Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team

Commentary by Tony Attwood, analysis by Nitram

I mentioned in a recent article that PL statistics include virtually everything you can imagine except fouls. Which is rather odd given the importance of the award of fouls by referees can be in a match.

Which made me wonder why this is the case. Why, when the […]

by Tony Attwood

All statistics that are taken after just a couple of matches in a season need to be handled with some caution, and one cannot draw absolute conclusions from them, but nonetheless figures this early in the season, taken in comparison with recent seasons, can be indicators of how things will go.

Yellow […]

By Tony Attwood

At the end of 2018 we ran an article with the headline “How four clubs commit fouls with impunity, while others constantly get punished”

It was a unique piece of research by Andrew Crawshaw which shone the light on the variations in the ways referees handle different clubs in different ways.

I […]

By Tony Attwood

If ever proof were needed that the media really does like to knock Arsenal but finds it nigh on impossible to be positive about the club we only have to look at the coverage of Arsenal these last few weeks.

By way of background we might remember that last season when […]

By Tony Attwood

I am very grateful to Untold reader Segun Lawson for his help in compiling of data for this piece on Arsenal’s finances and accounting procedures. The opinions however are mine.

The story is this: Arsenal wanted to buy Tierney. Celtic were willing to sell, and there was the normal coming and […]

by Bulldog Drummond

Carrying on from our thoughts yesterday afternoon, with our very positive home form, this should be a home banker. But although Burnley were poor last season there was an excuse for Burnley last year – they started in the Europa League very early as the team placed 7th in the league the […]

By Sir Hardly Anyone

What with the window cleaning season being over it is now time for me to take a peek at what our fellow commentators have been saying in the last couple of days.

These come in no order but surely…

1: Motherwell pub boss backs grounded Kieran Tierney to shine at Arsenal […]

By Tony Attwood

The transfer window is far from over in Europe, but with the exception of taking on out-of-contract players, the Premier League is done and dusted. So I thought I might put together a state of play index showing all the Premier League’s clubs along with a few of the major European clubs […]

by Tony Attwood

According to Teamtalk there is a strong chance of Arsenal signing another player this transfer window.

Now yes, I know the window has “slammed shut” but the rule is that players who are without a club can still transfer into PL teams until the end of the month (or at least that […]

by Tony Attwood

Although some further transfers can be allowed during the rest of the time that other countries have their windows open (it is obviously sunnier where they are), the bulk of our transfer dealings have been done – perhaps all of them.

As ever the next step is to see where we stand […]

By Bulldog Drummond

The news that arose at the start of the weekend was that Mesut Özil and Sead Kolasinac had been withdrawn from the squad over fears for their security.

With Hector Bellerin not back for a while yet many commentators are suggesting Ainsley Maitland-Niles will be at right-back.

David Luiz is […]

by Bulldog Drummond

Looking forward to the game against Newcastle we can see that they finished 13th in the league last season, after seeming to be one of the key relegation prospects at the start of November. Indeed they went through their first nine league games last season without getting a victory, having started with […]

by Bulldog Drummond

First off, as ever, the injuries and here is the chart from Physioroom…

Player Injury Return? Chance v Newcastle Hector Bellerin Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury – ACL Injury 30/09/2019 None Alexandre Lacazette Ankle Injury 11/08/2019 50% (see below) Dani Ceballos Knock 11/08/2019 75% Nicolas Pepe Lacking Match Fitness 11/08/2019 50% Rob Holding […]