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

We knew what it would be like from the very start: Burnley were certain to play 11 behind the ball from the off. With 16 goals scored this season they are bottom of the league in every sense. They came for a draw and got it.

OK it was up to Arsenal to beat them […]

by Tony Attwood

We have often commented on this blog about the way the loan system has been manipulated by certain clubs. And now, years and years after we really started picking up on the story Fifa have said they are going to do something about it!

It was our much missed correspondent Anne who […]

by Bulldog Drummond

The oldest team in the Premier League meets the youngest today, as the game today celebrates the anniversary of the purchase of Burnley for £170m. Thus showing new owners don’t always mean new money. ALK Capital have a lot to answer for, but seemingly no money of their own to invest […]

By Bulldog Drummond

The key issue for Burnley is that they have sold Chris Wood to Newcastle. Although he has only scored three league goals for the club this season, that actually represents almost one fifth of Burnley’s goals. In terms of the league only Maxwell Cornet has scored more in the league for Burnley […]

By Bulldog Drummond

The Telegraph is still headlining its utterly misleading notion Why Arsenal’s red cards are a black mark against Mikel Arteta’s management by Sam Dean; an article that deliberately aims at misleading the reader into the notion that Arsenal are a dirty side.

In fact as we saw in Red card plague blights […]

by Tony Attwood

Diogo Jota double sends Liverpool to Wembley as red card plague blights Arsenal again

That’s the headline in the Telegraph today in an article by Sam Wallace, their “Chief Football Writer”. So “red card plague” – the new disease – is hitting Arsenal.

January 21st, 2022 | Category: Arsenal stories | 5 comments

By Bulldog Drummond

According to the BBC, “Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta praised his side’s “fight, determination and brotherhood” after the 10-man Gunners frustrated Liverpool in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final at Anfield.” Of course it wasn’t a fair battle, according to the Corporation’s headline because “Liverpool miss Salah & Mane”. Ah, of […]

By Bulldog Drummond

These are indeed the craziest of football times. With Infantino, head of Fifa, packing his bags and moving to Qatar with his family, seemingly to escape the investigation of his activities by the Swiss authorities who are looking into corrupt and illicit meetings with their most senior lawman, and with the British […]

by Andrew Crawshaw

On Wednesday evening 19 January, Covid permitting, our Women’s team enter the Continental Tyres Cup at the quarter final stage. Due to our involvement in the Champions League group stage we were exempt from the earlier group stage of the competition. Our opponents are Manchester United so I expect this to be […]

By Sir Hardly Anyone

“Erling Haaland gives Edu green light for new £58m Arsenal signing after fresh transfer update” according to a headline in Football London.

Now FoLo in their funny way are actually not telling us Arsenal are going to sign Haaland, but we can show that this is a false negative and he […]

In response to the article Tackles, fouls, yellow cards, injuries and illness. How Tottenham and Arsenal compare an email came in from Nicklas Skott in which he said, “Why bother about this when you have cheated your way in to football. This club stinks abd now we get to see it again.”

Given that several […]

by Tony Attwood

If you have had a read of some of the commentaries on this site about Arsenal’s request for a postponement of the planned match for today against Tottenham you might notice several points that link the commentaries together.

First, although the articles on, for example, the Liverpool postponement carried a fair amount […]

By Tony Attwood

At the moment of writing, we are waiting for any news about tomorrow’s match and whether it is on or not, which is a little frustrating since this is normally the moment that we are doing all the regular preview bits. But thank you in the meanwhile to everyone who has dropped […]