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 Bulldog Drummond How few clubs are matching Arsenal for progress How referee bias will affect the Tottenham v Arsenal game Before we get to Arsenal we might note that this is a fun time for Manchester United, who announced £113.2m net loss in their latest accounts, making this the fifth year running …
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How referee bias will affect the Tottenham v Arsenal game How clubs are avoiding accusations of the maltreatment of young players By Tony Attwood It is interesting in light of the problems facing some clubs at the moment to reflect on how Arteta’s reign has helped Arsenal progress. Of course the media …
How clubs are avoiding accusations of the maltreatment of young players Injuries start to wreck Arsenal’s season before it gets going For some Arsenal supporters (but not many journalists) the key issue of the moment is the choice of the referee for the game against Tottenham. It is not an issue for most …
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Injuries start to wreck Arsenal’s season before it gets going Arsenal and Chelsea en route for over 100 yellow cards each this season By Tony Attwood There are many ways in which a club can maltreat young players, and the most obvious is that the youngsters can be played too often, and then …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal and Chelsea en route for over 100 yellow cards each this season How Arsenal kept their yellow card total under control last seeason I suppose the real issue is why nothing is ever done about it. And by “it” I mean, players, who at club level are already playing …
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How Arsenal kept their yellow card total under control last seeason How do clubs try to improve their fortunes, and what works? Which club has the worst discipline record this season? Which team is the referee’s favourite with the least cards this season? OK if you have heard someone discuss this on the …
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By Tony Attwood How do clubs try to improve their fortunes, and what works? Welcome to chaos as the 20% of the League’s clubs have some “difficulties” Last season Tottenham put in 41% more tackles than Manchester City. As a result, Tottenham committed 47% more fouls than Manchester City but given the …
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Welcome to chaos as the 20% of the League’s clubs have some “difficulties” It is more than likely that child abuse is still rampant within professional football By Tony Attwood During the review of a book about Arsenal some years back I noted a comment on the volume under inspection, that with …
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It is more than likely that child abuse is still rampant within professional football Should Arsenal learn to shoot more often? By Tony Attwood Chaos in the Premier League? Most certainly for four clubs. Consider Everton, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea… each with a different form of chaos, but each facing a chaotic …
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By Tony Attwood Should Arsenal learn to shoot more often? How are the supercomputers doing in predicting this season – and what they should be looking at? I have often in the past mentioned the horrors of child abuse within football. Indeed a quick search of the internet suggests that …
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How are the supercomputers doing in predicting this season – and what they should be looking at Arsenal Women Champions League Round 1 2024 the final games If we look at the number of shots per game that some of the bigger clubs in the Premier League have we can see a huge …
How simply spending money on players doesn’t take clubs up the league Why going to football matches really is good for you and should be encouraged By Nitram and Tony Attwood It is repetitious of us to say that it is the silly season again because we are having an unnecessary interruption to …
How simply spending money on players doesn’t take clubs up the league Why going to football matches really is good for you and should be encouraged by Andrew Crawshaw The opening round matches were played on Wednesday resulting in one surprise win and one emphatic victory. The opening game started at Borehamwood …
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Why going to football matches really is good for you and should be encouraged TILT Does it exist or is it just in our imagination? By Tony Attwood The domination of talk about transfers every summer suggests that transfers are all it takes to get a club up the league. And the league that …
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The League is on the edge of being crippled through legal costs in casees it is winning How to reform refereeing and bring back free speech in football By Tony Attwood As a recent piece from the British Psychological Society reports rather obviously, most people in the UK now have access to a …
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The League is on the edge of being crippled through legal costs in casees it is winning How to reform refereeing and bring back free speech in football By Nitram When I read the Reddit article which was featured on Untoldwhat sprung to mind was, he’s talking about ’tilt’. The subtle behaviour …
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How to reform refereeing and bring back free speech in football Do Arsenal really get twice as many red cards as other clubs? By Tony Attwood There is an article today in the Telepgrah which has also appeared in MSN (in case you don’t have a subscription to the former), which follow up …
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Do Arsenal really get twice as many red cards as other clubs? How some clubs are still in a total mess with the new financial rules (although not Arsenal) Prelude: A million apologies for Untold going down yet again this morning. We really are trying to find the bug in the …
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How some clubs are still in a total mess with the new financial rules (although not Arsenal) Arsenal Women – Champions League Round1 Mini Tournament By Tony Attwood There has long been an assertion that Arsenal get many more cards than other teams, with the explanation being either that this is pure chance …
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Arsenal Women – Champions League Round1 Mini Tournament The Premier League in court: the shape of football to come will be decided by the outcomes. By Tony Attwood In the end Arsenal spent £12.7m net in the transfer window. Chelsea spent £50.4m net and Manchester United £97.7m (seven times as much as Arsenal). …
The Premier League in court: the shape of football to come will be decided by the outcomes. 3 matches gone, what does this tell us about the end of the season? by Andrew Crawshaw The season proper starts for Arsenal Women with Round 1 one the Champions League on Wednesday and Saturday at Borehamwood. …
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3 matches gone, what does this tell us about the end of the season? One unexpected signing: Arsenal are still moving in the right direction By Tony Attwood By and large, the media don’t like to suggest that there is anything seriously amiss with English football, largely because that would involve them in …
One unexpected signing: Arsenal are still moving in the right direction Why one bizarre draw and an unexpected signing doesn’t affect the view that Arsenal are moving in the right direction The media always measures Arsenal against an abstract concept rather than comparing the situation now with the situation in the past, to …
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By Tony Attwood Why one bizarre draw and an unexpected signing doesn’t affect the view that Arsenal are moving in the right direction How likely are Arsenal to move out of the 8 game group stage in Europe? Looking back we can see that there was just the hint that Arsenal were going …
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How likely are Arsenal to move out of the 8 game group stage in Europe? Fanatically secretive PGMO turns out to be also grossly financially incompetent Of course it would have felt much better to win, just as it would have felt much better not to lose a player to referee action, but …
