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 Arsenal v the chaos club. Hello Villareal Fifa, Uefa and FA are not above the law after all. Given Villareal’s record in recent years, it may come as a surprise to realise that Arsenal have only beaten Villareal twice in six competitive matches. However, if we just look at the Champions …
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Fifa, Uefa and FA are not above the law after all. Pre-season is about tactics, and liaison with foreign fans, not about winning By Tony Attwood Villareal ended last season in fifth place in the Spanish League, 18 points behind Barcelona who were of course, followed by Real Madrid, and Atletico Madrid, …
Pre-season is about tactics, and liaison with foreign fans, not about winning How the media create fantasy stories in order to talk down Arsenal By Tony Attwood As we have often noted in the past, it is a fundamental of the Football Association that football is above the law. It makes its own …
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How the media create fantasy stories in order to talk down Arsenal Why some people just can’t understand what pre-season games are all about= As I have already pointed out, pre-season matches are not about winning, but about bedding new players in and making sure that the new players start to get used …
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Why some people just can’t understand what pre-season games are all about Premier League introduces Extra Access to players. But will we even notice? By Tony Attwood There is a line in the Guardian’s preview of Arsenal for the season that says that “there remain concerns about a lack of creativity in the …
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Premier League introduces Extra Access to players. But will we even notice? When they are talking about you in Europe, you know you have arrived by Tony Attwood There is a growing anger in the Arsenal fan base. It is not shared among those who gather data and ideas for Untold Arsenal, nor …
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Media finally starts to realise: Arsenal are being screwed by referees Do Arsenal need to sell before buying any more players? By Tony Attwood We will be seeing some innovations in the 2025/26 season and there is no doubt that the broadcasters will be pitching them as “revolutionary.” Not because they …
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Tottenham: better than Arsenal? Or is football teetering on the brink? Media finally starts to realise: Arsenal are being screwed by referees By Tony Attwood One of the great points about Arsenal giving Max Dowman outings with the first team in the pre-season tour, is often overlooked in commentaries, but it is real all the …
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By Tony Attwood The point was put to me yesterday that “in recent years” Tottenham have done better in the league than Arsenal. That didn’t feel right to me so I went and looked, and being an honest chap, I then had to admit I was wrong. Or looked at differently, right. Across the …
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Do Arsenal need to sell before buying any more players? Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice) By Tony Attwood We’ve written a lot about penalties in recent times, so it is nice to see at last that the BBC has picked up on the issue of just what is going …
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Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice) As supporters, do we support everything or do we criticise and petition? By Tony Attwood Mikel Arteta has, as I am sure you will know, signed six players for fees this summer, the fees ranging from a small amount to lots. Here’s the …
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Celebrating 100 consecutive seasons of Arsenal in the top division Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice) By Tony Attwood It is thoroughly boring the hear the ceaseless moaning of some anti-Arsenalistas that Arsenal is a South London club. But if we have to hear them, we must also accept (as was …
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Women’s football: now everyone wants to know Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice) By Tony Attwood Arsenal play Tottenham Hotspur in their next pre-season “friendly” and it is interesting in the build-up to be reminded of just how Tottenham Hotspur ended last season. They were of course, on two different trajectories …
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By Christophe Jost I remember a few years back UA being the only place, or one of the only places, were Arsenal’s women’s team games were reported on, with attendances of a few hundred people. I mean…just think about that for a minute… a few years ago. And now…look at what happened…. just …
The last time Arsenal came 2nd three seasons running, they won the league Celebrating 100 consecutive seasons of Arsenal in the top division By Tony Attwood Although it is true that the Arsenal has worken up a little to the fact that the fortccoming season marks the 100th anniversary of the arrival of …
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Why Arsenal are going to have a really tough time of it this season The problem with counting the number of homegrown players in Europe By Tony Attwood Supporters can sometimes be very critical of the club they support – that’s obvious – although Arsenal supporters do on occasion seem to take it …
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What this summer’s signings imply for Arsenal’s goal scoring potential The problem with counting the number of home grown players in Europe By Tony Attwood There was a story circulating just recently that noted that “Newcastle’s Alexander Isak [has been] offered £600,000-a-week tax-free deal by Al-Hilal”. The suggestion was that the …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Newcastle today at 1230 – available on your computer The problem with counting the number of home grown players in Europe Because the media never touch the issue, there is a general assumption that all Premier League clubs are treated pretty much the same way by the opposition …
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The problem with counting the number of home grown players in Europe Up and down we go. Does the yoyo effects between the leagues matter? By Tony Attwood Arsenal have now signed Viktor Gyökeres, Martín Zubimendi, Noni Madueke, Cristhian Mosquera, Christian Nørgaard, Kepa Arrizabalaga, and Marcell Washington. That is seven players totalling …
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Up and down we go. Does the yoyo effects between the leagues matter? Are Arsenal spending the most or lagging behind in the transfer market? By Tony Attwood It’s Arsenal so the Big Boys of the media don’t really want to know – but as with the last friendly game, you can watch …
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Up and down we go. Does the yoyo effects between the leagues matter? Are Arsenal spending the most or lagging behind in the transfer market? By Tony Attwood According to the New York Times website the Arsenal forward Noni Madueke has just been reclassified as a ‘homegrown’ player. And I am not …
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After 100 years in the first division: the advent of two men for each position Arsenal sign a new striker: will he be able to do in England what he did in Europe? By Tony Attwood In the last four years, Burnley have been promoted twice and relegated twice. The difference between …
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After 100 years in the first division: the advent of two men for each position Arsenal sign a new striker: will he be able to do in England what he did in Europe? By Tony Attwood And in addition to that question in the headline, does it matter? Now there is one factor …
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100 consecutive seasons in the first division: An Arsenal record and a football record The58 players Arsenal are currently chasing; 10 new and updated reports By Tony Attwood You might be excused for not knowing, because the media utterly refuse to mention such things in relation to Arsenal, but the forthcoming season not …
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The58 players Arsenal are currently chasing; 10 new and updated reports How big transfer spending is usually good for clubs – but not immediately By Tony Attwod Viktor Gyökeres has always been a special case in terms of his transfer, simply because as we have noted in many previous articles, he scored …
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