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 Bulldog Drummond. If you have read my match previews from time to time you’ll know that I sometimes quote Whoscored.com – an interesting source of statistics. Unfortunately today that site doesn’t seem to like my login and thus I’m being barred from seeing some of the more exciting bits of the site. So instead …
Read More “Do you have faith in Fifa? And Arsenal v Barcelona, player by player.”
By Tai Emeka Obasi Life As An Arsenal Fan. Being an Arsenal fan, I’ve concluded, is never a coincidence. It’s rather a design, which has a lot of bearing in all endeavours of anyone privileged enough to be deeply associated with the London-based outfit. If this assertion may be considered an overstatement prior to Arsene …
. By Tony Attwood. . There is something curious going on at Manchester City. The club is, as we all know, rich beyond the dreams of all rich clubs. It not only has a ground that it got from the taxpayer free of charge in return for a promise from its sponsor to fly …
Read More “The curious problem of Man City’s squad, and Arsenal’s resolute answer”
By Tony Attwood There has been, on the internet, You Tube footage of armed US soliders marching down streets in American cities. It is presented as evidence that President Obama and his cohort are indeed doing what many have said, and let’s face it, what many actually believe: the administration is about to wage war …
Read More “Creating the football myth, and how American troops are being used against Texas”
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Mr Wenger has been doing his normal chat to the media which has as always been grossly misinterpreted. He said that if we had lost in the final to Hull in the season before last he might have considered leaving – which by my book is two steps away from leaving. …
Read More “Over and over and over again. Every year we play Hull City in the Cup.”
By Tony Attwood The issue of state aid in football won’t go away. The amount of effective aid given to West Ham United over the Olympic Stadium is still a matter of contention and a legal battle. The question of how much aid the city of Madrid gave to Real Madrid in the land deal …
THE ARSENAL CREDO……..Don McMahon Our heart-stopping win against Leicester/Atkinson made me reflect on why the Arsenal have turned a corner in their efforts to provide the Beautiful Game with Beautiful Football. In my humble opinion it is down to a sort of Arsenal creed that remains immutable, regardless of what fickle plastic aaa fanboys, corrupt …
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By Tony Attwood There are around 6000 articles on Untold Arsenal, and I am not sure which one of them first contains the notion that Fifa ought to be abolished, wound up, excommunicated, abandoned or anything else along those lines. I know it was way back in the early days that it was first said, …
Following on from our publication of “Arsenal: The Long Sleep” for which Bob Wilson wrote the introduction, we are genuinely honoured today to have an article today from John Radford on Untold Arsenal. John joined Arsenal in 1962 and over the next 14 years made 475 starts for Arsenal, scored 149 goals, and won the …
Read More “My early days as an Arsenal first team player. By John Radford”
From The Brickfields Gunners Blog – Fantasdy Football Series . The Asian lunar year of 2016 began on February 8 and will end on January 27, 2017. Known as The Year of the Fire Monkey, it is supposed to be filled with mischief, clashes and success in the workplace and at home. “The monkey always …
Read More “EPL Predictions for ARSENAL 2016, in the year of the monkey”
By Proud Kev . So West Ham fan and Daily Mail sports journalist Martin Samuel has continued his love affair with Arsenal. His target this time is not Arsene Wenger but Matthieu Flamini. Apparently his two footed tackle against Bournemouth was one of the most heinous crimes in football. Martin Samuel seems oblivious to the …
If you are a regular reader of Untold you’ll know that over the weekend there was nothing published after the ref preview. Things went wrong, and it being the weekend I didn’t have the technical resources to sort matters out. Obviously we try hard not to have this happen, but if you value Untold …
Read More “Untold returns – here’s what you missed while we were under attack.”
By Tony Attwood On 28 December 2015, Crystal Palace were talked up on the radio and TV as being serious challengers for a Champions League place. Not Europa mark you, Champions League. On that evening they were fifth, above Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool etc. Today I have just read an article about them being dragged …
By Tony Attwood Yes, yer actual football revolution has started. I know this because the press are shouting it out. “Liverpool fans’ successful walkout protest over ticket prices is a “game-changer”, according to the Football Supporters’ Federation.” The Daily Mail. Wow. “Power to the people: Liverpool fans’ ticket price victory may be just the start”, …
Read More “How the removal of a price increase at Liverpool actually means nothing at all.”
by Tony Attwood There is not too much talk of it on TV, for the simple reason that when TV discusses football it is never neutral. TV buys in football, and anything that threatens its position as the dominant distributor of football is an absolute no-go area. Thus discussion of something being wrong with …
By Tony Attwood There’s an article by Ed Aarons, Guardian Sport’s deputy news editor, in which he says that “Even Lineker, who describes himself as “a proper boyhood fan” who went home and away to watch his hometown team from the age of seven, could not have dreamed what has happened to Leicester over the last few …
By Sir Hardly Anyone During the last transfer window approximately 450 different players were touted to be coming to Arsenal in January. Since only 25 could be registered in the team – and that only if the current 23 were all shunted out – it seemed a little unlikely. And interestingly, until the move …
Read More “Arsenal in shock as mass exodus of disgruntled players now predicted”
By Danny Karbassiyoon Danny Karbassiyoon is a former professional footballer with Arsenal who was forced to retire at 22 due to recurring knee injuries. Soon after hanging up his boots, he was hired as a scout for Arsenal and spent 7 years scouting the Americas full time before recently moving back to London. I’m venturing …
Read More “Finalising a transfer and transitioning to life at a new club. How does it work?”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold you’ll know that a little while ago I got rather excited when we announced that Bob Wilson had agreed to write the foreword to our book Arsenal: The Long Sleep 1953-1970. That book, as you may know, has now been published, and we’re moving ahead …
Read More “Arsène Wenger to write the Foreword for the next Untold Arsenal book”
By Tai Emeka Obasi In Frederick Forsyth’s book, The Fourth Protocol, the lead character, John Preston was the operations head of MI5 in London. He was saddled with the huge task of closing in on a topnotch KGB illegal agent deep in Central London and prevent the Russian from setting off a nuke that would detonate …
. By Tim Charlesworth There was much gnashing of teeth at the Ems last Tuesday. Of course general disappointment and frustration were the cause of much of it. But some unhappiness emerged even before the kick-off. Some gooners were both surprised and disappointed to see Flamini start ahead of Coquelin and Elneny*. I wasn’t surprised. …
by Bulldog Drummond. . “What is for sure is that the effect is not neutral,” Arsène Wenger said. He was talking about the news that Man City will have a new manager next season. “It will either go very positive or very negative. And that is very difficult to predict. We have seen that at …
By Tony Attwood Premier League clubs have lots of money. Premier League clubs need good PR. Premier League clubs have consultancy groups representing mainstream fans and minority groups. And yet they get their PR wrong. Utterly, totally, hopelessly wrong. Arsenal, as has been well-reported, has applied its rules about Cup Credits for season ticket holders, …
By Tony Attwood On 26 October 2009, Daniel Levy stated that Tottenham intended to move into the partially built new stadium for the start of the 2012–13 season with the final 56,250-seat venue ready for 2013/14. On 23 May 2013, I raised a point about Tottenham’s new ground which had as we knew by then …
Zen and the art of football supporting – by Blacksheep Zen (for those unfamiliar with it) is an ancient Chinese form of Buddhism that has become established in Japan, Korea and Vietnam as well as influencing many in the West. It stresses the importance of meditation, observation and insight and in my reflection of the …
Read More “Zen and the art of football supporting: a response to Tuesday night.”
