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
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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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 Admir Pajić Pundits from TalkSport can’t stop looking for reasons to make Mikel Arteta look like …
By Tony Attwood The ability of English commentators on football, be they professional or amateur, to kid themselves about what is happening around them, is overwhelming. For it is not just one thing that is seriously wrong with professional football in England, but a whole raft of issues. And yet they miss the lot! So …
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By Tony Attwood We recently ran the article: Do Uefa need a new Gazprom which suggested that given that the west is dramatically cutting its gas purchases from Russia, Gazprom’s sponsorship looks both inappropriate and financially unviable. Indeed Gazprom (based in Putin’s home town) has been the sponsor of the European Championship, the Nations League, …
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By Tony Attwood A continuous theme on Untold Arsenal is that there are a whole load of things that are very wrong with football. In fact, so many things are so wrong that it is not unreasonable to say we are being conned. There are, for example, the outrageous comments of football commentators with stories …
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By Tony Attwood and a calculator* Arsenal’s declared aim this season was to get into the top four and so once again start earning the fortunes that arise from the Champions League for next season. Anything beyond that would be a bonus. This might now seem to represent a rather modest ambition, or indeed a …
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By Tony Attwood Note: Raw data used in this article is taken from Who Scored and the Premier League website We have often looked at how different referees have different ways of handling matches. And indeed it looks like this season will be no different, meaning that in part, how well a club does in …
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Arsenal FC is one of the most successful and well-known football clubs in the world. Over the years, it has had some of the best managers in the business. It is clear that Arsenal FC has been lucky to have some great managers throughout its history. These managers have helped the club achieve tremendous success, …
by Tony Attwood A lot of football commentary these days is about mind reading, and unfortunately, most of the journalists and quasi-journalists who indulge in it are not very adept as telepaths. Take for example the decision to give Ethan Nwaneri a quick burst of fame by making him the youngest player ever to play …
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By Tony Attwood Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? There is a piece in the Guardian today which says, “The bond the match-going contingent shares with his players feels stronger than with any Arsenal team for many a year.” Maybe that’s so, although it seems rather a simplistic and possibly …
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When did Arsenal last have 18+ points from 7 games – and what happened? Comparing 2022/3 to Wenger’s title seasons: more points, more goals, more wins by Tony Attwood Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal this season 7 6 0 1 17 7 10 18 1 Manchester …
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By Tony Attwood Quote of the weekend: Garth Crooks on Granit Xhaka: “On his day he’s a very good player. He should have left Arsenal years ago.” I thought we might continue our earlier thoughts (Comparing 2022/3 to Wenger’s title seasons: more points, more goals, more wins) by tracing back how Arsenal were doing after …
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By Tony Attwood Last season I wrote a series of articles which wondered where Arsenal would be in the league if the club hadn’t had that awful start of three consecutive defeats at the start of the season. Those three defeats are still mentioned by the media – they were even part of …
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By Tony Attwood After five straight wins the first defeat is bound to bring some nervousness among the fans if not the players – and certainly there didn’t seem to be any sign of uncertainty among the players at all. It was as if they knew they were vastly superior to everyone else and that …
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By Bulldog Drummond The story so far… Brentford against the big six; Arsenal against the smaller 14 Arsenal is running the smallest squad in the PL. Is that good or bad? Arsenal are the most fouled team in the Premier League Zinchenko joins injury list as Arsenal prepare to play its bogey club. …
By Bulldog Drummond Last season Brentford won two of their 12 matches against the traditional “big six,” drew two and lost nine – there were 13 games all told as Brentford played Chelsea in the league cup as well as the league. Removing this league cup game from the tally it is a case of …
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. Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? Arsenal told they’re five players off mounting title challenge In our first article in this series we opened with an examination of the argument that having a small squad in the Premier League is not a clever idea since clubs need …
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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 Bulldog Drummond We now have available once more that most curious of information: the data concerning how often each …
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