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 As I occasionally have reason to mention, my day job is running an advertising agency, working on the creative side of things. And sometimes when we are looking at the work of our competitors, or pitching for a new account, I look in admiration at what others have done, knowing that we …
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By Tony Attwood The Transfer League web site has produced a table of the amount of money spent by clubs in the past five seasons. They take the amount of money spent in total minus the amount received in total and from that generate a total outflow or inflow of transfer cash. Divide the total …
Read More “How much did each club spend on transfers for each trophy won?”
THE FUTURE……………..Don McMahon In my most recent post on Untold Arsenal, I briefly outlined and proposed a series of actions which could help bring Football into the 21st century. I will now attempt to elucidate how I know they could be applied practically speaking : My first proposal was that a draft system be created and …
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By Tony Attwood On 8 July Untold ran a little piece about Tottenham and Chelsea and their plans for a new stadium, mentioning that there had been quite a bit of talk about Tottenham going to Wembley for a season. The thought was raised in that piece, that this could be an issue if …
Read More “Tottenham told by the League to forget Wembley and move into the Emirates for a season.”
By Tony Attwood One of the things you can be sure of with football journalists is that they always behind the times. If you’ve been reading Untold for a little while, you’ll have read so many stories where we have pointed out that the world doesn’t quite work in the way they say. Things move …
Read More “Arsenal: the atmosphere changes as the journalists wake up”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Star Arrives For Medical, Arsenal To Make OFFICIAL Announcement Tomorrow Now that headline looks like business as usual for the spoof sites of whom I have writ in the past, but in fact I spy a significant change. Untold has been making a bit of a thing about how the sites …
Read More “The deal is almost done, star arrives for medical, picture proof of shocking move”
By Bulldog Drummond So what’s the news? Sanogo has gone to Ajax, as Bellerin signs a long term contract. (Mr Wenger said, “Hector is a very mature, very focused player, and I am confident he will have a good season again.”) Elsewhere, Jenkinson goes back to WHU, Cech to make his first appearance today, Dortmund …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal. The Untold match preview. Wooopeeedooooo…”
By Tony Attwood I have created a first draft of the list of readers of Untold who were kind enough to donate towards the cost of the Untold banner which has now been designed, printed and delivered to the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal has confirmed they have it, so we are just waiting for confirmation from …
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By Tony Attwood The press has been having its usual fun whipping up storms: Arsenal are not buying everything that moves shock horror and there is already discontent in the camp most notably around the issue of Jack Wilshere seeking assurances. “I will talk with the manager,” announces Jack. Well, not exactly. But the …
Read More “Arsenal’s shocking player strategy for 2015/16 revealed”
Scouting for talent: a report from one of Untold’s intrepid reporters There has been a lot of speculation here and elsewhere about who the Arsenal should sign this summer. Big names such as Vidal, Higuain, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger (let’s face it they don’t get much bigger than those two!) have been bandied about in the …
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THE 1%……..Don McMahon Many of us have recently heard of the 1% in society, representing the richest, most influential and powerful elites who, in their greedy benevolence, deign to provide us mere mortal commoners a marginalized living. Since UA is definitely NOT a political forum but rather a democratic and highly specialized Football blog …
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By Bulldog Drummond It seems like only two months ago that I was writing the preview of the Cup Final [it was only two months ago, stop mucking about – Tony] but here we are again, off on another jolly adventure and we haven’t even had the summer yet, just drizzle, drizzle, drizzle and a …
Read More “Singapore v Arsenal: The first Untold Match Preview of the new season. Yipeeee.”
By Tony Attwood The activity of a group of Chelsea supporters who were in Paris in February this year for the PSG v Chelsea game, and who, on the Métro in Paris, stopped a black man from getting onto a train, were horrific. Almost as horrific is the fact that from what I understand very …
Read More “Chelsea supporters involved in Paris Métro incident still resisting all punishment”
By Tony Attwood The Independent headline writer has been quick off the mark with this one, claiming that Arsenal fans (whom they always like to assert that they know intimately) are getting edgy because the boss has suggested that there may be no more signings. Headlines about a backlash and passing comments such as “But …
Read More “Newspaper claims an Arsenal fans anti-Wenger backlash is at hand”
Arsenal Ladies v Liverpool Ladies – 12 July Meadow Park BorehamWood Match Report and Thoughts By Andrew Crawshaw. This was the first game following the interruption to the Women’s Super League caused by the World Cup in Canada where, as I’m sure you are all aware, England came third and were the highest of all …
Read More “Arsenal Ladies v Liverpool Ladies – awful ref, awful facilities.”
By Tony Attwood Ask people who don’t really follow Arsenal but like to make a noise about Wenger being useless, who our breakthrough player was last season and they will say Alexis. Ask them who else we brought into the team and they have to pause for a while before remembering Coquelin and Bellerin. Because …
Read More “How all the DONE DEAL sites have missed the biggest Arsenal transfer of all.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Well! It seems that my job was on the line there, but thanks to a massive, (ok, not massive but still a couple of people wrote in) vote of thanks, I get to write one more. And what a story I have for you today! For it seems while Manchester …
Read More “Not done deal CONFIRMED! Wenger reveals we are not going to buy anyone YET shock!”
By Tony Attwood During the course of last season, we had a number of debates about the range of FFP outside of the European regulations, and speculated that from the Championship perspective QPR and Leicester might have problems if they returned to the Championship, and Bournemouth might have some difficulties as well. Reports suggest that …
Read More “QPR and FFP: the battle goes on and the result will be seismic”
By Tony Attwood If you’ve been reading Untold for a while, you’ll know that part of the essence of the site is to use the name “Untold” literally, and do what others don’t do. That has led to a range of campaigns, and we’ve had a range of targets over the years, and certain …
Read More “Should we buy more spoof players? Should Sir Hardly get the sack?”
Arsenal Squads for 2015-16 – The U18s by Andrew Crawshaw The squad is likely to comprise primarily players from the players in the first year at Arsenal Academy as well as some of the exceptional talents at schoolboy level. It may also be supplemented by some of those in the second year and some …
Read More “Looking for our next stunning talent: The Arsenal Under 18s”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Unlike most members of the artisocracy I have never taken strong drugs except on doctor’s orders, so I don’t know if it is true that for the junkie each high fails to deliver what is actually wanted, but the belief remains that the next high will be the perfect high. So …
By Tony Attwood . Tom Edwards is a journalist. And not just any old journalist. He is the proud bearer of the banner “Telegraph Sport Social Media Editor”. Quite a nifty title and one that has led me, as publisher of this august thrice daily review (except when no one on the team can think …
By Tony Attwood Sometimes squads don’t tell us much but this time, we got several snippets of interest. We’ve got news about who the most likely of the youngsters are to come through this season, we’ve got the news that there are still injuries lurking in the darkness, and we can see the overall shape …
Read More “What the squad for Singapore tells us about the state of Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood It is interesting that this morning the Arsenal History Society published the latest of its series of articles covering the pre-season campaigns of Arsenal year by year since Bruce Rioch – and got to 2006, with the opening of the Emirates Stadium just at the moment that Chelsea and Tottenham beefed up …
Read More “Tottenham and Chelsea start to detail some of their stadium plans”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Arsenal have a keeper, and still need a defensive midfielder and a centre forward. That’s the story, so what’s new? Keeping people waiting is not a good idea, especially when they are waiting in anticipation. Too much anticipation can cause many awful illnesses including the onset of early dementia. Of course …
