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 In the end, the preliminary figures from the transfer window show Arsenal spent the fourth largest sum in the league, behind Man U, Man C and Chelsea in that order. The figures below only reflect the summer transfer window. Spend pos Club 2015 spend Lge Position 2016 spend 1 Manchester Airport £153.0m …
By THE BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS With nearly everyone going digital and talking and communicating in computer lingo and binary bullshit , the average young fan is not able to understand the beauty and the richness of the written word, and is now limited only to reading SMSes or Texting; Wassupp? messagings; moronic Twatting, chirppings and Fakebooking …
Read More “The Arsene Wenger operating system made easy for dummies.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone The problem is not so much your actual news but removing the exclamation marks and question marks from internet reports and finding the large woman who will apparently open her mouth and warble in order to bring it all to an end later today. So here is your deadline day shock …
Read More “Arsenal transfer shock; one more player on the way”
By Max Kerr 56 years ago Vance Packard published “The Waste Makers”, in which he analysed the notion of ‘Planned Obsolescence’. He coined the terms “obsolescence of function”, which is when a product is manufactured to last less time than it needs to, and “obsolescence of desirability”, where marketing persuades us that the newer version …
Read More “Waste Makers: how Planned Obsolescence entered the world of football.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yesterday we noted that Mr Wenger had told the press that they might be surprised at what will happen at the end of this window, and that every club still had transfers to do before the closure of the transfer market on wednesday night. Now we see the story, which is …
Read More “More indicators that Arsenal are going to buy another player before tomorrow’s deadline”
By Tony Attwood The Guardian today has its normal “Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action” and for the first time in I don’t know how long it makes no mention of Arsenal. Normally there’s a bit about how disappointing it is, how the club are doomed, or the anger of the fans, …
Read More “Mediocrity is now defined as coming second. So how do you define coming third?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the great things about the transfer rumours is that they take no account of reality. We already have a fair number of players in a position, we clearly don’t need any more, and the rumours keep on rolling. We’ve already had 111 players we are signing and 22 leaving, …
Read More “Wenger hints at one more big transfer before the end of the Window.”
By Ima Counter, Professor of Numerological Sciences, University of UnCertain Things, Shetland. The last competition brought in a bumper crop of brilliant commentaries on the name Man Utd. I personally loved Mischievous Arsenal not Arsene Not Unlike Tiny Dumbo not least because it followed a typical comment from an aaa and was the best response …
by Bulldog Drummond. A cheeky football journalist (you know the type – asks a stupid question and the writes down something the respondent never said) asked Mr Wenger this week if he thought that, given the fact that transfer doorway (or “window” as it is often known) expenditure had already exceeded last summer, and we …
By Sir Hardly Anyone You can always tell when the national press think they are on to a true story rather than the meandering gibberish they feed us most days, in that they get one of their own people to write it up, with none of this “according to the Daily Star, reporting that Y …
Read More “Transfers: the two long awaited deals are done as we do the hi-jacking and the splurge.”
We know that Arsenal have a company that looks for footballing talent all over the world, and we also know that Arsenal on occasion will bring in players as young as six. So what do they see when the look at a youngster? I haven’t got a film of a six year old by I …
By Jacko Jones We’ve introduced the topic of DraftKings before, and it is interesting to see how things are working out. Arsenal Stats Week Two Arsenal’s top three players v Liverpool 1: Theo Walcott (8 fantasy points) 3 shots, 2 shots on goal, 2 tackles won, 2 passes intercepted 2: Nacho Monreal (12 …
Hi Walter and Tony, I hope you’re both doing well. Some things recently came to thought whilst looking at other websites.I was shocked by the extreme anger and the spectre of fascism in peoples posts. And its relentlessness. Firstly the Anti-Arsenal-Arsenal (AAA) are very much present, but on closer inspection there is also the …
Read More “THE CASE OF THE EWOB. A SPECTRE HAUNTING ARSENAL?”
BY THE BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS . As a medical practitioner I daily come across some weird conditions and weirder patients , very much like the weird shit and some weird ‘them ‘ that we get on UA . And just as the AKBs on here give ‘them’ their justly deserved treatment with such candour and humour, …
Read More “Latest Medical Discoveries and Treatments for “them””
By Sir Hardly Anyone As we know, given the fact that we have been keeping records, 105 players have been linked to Arsenal through this summer. We’ve signed only a few of them – and it is noticeable that with the exception of Holding it was only in the couple of days before the …
Read More “The media’s ways of responding to their utter failure to predict Arsenal’s transfers”
By Tony Attwood There is an interesting comment going around on certain bloggettas to the effect that it would be good if Arsenal were relegated this year, so that Mr Wenger would get the sack. These comments are written by people who, it seems, class themselves as Arsenal supporters. In the reality inhabited by these …
Read More “There are people who call themselves Arsenal fans, who want Arsenal relegated”
By Tony Attwood “Arsenal fans watching the limp 0-0 draw with Leicester City on Saturday, another game with yet another wrong result, were no doubt crying out for the passion and leadership of Patrick Vieira and his team of Invincibles as they demanded that Arsene Wenger opens his chequebook. “The Frenchman has offered his own …
By Tony Attwood There’s a lot of talk around about Arsenal have the highest ticket prices on the planet and yet won’t buy the players “need” to help Arsenal win the league. As with so much in football, such a statistic is misleading – both in terms of ticket prices and in terms of overall …
By Tony Attwood Of course in the end the main thing that counts is the result. But sometimes results alone don’t give a full indication of where things are going. They tell us the score, 0-0 yesterday, and no one can disagree with that, and one can look at the game and say “that was …
By Bulldog Drummond So the complaints against Arsenal and Arsene Wenger rattle on and are utterly lapped up by the media which publish them all without any investigation into the truthfulness or otherwise of the allegations. And of course pointing out that factual errors and disinformation (which has now soared to unprecedented heights) combined without …
Read More “Leicester v Arsenal: two possible Arsenal line ups”
ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR , PHOBIAS , DISEASES AND AILMENTS OBSERVED ON UNTOLD ARSENAL – PART ONE . The Brickfields Gunners Having been a regular reader , poster and now a regular contributor on Untold Arsenal , I have observed some very disturbing behaviour exhibited by ‘them’ on this site . As a medical doctor of more …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone The problem with the central defender isn’t money of course, it is the reality of game time. Arsenal’s regular centre backs will return in due course, and there are four of them – so whoever comes along is likely to be battling it out with them for game time after his …
By Tony Attwood Indeed because of the fact that I doubt that many, if any people have been converted by the arguments we have had of late, I wonder what the point is. That is not to say I wonder why I publish Untold, but rather I wonder why people who believe that everything that …
Read More “I doubt if anyone has ever had their mind changed by arguments on this site”
By Walter Broeckx Continuing from my previous commentary Arsenal never spend anything much on transfers. Or do they?… Yes Arsenal has to be silent about their transfer dealings. If Arsenal were to go public on who they are talking with the other big money spenders might step in and outbid us. For those who have paid …
Read More “The Sound of Silence: Arsenal in the transfer market”
By Tony Attwood I’ve introduced the topic of DraftKings before, and it is interesting to see how things are working out. Many DraftKings players had expected Alexis Sanchez to be one of the stars of the show – he was the highest owned Arsenal player in the day’s biggest contest for the opening fixture and …
Read More “So who exactly was the king of the show against Liverpool?”
