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 The FA has a section on its web site called “Media comments and Social Networking cases – Charging guidelines” It says in part, The following types of public media comment, including on social networking websites, may be considered to be in breach of FA Rule E3: Comments which are improper, which bring the …
Read More “After the game, it all depends on what you do with the comments”
By Tony Attwood According to the Daily Mirror and several other newspapers the transfer window is now open. But no! Woe! Woe! and Thrice woe! (which is really only meaningful to British readers who remember Frankie Howerd). The window is jammed shut. It will not open. Pliers, crowbars and ratchets have been ordered. But it …
Read More “Panic ensues as transfer window fails to open; Zelalem goes US”
By Tony Attwood Thanks for everyone for the goodwishes. I feel a bit of a fraud – it was just a bug, and I slept for about 24 hours. Anyway I’ve struggled up to the computer complete with pint mug of water, just to see what new year’s eve holds in store. The papers are …
By Tony Attwood The result of Barcelona’s behind-closed-doors appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the charges of dealing in children (often referred to as child trafficking) between 2009 and 2013, has been rejected and it is confirmed that they will not be allowed to sign any players in 2015. Although the appeal …
Read More “Barcelona lose their final appeal as dealing in under aged children confirmed”
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw In my last piece about how outdated views of logic and reason have come to dominate the debate on football I tried to suggest that the contemporary vision of considering evidence and then looking for the simplest most straightforward explanation based on evidence, has been thrown out of the window. Instead …
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE……Don McMahon I have seen so many bloggers writing sarcastic and demeaning comments about the Club, the players and particularly the manager over the years I have followed AFC… and one thing they all seem to have in common is that they are totally blind to one side of the Arsenal. …
By Tony Attwood So where have we got to? One defeat in the last nine 20 goals for, nine goals against in last nine Seven wins, one draw, one defeat in last nine Five wins, one defeat, one draw in last seven league games OK it is not the form of the Unbeaten Season, but …
Read More “Transfers and results, results and transfers. Is there a connection?”
By Bulldog Drummond Taking his lead from the invidious aaa and their allies within mediaeval journalism (I rather like that phrase) the Rather Large Sam speaks. Arsenal are weak and so can be exploited. West Ham, quoth he, are going for Europe – and indeed Europe quakes. A goodly length in times past Europe quaked …
Read More “Foresoothe tis the eastern quarter away. Gadzukes”
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Abuse levels on Untold seem to on the up, which is a bit of a shame, so I thought I would pop in with a couple of comments on a post that was sent in the other day, but not published. (It is printed below exactly as submitted). “Calling people …
Read More “The dangers of the retreat into mediaeval journalism in football”
HOW THE PLAYERS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE AFFECTS THEIR PERFORMANCE…. By Don MacMahon Anyone who has watched football, regardless of the level (perhaps with the exception of very young players) will realise that a team that is losing a match by more than one goal seems to find it an almost insurmountable obstacle in their efforts …
Read More “How the players’ psychological state affects their performance”
By Bulldog Drummond. This is one of those games where the journalists hedge their bets, saying simultaneously that Arsenal can’t lose and a shock could be “on the cards”. (Isn’t it funny how journalists have their own little turns of phrase? Does anyone say “on the cards” any more, other than journalists?) Anyway, there is …
Read More “QPR on Boxing Day. Arry’s predictions, Coquelin and maybe Theo.”
By Tony Attwood Koscielny, Ozil, Ramsey, Arteta, Wilshere, Theo, Bellerin, Gnabry… you know the story. And it is fairly obvious that this is a contributory factor to the club’s current position. Especially when we think that Giroud, Debuchy, Gibbs, Flamini and Monreal, have all had injuries this season as well as those currently out. Goodness, we …
Read More “The causes of injuries: how the press drew false conclusions”
By Tony Attwood Looking at the responses to Arsenal’s match at Liverpool I began to wonder if in making the key issue in the build up to this match last season’s result, we weren’t missing the real point. For is being beaten by Liverpool, or indeed any other team, a sign of disaster and a sign …
Read More “What exactly do these results against Liverpool tell us?”
By Tony Attwood Just two weeks after Untold published its 10 point plan for how an open, honest and honourable referees’ organisation would look, and PGMO allowed a journalist into their hallowed offices for a chat. Coincidence? Of course it was. Untold is just a blog run by a few enthusiasts who feel that PGMO …
By Tony Attwood “Football is fickle” is an old phrase. And an apt one. It used to be that one season your club could be great, then next rubbish. Then it was one month to the next, then one week to the next, then one day to the next. Now the chances are that unless …
Read More “Football supporting and football journalism in a spiral of decline”
By Tony Attwood According to those who don’t like Mr Wenger, the Arsenal transfer policy doesn’t work. Wenger is lazy, won’t spend money, and each time there is a player to get, we let someone else get him. As I have been trying to point out all year, there are some big problems with this …
Liverpool v Arsenal 21 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Now Walter has posted his referee review of Mr Dean’s sorry performance in the Arsenal v United game – Imagine a ref who only gets half his decisions right: Arsenal – MU ref review here is the updated Table of Shame. Still …
Read More “Liverpool v Arsenal 21 Dec 2014 – The Match Officials. Don’t expect penalties!”
A Friday Night Rummage By Tony Attwood Image a club – one of the biggest in the land in which… There is a constant shortage of money, so that every couple of months the club has to find another million or three in order just to pay the players (the season ticket money long since …
By Tony Attwood And so, continuing the approach to Liverpool Reds (as one of their owners called them not so long ago) against Arsenal, here’s an update on the team… Theo might travel. That is not the same as saying he is even on the bench, and certainly not to say he will start, but …
By Tony Attwood Some mornings the world is full of shocks. Like the headline in the Telegraph. Liverpool betrayed small-club mentality in allowing Arsenal to sign Alexis Sanchez Liverpool being knocked by the Arsenal-hating idea-stealing Telegraph? Well, quite possibly not, because when you come to think of it that headline somehow suggests that we only …
Read More “A “small club mentality” or are players actually people after all?”
By Tony Attwood Arsene Wenger has made the point that Suarez ain’t doing so well in Barcelona because of the dominance of Lionel Messi in the Barcelona team. Suarez has scored once in seven games this season which is not really what is wanted after spending £80m or so. Of course he is playing out …
Read More “Why Suarez flopped at Barce, why transfers are tough, and silly stories”
From the moment Barcelona were found guilty of child trafficking for a second time they announced that they would appeal to the Court of Arbitration in Sport. Technically the appeal would be against the decision of the FIFA Appeals Committee to confirm the decision taken by the FIFA Disciplinary Chamber in which the club was …
Read More “Barcelona sneaks in secret hearing with Arbitration Court”
By Tony Attwood It is a regular complaint made about Untold: the main writers are too pro-Wenger, too biased, and surely should be more middle of the road, able to applaud when the manager, the team, the board and the catering team get it right, and condemn when they don’t. Unfortunately such an analysis doesn’t …
Read More “Amazing what a couple of convincing wins can do.”
By Tony Attwood It’s Arsenal v Monaco – “after the draw was incredibly kind to the Gunners” according to the Independent. The games will be Wednesday 25 February: Arsenal vs Monaco Tuesday 17 March:Monaco vs Arsenal Arsène Wenger made his name in Monaco, and won Ligue 1 with them in 1987-88. But as the table below shows, although …
Read More “Cue pictures of Arsène as a young manager and suggestions it is a doddle”
By Tony Attwood The current prediction is that the Tiny Totts are going to be the big spenders in January. Or Man U. Or Man C. Or QPR. Or indeed Arsenal. Of course it depends which paper you read. I’ll come back to Arsenal in a mo, but first… QPR certainly have the desperation, …
