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 I raise the question above because of a review I saw this morning on the Football Observatory site in which various player attributes are combined to work out the worth of the players and whole squads. The tally starts by taking six issues related to a specific player age position contract international …
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By Fishpie I know you don’t want to. Not yet at least. After all, it’s only a fortnight or so ago since we finished last season with such a wonderful exhibition of glorious cup winning football; us, at our brilliant footballing best. So let’s bask, bask and bask some more, all summer long in …
By Tony Attwood We know that Arsène Wenger has done some amazing things, such as… Being the most successful FA Cup manager in the last 100 years Being the only manager in the last 100 years to win the FA Cup in successive years, twice Being the only manager to take a team all the …
Read More “Is Arsène Wenger the most successful manager Arsenal have ever had?”
By Tony Attwood Funny ol’ world ain’t it. All these odd stories popping up, including gawd elp us, a growing level of support for Untold’s little campaign to do something about the loan system. Who’d have thought it. Support for an Untold campaign or analysis does happen, although invariably without the newspapers ever acknowledging we …
Sniffing out the news once more You will probably have heard the story by now: disabled Arsenal supporters with tickets attempting to enter Old Trafford this season had their walking sticks removed because a) they could be used as weapons b) no one had told Man U that the disabled were coming. It is shocking, …
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By Sam A few months ago, Jose Mourinho branded Arsene Wenger a “specialist at failure” due to his lack of trophies in the past decade or so. The media lapped up the phrase in their click-bait articles and the social media world went into a frenzy about Mr. Wenger’s perceived failures. Last week, Mourinho …
The dedication that Arsenal fans from all over the world have, in supporting the club, often amazes me. And over the years of running Untold it has been a pleasure to meet with many overseas supporters – particularly those who have got to know us through the work of Walter Broeckx on Untold. Here’s a …
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By Tony Attwood . It seems I haven’t done my homework, and not for the first time. I really had thought Damien Martinez was still very much on the up, but it appears he is out of contract this summer – not the sign of a man who is staying. Ah well, shows what …
Read More “All the players in next season’s Arsenal line up, and some who aren’t”
Friday night is the night when the editorial and marketing team from Untold Websites and Blogs meet to discuss the week’s news, and what lies ahead. And wild and crazy nights they can be too! Over the years our numbers have grown, and we now boast editorial and advertising teams from Untold Arsenal, Untold Dylan …
Read More “Editorial night at the Toppled Bollard; Untold’s public house of choice”
By Tony Attwood So where have we got to? The first extraordinary thing about all this Fifa malarky was the fact that Fifa could have avoided the trouble either by keeping an eye on the change made to Swiss law last December, which allowed the Americans to get arrest warrants executed on Swiss soil. You’d …
Read More “FA still anxious to put its nose in the trough even further”
Now me hearties, here’s one that you will love. Or not as the case may be. Untold has told us all to scout out the strange and bizarre this summer, and here’s my contribution. An online video ad, has been created for the the Charlton Athletic YouTube channel (do you ever watch anything else?) It …
Read More “Dorking Danny scores late at night in Charlton with willing tart”
By Tony Attwood It is a while since we did anything much on transfers, what with the FA Cup final and end of civilisation as we know it, but no matter if one turns away for a day, a week, or a month, the news is the same. We need three players if we are …
Read More “Who we should buy this summer (which is not the same as who the press suggest).”
By Tony Attwood It is rather amusing, one might even say “rather droll,” that just as FFP is being dismantled by Uefa in the face of multiple legal claims, and a year after FFP in the Premier League was supposed to have been introduced (but never was), the media is celebrating the success of FFP …
Sadly there is still no one asking the question: If Blatter and his gang were evil, and were known to be evil, wasn’t it rather naive of the FA to spend £16m bidding for a world cup vote when there was every chance it would be fixed? In such a case, surely the criminals of …
Read More “British territories named by FBI as part of the Fifa corruption roadway”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal have two players in the England under 21 squad to play in the Czech Republic: Calum Chambers and Carl Jenkinson. It is interesting to be reminded of Jenkinson after his season with Fat Sam. He was injured at the start of the season, but got into the team and stayed there, …
Read More “Akpom on TV tonight. Jenkinson and Chambers to follow.”
Saturday, (cup bleedin’ final day) 30 May 2015 Bloody hell, it’s Tuesday and I’m just in from the boozer. I have to say that was annoying. I don’t think that Monsignor Venga bloke has any idea about the history of this great football club. We’ve now won the FA cup two seasons in a row …
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By Tony Attwood This article continues from the previous piece which contained points 1 to 12. 13. Stop running paid for press releases in newspapers. I’ve covered this so much I’m sure you are bored, so at least I have relegated it to 13th on the list. Newspapers are increasingly poor and biased in their …
Read More “20 changes that would hugely improve football next season – part 2”
By Tony Attwood These are, of course, just my thoughts. They won’t happen, but sometimes dreaming is nice… This article contains items 1 to 12. The remaining eight appear in the next piece. 1. Change Premier League scheduling so that December / January are not the busiest times. I know that the crowds are big …
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By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, Professor of Clinical Stuies in Universal Psychology, Youth and Original Untold Remedial Services at the University of the North Circular Road, Enfield. The Department of Universal Psychology, Youth and Original Untold Remedial Services (UpYours) recently received a most generous grant from the various national bodies concerned about mental health …
Read More “Providing psychological support for the half-baked and seeing Arsenal as it is.”
By Tony Attwood When Arsenal win, the aaa shut up. The press however try to take cover finding underlying problems, long term difficulties, and historical precedents for an imminent collapse. They even did it after the Unbeaten Season, with snarling comments about how Arsenal were not really unbeaten because we hadn’t won the League Cup …
Read More “FA Cup reflections: how did the anti-Wengerian press cope with Wenger’s latest triumph”
By Tony Attwood Where to begin? I will quote from the Guardian this morning. Wenger, to put it into context, has now won this trophy more times than Everton and Manchester City, and on as many occasions as West Ham, Sunderland and Leeds combined. That’s quite a thought to kick us off. I mentioned before …
Read More “If I believed in a god, I’d thank him or her for letting me be there yesterday”
By Tony Attwood (our man who will, traffic willing, soon be on the spot). 30 May 1995: The passing of Ted Drake – the man who in one season scored 42 league goals in 41 games and who once scored seven goals in one league game. In 1934/35 Ted Drake scored 42 league goals in …
FA Cup Final Aston Villa v Arsenal – the Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Well here it is – the final referee preview of the season. Referee – Jonathan Moss Assistants – Darren England and Simon Bennett Fourth Official – Craig Pawson Reserve Assistant Referee – Harry Lennard Referees only get one opportunity to take …
Read More “FA Cup final ref preview: don’t expect Villa cards or a penalty for Arsenal”
By Sam I do not usually ridicule the comments of “armchair supporters” since I barely attend any live games (simply because I have a young family and cannot afford to spend the time or money to do so). However, I was at Old Trafford for the Arsenal game (incidentally sitting with the “home” support in the …
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By Tony Attwood It was the Guardian who came up with the Biggest Flop contest. They did carefully ignore their own magnificent failure to see how a change in Swiss law would cause Fifa a trifle of embarrassment, or indeed how the media would universally refuse to acknowledge its own compliance in Fifa’s dominance of …
