Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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By Tony Attwood The big issues concerning transfers don’t just relate to getting the player to transfer, doing the deal with the agent, doing the deal with the other club etc etc, but also what happens thereafter. You don’t see many articles that discuss issues like a) Will the player settle into the team? b) …
By Sir Hardly Anyone The world of the bloggettas are getting frantic. The first deal is done and dusted, but where is the second deal? (And just in case you don’t want to wade through all the nonsense, the really naughty one is at the end). Arsenal Set To Complete Second Signing For This …
Read More “The second deal of the transfer window is just on done”
As Walter can’t do the regular report, I thought I might have a go. Tony Kick boo cheat jeer boo shout abuse kick push cheat boo kick shout jeer push kick complain kick jeer shout push abuse complain kick boo cheat jeer boo shout abuse kick push cheat boo kick shout jeer push kick complain …
Read More “Stoke v Arsenal. A full, comprehensive, all-inclusive and detailed report on the match.”
Over 6 million page views in the past year. If you are interested in the development of Untold, there’s a bit more on the home page. And other announcement before we get going: there will be no post match report for the Stoke game as Arsenal Belgium are holding their AGM after the match, and …
Read More “The Rugby Team v Arsenal. Will we survive with legs intact?”
……… Over 6 million page views in the past year – see the home page for more info. By Tony Attwood In the 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… TV stations Newspapers and radio stations …
By Tony Attwood The argument hasn’t just been that Arsenal has had lots of injuries, but rather that a) they had more than anyone else b) it is all Wenger’s fault. The second follows from the first, because if it ever turned out that Arsenal didn’t suffer more with injuries than anyone else, then there …
. WHY ONE SHOULD BE CAREFUL WITH THE HISTORY He screams out, so loud that Mike Dean comes to his house, sees him in an Arsenal shirt and give him a red card for a violent conduct. by Josif Some football clubs have a history book thicker and bigger than others. Some of those books …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. I do love the stories the bloggettas publish. They brighten up my day. They make me smile. Guffaw sometimes even. Snigger a bit. That sort of thing. Now most of these odd tales, as you may have noted if you regularly read my august column herein, focus on transfers, but today …
Read More “Is Stan Kroenke trying to move Arsenal out of the Emirates?”
By a rather smug Tony Attwood Untold is a web site that takes sides. A web site that presents a case. A web site that quite often gets things horribly wrong. But a web site that by and large sticks to its ground. As with the last post – the one about Spanish clubs being …
Arsenal sign Mohamed Elneny while Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid are banned from buying players By Tony Attwood Exactly as Untold has been reporting for nearly a year, two more Spanish clubs have been banned from signing players in the next two transfer windows. This follows on from the year long ban which serial child traffickers Barcelona …
by ARSENAL 13. ARSENAL still sit top of the league equal with Leicester on points, still 3 clear of Manchester City (supposedly our main rival for the title) just as we were before last night’s games. And seven points clear of the little chickens (in the 4th place) who for no obvious reasons finish …
By Bulldog Drummond For most members of the aaa I imagine that Liverpool is their ideal club. They change managers quite regularly, and they buy, buy and buy again, player after player after player. Since they last won the league in 1990 they have had seven managers. Since that last league win in 1990, they …
By Tai Emeka Obasi Wenger’s Arsenal: The Enemy Within. Arsenal is a global institution that extends far beyond the English horizon. Not just on playing turfs but on the stock market terrains of big business empires. A jigsaw of a dream that took one lanky genius a chunk of his productive years of toil is …
By Tony Attwood I’ve done several pieces of late which argue against the statement that “you can prove anything with statistics”. But suddenly I find myself doubting my own argument, as the CIES Football Observatory has published its list of the most valuable players in world football. Their statement is that the list takes into account …
Read More “Özil declines in value but was best attacking midfielder of the year!?!?!”
By Tony Attwood It seems such an innocuous question: who runs football in England? And yet the more I think about it, the more confused I get. (OK I know I am often confused, but on this one I am even more confused.) The list below of the institutions, bodies, groups, and collections of organisations, …
By Tony Attwood Saying stuff without much evidence can be fun, and is of course dead easy. You just say it. Or write it. Although in retrospect it can make the speaker or writer look a little silly at times. Take for example the guy who wrote that headline for Arsenal Report. His opening …
Read More “Ozil was a last minute panic buy in a position we didn’t need to strengthen”
By Tony Attwood I thought I would push Sir Hardly Anyone aside for a moment and do a transfer column of my own. This is based around two players that several “sources” say are most certainly on, and about to go through. One even has the player’s mother spotted talking to Arsenal, so that is …
Read More “Two dead cert Arsenal transfers to follow through and see how they pan out.”
By Tony Attwood One of the things that I’ve always tried to ensure is that Untold lives up to its name and covers issues that are not covered in most other places. Of course over time some other media catch up, which is gratifying, but just re-iterating what other people say has never been the …
Read More “How could anyone write a report of yesterday’s game and not mention the ref?”
By Bulldog Drummond Only four teams have won the FA cup twice running in this or the last century, Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea and Newcastle Only two teams have won the FA Cup three times running and both of these made their mark before even Royal Arsenal FC existed. In fact the last one was …
by Tony Attwood One of the points about Untold Arsenal is that it gives an outlet for those of us who want to explore specific issues with evidence, rather than just opinion. That’s not to say there is anything wrong with opinion, it is just that after a while, opinion on its own gets a …
Read More “If Ferguson had gone to Man U in 2015 he wouldn’t have lasted a season.”
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, …
Read More “Has there ever been a January like this? The 19 transfer stories surrounding Arsenal.”
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 …
