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
So the draw is Arsenal v Barcelona Gent v Wolfsburg Roma v Real Madrid Paris St-Germain v Chelsea Juventus v Bayern Munich PSV Eindhoven v Atletico Madrid Benfica v Zenit St Petersburg Dynamo Kiev v Manchester City Our games will be on February 23 and March 16 played at the same time as Juventus against …
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By Tony Attwood From “nicking a living” in the Daily Mail to the “complete player” on the BBC today; that is the story of Mesut Özil. As you may well have read or seen on Sky, the recently sacked David Moyes said of Mesut, “I still think the jury’s out on him a bit.” Cue the …
By Bulldog Drummond. Shock headline of the day… “Premier League injuries: Neither Arsenal or Manchester United are missing the most players.” Tony has put a limit on the number of times we are allowed to say “We did that” in terms of what Untold has achieved, but since that limit is 8,354 times per article …
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Aston Villa v Arsenal 13 December 2015 – the Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Before I start on discussing referees or the upcoming game I want to pay my own brief tribute to an Arsenal legend who died last Saturday on his way to watch the Sunderland game. Ernie Crouch was 90, supported Arsenal for …
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By Tony Attwood In the end it comes down to a simple thought: if Arsenal had bought lots more players in the summer instead of just one first teamer and some junior players, would our position today be better? POS CLUB P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Leicester City 15 9 5 …
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What a week! By Tim Charlesworth Well wow! That is as close to a perfect week as you will get as an Arsenal supporter. We all tend to get carried away with wild optimism after a victory, and doom and gloom following a defeat. So let’s step back a bit and have a look at …
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By Tony Attwood With the Daily Telegraph you know what you get. A right wing paper written for retired colonels living in Surrey with a wry sense of humour when it comes to obituaries. That it covers football (as opposed to rugby union) has always been bemusing but it does, usually from a pedestal which …
Read More “Daily Telegraph apologises unreservedly to Mr Wenger!!!!!!!!!”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Now you will know, if you have read my erudite enunciations in the past that I have one or two slight issues with the bloggette “goonersden” whose reportage it is my solemn duty to cover. So at this point I treat carefully in case any of it sticks to my …
By Tony Attwood May I start with the Untold prediction. I mean I don’t want to make a big big thing about it, and I know that much of the time if we do a prediction we get it wrong, but in the face of an anti-Arsenal media onslaught the likes of which I …
Read More “Corruption, appalling media perception, and a perfect Untold prediction”
By Tony Attwood Olympiakos are top of the Greek league. They have played 13 and won 13. Their owner and president is accused of being involved in and directing a criminal organization, aiding and abetting blackmailing, aiding and abetting the creating of explosions, aiding and abetting bribery and fraud. He is currently out …
Read More “Wholesale corruption, 20 charged by police, Uefa nepotism. Yep it’s the Champions League”
By Tony Attwood According to the general view, what is happening at Chelsea is a quirk, an oddity, a one-off. Normal service resumes soon. Chelsea have spent over £700,000,000 on transfer fees and had undoubted success both in Europe and at home, including of course being the current champions of England. And …
Read More “Does the rise of Leicester and collapse of Chelsea really represent a seismic shift?”
. They don’t accord us the basic rights that even a murderer gets. By Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold for a while you will know that part of our view is that a lot of information about football that should be discussed and made public isn’t. Hence the name “Untold”. By discussing …
Read More “This is what happens when the media are left alone and allowed to define football”
Exposed! How Northern bias affects match results, injury tables and the National team. By Proud Kev Okay, it’s a sensational headline. The sort of thing you see on a daily basis by those employed to make up stories. Except this isn’t a made up story. This is based on something Untold often refer to …
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This article looks at the top football matches that Arsenal have been victorious in when they have gone into the game as underdogs. Arsenal are one of the most decorated teams in English football and have been a major European force for a number years but they are not always the favourites going into games …
. The 20 players Arsenal are apparently just about to sign By Sir Hardly Anyone. . There has been a change in the way that some newspapers are reporting the stories of transfers this January, with anxious editors trying hard to distance themselves from the utter fantasy world of the bloggettas and instead look as …
Read More “Wenger prepares to buy replacement for Coquelin. Trouble is the replacement is injured”
By Tony Attwood The late autumn is a time when Arsenal can dip; we’ve seen it before. Indeed if you look at where Arsenal stood after 15 games in recent years you get this table of positions in the league Year After 15 games Season end 2015 2 2014 6 3 2013 1 4 2012 …
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by Sir Hardly Anyone (complete with new names – see below). I was a little surprised to hear that prices were not reduced for yesterday’s game, given that Arsenal put their reserve side out. I mean, normally speaking reserve matches are free at the Emirates. And I know it was the reserves because just before …
Read More “Arsenal Reserves v Very Fat Sam’s team: the view from behind”
Arsenal v Sunderland 5 December 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw As I write this (Wed PM) there hasn’t been a referee review published this week so the Table of Shame remains as I gave it last week:- Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 14 Red Cards 0 …
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. Four of the last seven games at the Ems between Arsenal and Sunderland have been 0-0. Bus parking anyone? By Bulldog Drummond Watching the Norwich game on TV I was amazed first at how flippant the commentary was about Alexis Sánchez being pushed into the TV camera pit and then amazed at myself …
Read More “Bloody hell it’s Fat Sam again. Time to get out the very big bus park.”
By Tony Attwood Chelsea have released some plans of what the new Stamford Bridge home will look like if it gets planning permission. If matters go at all like New White Hart Lane, New Stamford Bridge will change quite a few times and be subject to years of delay before it gets built. But maybe Chelsea’s …
Read More “New Stamford Bridge, the Olympic stadium and a new ground for Everton. It isn’t so easy.”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold Arsenal you will know that one of the fundamentals of our approach is that football opinions are fine, but there is also space for evidence based football reporting to balance out the opinion based reporting. Indeed there is so much opinion based reporting …
Read More “Evidence based football reporting. It can’t be catching on. Can it?”
By Tony Attwood “Spectre is less likely to be corrupt than Fifa.” I love Marina Hyde’s phrase in the Guardian – not only because it is funny but also because it is true. . And that truth was to be found in the latest round of arrests that Walter covered on Untold yesterday. For one …
Football has in fact just become a front for political and economic maneuvering. By Tony Attwood. Sometimes in football numbers just don’t add up. Sadly when this happens the politics always does add up, and the result can be rather alarming. And indeed there is something worth considering which is tucked away in the recent news …
Read More “Why the purchase of part of Man City by the Chinese state is a matter for concern”
An update on the Juniors by Andrew Crawshaw U21s After a disappointing game against Stoke, the U21s were back on track in their latest game away to Brighton when they emerged with all three points in a 2 – 1 victory thanks to a fantastic solo goal from 16 year old Donyell Malen. Donyell joined …
By Tony Attwood It has only taken them six years, but I suppose better late than never. Untold Arsenal has been regularly publishing referee reviews for a long old time, showing over and over again there are clear cases of either gross incompetence of systematic bias by Premier League referees. We’ve even had a …
Read More “One newspaper breaks ranks to support Untold’s research into referee bias”
