by Tony Attwood “Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word.” At 1300 GMT Untold Arsenal published its commentary on the Guardian’s piece “Talking points from the weekend’s action,” reviewing an article written by the editor of “Intelligent Life” which seemed to have no grasp whatsoever of Arsenal’s current form. At 1407 GMT …
By Tony Attwood There is a screamingly funny and utterly lunatic article in the Guardian this morning, in its regular post-weekend series “Talking points from the weekend’s action” It is by Tim de Lisle (author of “How to Write Well”), whose profile on Wikipedia reads, “De Lisle is a feature writer for The Guardian, focusing …
By Tony Attwood SC Freiburg gained a point against Mainz at the weekend, after first falling behind in the match. Now I know that is hardly a matter for debate on Untold Arsenal much as we do like to stay in touch with European football. But this one incident shines a very, very bright …
By Tony Attwood I’ve not seen anyone publish details of just how many points a club needs to get to fourth place each season, so I created the list myself, and immediately I was struck by the variability. Over the years anything from 66 to 79 points would be needed to not get a trophy. …
By Tony Attwood Prelim: Today is the anniversary of the first report in a newspaper of Arsenal fans signing a song to celebrate a victory. A recording of the original of the song, and a report on where it came from appear today in the regular anniversary of the day series. Are they trying to …
By Tony Attwood When people start having a go at Arsenal I do like to delve a little to see what lies beneath. Like for example how odd the transfer of Auba to Barca really was, given that there was no transfer fee. And (as I explore below) Arsenal’s alleged inability to score goals. Three …
By Tony Attwood This is a report on a story that the media is ignoring completely. And it is not the story of Arsenal’s form of late (which is another story they are ignoring, for as you will know, if you have been taking notice, across the last six league games Arsenal have recorded the …
By Tony Attwood We’ve been paying a lot of attention of late to the issue about Arsenal and its recruitment of players. What has been particularly of interest here is the issue of whether Arsenal are singularly inept at all matters concerning recruitment or whether Arsenal are no more or less likely to get things …
By Tony Attwood They’ve been anxious to do it for some time, finding that Arsenal have been on the same number of red cards in the league this season as almost half the clubs in the Premier League, but finally they got their desire and Arsenal are back on top (taking alphabetical order into account). …
By Bulldog Drummond The story so far Wolverhampton v Arsenal: at last some tackles, fouls and yellows (and injuries) Wolverhampton v Arsenal: how to come out of a bad run. Wolverhampton’s runs, referee behaviour and head to heads Wolverhampton v Arsenal. Elneny triumph; media frenzy And so after our little saunter around the diatrbies and …
By Bulldog Drummond The story so far… Wolverhampton v Arsenal: at last some tackles, fouls and yellows (and injuries) Wolverhampton v Arsenal: how to come out of a bad run. Wolverhampton’s runs, referee behaviour and head to heads In the Premier League era Arsenal have played Wolverhampton 15 times , 14 in the league and …
By Bulldog Drummond In the previous article we were looking at Arsenal’s bad runs of form, and noting that Wolverhampton had suffered in the same way at the start of the season. But for them the bad run went on longer, as their opening results show… Date Match Res Score Comp 14 Aug 2021 Leicester …
By Bulldog Drummond Previously we looked at the issue of tackles, fouls and yellow cards by each team in this forthcoming match, and how many injuries each are facing. So what about recent results? How you want to interpret Arsenal’s form of late depends on whether you want to take the standard sort of view …
By Bulldog Drummond This seems to have been an eternal break without league football, but now we are back to the old routine, and the opening question of who is available and who not as revealed by the EPL Injury Table. For Arsenal Nicolas Pepe is back from the Africa Cup of Nations, Credric Soares …
Referees and Arsenal By Tony Attwood We’ve used the winter break to examine a few regular old chestnuts that the media and others put forward day after day. So what have we found? We started out by noting that although everyone was making a fuss about us not having a striker, we were …
By Tony Attwood There is little that excites the media more than crowd trouble at football matches – and the event of a fan being arrested after appearing to attack a Nottingham Forest player during the Cup match at their ground was no exception. And an analysis of the numbers in the Telegraph suggests what …
By Tony Attwood Let’s assume for the moment that the only way to produce a team capable of winning either the title in England or a European trophy is by buying in players in the way that the Daily Mirror proposes hour after hour day after day. How much money would Arsenal need to spend? …
By Tony Attwood Steven Gerrard once reportedly described Brendan Rodgers’ one-on-one management as the best he had seen. Such praise is in contrast to that afforded to Mikel Arteta at Arsenal, who when not being criticised for not buying lots of players, is criticised for saving the club a fortune by removing Aubameyang from the …
By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a story circulating that Saka is going to run down his contract and then leave Arsenal on a free in the summer of 2023. Before you get too worried about this bit of inside information the source of the story is Kevin Phillips who spoke “exclusively” to Football Insider. …
By Tony Attwood Fifa has just been dealt a significant blow in its attempts to take on direct control of all elements of world football after a critic of Fifa’s African takeover who was banned for 10 years for allegedly stealing Ebola funds (Issa Hayatou) has been overturned by Court of Arbitration for Sport. The …
By Tony Attwood We’ve been looking at the simple notion that sacking the manager and/or buying new players will turn a club around. On their own, these approaches don’t deliver. However, there is a complication because spending on transfers does work in the sense that the top four teams in the league have in their …
By Tony Attwood We have been exploring over a series of articles what actually brings success to premier league clubs. Is it buying in new players, or is it endlessly changing managers? Or is it on the other hand stability? Or maybe something else? Our examinations of clubs and their purchases have suggested that spending …
By Tony Attwood It’s a bit of a treat on TV at the moment. Last night we had on Arsenal TV a wonderful victory over Chelsea in the under 23 league, leaving the table looking like this Team P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Manchester City U23 18 11 3 4 43 …
Today’s tale from history: 5 February 1931: Leicester City 2 Arsenal 7 ————– By Sir Hardly Anyone After months of resourceless attacks on Arsenal it is rather pleasing to see a few other teams getting a bit of a media beating. “Antonio Conte delivers scathing review of Tottenham’s transfer mistakes” says the Guardian Meanwile the …
By Nobo Dypays Much has been made of how Arsenal were so inept and stupid in the transfer window that they let Aubameyang go to Barcelona on a free transfer when they could have sold him for a lot of dosh. If only those clever people from the media had been on the case. Except… …
