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
Anything that challenges the current football insanity is better than nothing The incredible renaissance of Granit Xhaka, and how it happened By Bulldog Drummond. On Thursday Arsenal play the second leg of their Europa League battle with Sporting Clube Portugal (also still known in some quarters as Sporting Lisbon), having drawn the first …
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Corruption news: Fifa to face trial on grounds of holding an unreasonable monopoly Why are we against SuperLeague but in favour of foreign ownership and general incompetence The Premier League action against Man City brings Super League ever closer By Sir Hardly Anyone It is tempting to believe that football clubs – especially …
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What happened to the eight PL teams that have changed their managers this season? The league table for the last 16 games, has a few interesting surprises to offer By Nitram The other day I was looking into how Xhaka had managed to get his cards down so dramatically this season, and it …
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Arsenal have had their fair share of players over the years that simply haven’t quite hit the exciting potential that they’ve shown glimpses of. One of the players that fits into that category is Reiss Nelson, and with the 23-year-old being out of contract at the end of the 2022/23 season, it seems …
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The league table for the last 16 games, has a few interesting surprises to offer The referee problem: the difference between incompetence and bias By Tony Attwood Two newspapers in England have recently looked at the issue of sacking football managers. One uses one set of data to say that when there’s a problem …
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The referee problem: the difference between incompetence and bias Did Arsenal want Mykhaylo Mudryk? Have Arsenal really missed Jesus? By Tony Attwood If you are a long-term reader of Untold Arsenal you will know that last season we did something rather different from everyone else in terms of analysing Arsenal’s progress. We argued that …
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Did Arsenal want Mykhaylo Mudryk? Have Arsenal really missed Jesus? Qatar spied on Lauber and Infantino, and why the UK media won’t touch the story By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the most common put-downs that exist in relation to speculative journalism is that the writer is a conspiracy theorist. The notion that …
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Qatar spied on Lauber and Infantino, and why the UK media won’t touch the story Some amazing stats after Sunday’s demolition of Fulham By Tony Attwood The general assumption has been that Arsenal have missed Gabriel Jesus, and that his return as a 77th-minute substitute – his first action since he injured his knee …
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Some amazing stats after Sunday’s demolition of Fulham Fulham v Arsenal: the political fall out and the teams By Tony Attwood This article updated 13 March to correct two errors in terms of locations. Apologies for the errors, According to the Swiss newspaper Le Matin (but not reported in the UK) meetings between …
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Fulham v Arsenal: the political fall out and the teams Fulham v Arsenal: tackles, fouls and yellow cards: surprising statitics indeed By Tony Attwood We don’t have the opportunity to do a detailed write-up on this afternoon’s win, which adds something to everyone else’s commentaries, but we do have a few bits …
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Fulham v Arsenal: tackles, fouls and yellow cards: surprising statitics indeed Fulham v Arsenal, ineligible and injured players, Arsenal’s front line problems Fulham v Arsenal: Recent form, the home/away analysis, and score projections By Bulldog Drummond The game is showing on Sky Sports. It has been announced as being on Radio 5 in …
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Fulham v Arsenal, ineligible and injured players, Arsenal’s front line problems Fulham v Arsenal: Recent form, the home/away analysis, and score projections Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. By Bulldog Drummond Now this might come as a bit of a surprise unless you …
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Fulham v Arsenal: Recent form, the home/away analysis, and score projections By Bulldog Drummond In the last post we noted the fact that Fulham defender Joao Palhinha had knocked up enough yellow cards to bring him an automatic two match ban, and indeed he is serving the second game of the ban for …
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Why is the English football media so in favour of corruption? Why are we against Super League but in favour of foreign ownership and Uefa incompetence? By Bulldog Drummond The tipsters who expected Arsenal to end up 5th or 6th this season also in many cases tipped Fulham to go down. But …
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Why are the media against Super League but in favour of foreign ownership and Uefa incompetence? Corruption news: Fifa to face trial on grounds of holding an unreasonable monopoly By Tony Attwood There has been an investigation going on into the hiring of a private plane to fly Infantino from Central America …
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How can we tell which are the big clubs in the Premier League? (You might be surprised!) Corruption news: Fifa to face trial on grounds of holding an unreasonable monpoly By Sir Hardly Anyone In football we make assumptions. Such as the notion that sacking a failing manager is a good idea. Apparently, …
Corruption news: Fifa to face trial on grounds of holding an unreasonable monpoly By Tony Attwood There is something of a problem with the way both football fans and those who write about football have expectations about football clubs, and what success they might see each year. And I begin to wonder if …
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Corruption news Uefa offer pathetic compensation knowing that the English media is at their command Leader of the anti-super league movement accused of torture and kidnapping By Tony Attwood The latest development began when Barcelona, desperate for money, arranged for the La Liga game between Barcelona and Girona FC to be played in …
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Sporting v Arsenal: injuries, past meetings, current form. Sporting v Arsenal: tackles, fouls and cards – what Arsenal can expect Sporting CP v Arsenal in the Europa. Bellerin, and Sporting chances By Bulldog Drummond “Mikel Arteta will not sacrifice Europa League for Premier League title chase” announced the Guardian, so we can …
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Sporting v Arsenal: tackles, fouls and cards – what Arsenal can expect Sporting CP v Arsenal in the Europa. Bellerin, and Sporting chances By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal are currently facing four injury issues. Gabriel Jesus is said to be about ten days away from a return. Eddie Nketiah is considered as having …
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Arsenal Belgium finally make it back to the Emirates; plus video highlights Sporting CP v Arsenal in the Europa. Bellerin, and Sporting chances By Bulldog Drummond This is the first time we have attempted to compare the stats of Arsenal with those of a team playing in another league. And of course, this comparison …
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Publisher’s note: Untold Arsenal owes an enormous amount to Walter Broeckx, who is himself a referee, and who for many years has not only been a great supporter of our work but who also oversaw the site’s major investigation into the way referees in the Premier League behave. It remains to this date …
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Uefa offer pathetic compensation, knowing that the English media is at their command How best to explain why Arsenal are top of the league By Bulldog Drummond Sporting Clube de Portugal (also known as Sporting CP and Sporting Lisbon but not to be confused with Sporting Braga) who Arsenal play in the …
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How best to explain why Arsenal are top of the league Premier League teams seem to prefer foreign players, no matter what the FA do. By Tony Attwood There is something appallingly inevitable about Uefa saying it will refund Liverpool fans for their tickets after the Champions League final in Paris. Inevitable not just …
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Premier League teams seem to prefer foreign players, no matter what the FA do. Winning the league: the influence of fouls and geography By Tony Attwood It is a bit of a tradition in England to hate maths. As if not being good at maths is something to be proud of perhaps because …
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