options, and the loss of Ibrahimovic”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, head of psychology at the University Hospital of the North Circular Road. In psychology we have a term called “identity fusion” – something that brings together and holds together members of gangs and other groups. It is a curious thing because it can make groups and organisations that are beaten and …
By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger has confirmed that he was has offered the chance to manage Paris Saint-Germain multiple times, in the interviews leading up to tonight’s game. PSG has long been thought to be after Mr Wenger and L’Equipe said yesterday that Mr Wenger was offered the job in 2011, 2013 and 2014. …
Read More “Arsène Wenger admits he turned down PSG in build up to tonight’s game”
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By Bulldog Drummond. Last year on 13 March, Paris Saint Germain won the French Ligue 1 title for the fourth successive time. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored four on that day as they beat bottom club Troyes 9-0 and became the first team to win the championship after 30 matches. By this time PSG were 25 points ahead …
By Tony Attwood There’s an increased focus on referees this season – which is rather interesting after the years and years of work that Walter and his team has put into looking at refereeing from every possible angle which has been utterly disregarded by all and sundry. We saw the first hint of this new …
By Tony Attwood As you will know if you have been paying attention 115 players were linked with Arsenal as transfers into the club between April and the end of the transfer market. 22 players were said to be leaving. 99% of the stories were untrue. These stories were made up all over the …
By Tony Attwood The club formally known as West Ham United have got for free (or as near as damn it when compared with the cost of the Emirates) a stadium. It has a 60,000 capacity, compared with the 35,000 capacity of Upton Park. They had a bit of teething trouble – some of the …
By Tony Attwood To get into the Emirates for each home match I have to go through two security checks. Fair enough, these are troubling times. But if I, a season ticket holder of advancing years have to go through two security checks, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING AT THE AWAY END????? Yet again …
By Bulldog Drummond So the boring stuff is over; I must admit I didn’t even get to see the scores let alone watch anything. But now we are back to football. And Mr Wenger has given us a bit to think about. For instead of just saying that Jack W would play again for …
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw According to a comment in the New Scientist, “Nine of out ten people hold a delusional belief.” Now holding delusional beliefs is what Untold Arsenal has been accusing journalists and their fellow travellers of doing through most of this summer. Assuming that just writing down the name of …
By Tony Attwood The deep rooted corruption and disregard for the rules by the three largest Spanish clubs and the Spanish Football Association has been confirmed yet again after Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid had their appeals against transfer bans rejected by Fifa, much to the embarrassment of the mainstream UK media who seek to talk …
Sir Hardly Anyone considers what the bloggettas do now the window has slammed and the glass is lying on the floor. Indeed, what do the bloggettas do when the window has cracked and all the transfer rumours have been put to bed for another few weeks, before the fever of the January opening breaks forth? …
By Tony Attwood Although Untold is known by some as being the pro-Wenger blog, it has also always been a campaigning website, arguing as strongly as it can for change in certain areas, as well as pointing out where evidence is being ignored or misused by journalists in their own commentaries on football. As an …
Read More “Oh look, a newspaper has discovered the reason why England teams are rubbish. Again.”
By Tony Attwood One thing is absolutely certain; Arsenal will get injuries this season. And when they come along the people who really do nick a living in football – the journalists – will be there with their Arsenal Injury Crisis. Indeed I am surprised they haven’t been at it today, given that Arsenal are …
Read More “Arsenal near the top of the injury list, so which back up players do we have?”
By Tony Attwood For years and years Tottenham have gloried in making a profit overall on transfers. They haven’t always spent that money well, but they have made a profit. But not this year. For years Arsenal were known for selling players at a profit, even if they didn’t want to, but not this …
. By Fishpie Last season Untold was good enough to publish a series of my posts which tried to measure and assess our progress during the campaign. The basic idea was that Win, Draw, Loss and Points data from the previous 10 years had given us a pretty consistent picture of what it had taken …
by Tony Attwood The first thing to note about Perez is that he is on the up, and was having his best form at Deportivo, playing in a team that was struggling to score goals. He got 17. So at the most basic level the idea is probably that with Ozil pushing through perfect balls, …
By Tim Charlesworth As we head deep into the interlull with the transfer window closed, it finally feels like the football season is ready to start. The first three games had a curious ‘pre-season’ feel to them, with summer weather, lots of teams missing players following the Euros and everyone looking a little …
Former Premier League referee Mark Halsey claims he was told to say he’d not seen incidents by refereeing body That is the headline from the Daily Mirror and it is popping up in quite a few newspaper web sites now, originally mostly finishing with a pompous statement about how the newspaper has contacted (ie sent …
Read More “Mark Halsey claims he was told to say he’d not seen incidents, by PGMO”
By Tony Attwood If you have been paying attention you will know that recently Andrew has written a series of detailed articles on Arsenal’s players, including the “25” list of registered players, the loanees, and what is going on with the under 23 and under 18 teams. Top of the league and bottom of the …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone 115 incoming transfer rumours – almost all of them wrong 22 players who were about to leave Arsenal – most are still with us. Total failure to spot the actual transfers ahead of activity – except in one case. So here it is, although sometimes it seemed it would never get …
By Tony Attwood As you may have noticed, Uefa has approved changes to the Champions League from the start of the season after next. A new company is being set up, equally owned 50/50 by Uefa and the European Clubs Assn to run European competitions. This has been done to stop a European breakaway by …
