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 In a very real sense these questions are linked, and in a very real sense they are not. Because if we’ve learned anything over the years it is that the performance of a player this season is often not related to the player’s performance next season. Or indeed next month. Who really …
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Millwall Lionesses v Arsenal Ladies FA Cup 6th round 22nd March 2015 (now with all the pictures added) by Andrew and Pauline Crawshaw This game was at the Den in South East London, Millwall’s main ground. The two teams had met in a pre-season friendly a few weeks earlier where Millwall did enough to keep …
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By Tony Attwood First the (perhaps) good news. Greg Dyke of the FA has said the FA was “100 per cent behind” the introduction of video technology to help referees. Trouble is, the reputation of the FA is now so low that having them on your side could be more of a hinderance than a help. …
Read More “The FA’s latest muddle-plan. Mucking around with the “home grown” rule.”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal, as you will jolly well know, have just won six league games in a row. From the first match this season against Newcastle, up to and including this second game against them, Arsenal have played 21 games, won 17, drawn 1, and lost 3, in all competitions. That is …
Read More “The trouble with a run like this is my nervous system isn’t built for it.”
By Tony Attwood Ben Bloom, writing in the Telegraph, announced that it was “Martin Keown who this week asked why Arsenal supporters do not really love Olivier Giroud.” I expect he did, but he was just going along the line Untold had been developing for some time. . But Bloom’s assertion that “Giroud is accepted …
Read More “Arsenal reap the benefit of Wenger’s transfer vision and a stadium completed”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGuire, senior psychologist, University Hospital of the North Circular Road I have been asked to write to you today as a matter of considerable urgency, for it seems that the psychological well-being of many of our friends of the “aaa” persuasion is now an issue of a certain amount of …
Read More “Arsenal supporters on the verge of a nervous breakdown”
By Bulldog Drummond Here’s the deal. Papiss Cissé brought forward his knee surgery scheduled for the summer after receiving a seven-match ban for spitting) and so can’t play. He’s one of many. Cheik Tioté, Steven Taylor and, and, and… lots and lots of zebras covered in stripes but not on the pitch. Fabricio Coloccini is …
Read More “Newcastle v Arsenal: Since we last played the zebras the win ratio is 80%”
By Tony Attwood When I used to play football (in a team somewhere near the foot of the 19th division of the local pub league) occasionally we didn’t have enough men and we might borrow one of the spectators. These days Newcastle is a bit like that. Well almost. They’ve got 13 fit outfield players …
Newcastle United v Arsenal Saturday 21 March 2015 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Table of Shame Walter hasn’t published any more referee reviews since I updated the table last week Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 17 Red Cards 3 14 Penalties 3 15 Goals 1 6 Total …
Read More “Ref preview: The vast majority of wrong decisions will be against Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood It was way back in July 2009 that Untold ran its first article about money laundering, reporting that the Financial Action Task Force had issued a report saying that football is at risk from criminals buying clubs, often to facilitate money laundering, tax evasion and other fraud and all that sort of thing. …
Read More “Corruption in football: the issue spreads and spreads”
EVERYTHING IS BORROWED……..Don McMahon Being in a rather philosophical mood after the Monaco game, I felt the urge to consider and ruminate on Arsenal’s rather repetitive and even predictable performance year after year in the CL, the EPL and other competitions, with the exception of the FA Cup. One thing that stands out for me …
By Tony Attwood I recently saw an article in the national press in which this sentence took me by surprise. Among English clubs only Chelsea would refuse to swap places with them right now. Not surprise because I don’t think it is true, but rather surprise because someone in the media actually wrote it. …
Read More “Ten reasons why Arsenal are the envy of English football”
By Tony Attwood Put simply, I’m worried about what the press in England are up to. . Not the ordinary everyday biased stuff that we see all the time. Not the fact that today the press will be full of the number of years in a row Arsenal has gone out at the last 16 …
Read More “How football journalism puts all of us in danger”
By Tony Attwood Before the last game between Arsenal and Monaco we did a bit of a review of Monaco’s inglorious past, and their very limited number of goals. So they promptly went and scored three. Since then they’ve had a 0-0 draw at home with PSG, a 0-2 defeat in the French Cup quarter …
Read More “Santi C apologises to fans, Monaco bores everyone”
By Tony Attwood The FA is a dangerous organisation, totally unfit for purpose, run by people utterly out of touch with the fans who end of paying the mortgage on the FA’s most ludicrous enterprise: Wembley. OK we knew that. Tickets for the FA Cup semi-final and final are fairly hard to come by. OK …
By Tony Attwood You know that great thing that Arsenal do with the league cup – charging just £10 and £20 for tickets. It never gets coverage in the press, no one points out what a great deal it is… Now compare and contrast with the much wealthier Manchester United. They insist that season ticket …
Read More “Sometimes it is worth comparing Arsenal’s approach with those of others.”
By Bulldog Drummond And so we march onwards. The results this year in domestic league and cup have been rather fine… Working backwards from last monday we see. Man U 1 Arsenal 2 QPR 1 Arsenal 2 Arsenal 2 Everton 0 Palace 1 Arsenal 2 Arsenal 2 Middlesbrough 0 Arsenal 2 Leicester 1 Tottenham …
Read More “Arsenal v WHU: recent events and the match preview”
By Tony Attwood. Poor Man U. For so many years the darling of the media. A media so bewitched by what they are and what they might be, that not a word could be said against them. And now those naughty fellows in the newspapers can write such things as, “Referees are not the only …
Read More “The virus of the media turns on Man U with a vengeance”
. By Tony Attwood . A little while ago I experienced Arsenal’s facilities for the disabled first hand, and I must say I was amazed. Amazed because one only ever hears negative things about Arsenal, and everything I found was good. Good in the sense of the way carers go in for free, …
Read More “How Arsenal helped a Tottenham star, and our provision for the disabled”
By Tony Attwood We’ve covered the story about Tottenham’s new stadium a number of times, about the uncertainties and delays, and indeed the changes of plans. Of course there have been some sniggering from the Arsenal end at the club’s delays and misfortunes, and outrage at their having a compliant local authority (which Arsenal most …
By Tony Attwood Getting older is a bit of a pain, especially when bits of you start going wrong. With me of late it is the eyes – but fortunately all can be fixed with cataract surgery. Thank goodness I live in the 21st century. Except, there is a period after the operation is done, …
Blacksheep and I were lucky enough to go to both the semi final and final at Wembley, so we are back there this year. And we are playing… Bradford or Reading It will be our 28th semi final. and thus far have won 18 and lost 9. 28 is more than any other team. Oh …
By Tony Attwood Paul Scholes has now set himself up as a spokesperson for the “Arsenal is in decline” movement claiming that “Over the years, the big players who were really ambitious – Vieira, Thierry Henry, Cesc Fàbregas, Robin van Persie – have all left, “They left for the simple reason that Arsenal are not in …
Read More “Scholes joins the no-evidence “its true cos I say so” gang.”
THE FA Cup Weekend – Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Taking the games in the order in which they are to be played Bradford City FC v Reading FC 12:45 Saturday 6 March – Live BT Sport Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – Michael Mullarkey and Marc Perry Fourth Official – Michael Jones Lee has …
By.Don McMahon The recent mini-crisis, otherwise known as the media tempest in a teapot or the aaa meltdown or the night of the brain-dead(the aaa national holiday), allowed me and most of humanity to appreciate how dramatic the media and our fickle aaa plastic fanboys can be. The Wenger out chants once again rang through …
