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
ARSENAL IN THE NEW ELITE LEAGUE? by Don McMahon I recently read an interesting post on the AA website about whether Arsenal could be considered eligible for the proposed (potential) Elite Champions League and what would happen to teams that didn’t get selected. The article hinted that this ECL would be an exclusive club based …
By Tony Attwood Some years ago I came across a company where the finance manager had been skimming off money for her own benefit for years. She was found out when the firm changed auditors and the new auditor started asking questions the old auditor should have asked, but didn’t. What happened next was …
Read More “In football, no one ever talks about the real problem. It’s the FA.”
By Tony Attwood And thus here I am in Norfolk, a diminutive and rather flat state separated from England by language, and its vision of life, the universe, and reality. Although never given formal independence from the UK, the fact that no member of the government has been here since the days of Edward and …
By Sir Hardly Anyone I’ve taken that headline not, as you might believe, from a little blogetta that makes things up, but from the Independent, a supposedly reputable newspaper in the UK. Now maybe they are right, but if so it is a bit interesting that there is no mention on Arsenal.com or in other papers …
Read More “Arsenal confirm Nigerian duo signing as Debuchy heads for the exit”
. By Bulldog Drummond Burnley were relegated from the Premier League and are now looking to come back up, so an FA Cup run is not the primary thing on their mind – promotion is much more important, as is not getting anyone injured at this stage of the season. The income from today’s game will …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley: you don’t win things with kids, you don’t win without kids”
The love that dare not speak its name PART THE SECOND By Tim Charlesworth Many thanks to those of you who resisted the temptation to abuse me after part one of my homage to Tottenham Hotspur. For those who didn’t resist, I remind you of Arsene’s post-Stoke words: ‘Maybe when you go home and watch …
Read More “The love that dare not speak its name, part the second”
. By Tim Charlesworth . I recently saw a film about Charles Darwin, author of ‘Origin of Species’. This has a legitimate claim to being the most influential book of all time. One of the themes of the film, was Darwin’s moral struggle with his theory of evolution. He realised it would undermine the church, …
Read More “The love that dare not speak its name, part the first. A secret regard for Tottenham.”
————— Bob Wilson has most kindly contributed this article for Untold, to coincide with the publication of Arsenal: The Long Sleep 1953-1970 by John Sowman, for which Bob has written the introduction. ————- Tuesday 28th April 1970. By Bob Wilson OBE Tuesday 28th April 1970 is a date to remember for all Arsenal fans. …
Read More “The date no Arsenal fan will ever forget. By Bob Wilson”
. I don’t think anyone who supports Arsenal – no matter how recent their conversion to the cause – can not know about our goal keeping legend Bob Wilson. And today I’m knocked out beyond belief to say that Bob has written an article for Untold Arsenal. Bob started out by training as a teacher …
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By Tony Attwood Just a week ago – on 21 January – I wrote a little piece about the rules surrounding the transfer of children to football clubs. But what are the rules? Like most of the articles on Untold that look at the rules and regulations it didn’t get a huge readership, but …
Read More “It appears to be Chelsea that Real Mad have been gunning for on illegal transfers”
What links Northampton Town, Napoli and Milan? Seems like they have today all been linked to rumours about naughty things going on with money. To start with Northampton, in 2005 David Cardoza had a wheeze that Sixfields Stadium could be doubled in size, although quite why was never clear. It was rarely if ever full …
Read More “It’s time to start arresting people in the big wide world of football.”
By the Untold Team Imagine a game of football between two fairly balanced, evenly matched teams. Each team commits some fouls, but neither team is much worse than the other. We’ll call the teams the Reds and the Blues And let’s imagine (since this is all quite imaginary) that this game between these two teams …
Read More “Seven Premier League Referees record accuracy ratings below the normal acceptance level”
By Sir Hardly Anyone You have to be sorry for the bloggetta writers, day after day after whatnot pumping out the same dross telling us that player after player has already been signed, is on his way, has been seen in the estate agents with his mother etc etc. Only to find none of it …
Read More “Six days to go and the Arsenal transfer machine is about to explode into life.”
By Tony Attwood Over the years I have become very interested in the way that the media do and don’t report certain issues in football. Perhaps the most famous was the Rangers tax case in which one web site constantly hacked away at the story while the Scottish media ignored it totally and the …
By Tony Attwood I am as appalled as anyone over the way Sky has had the power to change the timing of the Leicester game, not least because I know how much difficulty this has meant for Walter and the members of Arsenal Belgium. And not just because I count these guys as my friends, …
By Tony Attwood I recall during my student days when I was an active member of the students’ union, taking part in one of our regular political debates when one fellow student rose up and commented that what I had just said was in contradiction to something I had said at another meeting a couple …
Read More “Death by ankle tap: A most curious moment in the history of Arsenal”
Bulldog Drummond continues his review of the Arsenal v Chelsea game The most important thing of course is that we score against Chelsea. Because if we don’t it will six league games without scoring against them – equalling our worst record ever in the PL, which is six games without a goal between 1997 …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea the teams. Arsenal are bottom of the league (for indiscipline)”
by Bulldog Drummond The Specialist in Failure League A win for Arsenal would leave Arsenal top of the league A defeat for Arsenal could leave us as low as third… two points behind the leaders. A win for Chelsea would leave them 13th or 14th. A defeat for Chelsea would leave them 14th, 15th or …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea. Who are the specialists in failure?”
Tim Charlesworth I must confess, I am a little over-excited at the news that Coquelin is ‘back in training’. Of course, it is never quite clear what is meant by this sort of thing. Wenger can be a bit of tease, and it may well be that he is not ready to play for a …
By Tony Attwood and Sir Hardly Anyone The Telegraph has just published a poll of readers on the issue of how many players Arsenal need to buy in the next 10 days. The answers None (The squad is fine as it is) 6% (that includes your two humble writers of this piece) 1-3 (Minor …
Read More “The one Arsenal transfer story that refuses to go away”
. By Tony Attwood In two recent articles on who controls football in England I came up with a list of ten suggestions… first article in this little series on who controls football in England I came up with my top five entities that actually run football in England and then followed that up with …
. By Tony Attwood Back in September 2009 the headline ran, “FIFA and UEFA plan to ban transfers on players under 18 after Chelsea’s punishment over Gael Kakuta” “Players under the age of 18 could soon be banned from switching clubs,” shouted another headline. Then Chelsea were suspended from signing any new players until 2011 after …
By Tony Attwood It was the fact that between the Invincibles Season and the 2014 FA Cup victory Arsenal didn’t win any of the major trophies, which became the central rallying call for the aaa. Their argument was very much that this was not good enough for Arsenal, and that a different manager with different …
Read More “Chelsea and Tottenham and the stadium saga. Will they do better than Arsenal?”
By Tony Attwood There is a somewhat strange article on Football365 today under the headline “Sign him: If Adebayor cares, Adebayor scores” by Sarah Winterburn who I think used to work for Sky Sports and now seems to have moved. She does that thing of listing all the stuff she says everyone else is talking about, but in …
Read More “The strange case of Adebayor, the miracle football and the missing motivation”
By Tony Attwood North Korea is apparently a fairly awful place where the populace is reduced to near starvation as the family that runs the show spends money on itself, its army, its propaganda and nuclear weapons. How do I know this? Because I read it in the papers and I saw it on TV. …
