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
The headline says it all. Arsenal are the only team who can stop Manchester City’s title procession The strength of the headline in the Telegraph is somewhat undermined by the sentence that opens the article, which asks the question, “Are Arsenal already the only team who can stop Manchester City from winning a fifth Premier …
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8 October: Arsenal’s first trophy winning captain makes final appearance By Bulldog Drummond Liverpool find themselves in flux, according to the Guardian, and that is what their results of late show. Of the last ten games this season (three in the Champions’ League, seven in the Premier League) Liverpool have won just four, drawn four …
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How the media got their predictions so wrong, but no one apologised. Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. By Bulldog Drummond Before each game we generally have a look at the merits of each team in terms of the relevant home …
by Tony Attwood Is the team that passes the most, the team that gets the best results? 7 October: Arsenal purchase a musical hall star! We were lucky. National Rail were lucky. There ought to be a thorough investigation. There won’t be. And even if there were no one will be found to have acted …
Read More “A stroll in the park; National Rail lunacy at the station. Arsenal v Bodø/Glimt”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal squad for Europa League game Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year To begin with the headline and the toothbrush, we have mentioned this before, but if you want a good bit of background then you can find it all here. The long …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year By Bulldog Drummond For the last Europa League game the team Arsenal put out was… Turner Tomiyasu Holding Gabriel Tierney Vieira Lokonga Xhaka Marquinhos Nketiah Martinelli On the bench we had Ramsdale, Hein, White, Saka, Odegaard, Jesus, Saliba, Zinchenko, Cirjan, Smith, …
By Tony Attwood There is no point me covering in any detail the recent reports on the sexual abuse of female footballers. Others with more knowledge of the issue and access to those who suffered can do this far better than I can – and they are doing exactly that. If you want to read …
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Is the team that passes the most, the team that gets the best results? By Bulldog Drummond Before we get too carried away with thinking that this is going to be a walkover match against Bodo/Glimt, (“Glimt” means “Flash”) on the grounds that they are Norwegian and have a funny name, we might remember that …
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By Tony Attwood The CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post this week analyses InStat data on passes for 1,226 teams worldwide. And in this analysis, Manchester City leads the table with 754 passes attempted per domestic league game and 90.8% of them are successful. So one immediately leaps to the conclusion that passing is indeed good …
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How the media got their predictions so wrong, but no one apologised. By Tony Attwood It seems that football loves simple solutions. Take the notion of the long ball game. The theory that clubs that played the long ball did well, was developed by an amateur statistician Charles Reep who took the simple …
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Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. By Tony Attwood Antonio Conte made an interesting point commenting of the Tottenham red card, as reported by the BBC. “In England it is very difficult…. Sometimes you see a situation that could be …
Death by 300,000 passes: how the Arsenal transformation started 2 seasons ago. By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Tottenham was a truly wonderful experience inside the stadium. The club has done more than ever before to bring supporters together and get a belief in the side going. The singing of “North London Forever” immediately before …
Read More “Arsenal played against the media, the ref and Tottenham, and still won”
by Bulldog Drummond So we have injury doubts about Thomas Partey, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Takehiro Tomiyasu while Kieran Tierney may be available, Martin Odegaard is expected back and Reiss Nelson either is or is not recovered from his long-term injury – the media finds it difficult to agree. Emile Smith Rowe is now, like Mohamed …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham update, team news and appalling, flagrant media bias”
Are you qualified to give an opinion on football? By Bulldog Drummond What with Arsenal being top of the league, the media men and women have been forced to look for novel ways of knocking the club ahead of the game against Tottenham, and to do this they’ve hit on another old favourite: …
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Does Arsenal really have a mega injury crisis ahead of Tottenham game? By Bulldog Drummond In the last article we looked at the historic differences between the clubs. But now let’s see what the clubs have been doing this season. We know that Tottenham have one point less than Arsenal but are one …
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By Bulldog Drummond Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Death by 300,000 passes: how the Arsenal transformation started 2 seasons ago. No matter how you measure it, when it comes to Arsenal and Tottenham, Arsenal are always on top. Of the league (including the early leagues both teams …
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By Tony Attwood Back in July (which was only two months ago, honest) we ran the headline Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? The answer we gave was that the media don’t do statistics. If they did they would have seen that for the last 35 games of last season …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood As we are about to play Tottenham I thought it might be nice to …
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An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. By Tony Attwood Many would say that I am most certainly not qualified to give an opinion on football, given that I have neither played for nor managed any football club at any level. And yet I carry on offering my …
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By Tony Attwood Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories At the start of this season the Sun ran the headline “Arsenal injury concerns over Ben White”. In fact nothing was wrong and the player played in all the opening games of the …
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Reports of Arsenal being in breach of FFP rules turn out to be make believe Arsenal told they’ve “lost their soul” in damning verdict This extraordinary comment appeared today in the Daily Mirror’s online site and it raises two questions. One is whether it is fair to say that Arsenal have “lost their soul”, …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal are the most fouled team in the Premier League. Why? We have been accepting for some time that Arsenal has the youngest team in the league – but of course much depends on how you measure the youngest team. So for example, do you take the first team squad, or the …
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by Tony Attwood This set of data for shots and fouls per game comes from WhoScored and it shows that Arsenal are the most fouled team in the Premier League this season. The final columns looking at the relationship are added by Untold. This is, I believe, the first time this data has ever been …
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How the media always knocks Arsenal, but ignores England’s failures. By Sir Hardly Anyone “Mikel Arteta should heed “dangerous” verdict in the wake of fresh Thomas Partey setback” That is a headline that looks really worrying. In reading it you perhaps had already heard that Partey, despite being troubled by injury, was not only called …
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By Tony Attwood Left has never been stronger at Arsenal FC! England have just been relegated to Group B in the European nations’ league system that I can’t remember the name of. And no one is making much of a fuss. The Guardian for example discuss the matter by saying, ” What should we reasonably – …
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