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
How Arsenal were robbed by VAR, and the forthcoming transfers By Tony Attwood The story that something in football is corrupt is an easy one to write and an easy one to dismiss. One simply picks on a set of circumstances that look unlikely or too coincidental to be real and say, “this couldn’t happen …
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by Tony Attwood Why Arsenal need more players Fifa has published a report pointing out the increase in the number of insults that footballers are victims on social networks during international competitions, and as a result has presented a plan to fight the problem. (There’s not much on it in the English media, but European …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone So who is buying whom thus far among the big boys? Here are the details Club In Cost Out Income Profit/Loss Arsenal Vieira, Turner, Marquinhos £42m Guendouzi, Mavraponos, Lacazette £12nm -£30m Chelsea None None 0 Liverpool Núñez, Carvalho, Ramsay £76m Mané £28m -£48m Manchester C Haaland £52m Bazunu, Porro £19m -£33m Manchester …
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How spend-spend-spend led to Barcelona’s collapse by Bulldog Drummond Because of the break during this season to play the world cup, fixtures in the premier league are being moved around to accommodate Fifa’s demands. What’s more, Arsenal will have to be nine extra games between the start of the season on Friday 13th August through …
by Tony Attwood Before Messi left Barcelona, the club president Joan Laporta revealed that the club had debts of around £1.13bn. Which is pretty remarkable, especially since Barcelona had just become the first club to get close to a turnover of £1bn. Debts by and large are paid out of profits. Profits are generally a …
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Publisher’s note: sincere apologies for Untold being off line over the weekend and into monday morning. And thank you to everyone who expressed concerns and best wishes in relation to our attempts to get it back up. I have to admit I did nothing – had I touched anything it would only have made it …
By Tony Attwood What went wrong for Arsenal last season? First of course the apologies for the inconvenience you’ve probably been caused by the tech failure on Untold over the last couple of days. It was bad enough by itself, but made worse as it happened exactly when our IT colleague had a couple of …
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Thank you to everyone who has been in touch over the technical failures of Untold. We have tried to pull things back together for the moment to give access to the site but I am aware that there are still problems and I fear these won’t be fully fixed until Monday. But because the list …
By Bulldog Drummond The Platini / Blatter / Fifa court case has just exploded A summary in the Telegraph of Arsenal’s position last season sets the prognosis for the coming campaign out in typical doom-laden tones… “Arsenal scored fewer goals than eighth-placed Leicester City last season, and were eight goals behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur at …
Why Arsenal does indeed need Fábio Vieira right now On the Guardian website at the moment there is a 1000 word article: Football’s boos problem: why are we so quick to turn on our own team? It is written by Paul MacInnes who is defined as a “reporter for the Guardian” and it goes through …
Media changing its tune over Arsenal? By Sir Hardly Anyone It appears that we have just bought a new Vieira (oh, oh). This one being Fábio Vieira from Porto. And lots of people are saying he is a jolly good player, which is rather nice. Although not a massively experienced player, which means he …
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Arsenal have signed their third player No club ended the season in the place it occupied after three games. by Tony Attwood As we know, at the heart of football journalism is the media’s vision of fans as people with very little brain. So little brain that the media assumes that most fans are willing …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. “Reportedly expected to be a transfer target”. Great Arsenal excitement Who starts the transfer rumours and why are they inventing more and more? According to the Guardian Arsenal have signed the 19-year-old Brazilian forward Marquinhos – described by Edu as a “player for the future” – and the more backup goalkeeper Matt …
The Platini / Blatter / Fifa court case has just exploded by El Buldog Rodríguez La Liga reports Manchester City As has been anticipated for a little while, La Liga now has formally complained to Uefa regarding Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, claiming each of the clubs are in “continuous breach” of financial fair play …
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By Tony Attwood SWITZERLAND, FIFA AND THE CROOKS. HAVE THEY ALL BEEN INVOLVED IN ANYTHING ELSE? Yesterday, the Swiss trial about a two-million-franc payment between Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini which the pair say was made for work undertaken, but which prosecutors claim to be fraud, exploded. The story is not in the English media …
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Can football stop hooliganism? By Tony Attwood This is more dangerous than Super League Once upon a time most Football League games ended with a ptich invasion. It was largely a case in the 1960s of children and teenagers running on the pitch at the final whistle, some to get autographs, some just because they …
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By Tony Attwood Marquinhos joins from Sao Paulo: words and videos According to an article in Le Matin the Spanish Football League has filed a complaint in relation to Erling Haaland’s transfer to Manchester City during the past week, and is about to file another such complaint against Kylian Mbappé’s extension of his contract with Paris …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Marquinhos joins from Sao Paulo: words and videos These two headlines published by the same mass circulation newspaper on its website within a couple of hours of each other, tell you pretty much how the media works… Arsenal transfer round-up Bukayo Saka talks ‘stall’ amid fresh Gabriel Jesus blow (Daily Mirror 9 …
by Tony Attwood Supporting Arsenal: it’s a two-way affair Arsenal confirm the signing of 19-year-old Brazilian forward Marquinhos from São Paulo ⚡ (via @Sudamericana)pic.twitter.com/EjgLkb3Der — B/R Football (@brfootball) June 13, 2022 Marquinhos (not to be confused with the captain of PSG and Brazil who plays as a defender) has joined Arsenal from the Brazilian club …
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By Tony Attwood If you have been with Untold Arsenal for more than a day you’ll have noticed the radical change to the website that happened today, 13 June 2022. We’ve been working on this for a while, primarily from the point of view of taking us into the 21st century and making the …
By Tony Attwood Fouls, penalties and free kicks: there’s something odd going on somewhere Multiple tackles, fewer fouls The initial reason that Untold started looking into the issue of tackles, fouls and yellow cards was because the figures Leicester City got were so very different from Arsenal’s. So here’s another look at our …
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By Tony Attwood How referees punish Arsenal Why cutting tackles is the policy of the top clubs We have for several years postulated that some Premier League clubs worked hard to keep the number of tackles down because tackles so regularly result in a foul, which of course gives the advantage to the opposition. Arsenal …
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Why are WHU players fouled so rarely and Villa players fouled so often? By Tony Attwood In December 2020 Untold ran the story, Leicester heading for all-time record number of penalties, which pointed out that they had already got nine penalties awarded in their favour. As we said at that point, because of the late …
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by Tony Attwood Amazingly, in 2020/1 the more clubs tackled, the more goals they let in! Aston Villa were the most fouled club in the Premier League last season with players from the opposition committing 512 fouls against them in the Leaguem. Meanwhile West Ham were the least fouled club with just 292 fouls …
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By Tony Attwood The killer stat that held Arsenal back in 2021/22 As things stand it seems that Arsenal are focussing their transfer efforts on getting the Manchester City forward Gabriel Jesus, the Leicester City midfielder Youri Tielemans and the Manchester City defensive midfielder / defender, Oleksandr Zinchenko again from Manchester City. In terms of …
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