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 Bootoomee I chuckled as I read Tony’s epiphany giving up on engaging the AAA in debates about the running of our beloved Arsenal Football Club. I have always gone with the less conciliatory approach of mocking when necessary because as an avid Internet comments reader and poster, I know for a fact that people who …
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By Bulldog Drummond So here we are, nine points behind Chelsea with 11 games to play. On the same date in 1998 we were 11 points behind with 12 to play. And just like now, still in the FA Cup. In 1998 we’d had a fairly awful late autumn, winning two and drawing two league …
Read More “All tonight’s results before they happen and QPR v Arsenal.”
QPR v Arsenal 4th March 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw With this game so soon after the weekend, I have not been able to update the table of shame so it remains the same as for Sunday. Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 15 Red Cards …
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By Tony Attwood Is it all over for Alexis Sanchez? He scored 12 goals in 24 Premier League games – but none in the last six. Why’s that? It is worth looking at because there are early signs in the pubs outside the offices of our national daily papers that Sanchez has had it, he’s …
Read More “The evolution of Alexis and the evolution of the team”
By Tony Attwood “That facts that nowadays the manager clearly hasn’t got a clue about how to set up a team tactically, that his ability to motivate his players is conspicuously lacking and that his Midas touch has gone into reverse, when it comes to developing talent, count for nothing when you consider his stellar …
Read More “Beware this story about Arsenal support is boring and you’ve probably heard it before.”
Arsenal fans at home and away.by pararealist. . Arsenal fans are a strange bunch. . First there are the away fans. . They sing their hearts out for the team and give vocal support whatever is happening on the field. . Then there are the home fans. . Now, the home fans expect to be entertained …
By Tony Attwood One of the things the children who run the mass media and lead their little camp of followers never quite understand is the essence of support. It is emotional, tied to one’s tribe. But us fans also tend to know our statistics. And some of us have actually read a book or …
Read More “Arsenal’s win ratio, two assists from Ozil, and the trick of body language”
By Bulldog Drummond And so it goes. The world as two groups of people. Those who understand the notions of context and history, and those who think that the only thing that matters is what has just happened. I’m reminded of a few acquaintances who I had earlier in my life, who on hearing some …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton. Teams and recent stats compared. (And Chelsea)”
By Tony Attwood I must confess at once that I didn’t write that headline – although I wish I had. It came from News biscuit – a wonderful satirical site, and one I’d recommend to anyone with an off centre sense of humour. The point of their piece is that Representatives of Europe’s biggest …
By Tony Attwood So what are the children chattering about today? Well, the Telegraph, having run the story a day or two back that the Arsenal board were fed up with Mr Wenger have now dropped that one and instead gone with the fact that the transfer budget for this summer will be £50 million. …
Read More “More Arsenal purchases this summer, and how Chelsea are getting such high transfer fees”
Arsenal v Everton – 01 March 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Following Walter’s review of the refereeing of the Tottenham game Ref Review Tottenham – Arsenal here is the updated Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 15 Red Cards 3 14 Penalties 3 14 …
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By Tony Attwood The highest win rate a club has had in the Premier League, across a complete season is I think, 68%. In January and February prior to the Monaco match, Arsenal achieved a win rate of 80%. Including the Monaco match the ratio for the League, FA Cup and the single Champions League …
Read More “Arsenal: the lines are now clearly drawn. Time to sort out the children.”
What’s happened this year to our junior teams? Part 2 – U18 team By Andrew Crawshaw In Part 1 I looked at the fortunes of our U21 team, (What has happened this year to our Junior Teams?) in this part I will first try and place the U18 setup into the context of the Youth …
By Tony Attwood Last Friday I attended a modern jive dance in Cambridgeshire, despite having an Achilles injury, that should been keeping me off the dance floor for as long as it takes to repair itself. I went because being at home night after night writing about Arsenal and Bob Dylan is OK but ultimately …
FA Youth Cup – Arsenal v Crewe Alexandra Meadow Park, Borehamwood Thursday 19th February Match Report by Andrew Crawshaw Crewe Alexandra FC are currently in 18th place in League 1 (third tier of professional football); the club was formed in 1877 and named after Princess Alexandra, they were founding members of the second division in …
By Tony Attwood When an organisation is battered into a corner the best way out is subterfuge, to make it look as if you are doing something when doing nothing, to suggest x is the issue when it is y and above all to stop people talking about z. The generic terms are “putting up …
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By Tony Attwood Many who push out the mantra that coming fourth is not a trophy forget what happened after George Graham won his two league titles. Following the wonder 1991 triumph of just one defeat through the whole season, Arsenal found themselves in 10th in 1993. Worse we scored the lowest number of goals …
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By Tony Attwood REDaction, the Arsenal supporters grouping that focuses on the atmosphere at home and away matches has published the results of a survey of over 2,000 Arsenal fans in relation to issues such as kick-off times, ticket prices, and access to live football for younger fans. Of those surveyed (and of course such surveys can’t …
Read More “RedAction and other fans’ groups choose to ignore the older supporter”
By Tony Attwood Today we publish two reports. This introduction s about how José Mourinho is waging his own battle against refereeing decisions. The next is about how the English model of utter secrecy in terms of referee inaccuracy is not the only one possible. About how other countries have come into the open and allowed everyone …
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By Bulldog Drummond. In a rather revolutionary move Untold Arsenal today publishes the right review of the right match more or less at the right time. A bit left field I know but well, at Untold, we like to do things differently. And to begin with an anniversary… 21 February 1998: Arsenal 1 Crystal Palace …
Read More “The right match, previewed in the right place. Amazing. Palace away”
Editorial note: Sincere apologies for yesterday’s posting of the referee preview with the wrong officials. So many thinks coincided to make that go wrong and not be sorted that it would take the whole article to explain it. But we’re now back and Bulldog’s preview of the game will, hopefully, follow anon… Tony Crystal Palace …
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Crystal Palace v Arsenal 21 February 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly the table of Shame – I haven’t seen Walter’s reviews of the Spurs or Leicester games so it is unchanged since last time. It still makes sorry reading, nearly eight times as many potential game changing decisions against us as …
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By Tony Attwood How many injuries do Arsenal have at the moment? Are we the worst off, the best, or middling? That question is a bit tougher than might be thought to answer. According to the web site the Physio Room we have five injuries at present, putting us eighth in the list. Top of …
Read More “Arsenal’s injuries: it seems the figures are very misleading”
By Tony Attwood Back in 2007 when Untold started I was exploring all sorts of avenues of interest that I thought this site could follow. One involved statistics. I’d watched a match at the Emirates and looked that evening at the stats that appeared on some web sites. Although I’d not made any notes …
Read More “Phantom matches and why Arsenal have their own data company”
What has happened this year to our Junior Teams? Part 1 – U21 team by Andrew Crawshaw Last summer saw a major overhaul of the Coaching staff at Junior (U21 and below) level with Liam Brady retiring and being replaced with Andries Jonker. The U21 team were also relegated to the second level of Premier …
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