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 It is well known that Chelsea have had the largest number of loanees out and about in Europe, and a big youth squad. Arsenal have been languishing with their under 21s in division 2, gaining promotion at the end of last season. Man City have built a new stadium just for the …
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By Tony Attwood Seven Spanish clubs including (of course) Real Madrid and FC Barcelona have been ordered to repay tens of millions of euros in illegal state subsidies. While the amount having to be paid in fines will hardly be noticed by either club, and while the world’s media will continue its eternal love …
By Tony Attwood 7 reasons why Arsenal NEED to sell Giroud during transfer window The Metro 17 May 2015: Olivier Giroud running out of time to prove his worth to Arsenal Evening Standard in April Wenger Is Not The Only Problem – Why Arsenal Should Sell This Attacking Duo In The Summer April 25, 2016 Soccer Souls …
Yesterday we looked at the players who will be free to gather together as pre-season training starts. Today is seems confirmed that we can add one more to the list – Takuma Asano. We’ll discuss Arsenal’s latest acquisition in the next article, but first, former Arsenal player and now Arsenal scout Danny Karbassiyoon, (author of The Arsenal …
Read More “The Importance of Pre-Season: the player’s view from inside Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood Times move on and we are approaching the moment when the first group of players return to Arsenal to pick up pre-season training. Tomorrow, ex-Arsenal player, author of the book Arsenal Yankee, and Arsenal scout, Danny Karbassiyoon writes from first hand knowledge about the importance of pre-season training on Untold, but before …
By Sir Hardly Anyone The rumour factories (I hate to call them rumour mills that is so 19th century) have suddenly sprung into life. Now as you may know I don’t normally do Sundays vis a vis the writing lark, but there being no other stories around except Germany won on penalties (and that is …
By Tony Attwood When I published several articles on Untold which related to politics and football, I got a few comments back complaining that this was a football blog, not a political blog. That point is true, but for me football is a topic that is integrated with economics, politics, psychology and sociology. It is …
By Tony Attwood Yesterday, Untold published an article about forgiveness for a person when he/she does something wrong, and about living in peace and harmony. Yesterday also, Barney Ronay wrote an article in the Guardian with the headline, “Sterling and England’s players reflect us all, so why so much hate?” Yesterday we also had a …
AY UBUNTU BE WITH YOU , ALWAYS . From The Brickfields Gunners Blog. Make sure you do not start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who do not value it. Know your worth even if they do not . – Thema Davies. In certain regions of South Africa, when someone does something wrong , …
By Tony Attwood It seems like it has taken forever for it to happen but ultimately we are there. The window is open. Not that it seems to matter to the clubs, not come to that the inventors who create mythical transfers on an industrial scale. And the numbers continue to rise for we now …
By Tony Attwood One of the many reasons why I was not part of the campaign to oust Arsene Wenger last season, was that what Arsenal went through last year was something that had happened before – to Herbert Chapman. Arsenal had won the FA Cup in 1930, and the League in 1931, and were …
By Tony Attwood The Anti-Arsenal Arsenal grouping is in many regards a rather silly collection of people, some of whom are easily led astray, and some of whom hold some extremely repulsive views and only a tiny minority of whom see to be able to put forward coherent arguments with evidence for regime change at …
By Tony Attwood Here I was, all ready to discuss ten more things that I would like to see changed in football, when up on my screen comes the statement that Wenger discusses rumoured Arsenal move for £45m Lacazette Wow, I thought, being a little naive in such matters. Mr Wenger “discusses”. Well that should …
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By Tony Attwood I am not sure what the aaa would make of it; I get the impression that some of them support England so they might not want their nemesis to become the nation’s manager. But that is what Telegraph readers think in a poll conducted in the paper. Mr Wenger is the man …
. By Tim Charlesworth It is often said, particularly when the England team do badly, that that football was invented by the English. In the wake of our latest disaster, I decided to do a bit of research on the subject for the benefit of Untold readers. It turns out that the idea that …
By Tony Attwood “If we are victorious in one more battle … we shall be utterly ruined.” Plutarch I know that I won’t change anyone’s mind over the EU – the debate that we had before the referendum was (for me, and this is a personal point of view) just about the lowest level of …
Read More “Leaving the EU will harm Arsenal and the Premier League so let’s do something”
By Tony Attwood Newspapers are in competition with each other. And yet they collude over their general approach to football reporting. It would be awfully nice if they didn’t and if as well as competing over headlines, they also competed in other ways. Here are a few suggestions… 1: Just one newspaper put an …
Read More “Ten approaches to newspaper football reporting that would change football for the good”
By Tony Attwood Each week we record the players who are tipped by the all knowing all seeing superbeings who write in our national newspapers, and their lesser relatives who run the bloggettas, to join Arsenal between 1 July and 30 August this year. Seven new players have been found this week – although …
Read More “Six players tipped to join Arsenal this week, and one tipped not to.”
I have been asked to publish a note from a reader of Untold who has available a range of official AFC videos in good condition – they are available free of charge, but need to be collected from Barkingside (the IG6 postcode). They are all in good condition. Included in the list are Arsenal – Europe …
By Tony Attwood Overnight the value of the pound fell. And then fell some more. And then more. And then… As most Untold readers recognised a long time ago I am not a clairvoyant so I don’t know what happens next, although I can look back to 11 September 2001 and 15 September 2008 when …
By Tony Attwood The headline reads Arsenal’s failure to sign Jamie Vardy highlights their naivety in the transfer market It is written by Jeremy Wilson who is described as the paper’s deputy football correspondent. But the tale makes 10 wholly misleading statements. Here they are (to save you reading the original piece). Misleading information – part …
By Tony Attwood Today is my birthday. Of course as one gets older birthdays get to mean less, and indeed one can readily wish that they didn’t have to happen quite so often. And birthdays get a bit more spread out. I saw one of my daughters and her children last weekend, I’ll see another …
Read More “Why 22 June is just about the most important day in the year in Arsenal’s history.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Now this is at last getting interesting for the media, desperately short of inane rumours to pedal have come up with not just one but two new ideas to fill up space. First, if there is any player thought to have even a 1% chance of coming to Arsenal they proclaim …
By our Special Correspondent Now you may be slightly surprised but I’m going to answer the question in that headline by suggesting that yes there is. It’s not foolproof, but it is a method that tilts the odds just a little further in the punter’s favour. The approach is to… hold back a little. …
Read More “The Euros: Is there a way of improving one’s ability to predict match results?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Since the anti-Arsenal Arsenal movement (commonly known as the aaa, the contemporary equivalent of the boo-boys who lambasted Herbert Chapman and his team) emerged after the move to the Emirates Stadium, it has gradually grown more vitriolic in its outpourings. But even so, there was little in the past couple of …
Read More “The eight most outrageous anti-Arsenal stories since yesterday”
