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 Tai Emeka Obasi. Wenger, Mourinho Drama – Good Usually Triumphs. As a man who earns his living authoring books of fiction and scripting movies, I may say I’m quite schooled in the protagonist and antagonist world of make-believe. Writers love to play God and if you happen to live within this most-times-alluring fantasy world …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Here are 19 current headlines from bloggettas concerning Arsenal transfers which are causing a bit of a stir today. Each one is followed by a note of the source. All you have to do is guess what each one relates to… Below the list of 19 headlines are those headlines again, …
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By Tony Attwood It was in August 2012 that I wrote an introduction to the craft of the Vapour Transfer, having in previous articles explored the way that the transfer market was being manipulated by clubs. In that piece I drew a comparison with the activities of companies like Microsoft and Apple, with their pre-announcements of …
Read More “How a phantom transfer got Daniel Levy and the press all in a tizz.”
By Billy the Dog McGraw According to reports in some of the wackier parts or the media. Jack Wilshere has been to the estate agents, and so is undoubtedly leaving Arsenal this summer. Now most of us sell our houses after we’ve got an offer of a new job, but apparently the wild and wobbly media …
By Tony Attwood This season I’ve bored everyone to death with my thesis that transfers and managerial changes can cause as much havoc in a club as they can bring success. Indeed it is very possible to show that transfers and managerial change is actually more likely to bring a decline or stagnation, than it …
By Danny Karbassiyoon Danny Karbassiyoon is a former Arsenal player 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’ve both written and …
Read More “How does an Arsenal scout decide if a player is good enough or not?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It’s called “Ramping up the lingo”, or “Finding a new twist”. Anyway to keep the excitement on the rise everything and anything is on the table. Or at least underneath it. And I have to admit the notion of Arsenal signing two £29m players in the January transfers did persuade …
Read More “Arsenal agree to sign two £29m players in two weeks!”
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN BE A REFEREE……..Don McMahon Recent events have convinced many football supporters that too many officials in the EPL are at the least, incompetent and at worse corrupt and manipulated by a cabal of PGMOL managers intent on preventing their Club from winning. In this post I want to invite UA …
by Brickfields Gunners As Walter goes through his 12 part ‘ Looking back at 2015 ‘ series over the next few days (he’s at present on – part 3. Özil, Alexis, Bellerin, Coquelin,) [actually Brickfields – it was just a three part piece – do try and pay attention – the editor], I on the other hand …
By Tony Attwood Christmas – all done and dusted for another year. So what happened? The teams that did best over Christmas were both in north London – and indeed if Tottenham win or even draw their game in hand this afternoon they will be the most successful club this Christmas / New Year. Tottenham …
Read More “Arsenal were the best performing team over Christmas – at least for the moment”
By Bulldog Drummond May I begin by saying how much I like our “Insult of the Day” today. In case you missed it, we’re delivering a series of insults back to the aaa, after having to take all their rambling nonsense for seven years. But being Untold we do it with class, so every insult …
Read More “Arsenal welcome Newcastle at the start of the Year of the Dangerous Nutters”
Arsenal v Newcastle Saturday 2 January 2016 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Following Usama and Walter’s latest two Referee reviews here is the Table of Shame updated to matchweek 16 Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 19 Red Cards 1 9 Penalties 1 14 Goals 0 5 Total …
By Josif with additional bits culled from the nation’s newspapers Did you know: 1: That Arsene Wenger has won all three titles in even-numbered years (1998, 2002, 2004) 2. That Arsenal have beaten Manchester clubs four times in five attempts in 2015, with a draw that was essentially a victory in the 3rd place battle. …
By Blacksheep When I was a teenager I used to go to watch the Arsenal with a few mates from school (Christ’s College in Finchley). We’d meet up at the underground and take the northern line south, changing onto the Piccadilly to arrive at Arsenal about 30 minutes before the game. From about 1977-81 Adrian, …
Read More “Why “We support our local team” is such a silly song and why I’m coming home to football”
In the first part of Football Winners and Losers for 2015 I nominated Man U – Loser Jose Mourinho – Loser The Anti-Arsenal-Arsenal – Loser Arsene Wenger – Winner The Premier League – Winner So here’s some more. 6. Mesut Özil – WINNER He was a winner at Real Mad, but now he is up …
Read More “Untold reaches 1.17 million readers and other ups and down of 2015.”
It’s the end of the year, and a good time for looking back at who has down well, and who not. Here’s the first part of the Untold List of Winners and Losers in 2015. 1: Man U – LOSER Man U have had two approaches of late – changing managers (three managers in three …
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By Fishpie So, 19 games gone. The half-way mark has arrived. And…we’re top of the league!! And what more can you ask for? And you know what it means too, don’t you? Well, it means we are now in the coveted position that eight of the last ten Premier League title-winning teams were in at …
By Tony Attwood Before I answer that question (and if you are impatient, the answer is here, but at the end) let me prove our current success. Let’s start with the final table for the 2015 calendar year reads thus… Club P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 38 25 6 7 …
By Tony Attwood In 2014, the Deloitte Football Money League had eight Premier League clubs in the top 30 richest clubs in the universe. Well, ok, in the world. But when the new TV deal comes along, things will change again. The total amount being paid to Premier League clubs for both UK rights and international …
By Tony Attwood Here’s the easiest question of the year. How many players did we sign in the last transfer window and how much did we spend? Answer 1 and £10m But can you count the number of players we bought in 2014/15 and how much was spent? And what about the year before, and …
Read More “How many players has Arsene Wenger bought in the last five seasons?”
By Tony Attwood It is not something I dwell on much on this site, because I know that just because you share my interest in Arsenal, it doesn’t mean you share my interest in music – but there is a second Untold site – Untold Dylan. While this site focuses on “Football news from an Arsenal …
Read More “Agricultural Bournemouth, agricultural refereeing, psychosis at Old Trafford, we’re top.”
By Tony Attwood To the best of my knowledge Arsenal have only played Bournemouth twice before. The first was on 26 October 1965 and we won 6-2 at Dean Court. The Arsenal team was Burns, Howe, Storey, McLintock, Neill, Simpson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Baker, Sammels, Eastham. Howe, Baker and Eastham scored, and then John Radford came …
Read More “Arsenal v Bournemouth: the league match I never once dreamed I would see”
Arsenal v Bournemouth 28 December 2015 – The Match Officials. by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Roger East Assistants – L Betts and D Cann Fourth Official – D Deadman Roger East, is from Wiltshire. He was appointed to the Elite group for the start of the 2013-14 season, having refereed first on 1 …
By Tim Charlesworth Amidst the joy of the Man City game, (and forgetting the one that followed it) one interesting aspect got slightly overlooked, and that was the influence of the left footers. Left sidedness is an advantage in lots of sports. John McEnroe and Raphael Nadal are the most obvious examples in tennis. Both players …
By Tony Attwood If you are going to have a rough ride in football it can often be better to get it over with in one game. That was the lesson learned in the first double season of 1970/1 in which Arsenal, complete from Wilson in goal and a team of stars up to …
Read More “Topsy Turvy Christmases, but really Arsenal don’t have too much to worry about”
