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
The AAA a case study: the man from row 9 Tony alluded to this incident in his post Newcastle article where he also highlighted the very vocal support for our manager. I was one of the many in the North Bank who were chanting ‘One Arsene Wenger!’ as we beat Alan de Pardieux’s* Bar Codes …
By Tony Attwood I have put forward the argument several times that fans can influence a team, and that one of the simplest, easiest ways to bring your team down is to boo them, jeer them and criticise them publicly. As we know, the jeering of Arsenal by Arsenal fans at Highbury really annoyed Herbert …
Read More “The impact of fans on a team, and the doings of Ian Wright”
Bulldog Drummond There are some interesting historical perspectives for Arsenal against the Newcastle zebras, like for example 6 December 1997 [sorry there was a misprint when this was first published and it said 1987] when Arsenal beat Newcastle U away 1-0 in a sequence in which we won just two out of eight, but still went on …
Read More “Arsenal v the Zebras; just like when we won the Double.”
Arsenal v Newcastle – 16 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – S Burt & A Halliday Fourth Official – R East The Referee appointments for Arsenal games don’t get any better, but for followers of Untold that will hardly come as a surprise. Mr …
Premier League referees have to stop bottling decisions or someone is going to get seriously hurt Wow. Take a look at that headline. Apart from the fact that the style is not very Untold, it could have been written on this site. But it wasn’t. Which is quite remarkable. Because it shows that whereas …
Read More “Suddenly the debate about referees is on, big time”
By Tony Attwood Liverpool’s position in football at the moment is of interest to Arsenal because the two clubs have done things very differently of late – and received different coverage in the press. Arsenal, endlessly accused of not spending, have continued to act with caution even when buying. The extra defenders that most people …
Read More “One fine win for us, and a cockup for them, and the media’s off…”
Dear Santa – My Arsenal Wish List By Andrew Crawshaw 1. A new Centre Back, preferably with proven Premier League Experience – to provide support to Per and Kos and to enable Chambers to grow into the role gradually. Must be a battler and not prone to rushes of blood to the head. 2. A …
By Billy the Dog McGraw, Chief Psychologist at the University Hospital of the North Circular Road I received the call just before kick off. Something, I was told, was going to “kick off”. “Yes,” I replied, “I know, I’m a doctor. It’s called the kick off. It’s a football thing.” But the caller explained that Arsenal …
Read More “Hilarious Sky, Muddled Merse, Nervous Nicholas and Krazy Claude”
By Tony Attwood Imagine just for a moment that you were invited by a country that is applying to be part of Uefa to help them put their footballing on a sound basis. You’d probably take the standard model of three or four organisations, one which ran the league, one (probably a trade union) which …
Read More “How we can show that refereeing in the Premier League has gone wrong”
By Tony Attwood This is the month when we are supposed to see the first impact of the new Premier League Financial Fair Play rules but there seems to be a significant silence surrounding these – and I have wondered if the Premier League is taking steps backwards, or has simply decided to ditch the …
Read More “Man C, QPR, Leicester, Man U, Leeds… yes it is FFP season again.”
By Tony Attwood Following a football match at home by getting summaries from Sky every five minutes is not really very good for your health. Or at least I am not too sure it is very good for my health. The panellists on the show were bubbling with glee and joy at the demise of …
Stoke v Arsenal 6 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Anthony Taylor Assistants – J Collin and I Hussin Fourth Official – R East Anthony Taylor – Mr Taylor is a Cheshire FA referee, he was born in 1978 and (possibly for his extreme bias against Arsenal) is now FIFA …
By Tony Attwood There is of course transfer news and transfer news – much of it made up by drunken hacks meandering around parts of East London, unable to believe their luck at having a job in which they invent tripe, get paid for it, and find (amazingly) that people believe it. Indeed as one …
Read More “Benik Afobe – and others who might join Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood Last night, for the Southampton match, I bought a ticket for the game for a friend, using my silver membership. It was a lower tier in the East Stand and cost £28.00. Personally I don’t think that was too bad – when you buy a ticket you don’t know what you …
Read More “Does the price of last night’s ticket actually matter?”
By Bulldog Drummond In the good old days, the very good very old days, when a player went down injured on the pitch an old boy (usually a wizened guy who had finished playing 30 years before and who had no medical qualifications whatsoever) would trot onto the pitch carrying a bucket full of iced …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton; everyone’s injured (as always)”
By TommieGun I am writing this post in order to offer some of my thoughts about opinions being published here and in other media, regarding Arsenal, Arsene, what it means to be a fan (or a supporter), what is acceptable to say (or write), and what is not acceptable. I will lay out a few …
Read More “Should Untold Arsenal be more balanced? Some Perspective about Perspective”
Blacksheep63 Yes I know this is a football site, and an Arsenal football site at that, so what an earth am I doing writing about boxing? Well (tenuous link alert…) on Saturday, instead of finding somewhere to watch BT Sprot spoil another Arsenal away game with their cretinous commentary, I thought I’d avoid the match …
Read More “And now for something completely different: Untold boxing”
Arsenal v Southampton 03 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the updated Wrong Important Decisions table following the United game (to be strictly honest it is updated from Walter’s post game report as I haven’t seen his full referee review so there may need to be further changes). One more …
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UEFA Youth League – Arsenal Players and prospects by Andrew Crawshaw The UEFA Youth League is a tournament for players who were born on or after 1 January 1996 – i.e they must be younger than 19 on 1 January 2015. The tournament is played between the same 32 clubs that make up the group …
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By Tony Attwood Do you remember that thing the AAA and their media allies used to do? 30 years since Arsenal won a trophy, or whatever it was. And before that, “Arsenal get more red cards than all the rest of the league put together.” Well, they’ve stopped doing it – first because the …
Read More “The new forward line: Me, him, Alexis, (and Theo)”
By Tony Attwood Every now and then I write about the Glasgow club Rangers – primarily because they represent to me the classic case of the failure of the media to ask why, and the failure to step out of line of the cosy bond they have in which each follows the other and none …
Read More “Rangers still on the brink, and we can be sure there are more to come”
By Tony Attwood Steve McManaman is hardly a person who would make my Xmas card list but I have to say that his dealing of the banner that half a dozen AAA had brought with them and snuck into the WBA game, was very good. He pointed out the sheer utter lunacy of what …
Read More “Asking for the Daniel Levy approach to management is a sign of insanity”
Publisher’s Note There is an important campaign going on at the WBA match today, and the second half of this article deals with that. The first half contains the usual pre-match kick about but I would urge you to keep reading to appreciate exactly what the demonstration at the Hawthorns is about. Thanks Tony …
Read More “WBA vs the Invisibles, and something of far greater importance”
By Tony Attwood Chris Bascombe writing in the Telegraph has said that, “We live in an age where the default position is to be offended by the continued employment of those we don’t consider to be as complete human beings as ourselves. There are now offices full of recent graduates dedicated to a daily web …
By Bulldog Drummond In the past we used to have specialists, like brain surgeons, bricklayers and baby minders. Now it seems everyone knows and can do everything. So after weeks of all those people who have never managed even a little team, knowing more about tactics than a man who has won eight major trophies …
Read More “Yesterday everyone was a tactician, today they are all psychologists”
