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By Tony Attwood According to the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office, four people have been arrested in Brussels as part of the investigation into suspicions of corruption by Qatar in the European Parliament, At least one member of the European Parliament is involved, that being Greek MEP Eva Kaili. There are growing suggestions that the case …
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Arsenal attacking problems: what attacking problems? By Tony Attwood In this analysis, the raw stats are provided by Who Scored while the analysis and comparisons have been undertaken by Untold Arsenal. And what we are looking for are the factors that have helped the current top four in the Premier League (Arsenal, Manchester …
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Does the team that is top after 14 games usually go on to win the league? by Sir Hardly Anyone We now have 44 players reported as being in Arsenal’s sights for a January transfer. The most commonly mentioned players are Mykhaylo Mudryk: 17 listings Danilo: 10 listings Cody Gakpo: 9 listings …
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By Tony Attwood The bad news continues for Arsenal as they risk losing Gabriel Martinelli That comes from a site bearing the “Fansided” logo meaning it is part of the operation of Minute Media based in Chicago. They go on to say, “It’s not looking promising for Arsenal at the moment.” So one may ask, …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Back to the football: Watford video and Arsenal v Lyon 8 December preview The latest news circulating is that, according to the Standard Granit Xhaka has flown straight to Dubai to join Arsenal, after Switzerland were beaten by Portugal in a competition in Qatar. According to a report in English, …
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By Tony Attwood Does the team that is top after 14 games usually go on to win the league? There is a really interesting piece on SportsMole – a site we often quote when it comes to the prediction of the teams for a game. It opens… “Barring an early EFL Cup exit to …
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Will Arsenal win the league this season? The simple statistic that shows that Arsenal are on course to win the league Are Arsenal really playing like a title winning team in attack and defence? By Tony Attwood The news about Gabriel Jesus needing an operation means that the regular anti-Arsenal media have …
Read More “It never rains but the journalists want Arsenal to drown in a mess of their own making”
How much have Arsenal’s rivals spent on transfers in recent years? By Bulldog Drummond The second Arsenal game since the 0-2 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 12 November takes place at 3.30pm this Thursday. The media are already setting up their Arsenal Crisis story with headlines about Arsenal having been beaten in first …
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Gabriel injury: why no replacement is needed by Sir Hardly Anyone Here they are, the six most reported players in relation to moves to Arsenal in January. You can read the details about all of them below. So if you think that journalists talking about the same transfer over and over means the …
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The 37 players tipped to be coming to Arsenal this January By Sir Hardly Anyone The Gabriel injury has been something that the media has been desperately waiting for. Having universally predicted a season of failure for Arsenal they have ceaselessly been playing catch-up through the season as Arsenal have fulfilled the promise …
How much does a club have to spend on transfers to get a trophy? By Tony Attwood The latest financial figures from Arsenal show that for the year ending in May 2022 Arsenal made an operating loss of £45.5 million, down from a loss of £107.3 million the year before. This was the …
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WSL 2022-23 Arsenal v Everton – Match Preview by Andrew Crawshaw Brought forward a day, to allow more preparation time for our Thursday evening Champions League game against Juventus, Arsenal Women take on Everton at Borehamwood on Saturday afternoon with a 14.00 kickoff. arsenal.com are covering the game live with a broadcast starting at 13:00 …
Are Arsenal really playing like a title winning team in attack and defence? By Sir Hardly Anyone With Arsenal knocking copy in short supply there have been a few pieces of late in which websites have turned on Edu (who is generally considered the star of the show by a lot of the …
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Does the team that is top after 14 games usually go on to win the league? By Tony Attwood Consider Manchester United. Once they had Matt Busby as manager and he won five league titles, two FA Cups and a European Cup over a period of 24 years. And then years after crowing …
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Does the team that is top after 14 games usually go on to win the league? By Tony Attwood The impact of a new stadium on a club has been one of my favourite themes across the years of Untold not least because I think it is one of those little things that …
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How much does a club have to spend on transfers to get a trophy? By Tony Attwood If you have ever thought that big football clubs are too big to fail, consider the case of Juventus. The club finished fourth in Serie A last season and made a £220m loss – which is …
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31 players tipped to be coming to Arsenal in January and the major culprits By Tony Attwood In the table below I’ve collected the amount of money spent on transfers less the amount received on player sales, and then looked at the number of major trophies each club has got. Of course, there …
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The simple statistic that shows that Arsenal are on course to win the league By Tony Attwood We have of late looked at the current Premier League table from various points of view – for example comparing what teams that have been top of the table after 14 games in recent …
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Beyond any doubt Infantino is getting his way. Next: Fifa will leave Zurich By Tony Attwood The Taliban (or to give it, its official title, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a militant Islamic political movement ruling about 75% of Afghanistan. As such it is not normally a topic of conversation on Untold Arsenal, except …
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How the value of Arsenal’s squad has increased more than any other club this season By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the really interesting things that emerges from the current round of stories about football transfers is the number of times publications are re-running the same story, quite often without any reference to …
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You can find an index to our latest articles according to topic on the home page Fifa claim the right to change the rules of football as they go England’s team being targetted by foreign referees? Why is no one laughing? by Tony Attwood As we have so often pointed out, Fifa, or …
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Fifa claim the right to change the rules of football as they go England’s team being targetted by foreign referees? Why is no one laughing? by Tony Attwood A journalist from “L’Équipe,” the major French sports newspaper, reports that he was able to go into the England v Iran game without …
Being against the Qatar world cup is not prejudice and bias. It is a perfectly reasonable stance By Tony Attwood Football has for many years made a virtue of the simplicity of its rules. Even the notorious off-side rule, which in days of yore was noted as the reason for not having women …
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By Tony Attwood 31 players tipped to be coming to Arsenal in January and the major culprits We are used to the notion that fourth is not a trophy, but the idea that the FA Cup is not a major trophy is new. But that is what Just Arsenal is proposing when they say “Arteta …
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Untold Arsenal: Very much NOT the World Cup Then and Now: How Arsenal 2022 compare with the Invincibles What would the league table look like without VAR? How the value of Arsenal’s squad has increased more than any other club this season Arsenal pre-part 2 tournament and the return of football By Sir …
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