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"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Bulldog Drummond “Oh please let us be the exception” Cup cock ups can occur anytime and bring down anyone. Herbert Chapman knew that with the defeat to Walsall (his last ever FA Cup match incidentally), after which he immediately transferred out of the club the players he felt were responsible. Managers don’t do that …
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By Tony Attwood It’s FA Cup weekend in case you didn’t notice, so I had planned to run this final article before the preview of the Brighton Cup match, on the subject of the FA. And I am staying with that – but with the addition of a few results. Chelsea 2 Bradford City 4. …
Read More “FA to stop obesity, help children, build pitches and do sensible things. Err….”
By Tony Attwood OK, if you are not a viewer of English TV or don’t listen to English radio you might not know who Adrian Chiles is, and this article mentions him a lot. But stay with me, because this is not just about one TV presenter who has been sacked, but about almost all …
Read More “How broadcasters always screw up by ignoring what football means to the fans”
By Tony Attwood. On 23 January Danny Higginbotham wrote an article in the Independent newspaper in which he said: I still can’t quite believe what I saw when Jan Vertonghen, of Tottenham Hotspur, was ruled offside for scoring against Sunderland last week, when he had received the ball five or six yards inside his own …
Read More “Why Arsenal have so many injuries: the complete analysis”
by Andrew Crawshaw In the last two articles we have looked at the matches played so far this season by Arsenal. In case you missed them you can see the articles here: Part 1 Part 2 Now we pull all these figures together Summary The Good – Mike Jones (Aston Villa v Arsenal) 82% overall …
Read More “The PGMO v Arsenal – the half time report. How are the refs doing?”
By Tony Attwood There are two prime ways in which top football matches are fixed. One is the gambling model where people bribe players or refs to fix a game in a particular way, and bet on the outcome. The other is a much more complex system and is often known as Calciopoli after the Italian …
Read More “The fixing of top football matches: how it works and why it is not reported”
ARSENAL 13. After the ManCity victory Rambo tweets a pic of himself, Giroud, Ox and Per-fect Mertesacker. This was followed by Alexis Selfie or whatever they call it, which sends Liverpool legend into a rantorgasm. He sure loves that, doesn’t he. Understandable he is annoyed seeing ARSENAL win, but this outburst wasn’t necessary. Though …
FA Youth Cup Fourth Round Arsenal v Royston Town (2 – 1) Wednesday 21 January Match Report by Andrew Crawshaw Royston is a small town bordering Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire population 16,000 approx. Their Football team are known as the Crows and play non-league football in the Southern League Division One Central. The club …
By Tony Attwood As you may have seen, I’ve taken quite an interest in the Barcelona child trafficking case since Fifa first ruled on it. In one of my comments however I suggested that although Fifa had very much done the right thing in the cases against Barcelona and the Spanish FA, we couldn’t be …
Read More “Switzerland take a greater interest in Fifa – at last”
By Tony Attwood As you may know, Arsenal.com occasionally take articles from Untold Arsenal, and our companion blog on Arsenal’s History The articles that Arsenal.com pick up are very much chosen by themselves – we don’t have any influence over it. And this is the case with the piece written recently by Walter: Coquelin …
By Tony Attwood Francis Coquelin’s agent is now negotiating a new deal for the player at Arsenal, what with his contract running out at the end of the season. Meanwhile the story of Coquelin runs in two different ways depending on whose version you read. Either Arsenal stumbled from crisis to crisis plucking players here …
Read More “For once, an Untold prediction is right: 6.5 years of Francis Coquelin”
This continues our series of articles reviewing the way referees have affected Arsenal games. Part one of the review is here. The PGMO v Arsenal – the Half Time Report by Andrew Crawshaw This is a series of articles that review the first 19 weeks of the season, who were the referees, were they Good, …
NOT FIT TO……..Domhnal MacMagthamhna The subject of this article is, of course, all our useless deadwood and second rate management that, season-in,season-out, fail to achieve the lofty summits of the Invincibles and who, to boot, are lazy, overpaid and slothful regardless of actual reality. I wanted to review some of these lesser beings in the …
Arvind I haven’t written for a while for a number of reasons, and felt like writing again recently. As older readers probably (hopefully☺) remember, I tend to focus on the actual football and take a fairly microscopic look at the truth on the football field. Who really did well and who did not, and why? …
Read More “Three comparative Arsenal tactical reviews. Part 1 Arsenal v Liverpool”
By Navnit Man City 0-2 ARSENAL: player ratings. Arsene doesn’t do tactics. He is stubborn. ARSENAL will lose 3 nil. ARSENAL will lose 3-1. ARSENAL lose big games. Its down to the manager, he is responsible for all the big defeats. He is the past. We should look to the future. And when we win …
So what do we mean by defending better? Richard Bedwell For most people the answer is simple – concede, across the season, fewer goals than you did last season. However, judging by comments on the vast majority of blogs, people don’t think over such long periods as a season, or certainly not while that season …
The PGMO v Arsenal – the Half Time Report by Andrew Crawshaw This is a review of the first 19 weeks of the season, who were the referees, were they Good, Bad or Downright Ugly and any other points I consider relevant. I am using Walter’s referee reviews as my source document and will post …
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By Tony Attwood The Guardian today has a bold headline: “Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend action Guardian”. And not a single one of those talking points relates to Arsenal. Disappointing, but I wonder if they were just being honest; they had called it wrong, and were backing off. The Independent however follows …
Read More “Was that the moment when the press got it right, or are they just boasting?”
By Tony Attwood I only have one shirt that carries an Arsenal player’s name. It is in the red of the original Woolwich team, and has a picture of Pires on the front and the “7” on the back. It is my lucky shirt. I wear it rarely, for fear that wearing it too much …
By Tony Attwood (Walter is busy on family matters) Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes …
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By Bulldog Drummond Manchester Accountants is part of a financial organisation which aims to spread its cultural and economic influence worldwide. It already has bases in Australia, New York and Manchester, and is now looking to move into phase two, which involves taking over disused and abandoned venues built for the world cup, and placing …
Read More “Manchester Accountants v Arsenal: a tale of two systems”
By Tony Attwood . The International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), is a charitable organisation that proposes and supports International Safeguards for Children in Sport. Its reports estimates that there are maybe 15,000 trafficked child players in Europe from the age of 11 upwards. . And the situation is growing worse. . They boys have been …
By Tony Attwood Ninetyeight percent of transfer rumours turn out to be useless in revealing transfers that will happen. So how can the various newspaper and blog sites that actually produce the stories keep going? After all, any other future prediction operations which had a success rate of only two percent would have been laughed …
Read More “Transfer inventors now claim they can read your mind”
By Tony Attwood The Football Association is determined to be, well, that slightly bit odd, in its thinking. Let’s imagine for a moment that you ran the FA and were concerned that in recent tournaments both the English national team and the under 21s team had been knocked out of the big event in the …
By Tony Attwood It’s a funny ol’ game. The surprising headline of the day comes in the Telegraph, normally rather pally with our old mate Arry the Red and his dog Rosie. “Stop playing the blame game, Harry – if QPR are relegated it’s nobody’s fault but your own” the headline writer screams while also …
Read More “Bizarre survey results, Arry attacked, Arsenal to buy Dortmund”
