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 There once was a time when Arsenal was revered as the best team in the country. In fact there was more than one time. And yet somehow of late it seemed to slip away. Last season’s fifth position was indeed an improvement on coming 8th (twice) – our worst position since …
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PREMIER LEAGUE DEBTS HAVE SURGED TO WHAT LOOK LIKE DANGEROUS PROPORTIONS by Bulldog Drummond A comparison between Arsenal and Wolverhampton is telling… Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 13 11 1 1 31 11 20 34 19 Wolverhampton Wanderers 14 2 4 8 8 22 -14 10 …
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By Tony Attwood The notion that football should have an independent regulator is something that we have been pounding away at for some time. The most recent piece on this site was The scandal of the lack of medical records in football in which we looked at the fact that when a young player is injured, …
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By Bulldog Drummond The story so far… Arsenal v Brighton: videos of games from the past. Arsenal v Brighton: the astounding advantage Brighton bring into this game Arsenal v Brighton: how things have moved on since 9 April And so we come to the time for the team news. The Daily Mirror offers us Turner; Cedric, …
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by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Brighton: how things have moved on since 9 April In 2010/11 – just 12 seasons ago – Brighton and Hove Albion were in League One, and won the title. They remained in the Championship until 2016/17 when they came second in that season and gained promotion to the Premier League. …
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Arsenal v Brighton: how things have moved on since 9 April By Bulldog Drummond With this match being a League Cup affair it is possible that either or both sides will put out some reserve or junior players for the event, but I feel it is still worth looking at he tackles, fouls …
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By Bulldog Drummond Momentum is building in media to get Arteta banned from the touchline The phrase “thick and fast” as in the comment “the games are coming thick and fast” hardly bears logical scrutiny – how can games be thick, although “fast” might just about describe the fact that Arsenal are playing twice a …
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By Tony Attwood Now here is a very interesting story about Fifa. It’s all over the European press, but not being touched in England because… well, you know, it shows Fifa in a bad light and our media don’t want to do that because we are bidding once again for international …
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How Uefa and PSG have taken control, and fooled all of football By Tony Attwood Tottenham Hotspur supporters gave Arsenal a real boost this weekend through the simple expedient of booing their own team. The Tottenham manager responded by arguing, “Spurs deserved a point” and added that Tottenham fans have to understand that …
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The simple tactic Arsenal and Man C use to defeat the opposition time and again By Tony Attwood Here’s the updated Big 7 table, showing as before, the points per game in the final column in order to accommodate the fact that the number of games played between the teams varies between …
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The simple tactic Arsenal and Man C use to defeat the opposition time and again Arsenal’s shocking failure on 3 November will live long in the memory By Tony Attwood Here’s the league table: where else should we start? Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 13 …
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Tackles, fouls and yellow cards: Chelsea three times dirtier than Man City By Bulldog Drummond ‘We’re third, we can’t be that bad’ That is the wonderful headline about Tottenham Hotspur in the Guardian today. To which I suppose the Arsenal response is, “no, you are not THAT bad. But not quite as good …
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Chelsea v Arsenal, Sunday at noon. Two teams evenly matched. By Bulldog Drummond And so moving on to comparing the tackles, fouls and yellow cards of Arsenal and Chelsea, and comparing these with Manchester City who tend to tackle and foul less than anyone (according to referees) and Leeds United who tend to …
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The 8 serious refereeing failings that are corrupting the Premier League by Bulldog Drummond Of course we should be clear, there is no reason why any referee should favour either team. And we have no direct evidence that any referee is biased. But we do see some very curious figures when we …
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Creating Arsenal’s most famous back four By Bulldog Drummond. This is where yer amateur writer says “the games are coming thick and fast for Arsenal” but of course we would not indulge in anything so simplistic. No indeed! We will in fact perhaps say that there seem to be an awful lot of …
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How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. by Tony Attwood Today I stumbled across an article with the headline A misguided pre-season tour, tactical muddles and transfer failings have left Jurgen Klopp with serious questions to answer at Anfield… In the past it would have been written about …
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The Europa League: our most successful manager and who we can play in the next round By Tony Attwood The Europa League games are part of the season ticket package, although the three group-stage home matches clearly don’t excite everyone who has paid their money in advance. Some put their seat …
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Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. By Bulldog Drummond Here’s the simple rule of journalism in relation to Arsenal. If the club are perceived as doing badly then the manager is “under threat” and “being questioned”. After that has been run a few …
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Arsenal get seven in Europe – watch the video 3 November – it’s Ian Wright’s birthday By Tony Attwood There was a time in October when a couple of Arsenal results led to commentators suggesting that Arsenal’s rise to the top of the league was over. The bubble we were told had …
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The Europa League: our most successful manager and who we can play in the next round By Tony Attwood When it comes to pointing out the latest load of codswallop from the perfidious English media, Untold Arsenal is quite often not only in the lead but often we are simply out there on …
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Since Arsenal last played Zurich, they’ve turned themselves around. A bit. By Bulldog Drummond There is still quite a way to go in terms of knowing which teams have qualified for the next rounds of the Europa League. So far just four teams have already made it to the round of 16, and as a …
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The “big 7” mini league – how the top teams are doing against each other By Bulldog Drummond FC Zurich have played nine matches in October and have finally they won a league match, beating FC Sion 1-0 away. And amazingly they have also won a Europa League game beating Bodo Glimt 2-1 …
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Why predicting football is about looking at trends, not individual games by Tony Attwood The story that Arsenal had a horror opening fixture list, started before the fixtures were even announced, with the Sun coming out with a catastrophically inaccurate “leaked” (ie made-up) fixture list for the new season. Indeed this “leaked fixture …
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Qatar World Cup 2022 – Qatar travel advice – GOV.UK IF ALL LIVES MATTER, IF SLAVERY IS UNACCEPTABLE, WHAT IS THE FA DOING ABOUT QATAR? “The mandatory COVID app for the Qatar World Cup is basically government-sponsored spyware.” That is a prime fact of going to Qatar and watching the world cup, or indeed using …
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What’s best in the PL: one top scorer or several high scorers? By Tony Attwood The Athletic in its Daily Football Briefing for 31 October 2022 is running a piece which begins, “One year ago yesterday, Tottenham Hotspur were beaten by Manchester United.” They then add that the defeat was “so humiliating that Daniel Levy …
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