. Research and interrogation, plus the buying of a multiplicity of alcoholic beverages for various journalists, undertaken selflessly and without any thought of the damage to his mind or body by Sir Hardly Anyone OBE, but with an expenses bill being handed in any minute… Actually before we start I have a new ploy by …
By Tony Attwood One of the many fascinating things about publishing Untold is that even after 6,400 articles (honest, that’s how many we have published) I can still be surprised at which ones get lots of comments and which don’t. Do other clubs get the same level of constant sniping and negative reporting or is …
. . By Ima Counter, Professor of Mathematical Forecasting, University of Certain Things, Walsall. Hi and welcome to the totally reformed Arsenal Transfer Index. Two big changes you will see now I’ve taken over: First I’ve made a special effort this week to try and make the numbers in part one get nicely and neatly …
By Tony Attwood When you ain’t got nothing to say, but everyone is saying lots of stuff, then just say what your predecessor or your boss said last time and hope no one notices. Thus goes the thinking of Sports Minister Tracey Crouch. In May 2016 the FA was warned that if it didn’t reform itself …
By Tony Attwood I have often wondered whether other clubs in the Premier League have the same level of dedicated “failure” stories aimed at them as Arsenal does. The problem is that seeking out newspaper stories and trying to follow them through, is time consuming, and although there are six people who regularly contribute stories …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Enough! I hear you cry. It was all a hoax it was all a sham, and these bloggettists and their journo colleagues go on remorselessly. Higuain has been removed from the lists of all but the most hardy and despatches have been sent out. “We need a new Arsenal hoax!” For …
By Tony Attwood The headlines over Ivan Gazidis’ interview were exactly those we have seen so many times before. “Arsenal fans will be worried…” and “Wenger urges Arsenal fans not to panic after Gazidis transfer comments” and particularly simplistically “Ivan Gazidis spits the usual transparent fan placation rhetoric”. It is sometimes difficult to work out …
By Bulldog Drummond I made an attempt a week or two back at predicting who we might have in the team at this stage, and got suitably hammered for my efforts, partly in terms of team layout (suggesting Granit X was more than just a defensive midfielder) and partly for personnel (I left out Santi …
. From the Brickfields Gunners . Following the great response I received for my article FITNESS TO PRACTICE ABSOLUTE AND TRUE AKBISM at http://untold-arsenal.com/archives/53159, and being totally bored out of my skull during this interlull, I felt it was a good time to call the faithful to the fore. As the opening day of the season …
By Tony Attwood This is where it ought to get difficult for the media. It has become clear that the whole Higuain story has been a fantasy, a close repeat to the fantasies that were served up exactly three years ago and yet it has been pushed at us day after day by the media. …
By Tony Attwood Sam Allardyce has won the plodding meander to succeed Roy Hodgson – but only it seems after Arsene Wenger said “non” and reminded the FA that there are some people in the world who, unlike them, believe that contracts are there to be honoured. He said (once again) that he has never …
SOCK IT TO ‘EM JBB! An interview with John-Bull-Brexit by Patrick Chigwell-Smith. So John, you support Arsenal? Yeah, through and through. What do you mean through and through? Well I’ve got Arsenal in me blood, the old man put me in the supporters club at nine months-unlike you Johnny-come-lately-types. I …
By Tony Attwood Almost run out but not quite. For we have one new player who is joining us and one more leaving to give the grand total of 81 players due to arrive at Arsenal this summer 21 players due to leave Arsenal this summer 3 coaching changes this summer 4 players who look …
By Tony Attwood We’ve recently placed a film including slow-mo replays of the 1932 FA Cup final on the Arsenal History site, as part of our complete review of Arsenal in the 30s. So, since the History Society website has its own unusual film, why not Untold. This is Wilshere, Koscielny and Iwobi kicking balls …
By Tony Attwood When it comes to what referees will do this coming season there will be some changes next season. But whether they are the right changes, I wonder. You’ll know if you are a regular here, that Walter and his colleagues have been running a regular analysis of refereeing of Arsenal games, and …
by Tony Attwood Lines for Arsenal Two things started me on this piece. One was a correspondent trying to suggest Arsenal don’t sign enough players (I’ll come back to that) and a piece in the Telegraph under the heading “10 young players Arsenal fans can get excited about this season”. I was fascinated by this, …
By Tony Attwood The other day we had a note from a reader saying that we shouldn’t trust the web site Who Scored. Unfortunately in common with so many correspondents no supporting evidence was provided as to why this was the case. Which is a shame because I would have liked to know. I haven’t …
By Sir Hardly Anyone (with another robot cock up in item 15). Latest Arsenal Odds With the transfer fenêtre now 19 days old we are clearly moving into a new phase of transferationalisms, for with 80 players now tipped to be arriving at Arsenal and 19 leaving, we are by and large running out of …
By Tony Attwood Football clubs as a basic starting point should surely set out to behave in the same way as any good and well run business. By which I mean that they should at one level treat those who attend the games as “customers” – worthy of the same level of service and …
By Tony Attwood Substitute one word in the slogan and it is easy to see how Donald Trump land has come to football. In the world of toxic rhetoric Trump promises to expel Muslims and build a wall between the US and Mexico (which Mexico will pay for). How, why and with what consequence is …
By Tony Attwood In the course of things, Untold’s ongoing battle with the Anti Arsenal Arsenal is of little significance. But there is an issue that links us to the wider world, in the sense that the aaa uses the same sort of approach to debate as Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. And …
By Tony Attwood Vangelis Marinakis, owner of Greek champions Olympiakos Piraeus, has been banned from football. He has been reporting to police every 15 days on strict bail terms and banned from football after he was released on bail of 200,000 euros. That’s not news but this is: He is now looking to take charge of Nottingham …
By Tony Attwood There was a piece in the Guardian this summer which said, “for years, Arsène Wenger has been accused of buying too many playmakers. Now he’s discovered the joy of playbreakers: in addition to Francis Coquelin, Granit Xhaka and Mohamed Elneny, he wants to sign Duracell bunny N’Golo Kanté from Leicester.” We don’t …
. Peter Goy gives an inside view on life with Arsenal in the 1950s. Interview conducted at Thorpe Hall Golf Club, Thorpe Bay, Essex on July 11th 2016, by John Sowman Peter John Goy was born on 8th June 1938 in Beverley, Yorkshire and became a member of Arsenal’s groundstaff in 1953 as a …
by Bulldog Drummond. Shock, horror, disaster, Arsenal unprepared as usual. For the amazing news just discovered by the old Thunderer (as the Times used to be called) is that Arsenal could be without four of their main first team players for the starting day of the season!!! The four in question are Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Özil, …
