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
Darren speaks… I came on here the other week and started reading what you cockneys had to say about us when you came up to Old Trafford. Me names Darren, I come from Oldham, and I support Man U,I don’t get much to the games, but see myself as a kind of armchair fan. Ive …
Read More “Guest column of the day. A Mr “Darren”. A Man U fan.”
By Tony Attwood We’ve often moaned about the media’s lack of coverage of corruption in football, and their endless desire to paint everything from PGMO to Fifa as whiter than white. But what about the sponsors of Fifa, who have known how corrupt and awful the whole operation has been all these years? Doesn’t anyone …
Read More “It should not just be Fifa on trial, but the FA and their media allies also.”
By Tony Attwood As an interlude from the Fifa talk (and there really is rather a lot more of that to come with several interesting questions still unasked, let alone unanswered) let’s look at something quite different. Who spent what last season. But before we get moving, a word of warning – there are often …
Read More “Does spending money on players bring success? Here’s the survey for 2014/15”
Gawd ‘elp us. I was minding me own business berating one of the stewards on Saturday (he’d let some Japanese folk in…there’s no call for that) when Theo bleedin’ Wingnut decided to try and break the goal at the Clock End. What a strike! We should sell him now while we can because he’s only …
Read More “I was minding me own business… Dial Square Dave takes us back to reality”
By Tony Attwood In my original article on the change in the Swiss law which has allowed the Fifa arrests to happen today I made the point that this could result in arrests at the next Swiss conference of Fifa. And so it proved to be. Although some correspondents have pointed out quite rightly that …
Read More “It ain’t over til the corrupt bastards are locked up, but this is progress.”
By Tony Attwood Ain’t it annoying when the Untold headline writer (which is me actually) starts to crow about how clever Untold is, outwitting all the UK’s media with a story five months before it happens. But give me my moment of pleasure, because it can take hours, days, weeks, months, to track down some …
The Untold Banner: we’re making progress By Blacksheep A short and positive update folks… I exchanged emails with Arsenal today and got a very helpful and positive response from the supporter liaison officer. So the next step is to mock up a couple of banners (using both the winning and runner-up designs) so the club …
Clairvoyants Wanted THE RESULTS By Psychic Brian, Professor of Applied Frotteurism at the Tamakeri Institute On 12 September 2014 many brave souls decided to risk humiliation and embarrassment by predicting the outcome of Arsenal’s progress and achievement for this season. There were many who stepped forward but only few have been chosen. Of the 11 …
Read More “In September some brave souls made predictions about Arsenal. Here’s how it went.”
By Blacksheep Having checked the scores I can now reveal the outcome of the votes for the Untold Banner. I am amazed and impressed to say that just over 1300 votes were cast which shows a fantastic engagement with this site and with this idea. I also hope this gives us a mandate to go …
Read More “The Untold Banner at the Emirates: the results of the voting.”
By Tony Attwood Let me put that headline another way. Have you heard the one that says Arsenal are always awful in the first half of the season? You might have done as it has been in the papers quite a lot. Have a look at this table from 7 December 2013. Team P W …
Read More “Have you heard the one about Arsenal needing better players?”
By Tony Attwood Head of the Bonkers Award Committee. It is either a brave or foolish football writer who makes firm predictions about the season ahead, but the English media is never one to hold back in the summer from predictions, largely I suspect because they consider the average attention span of their readership to …
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By Bulldog Drummond What will we do when the internet comes to an end in five years time (as New Scientist is predicting this week)? The end (caused by a lack of carrying capacity, not a lack of hard drive space) will of course be the end of civilisation as we know it, which will …
Arsenal U18s – Season End Report By Andrew Crawshaw Before I start, there are four levels of players in terms of age that I will refer to in this article. Starting with the youngest we have schoolboys up to the age of 15 or so. We then get to the First and second Year Scholars who have …
Arsenal v West Bromwich Albion 24 May – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Unfortunately Walter has not been in a position for some time to complete any more referee reviews so, in turn, I can offer no update on the Table of Shame. Suffice it to say that the wrong Important Decisions haven’t evened …
Awright? Its about time that Tony fella let me on here, I’ve been pestering him for weeks ever since we met in that excuse for a pub off the ‘olloway road – flipping ‘Swimmer’ or summat. I mean I ask you what kind of a gaff is that? It used to be a perfectly decent …
A short while back Blacksheep put forward the notion of there being an Untold banner at the Emirates, displayed in the zones between the upper and lower decks. We’ve liaised with Red Action and Arsenal on how we can go about doing this, and eventually came up with three options from the many on the …
FFP IS FREAKING ME OUT MAN! Ok, I’m panicking. I’m freaked. And I need the optimism and positivism of Untold NOW!! FFP is out of here and even Arsene Wenger has seemingly given up on it. Jesus, what the f…? I thought FFP was going, you know, ok. Not fully fledged …
. Untold has been contacted by The Clare Balding Show, in association with BT Sport and BBC 2. They are having a special show next week Wednesday 27th May at 7PM where Clare will be talking about the FA Cup final. They haven’t yet confirmed the guests on the show, but they have asked if any …
Read More “Wanna be on the tele as they talk about Arsenal?”
By Tony Attwood I had hoped to get home around midnight, instead it was closer to 1am. That was frustrating and annoying. The cause, inevitably was the British Dig Up The Motorway Scheme For Congesting Traffic, that has been introduced by the Dept of Transport as an alternative to speed cameras. We’d hadn’t expected …
Read More “In the end it is only expectation that makes it horrible”
By Bulldog Drummond Laurent Koscielny has been ill. How dare he! Doesn’t he know that he’s got plenty of time in June for that? Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Debuchy are not fit to work, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Danny Welbeck remain injured. For les chats presque noir (for thus is the name of those we play) Liam …
Read More “Arsenal v Sunderland: We’re unbeaten in the last 17 games played on a Wednesday”
. By Tony Attwood . “Arsenal have reportedly agreed a deal with Lens for striking starlet Yassin Fortune.” OK so it is reportedly which means when translated someone made it up and everyone else (like me I suppose) is copying it. Although the source does appear to be France Football which tends to get these …
Read More “Arsenal make signing, Cech is about to sign, Higuain is on offer, we’ll buy no one.”
By Tony Attwood Over the years of building and paying for the Emirates we’ve had a few experiences of players trotting off to other clubs rather than continue at Arsenal. Not all of them have enjoyed the experience but they have kept on doing it. Van Persie, Nasri, Cole, Adebayor, Toure, Hleb, Flamini, Clichy, Fabregas, …
by Andrew Crawshaw Our penultimate game of the season and the officials are :- Referee – Anthony Taylor Assistants – S Ledger and M Perry Fourth Official – K Friend So the sixth time this year that we will have had to endure the incompetence and downright bias that is Anthony Taylor – this …
Read More “Arsenal v Sunderland 20 May 2015 – Incompetence and bias. Yes it’s the Match Officials”
By Tony Attwood As has been apparent for some time Uefa are now certain to change the FFP rules in the favour of Manchester City, PSG, Monaco, Chelsea and a range of Russian clubs. The official view is that Uefa never wanted to stop what they call “owner investment” (what we call “pumping so much …
Read More “Farewell top level FFP; Football League it is up to you”
