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 I am sure you will be as impressed as I have been, by Arsenal’s recovery from the start of the season and the club’s ability to handle the mindless assault on all aspects of the club, to which the media subjected Arsenal. So you’ll probably know the current top of the league …
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By Tony Attwood Why are so many sports administrators corrupt or incompetent or both? Wholesale mega corruption in football (part 2) In recent articles (linked above), I have been trying to show what has happened to world sport, by briefly suggesting that there are difficulties within the committees and organisations running the Olympics, the World …
Read More “Why is it that the media will not cover the corruption in football.”
By Tony Attwood Recently we asked: Why are so many sport administrators corrupt or incompetent or both? That question can’t be answered in full, although we will be trying to give some answers in the coming days, but before that, we have other matters to consider such as the awarding of the 2022 World Cup, …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Aubameyang made his final appearance for Arsenal on 6 December 2021 for the away game at Everton, which Arsenal lost, 2-1. Arsenal at this point were seventh in the league – with none of the games in hand that were subsequently to become our hallmark. We were four points behind West …
Read More “Was it really helpful to get Aubameyang out of the squad in December?”
by Tony Attwood OK we’ve never done this before (as far as I remember, although as we have published over 11,000 articles I may well have forgotten and as I write this I am taking the first sip of Australian red while planning to spend the evening in, so that will not enhance my memory …
Read More “An Untold Arsenal preview: Tottenham v Everton. With bias.”
By Tony Attwood In the world of big sport there have traditionally been four big organisations. The Olympic Committee, Uefa, Fifa and the Court of Arbitration in Sport And all have something in common beyond the fact that they are involved in sport. All have demanded that they are totally independent of individual countries, and …
Read More “Why are so many sports administrators corrupt or incompetent or both?”
By Tony Attwood FURIOUS Arsenal fans blocked Mikel Arteta’s car and told him to “do yourself a favour” and leave the club after Sunday’s 2-0 loss to Chelsea. That was the headline in the Sun earlier this season while the Mirror weighed in with “Arsenal set Mikel Arteta sack deadline.” Even the bookies got involved …
Read More “Across the last quarter of the season, Arsenal are top of the Premier League”
By Bulldog Drummond It is seemingly impossible to find any commentator who is not expecting an Arsenal win, although the BBC tries to find some Watfordian hope by noting that Watford “have only lost one of their last three home matches versus the Gunners.” But they do also admit that “have scored in all 15 …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal – the Arsenal team and the youngest team of the season”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have played Watford just 33 times in competitive league and cup matches, winning 19, drawing two and losing 12. It was in the 1980s that Watford left their mark on Arsenal, the two sides playing 13 games against each other (12 in the league, one in the FA Cup). Quite amazingly …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal. The history, and the way the media is changing its view of Arsenal”
By Bulldog Drummond Previously: Watford v Arsenal: Are Arsenal up for sale as well? Watford v Arsenal: we could be back in fourth at the end of the weekend The tackles and yellow card data that we use throughout the season come from the Premier League’s website. The Premier League website does actually have an …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: Tackles, fouls and yellows, and the strange way referees react”
By Bulldog Drummond There’s a very interesting little note in the “Reading the game” Newsletter from the Independent. On the subject of takeovers, Arsenal are seen as the only club in the Premier League who are absolutely not for sale. The article claims that the Kroenkes see the whole project as too valuable to their …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: Are Arsenal up for sale as well?”
By Bulldog Drummond It seems centuries since we last had a game, but here we are again playing Watford – the team with the worst home record in the league. Arsenal have an average away record, but as you would expect (if you have been paying attention) Arsenal now have two away games in hand …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: we could be back in fourth at the end of the weekend”
By Tony Attwood Last November, Football.london, told us that Chelsea could spend £241m in the winter transfer window while remaining inside the financial fair play restrictions. It seemed a huge amount of money, but of course I always have complete confidence in Football London as a source and the ability of FFP to keep matters …
Read More “How might the sale of Chelsea proceed? An Untold perspective.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the more bonkers approaches by the trash-media these days is that the transfer is the thing. The transfer in short is far more important than the performance of the football club on the pitch in terms of team selection, how well a club is doing in the league overall, …
Read More “That one Arsenal transfer tale the media refuse to let go of”
By Tony Attwood The Premier League official referees index does not indicate which FA Association the referees on the Premier League’s books are associated with. Indeed in the officially published logs there is no record of where the referee has come from at all. Which is an interesting oversight, because I am sure many fans …
Read More “Why do the refs come from the north when the clubs come from the south?”
By Tony Attwood Infantino is using Fifa for his own global policy with a sense of impunity; Russia is declaring war on the rest of the world with a sense of impunity. The PGMO runs the refereeing system with its multiple mistakes with the media refusing to take a look. The Daily Mirror misdirects fans …
Read More “Does publishing totally false information to knock Arsenal, actually matter?”
By Tony Attwood I have long complained about how the incompetent FA has endlessly supported the appalling Fifa in the desperate hope of getting Fifa to ignore the disaster of the Euros Cup final at Wembley, and think that the FA could be a possible host for a big show once again. And being …
Read More “Now is the time to break up Fifa and reconsider the whole of international football”
By Tony Attwood In one sense it is all rather droll. On the one hand Arsenal’s current form is enough to take them to third in the league by the end of the season, and on the other hand the Guardian reports that, “Fifa has decided that Russia can continue their bid to qualify for …
Read More “This is football’s greatest chance to get rid of Fifa and Infantino”
By Tony Attwood Now there’s a headline I am pretty sure you won’t see written anywhere else. But let’s see just how possible it is for Arsenal to finish above Chelsea, based on the games to come and recent results. Here is the league table H O M E A W A Y Pos Team …
Read More “Why Arsenal will finish above Chelsea in third place this season.”
By Tony Attwood Chelsea’s market value is currently being quoted at over two billion dollars, on the basis that an offer has apparently been made to buy the club for this amount. If that deal were to go through then the owner, would make a profit of around 500 million dollars, given that he has …
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By Tony Attwood Journalists don’t do statistics, as we know, so they make up stories to knock us with, but they are slowly running out of options. And stats are available – those used here come from the Premier League’s own data. We are the sixth highest-scoring team in the league, and have the fifth-best …
Read More “Revealed: the next tactical change Arsenal will make”
by Tony Attwood This really is the moment that the world of football, and indeed the world of the Olympics, has to choose. Either each rises up and kicks out its leaders who kowtow with the most appalling despots (Fifa with Russia, and the Committee for Arbitration in Sports, and the Olympics movement with China), …
Read More “Gianni Infantino and President Putin: football must decide whose side it is on.”
By Tony Attwood On 3 September Talk Sport ran the headline “Really?” Beneath that they said… Arsene Wenger claims bottom of the table Arsenal are in ‘good shape’ and rules out any potential return to the Emirates The sneering, jeering piece was written by Connor Andrews, a writer on multiple subjects for the Sprout, .and …
Read More “Talk Sport: isn’t it time for an abject apology over your Arsenal prediction?”
by Tony Attwood There is a growing proposition in newspapers and elsewhere that Arsenal don’t really have any advantage over Manchester United because their two “games in hand” are rather difficult – Tottenham and Chelsea away. In fact that suggestion is that Manchester United have the advantage, although quite how that is the case is …
Read More “The idea that Man U have the advantage over Arsenal in the run in, is twaddle”
By Tony Attwood I have had the good fortune to go to Cup Finals Arsenal have won, and indeed to watch games in which Arsenal won the league, and of course each was a great joyous and memorable occasion. But really that game last night was up there with those matches for the intensity of …
Read More “Arsenal v Wolverhamtpon: I will remember that night for a long time”
