Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the referee and how he is likely to behave How Arsenal have got the best players but get the worst media coverage By Tony Attwood An article in the Telegraph says “Five years of Mikel Arteta have transformed Arsenal – but he must now win Premier League “Manager has turned team …
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How Arsenal have got the best players but get the worst media coverage 70 percent possession, 100 percent of the goals. Arsenal saunter through By Bulldog Dummond The Referee for Saturday’s game is Simon Hooper. His assistants are Adrian Holmes, and Simon Long is the Fourth official: Oli Langford. VAR is being run …
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70 percent possession, 100 percent of the goals. Arsenal saunter through By Tony Attwood There was a comment recently on this site from Nittram that I thought was so very apposite, and I’d like to re-use it here: Writing of the media and I guess bloggers too he said “Winning ‘trophies’ is all …
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Fifa warns the FA: Shut up or be thrown out of the world cup In football, a lack of information doesn’t stop confident decisions and opinions By Tony Attwood The curious fact that Arsenal are playing Crystal Palace twice in four days takes the very, very much older supporters back to the days …
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Fifa warns the FA: Shut up or be thrown out of the world cup In football, a lack of information doesn’t stop confident decisions and opinions Just published in the 100 Years of Chapman series: 100 years of Chapman, part 12: what made him such an amazing manager By Tony Attwood Of course …
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Just published: 100 years since Chapman joined Arsenal. Part 12: What made him such an amazing manager In football, a lack of information doesn’t stop confident decisions and opinions Arsenal v Monaco: being gruntled rather than disgruntled By Sir Hardly Anyone I’ve just come across an article which claims that after the drawn …
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In football, a lack of information doesn’t stop confident decisions and opinions Arsenal v Monaco: being gruntled rather than disgruntled Fifa, that most appalling of football organisations has warned the FA that if it raises any complaints about Saudi Arabia hosting the 2034 World Cup it is likely to be thrown out of the …
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Arsenal v Lyon: being gruntled rather than disgruntled, and Lyon A disappointment, but there could be good news to come. Not knowing and not having the data that can help us know, is no deterrent when it comes to telling other people what to do and how to do it. That would …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone As you may have noticed, Untold went down yet again. Whether it is a deliberate attack by someone we’ve insulted or some technical fault that is really hard to trace, I don’t know. But as ever we’ve continued to publish our words of wisdom on the Arsenal History website …
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100 Years of Chapman at the Arsenal; latest episode Football clubs and the definition of madness By Tony Attwood Yesterday gave us a disappointment of a result, leaving Arsenal with five draws this season – something generally associated with lower-level clubs. Indeed the only three clubs in the Premier League who have more …
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As you may have seen Untold went down again this morning. We are trying to deal with this situation and I can only apologise. In keeping with our arrangements, this morning’s article was published on www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk and this will always happen when we have these incidents, until we find a way of defending …
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Why don’t the rest of the clubs copy Arsenal? Fulham v Arsenal, tackles, fouls yellows Fulham v Arsenal. What on earth will this referee do this time? Fulham v Arsenal: the metaphors might be failing, but Arsenal are on the up By Sir Hardly Anyone As we approach the game against Fulham it …
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By Tony Attwood Fulahm v Arsenal, tackles, fouls yellows Fulham v Arsenal. What on earth willl this referee do this time? Fulham v Arsenal: the metaphors might be failing, but Arsenal are on the up There was an interesting article recently published on the New York Times website which noted how effective Arsenal …
Fulham v Arsenal. What on earth willl this referee do this time? Fulham v Arsenal: the metaphors might be failing, but Arsenal are on the up By Sir Hardly Anyone It is possible to get an idea both of how a team plays and how referees react to a specific team, by looking …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Fulham v Arsenal: the metaphors might be failing, but Arsenal are on the up Football clubs and the definition of madness. We find the craziest of them all We only have to say Chris Kavanagh is the referee for Fulham v Arsenal tomorrow to have everyone up in arms. …
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By Bulldog Drummond Football clubs and the definition of madness. We find the craziest of them all Arsenal are the New Stoke (according to an article in Talk Sport) There’s another Arsenal match coming up and the Sun leads with the big news of the day: “Mikel Arteta goes full Arsene Wenger as …
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Arsenal are the New Stoke (according to an article in Talk Sport) Arsenal see off Man U with a greater understanding of how the game works By Tony Attwood Last season was interesting in the way that the clubs we’ve regularly designated as the Big 7 (or put another way the Big Six that …
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Arsenal see off Man U with a greater understanding of how the game works Football in England is policed by football clubs and a secret cabal. by Tony Attwood Between 2007 and 2014, an average of 32 direct free-kicks were turned into goals each season, “but in 2023/24 only 11 direct free-kicks found …
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Football in England is policed by football clubs and a secret cabal. Is that such a bad thing? By Tony Attwood So Arsenal survived and overturned the referee’s propensities. Maybe our little piece on the referee showed him he’d been rumbled, or maybe he is a totally fair referee and each game is overseen …
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Arsenal v Man U: Under tonight’s referee, home wins are virtually unknown Arsenal v Man U: while Arsenal have been playing away ManU have been mucking around at home Arsenal v Man U: the team that loves playing at home v the team that does not like travelling By Sir Hardly Anyone Arsenal …
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Apologies for the delay with the site being down. Here’s the article that was due for release at around 8am. I really am sorry for the number of times this site has gone down this year, and we are trying to fix this, but please do note if the site is down for more …
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Arsenal v Man U: the team that loves playing at home v the team that does not like travelling “GABRIEL hinted he WILL be fit to face Manchester United on Wednesday — despite an injury concern.” So says The Sun,. always ready to use a capital letter where it is not needed. …
Football in England is policed by football clubs and a secret cabal. Is that such a bad thing? Is the gap to Liverpool too big to overtake? History suggests no, it isn’t. By Bulldog Drummond So we play ManU tomorrow, and then again in the FA Cup third round. Elsewhere given their …
Latest in our series on 100 Years since Herbert Chapman joined Arsenal: Chapman, the player who moved from club to club to club… Is the gap to Liverpool too big to overtake? History suggests no, it isn’t. Why ignoring a topic in football is infinitely more dangerous than disagreeing with it By Tony …
Why ignoring a topic in football is infinitely more dangerous than disagreeing with it Arsenal scoring five on three occasions…. and the club with 50% more yellows than Arsenal By Tony Attwood As you probably know perfectly well (but I’ll put in the league table just in case you missed it) we are nine …
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