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
Arsenal have met Italian clubs in every European competition they have entered, from the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1970 to last season’s run to the final in Budapest. The record is stronger than most English clubs can claim, and it holds up in Italy as well as it does in London. That history …
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By Tony Attwood I know, of course, that you don’t want to fix a match, but supposing you did want to do just that what would be the most effect way of arranging the result to suit your wishes? One approach you have probably not thought of, but which might help could be to …
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Journalists are so used to the old model of football, they can’t really grasp what’s gong on. How having the same winner season after season destroys an interest in football By Tony Attwood At the moment that I write this (early September 2026), I have just had it put to me that …
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By Tony Attwood I can’t remember how long ago it was I started writing weekend match previews, but however long it was I don’t think I have ever seen newspaper pre-match coverage as vitriolic and anti-Arsenal as we have had in the build up to tomorrow’s game. (4.30pm at Arsenal Stadium in case you …
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By Tony Attwood If there is one thing football journalists can’t stand it is being out maneuvered in their own games. For years they had clubs wrapped around their fingers by suggesting that the newspaper would be running a story about their rivals getting one over on a club – unless the club gave the …
Did Arsenal really had a bad transfer window, and miss a load of bargains? The summer of ’26 window: the record breakers and clubs running into trouble By Tony Attwood When I was a teenager my family moved from north London to Dorset. Not being able to see Arsenal each week (TV coverage …
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The summer of ’26 window: the record breakers and clubs running into trouble Was this summer’s window a total failure for Arsenal? Is it really that difficult for a football club to make a profit? By Tony Attwood This week I had my house valued and it is apparently (according to the estate …
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Was this summer’s window a total failure for Arsenal? Is it really that difficult for a football club to make a profit? By Tony Attwood In what follows, data is taken from the Transfermarkt analysis, which includes a more detailed review of all the clubs in the Premier League and their spending. The …
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By Tony Attwood If you ask yourself the question above and go looking for some details in the media the answer is most certainly going to be yes, because Arsenal needed to strengthen their attack, and failed to do that. And yet they won their opening two games without conceding. That may not sound …
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A perfect start to the season By Tony Attwood Most seasons, the number of Premier League football clubs that make an actual real profit (as opposed to a profit created by some clever manipulations of the accounts and which doesn’t result in the club having more money to spend) is very small. In …
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Is it really that difficult for a football club to make a profit? A perfect start to the season By Tony Attwood (and a grin). Well, what more could we have asked for? More goals I suppose, but that might have been a bit greedy. As it is the league table after two games …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Recently… The window is almost shut but some still keep buying. Villa v Arsenal Aston Villa v Arsenal – how’s the season been going so far for Villa? Arsenal are reported to have three injury problems at present William Saliba – Back Injury Jurrien Timber – Groin Injury …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone For today’s Arsenal game, 31 August 2026 the officials are Referee: Jarred Gillett Assistants: Neil Davies, Steve Meredith Fourth official: Sam Barrott VAR: James Bell Assistant VAR: Nick Hopton Jarred Gillet made 22 appearances in the PL last season making him the seventh most experienced referee in the least last season. However he saw …
The window is almost shut but some still keep buying. Villa v Arsenal Aston Villa v Arsenal – how’s the season been going so far for Villa? By Tony Attwood If you stay in touch with our companion site, The History of Arsenal, you will know that we are currently running a series …
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Aston Villa v Arsenal – how’s the season been going so far for Villa? As we approach the game against Aston Villa, what has changed in football? By Tony Attwood Well by “some” in the headline above I mean of course Tottenham, who never seem to give up on the notion that if one buys …
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As we approach the game against Aston Villa, what has changed in football? It’s the “lavish spending” problem all over again. By Tony Attwood Our next game is away to Aston Villa on Monday 31st at 8pm. This is last of the second round of league matches. Villa like Arsenal have played …
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As we approach the game against Aston Villa, what has changed in football? It’s the “lavish spending” problem all over again. By Tony Attwood The current situation in the Premier League is not, as some would have it, that clubs are now simply “using more data.” Rather they are using the data …
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Transfer madness – where does Arsenal stand on overpriced transfers? Are Asenal “Bottle Jobs” or is that just another stuck with which to beat us? By Tony Attwood So maybe we were right. As the Guardian says in its headline: “Lavish spending fails to fix Tottenham’s big issue – the lack of a …
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By Tony Attwood How can Premier League clubs keep going if they keep losing money? How many years since they won the league? An article popped up today in my inbox labelled Transfer madness: The nine most overpriced deals so far this summer. Now quite often I don’t take much notice of such articles, but I …
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How can Premier League clubs keep going if they keep losing money? How many years since they won the league? by Nitram What follows started out as a comment to the How many years since they won the league? article. But it got too big to be a comment, so here it is …
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How many years since they won the league? Arsenal’s champions league draw for this season By Tony Attwood Gone is the 3pm saturday kickoff. These days kick off times spread all over the place – in order to accommodate TV. We have kick offs as 12.30, 3.00, and 5.30 and then tomorrow at 2.00 and …
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Arsenal’s Champions League draw for this season What is the secret for making a poor club better? By Tony Attwo When Arsenal won the league at the end of last season, much of the media was full of counts of how many years it was since the club had last won the league. …
What is the secret for making a poor club better? Is anything going right with football? Or are the journalists right to criticise everything? By Tony Attwood Last season, as you will probably remember, Arsenal won all eight of their opening ties in the Champions League, and so gently sailed into the knock-out …
By Tony Attwood Is anything going right with football? Or are the journalists right to criticise everything? Still plenty of time for journalists to make up false tales about who is going where… What is it that makes a poor club better? Obviously most club owners think they have the answer: change the …
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Still plenty of time for journalists to make up false tales about who is going where… There is no safe and sure way of making money by owning a football club By Tony Attwood So we have a bit of news: Ipswich v Arsenal in the next round of the League Cup with …
