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
Ref goes bonkers and decides 8 seconds is really 23 seconds By Tony Attwood Warning: this article is over twice as long as the norm for Untold, and the last 300 words are background, not to do with football. So if you want a quick “Arsenal are signing a Man C player” …
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Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the Arsenal team and the league table after the game Crystal Palace vs Arsenal: a match overseen by a home team referee. By Tony Attwood We should be clear about what happened last night. Tomiyasu held onto the ball before taking a throw in for eight seconds. Prior to that …
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Crystal Palace v Arsenal: Patrick’s adventures, PSG’s fall Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the Arsenal injuries and the fouls they suffer Crystal Palace vs Arsenal: a match overseen by a home team referee. By Bulldog Drummond A few preliminary bits and bobs from the BBC including the fact that Palace have won their …
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Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the Arsenal injuries and the fouls they suffer Crystal Palace vs Arsenal: a match overseen by a home team referee. Crystal Palace v Arsenal: how the clubs have performed against each other Despite not joining the first division of the Football League until 1969, Crystal Palace and Arsenal …
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Crystal Palace vs Arsenal: a match overseen by a home team referee. Crystal Palace v Arsenal: how the clubs have performed against each other By Bulldog Drummond It is extraordinary how varied the Premier League injury table is at the moment. Among the numbers available over the past weekend we have seen…. Sheffield United: …
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Crystal Palace v Arsenal: how the clubs have performed against each other Transfers: what Arsenal are doing and why it is not working at Chelsea By Bulldog Drummond David Coote is the referee. He awarded the highest number of fouls per tackle in games last season, excluding the three referees who only oversaw …
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Transfers: what Arsenal are doing and why it is not working at Chelsea Why football’s economic model is doomed to failure In Arsenal’s history: Ødegaard signs, Saliba’s first goal, the Bosman ruling. By Bulldog Drummond Last season after two games Arsenal had two wins, had scored six and conceded two, and that left the …
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Why football’s economic model is doomed to failure Does Fifa have the authority to override national laws? It says it does By Tony Attwood There is a suggestion in the Independent that Todd Boehly who owns Chelsea, will spend £1bn on transfers faster than anyone else has ever done. At most it will …
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Where does Arteta rank among Arsenal’s great managers? What does a club need to be successful? There is one magic ingredient By Tony Attwood Fifa’s aim, it says, it is “to protect the integrity of football and prevent abuses” and it started on a grand project under this headline in 2020. This is …
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What does a club need to be successful? There is one magic ingredient In football, one day very soon, the dam is going to burst Supporters, obviously, support. Changing the club one supports is not an option, no matter how badly your side is doing. One might stop going to some of …
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In football, one day very soon, the dam is going to burst Newspaper attacks refs and PGMO, but still refuse to see the main problems Today’s Arsenal anniversaries (and happy birthday Thierry) By Tony Attwood What does a club need to become successful? Of course to an extent that depends on what one …
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Newspaper attacks refs and PGMO, but still refuse to see the main problems Fifa’s new regulations (including its own bank) ruled as illegal in German court By Tony Attwood Last summer Premier League clubs spent £1.91 billion on transfers. That was a third up on the previous transfer window record. Add in the …
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Fifa’s new regulations (including its own bank) ruled as illegal in German court The new reguations coming in that aim to make football more competitive By Sir Hardly Anyone “The time has come for Howard Webb to put blundering referees out to pasture” “The game needs a clear out of blundering referees and those …
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The new regulations coming in that aim to make football more competitive Why Arsenal are planning to vary the team from game to game FIFA’s new Football Agent Regulations, which include within them the rule that all transfers should go through Fifa’s own bank, has been ruled illegal, as reported in the …
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Why Arsenal are planning to vary the team from game to game By Tony Attwood It is self-evident that clubs are paying ever more for the top players they perceive they need, as in the Premier League there is a feeling among at least nine clubs that a top seven finish, and hence …
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Barcelona is in serious financial difficulty, and that could spread across football Arsenal v Forest: watch the whole game again for free Last season Arsenal had a starting lineup for the first game of the season of Aaron Ramsdale Gabriel William Saliba Ben White Granit Xhaka Olexsandr Zinchenko Bukayo Saka Martin Odegaard Thomas Partey Gabriel …
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Arsenal v Forest: watch the whole game again for free Arsenal maintain shooting record; ref ups the ante. By Tony Attwood As the Spanish season got underway at the weekend Barcelona’s preparedness didn’t look too bad despite the fact that they have quite clearly not only run out of money but also …
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Arsenal maintain shooting record; ref ups the ante. Arsenal v Forest Arsenal v Nottingham Forest: the danger of the referee and the Arsenal line up By Sir Hardly Anyone As you may recall the appalling Andy Gray was banned from Sky TV in 2011 for making ludicrous and offensive remarks about women …
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Time added on: how Guardiola and Smith conspired to be quite wrong Why this season will be better than last for Arsenal Arsenal maintained last season’s average and had 15 attempts at goal in that game and dominated the match. So we might have expected more goals, but at least it was a …
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Arsenal injury news ahead of the visit from the Forest Which supporters are the most optimistic for the coming season? Arsenal v Forest: the last six games and unfair ticket allocations Arsenal v Forest: tackles, fouls and yellow cards Arsenal v Nottingham Forest: Can we actually get into the ground? By Bulldog …
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Which supporters are the most optimistic for the coming season? Arsenal v Forest: the last six games and unfair ticket allocations Arsenal v Forest: tackles, fouls and yellow cards Arsenal v Nottingham Forest: Can we actually get into the ground? By Bulldog Drummond Here is the team that played the last game of …
Arsenal v Forest: the last six games and unfair ticket allocations Arsenal v Forest: tackles, fouls and yellow cards Arsenal v Nottingham Forest: Can we actually get into the ground? By Bulldog Drummond The media is of course at this moment full of journalists telling us what is going to happen in …
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Arsenal v Forest: tackles, fouls and yellow cards Arsenal v Nottingham Forest: Can we actually get into the ground? The last six games of last season were not a particularly happy time, and that can be emphasised by the fact that measured by the last six games alone, Nottingham Forest were actually …
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Arsenal v Nottingham Forest: Can we actually get into the ground? Time added on: how Guardiola and Smith conspired to be quite wrong By Bulldog Drummond Sometimes with statistics one has to go exploring to find out if there is a relationship between x and y. Sometimes yes there is, but other times …
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Arsenal’s new entry system Time added on: how Guardiola and Smith conspired to be quite wrong Why this season will be better than last for Arsenal By Tony Attwood Arsenal have introduced a new system of entry into the stadium this season. Although we all still have our season ticket / membership …
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